Another one of Ed's huge Table Rock Bass

Ed was starting to wonder if we could ever catch big bass on Table Rock. Last year he caught one a bit smaller. Thankfully, our luck started changing after this lunker!


Just a scenic view in the Branson area.

Fishing tournament 2009

Ed and I were in the Bass Fishing tournament put on by the Missouri State Water Patrol for our second year. We caught a lot of fish, but only 2 measured up for weigh in, but we let them ago and loaded the boat instead of weighing in. It was the first tournament I'd ever been in that I didn't win anything, no side prizes or anything! We had fun though. We spent 5 days in Branson and I think it rained all of them. We managed to get dad's grass mowed there so the neighbors wouldn't start yelling!

New Quilt

I don't have a name for this one. It's made using vintage fabric, some newer fabric and some stuff that may be around 10 years old. Pretty neat huh?

The maroon shade is from my friend Barbara, she thinks she's had it around 10 years. The darker green is from her as well, I didn't ask, but probably from Kathy at Uniquely Yours. The lighter green I picked up at an estate sale. I know the person that sewed, did a lot of sewing in the late 60s and early 70s, so will assume the fabrics are from around that time.

Hope you enjoy. I'm up in the air whether this quilt will be hung in my house or go up for sale. It's a little small to be a lap quilt I think.

Batik Quilted table runner

We will be rockhunting next weekend hopefully! The weather may finally settle down to where we can get into our favorite areas.

So, in the meantime, been quilting. Here's a table runner I finished today. It's all batiks and cotton batting. I freemotion quilted it which turned out much better than I thought it would. This entire project was done using the Brother se350.

Quilts

I actually have some rock stuff to post, the weather hasn't cooperated at all to get a nice sunny day to take pictures. So will try to get some pics of some slabs that were sent to me and some pendants a friend made.

Onto quilts!

I've been practicing a lot here lately. I finally got to sit down and work on some quilt blocks, some small, some big, some horrid. Today my embroidery machine sadly took on some major issues, not sure if it will embroider anymore or not.

This is a rather large block called Grandma's favorite. I found the pattern on about .com It's ok, not sure I like my color choices, but it turned out better than I thought it would.

I think what I love about quilting is how you can take a bunch of squares of materials

and turn them into something like this.

I love this block, I've cut all the squares and rectangles to make some more. Not sure if I'll actually make a quilt or something else, but have to make more of these blocks!

I've also been playing with little blocks and then came up with the idea of making some pin cushions. I plan on taking these to farmer's market in St. James, they are loads of fun to make so hopefully will do well there.

Websites

Shari, a wonderful friend of mine has been helping me a lot and doing a lot of work. She has started both of the store's websites and they are up and running. We still have lots more to add to the scrub site, but it will be done.

http://www.missouriscubadive.com/ for our information on scuba diving classes

http://www.scrubsncandles.com/ This one is actually working where the buy it nows are at, still have to work on the patch/badge page and need to add more scrubs! But Shari has worked on it for awhile, she's doing great and doesn't gripe much when I work her to death!

New Quilt I'm working on

I am not good at naming quilts. At this point I'd have to name it Thank you Barbara. A wonderful neighbor of mine gave me some fabulous batik fabric and alot more, so I started working on this one yesterday. I still need to get some batting and haven't decided on the backing yet or how I will actually quilt this one, but the blocks are just about done!

I hadn't planned on incorporating embroidery into it. While I was going through the fabrics debating on what to do, I let the embroidery machine do a stitch out on a rose with some varigated thread Ed picked out for me. Then when I saw the rose I fell in love and decided it was going into this quilt!