Anniversary Celebration

Each spring our church has a potluck picnic to celebrate the founding of the church. It seems to get earlier each year. Earlier in north Idaho usually means colder weather. There is some disagreement as to when the actual anniversary is. I wish they would agree on mid-June.

This is where the picnic was held today. You know how you can tell it is cold???




Have you figured it out??

Beautiful day.

Beautiful lake.

NO PEOPLE IN ANY OF THE PICTURES.

For the few minutes that the sun was not behind the clouds it was almost warm. Of course I had on a heavy fleece jacket. Many groups of people were huddled around the barbecues long after the food was cooked. Today was one of the warmer spring picnics we have had. At least it didn't rain and the scenery IS gorgeous.


Praise - for this wonderful country church where the pastor insists on teaching the truth from the Word. For the 'family' that is the church body.

Prayers - For the pastor and elders and deacons of this church, that they would continue to honor and glorify God with their lives and their teaching.

New Video

For those of you that are interested, my son has just posted a new video-

Big Air

If you thought that the Mountain Horse was crazy before...

How do you think they talked that guy into being the one the rider jumped over?? No way, no how!

My son is actually in this video - reflected in the goggles for just a bit. :D

Sew-in Update

Here is my report for the;


It was supposed to be raining today but it isn't! Such a beautiful day, blue skies, big puffy white clouds,sunshine and a little breeze. Of course it was only in the high 40's when I first got up and not a whole lot warmer now.

I'm pretty happy with my progress from the sew-in. Here is the completed quilt top;

It does look a little washed out but the colors are very light and it is full sunshine out there.

I was pretty tired and ready for bed but I decided to press on and get the bindings made for the Birdie quilt (little blue flowers) as well as the Sleepytime quilt (orange stripe-matches the striped stockings of one of the characters in the print).


I realize this shot is not great but I LOVE that view. I hope to be sitting right there sometime this summer actually sewing on bindings.


These bindings however will be sewn on to the fronts this week and then be all ready for me to take in the car on Thursday. Long road trips are a perfect time for doing this work I've found. I also need to get a binding ready for the Modern Irish Chain.

Sleepytime is all spraybasted and ready to be quilted but I have another project that I want to work on today while the guys are away. ;)
More on that later!

Have a great day! I'm going to get busy on my project!

Praise - for this beautiful day and the beautiful place God has created for us to live.

Prayers - for safety on the road for my hubby and my son.

Ready,Set, SEW!

The sun is shining for a few minutes so I ran up and took a picture of my fabrics for tonight's project.


I'm going to be making the Charms Squares Baby Quilt by Elizabeth of Oh Fransson! that was featured on Sew,Mama, Sew!. I've seen a few different quilts on Flickr that used this tutorial and they are really cute. This particular charm pack does not have enough charms so I have the extra prints there to work with.

I hope everyone else is either sewing already or about to get started.

Have fun!!

Birdie Progress

As far as I'm concerned the Friday Night Sew-In hasn't even started yet but I got busy with the quilting of the Birdie 9 Patch Quilt.

Quilt sandwich;(very messy if I do say so myself. No clue why it looks so rumpled).


Stippling away;


I was pretty happy how the process was going today;


All done with the quilting!


THEN I realized I forgot all about putting the cute flower appliques on it. Oh well, not happening now. I'll get the edges trimmed and set this aside for tonight.

Choices for tonight - quilt the Modern Irish Chain or piece another baby quilt. I think I will do the baby quilt. I need a break after the stippling else I get sore shoulders. I'll take a picture of my fabric and post in a bit.

Sweet news!!! Hubby just called and said he isn't hungry for dinner as they had a big lunch at work during their moving process!! Happy dancing here, oh yeah. Let the Friday Night Sew-In begin! I'm going to tell my son he can fend for himself in the kitchen.

Praise - my morning and early afternoon of continuous interruptions for whatever reason ended and my quilting session went smoothly. I was getting pretty frustrated at all the delays in my day (in His time, I've got to remember that!)

Prayers - That College Girl would have a great time at the concert tonight and for safety there and back.

Oh yeah

Time for the;


at Handmade by Heidi. Go on over and sign up and join us!

I'll probably be stippling. I might be piecing a new baby quilt. I'll decide after I see how my morning goes.

More posts to follow - hopefully with PICTURES!

Giveaway WINNER!

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I want to thank ALL OF YOU that took the time to watch at least one of my son's videos! So many great comments and he is LOVING the feedback! He was so excited to check the 'hits' each day. Thank you too for showing it to others, posting the link in other places and passing it on to those you know would enjoy it. If you are so inclined you can subscribe or become a follower of the TimbersledProducts 'channel' so to speak, on YouTube. He is editing footage of yesterday's ride now and they had an 'extreme' rider with them doing some CRAZY stuff! I'm not sure when he will have a new video up but hopefully very soon.

For those of you that commented on us having snow in May, listen up - we had a mix of hail and snow at our house today. Crazy, I tell you!

So on with the announcement already! Did the random number 'thingy' and still don't know how to post that here but the winner of the 4 Kona Cotton fat quarters is - WOOLYBOOGER!!!! Isn't that a hilarious name???

woolybooger said...
I watched both videos. I've never seen a snow bike. When the bike was shown, it all seemed very practical. My favorite video was the one showing the bike up close. Thanks for participating in the SMS giveaway.

I have the Irish Chain quilt sandwiched and ready to quilt. I did add the borders. I also have the 9 Birdie Baby Quilt sandwiched and ready to quilt! I was hoping to get my BSR 'fixed' before I started these but the repair guy was not able to get ahold of Bernina and he was not familiar with the fix that I was telling him about. Phooey.

Another one of the church babies was born this week. They are having them faster than I can quilt! LOL! Only one more scheduled as of right now and that is for mid June and get this - I have that quilt top finished already. :D

Praise - hubby and I did have a great time in the nursery on Sunday! Lots of children but they were all well behaved.

Prayers - for hubby as they move into new offices tomorrow, for that transition.