Never too old for something new.....we'll see!

I started this blog last spring and then had knee surgery and spent the most of May, June and July stumping around the house grumbling and groaning and not even comfortable enough to sit at my computer and so was relegated to using my lap top most of the time which I really don't like as much for extended typing. (That's my story, read excuse, and I'm sticking to it!) Anyway life is finally getting back on track and it's time to start blogging again.

I was pretty prolific with my quilting this fall and managed to complete several quilts which you might see in the slide show or definitely on my flickr site check out Quiltsalad on Flickr and "Quilts I've Made" or "Under Construction". I did one called "Putting on the Pink" for a local charity auction and luncheon for Breast Cancer research and it was part of the $100,000 plus thousand raised (albeit a very small part.)

I currently have one that I just need to get the binding on that will be auctioned next month the Ashbrook Independent School's Fund Raising Auction. The quilt has pictures of each of the students in my granddaughter's second grade class. One of the mother's took the photo's and printed them up in a lovely sepia tone and I framed them out with batik's and it has turned out rather well and hopefully there will be at least a couple of parents who will want it.....let the biding begin!

I also completed a quilt for my son-in-law Erin who is a sales rep for Hoffman of California and he had given me some of their Bali Pop Batik's and had asked for a particular pattern (I hate following patterns) and I agreed to make it for him. The pattern is called Transitions by Cozy Quilt Designs. A lovely pattern but and this is probably why don't like using patterns.....I really didn't study the instructions closely enough and when I got done well he had a quilt and I do think it is beautiful but it doesn't resemble "Transitions" other than it has the same fabrics (2 inch strips) in the same Strawberry Fields Bali Pops. He was gracious and said he loved it but I felt kind of bad that it really looked so different. Tomorrow I'll figure out how to post a picture of my version and the original version and you can judge for your self.

I think discovering and mastering how to do the slide show will be my big accomplishment for today. That combined with I'm trying to teach my 88 year old mom to use the computer for the first time. She is determined to master it, I'm determined to stay calm and not loose my patience and it's a bit like the Bill Murray movie "Ground Hogs Day"....I'm hoping for a good outcome just like Bill....wish me luck.