Knee High by the 4th of July????

This is a picture of our corn on the west side of our house on Father's Day, June 20th.

The picture below was the size of the corn around May 9th.

Amazing!  Maybe that is why my Grandpa used to say that he could hear the corn grow!

We do have some farmers that are still planting their fields in our area.  This has been an extremely wet planting season.  I hope that the area farmers have had some time to finish planting.

Besides quilting, I always have a project or two going.  Below is a small cabinet that I stripped and refinished.  I also did the tiling on the door.  It will store all my cone thread in my future sewing room.

If you decide to do a project like this, remember that it will make the door heavy.  I used bigger screws on the hinges so it will hold the weight.  We will see how it will hold over time.  A tiled table project sounds like fun for in the future, but for now I have some remodeling to do for my bigger sewing room.

I also bought a decoration for my sewing room at a garage sale.

This machine brings back many memories.  When I was growing up Mom bought a Golden Touch and Sew Singer.  As soon as the machine was home, I was so eager to sit down and try it out.  Then I had seen all the levers and dials, which sort of scared me off.  I loved sewing on Mom's old reliable Singer 201.  Eventually, I did sew on Mom's prized machine and it opened many doors into the sewing and quilting world that has brought many opportunities into my life.

Mom has been to a garage sale and also found another prized machine, a Singer 301!

This machine is a sister to the Singer Featherweight.  If you check out the Sew in Peace under my blog list,  you will see that Sandi's 301 is black.  I am sure that the history behind these machines are just as interesting as the Featherweights.  Thanks mom for letting me share your new treasure.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day last weekend.  I'm well blessed with a wonderful Dad and Dad-in-law.  I want to thank you both for being there for me--it means a lot!

Happy Quilting

Kay Lynne

Friday Night Sew-In and 41st Annual NQA Quilt Show in Columbus, Ohio

First of all my Friday Night Sew-In was really Thursday night because I had some free time to enjoy some sewing.  My project is a pineapple lap quilt for a friend for Christmas.  It will take more than one Sew-In to get this project done, but I did get 14 blocks this far.

Above is a printout from EQ6 of what the lap quilt should look like when it is finished.  I thought that it would be easier to paper piece than to make templates.  I did cut all my strips and the squares in the middle adding a 1/4 inch seam allowance.  I have paper pieced small blocks before, but never a 12 " block.  I found it harder to fold the paper back accurately to trim my seam allowances until I sewed over all the lines with a thread-less sewing machine--just punching holes in the paper.  Click on the first picture and you will see the holes in the paper.  This made it simple and fast sewing my strips on.

Now I have it started--A Big Thanks to the Friday Night Sew-In.

Friday I spent the day with two special people--my mom and my sister at the Annual NQA Quilt Show!  We all were amazed by the wonderful entries.  The hand and machine quilting was absolutely amazing!  I took over 500 pictures.  Thank you girls for such a wonderful day!

I also had a pleasant surprise on the bus ride that we took down to Columbus I visited with one of my high school teachers.  Thank you Mrs. Lepper for such a wonderful visit!

Happy Quilting

Kay Lynne