Merry Christmas 2015

well I did get all of my Christmas decorations out and I reorganized all my bins. I sorted out all the stuff I"ve hung on to for years but don't really care about. I freed up 6 bins!! Yeah me! but then I filled those bins up with my decorating items like my Chicken collection and my mini sewing machine collection etc.  I freed up some storage room in my closet where I keep my Christmas bins. now I had room to store some of my collections that I had no where to put. So I'm feeling good that I accomplished that task!

We had a great time at my son's on Christmas eve day. We had all of my family in one place this year. It's the only time of the year we can get everyone together. There are 26 of us! Our kids and grandkids and great grandkids and grand inlaws. Then we also have our daughter in law's dad and his girlfriend and my daughter's mother in law also. So we had a total of 29 people in one house LOL  My son has a good size house so we all had a great time. Lots of food and good conversation. We have several little ones and that makes it fun also. Sky is 1 Renny is 4 Colton is 5 Adrianna is 6 Jayden is 7 Alisha is 10 our twin grandsons are 12 Granddaughter Rachel is 13 Zach is 15 Joey 17  Jake is 17 and then the older 3 grandkids are in their 20s and two are married. so I am always amazed at how blessed this only child is with all this family!

 Picture of our whole family. First time we've ever had a pic with all of us!

   Unfortunately Joey is only half there on the left side and Renny is only half there on the right side.

 

Our daughter Sara and her family

Our son Nathan and his family

Our youngest son Glen and his family

Well that's my family!  Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!!

Wishing you a Happy New Year with lots of laughter and sunshine!!  Rhonda  

Well I haven't posted in quite awhile. I've been bitten by the procratination bug!. I get into moods when I just don't want to do anything. Since I am a care giver for my disabled husband and am home most of the time I have the luxury of not having to do much I don't want to. but the flip side of that is that I accomplish very little!! Not a good thing!!

I have a hard time pushing myself to do things I don't really want to do. I am trying to get my house cleaned and get my Christmas decorations out. I am determined to not let it pass me by this year. I think last year I just didn't put any thing up at all.

I collect angels and reindeer and bells and sleighs and I really love getting them out every year. This year I am not going to let it fly by. I hope to have them all out by tomarrow LOL no procrastinating!! Hear that self?? LOL

We always go to my son's for a get together of the whole family on Christmas Eve day. so all I have to do is take a dish or two. no fuss no muss. My son always cooks the turkey and usually squirrel or other wild game he likes to hunt. then he does the potatoes and everyone else brings what they like. All together we have a group of 30.  I am an only child and I always marvel at how big my immediate family is. We have 3 adult kids with spouses and we have 18 grandkids - 10 grandkids 2 inlaws 5 great grands and we always include my one grandson's girlfriend. So then we also always have my daughter's mother in law and my daughter in law's dad and his girlfriend. Then of course there is myself and my husband and my mom. We have a great time!!

We always play a Christmas version of the left right game. I usually write the story for it. It is alot of laughter. If you are interested in this game just let me know and I'll be happy to share it with you. You can find some by googling left right game but I like my own stories better LOL

OKay I need to stop gabbing and get some decorating and cleaning accomplished!!

Wishing you all a bright and joyous season!!!

May God Bless and Keep you in the palm of His hand!!!

French Seam Purse First Step

Here is the first step of a new tutorial I will be posting soon.
This will be come a French Seam Purse. I am making it in miniature but you can make it any size you want to.

You can make this without the piecing. Just use a pretty fabric instead of making a quilt for the front.
If you use the pieced front then you will need a template to make the Boston Blocks.
To make it bigger just use a bigger template!!

I am making a pieced quilt front for it but you can skip that if you don't want to piece a quilt front.
In this pic you can see half of my quilt top. 

Below that you can see the Boston Blocks I laid out to sew together. 
Click here for Boston Directions
http://www.piecencutpatchwork.com/…

Then I sewed the 4 Bostons into a 4 patch.
I sewed another 4 patch and sewed the two 4 patches together.
I have the other half and will show the whole in the next post

September BOM


     My original design--  uses 2 of my shortcut blocks -  my boston blocks and half square triangles.
  You can find the directions for these shortcut blocks here-
 http://www.piecencutpatchwork.com/
 
  follow the above link and then click on the shortcut blocks tab to find the shortcut block directions

 Once you have learned to make the shortcut blocks then you make as many as you need. Look at the layout picture to see where the colors go and how to lay the blocks so you get this design.  If you need any help just let me know and I"ll be happy to help you.

 You will need a 2 1/2" template to make this into a 12 1/2" quilt block. You can use any size template you like but it will be a diff size depending on the size of template you use.
  If you need a template email me at patchesbyr@yahoo with your postal address and include the 2 1/2" template size in your message.