What do you know - Blogger finally let me post another picture! Here is the back of the Quilt Pink quilt - and you can see where I tore the little hole. This quilt was a really great stashbuster - most of the fabrics are 10-15 years old and older. It took me over an hour to upload the picture of the front in the last post, and this picture of the back absolutely refused to upload. I finally gave up, published the post, and figured this one could come later.

Loyal readers of my blog know that we are expecting two grandchildren this next year, so I thought I'd give you an update on that. Rick and Rebecca are still number ten - they didn't place a single boy last month. They are hoping to place 2-5 boys in January, so keep your fingers crossed for them. Hopefully they'll be making a trip to Guatemala in February or March. As far as Jeremy and Chelsea and little miss Sophie go - the doctor ordered an ultrasound because he felt Chelsea measured smaller than he'd expect for 34 weeks. This was the second week the measurement was on the small size. He said this is usually caused by the baby being in a funny position. So they had the ultrasound yesterday and the technician indicated that the actual measurement of the uterus and fetus was actually larger than expected. Apparently the measurements indicate she's at about 36 weeks rather than 34. It's up to her regular doctor to give the final interpretation, but I'm thinking maybe I need to work even harder on Sophie's Stars than I originally thought!

First finish of 2007 - and a milestone reached

This is my 250 post! I've been blogging just under one year. I had no idea when I started how much I would enjoy it or how many friends I'd make through my blog. Each and every one of you have enriched my life in ways you can't imagine.

I finished my first UFO of 2007! What a good feeling. This should never have been a UFO at all - I was sure it would be done in October the weekend I put it on Gandalf to quilt. I think I posted about my bad luck in ripping a small hole in the quilt during the quilting process. I guess every longarmer does this sooner than later - I'm just really glad it wasn't on a customer quilt!

Anyway, I figured I'd appliqué hearts on it to disguise the hole. I cut out a bunch of hearts, pinned them on, and was immediately bogged down with other projects with deadlines. I kept thinking I had until March to finish this so I procrastinated. Big surprise and joke on Patti when I received an email on Monday that the chair wanted our finished quilts turned in at Thursday's meeting. I begged for a reprieve and was granted this weekend. She wants to mail them to American Patchwork and Quilting by the 15th because I guess the auction starts the first of February! Thank goodness I felt well enough today to sit in the recliner and appliqué the rest of those hearts! Doing appliqué on a quilt that's already quilted and bound isn't fun - let me tell you! - because one can't gather the quilt up in one had like one is used to! But it's done - hooray! - and I hope it brings a fair price at the auction.