Happy Weekend everyone!

Hope you are having a good Sat today. I am trying to clean house and work on my next EQ class for the Quilting Board and the Quilting Haven.  I also need to work on my mom's autobiography too. I am putting all the pictures in one file and all the text in another file for the printer she is going to take it to.

My grandson Zach is here for the weekend and he is busily watching his favorite shows on the computer and then he draws pictures acting out his imagination or his favorite show. He loves coming and being the only one here. He likes getting time away from his brother and sister. They are really loud kids and he likes the quiet. Not that he is all that quiet either! LOL

My family has grown so big we haven't gotten together for a dinner at my mom's in  many years now. Not enough room for everyone. So  over the years it has evolved that I do the Thanksgiving dinner where my oldest and her family come and my youngest and his family come but my middle child he and his family go to  my BILs as my MIL lives there and Nathan is in business with his uncle. They are also very close. More like brothers. Doug(BIL) is the youngest of my DHs family and my kids came along at the right time to fit in as the youngest kids in a the family. so they were treated as siblings and not nieces and nephews. There is only 8 yrs between Nathan and Doug. So Nathan likes to spend one holiday with them.

Then at Christmas time Nathan has all of us 27 of us now on Christmas Eve day for a dinner. It is the only time of the year I get all my kids and their families together in one place. We are all looking forward to it this year. My oldest grandson and his wife are expecting a baby girl in 21 days! She is going to have a c section because of health concerns. Serenity Elise-Lynn will be our youngest great grand child and if you add all the grandkids and great grandkids she will be #16 of all our grandchildren. God has been good to us!

My youngest son also has a little boy  Colton who will be 1 on Dec 17 and Serenity has a brother Jayden who just turned 3 and a sister Alisha who will be 6 in Dec then we also have a granddaughter who has a little girl Adrianna who just turned 2. The rest of our grandkids range from 8  up to 23! So we will have lots of little ones this year for Christmas!!  It should be lots of fun!

Wishing you all a thankful day to think about all  the things you are thankful for and to Praise the Lord for all the blessings in your life. We need to be thankful every day and not just on one holiday.

Thank  you Lord for all the opportunities you have given me and have shown me the way to follow you.

God Bless  You and Keep You Everyone!! May His Light Shine Upon You!  Rhonda

My New Block

Check out my new "Block" the Triple Strip Block. I was designing for the Sampler Quilt Along on  the Quilting Board and this is what I ended up with

                                                   
.They are easy to make! You can sew strips together to make them and then reuse any leftovers to make more strips and blocks.
 You can click on the tab above and find the directions there.

Here is a  quilt block I designed  with them:

            

Catherine -- Bostons and HSTs

Here is the Quilt Block I posted on the Sampler Quilt Along last Fri. Her name is Catherine. She is a 12 1/2" quilt block made with my Boston Blocks and HSTs(Half Square Triangles)

     
                               
           And here is the layout so you can see how she goes together

                                                

EQ Classes

I got my EQ7 on Thurs just like the gal at EQ said and I was really happy!! I also got the template plastic I had been waiting on when I picked up my mail. Then later in the day the envelopes for sending out the templates was delivered to my door so I had a good day that day!! Everything I was waiting on arrived in good time!

Today I am writing my EQ class for tomarrow. It is the first one so I hope it goes well. Around 300 people are interested in following the class. Wow didn't expect that many! but I do know alot of people struggle with it.

In my opinion it is one of those things that once you kn w how to do it- it is alot easier than you thought it would be. It is just alot of information to absorb. I am not impressed with the manual for EQ7. The writer seems to take for granted that everyone knows alot more than he should assume. I can see why everyone gets confused with the manual. It is not very straight forward. And they use terms that don't mean much to me. I am a hands on trial and error gal. I learn so much better by just jumping in and trying it. If it works great if it doesn't then I go looking for info to clear up the problem. Works for me! LOL

The EQ Classes will be on Mondays on the Quilting Board site 
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tags/electric+quilt.html

And on Weds you can find them on the Quilting Haven
http://www.quiltinghaven.com/index.php?board=7.0

Hope you all have a Blessed Sunday and May God Bless You and Keep You in the Palm of His Hand Today and Always!!
Jesus loves you and cares about  you and so do I!