Archive for November 9th, 2009

Anniversaries

Monday, November 9th, 2009

I received these from my husband today.  They are beautiful as are all flowers I’ve received from Geechi’s in downtown St Louis.  They are in celebration of  our 24th wedding anniversary.  Thank you, Dale!  Here’s to another 24 fun and happy years!

Flowers

Design Wall Mon & a Dragon!

Monday, November 9th, 2009

DWM

Here’s my slightly changed design wall.  I finished another First Sat block and put the 9-patches on point.  I like them better :)

Below is the 3rd First Sat block (FSB).  I haven’t finished the 2nd month because I missed the First Sat when I took the workshop with Judy Laquidara.  No deadline, no block…..bad Cherie :(

D Third FSB

I haven’t sewn the alternate block yet either but I will get them knocked out pretty quickly as I got the binding for the Cards vs Sox wedding quilt made and machine sewn down, yea!!!

D Binding

I even gotten one side hand sewn, yea, yea!!!

My parents arrived from California for a visit with my brother & me and they brought this:

Dragon 1

It’s a carousel dragon made by my grandfather.  He was a pattern maker for engine aparts and made this carousel dragon in his retirement.  He also made an elephant and two rocking horses….well not horses but a cow and a pig :)   That’s my dad next to his truck.  He said they used a fork truck to get it into the truck.  He did a wonderful job protecting it for the trip!  I wasn’t home for the unloading but I heard it went smoothly and was much easier than the loading part was.

Dragon 2

So here it is in our front room.  Our front room has never been a living space for us and doesn’t have much furniture so it’s a perfect place for a carousel dragon, don’t you think?

Dragon Tail

Dragon tail

Dragon Back

Dragon Back

Dragon Head

Dragon head

Dragon Teeth

And Dragon TEETH!!!