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Raggedy Ann that I made for Alison's 4th birthday, dinosaur for Benjamin, and a couple of pillows on the floor that I made in years' past.

Benjamin with the dinosaur.

Alison wearing the dress I made for her, with her mama, Laurel, holding Raggedy Ann. Alison is wondering what to do with a doll as big as her!

She figured out she could hug her!

This is the 1860's dress I made for times that I'd be going in period dress to the Pioneer Museum in Fredericksburg to demonstrate counted cross-stitching or crocheting. The buttons are real 1860's buttons from my ancestral home in upstate NY!

Backside of the dress.

Uh, oh! Here's a piece I haven't yet finished into something useful! It is Texas and the mirror-image of Texas! Looks like a stand-up in the offing!

A hardanger ornament I finished last year.

Gnomes in my Garden Alphabet Sampler I stitched.

I LOVE Halloween! This was the Halloween Mystery Sampler that I stitched. I entered it in the Lee County Fair and got Champion on it! I've never managed to get a blue ribbon on my stitching, much less a Champion! WOW!

Here's a bib and a Hello Kitty blanket I made.

This was some wonderful fabric I found at the quilt shop in La Grange next to the Texas Quilt Museum. I had to get this and make a quilt for Claire.

This is one of three almost identical quilts I made for three little boys for all of their birthdays! I entered one in the Lee County Fair and got a blue ribbon! So any one of them would have gotten that blue ribbon!

Two years + in the making! I started this just before we moved back to TX - took a class in OKC on t-shirt quilts. Then I got in with a group of quilting ladies at the local Catholic Church, so I finally finished it earlier this year. I entered it in the Lee County Fair and got Reserve Champion with it!

A closer view of the t-shirts. These shirts are all from the Oklahoma Blood Institute. Each time I'd donate blood, I'd receive a t-shirt! I saw a t-shirt made up and hanging on the wall in the main OBI office and decided I HAD to make one for myself! This is it!

Two Christmas stockings I finished. A friend in Oregon stitched the one on the left and I stitched the one on the right.

Wreath Wes and I made from all natural materials, mostly from the property here - cedar came from the fence line, along with the pyrocantha cuttings with the red berries, guinea and chicken feathers from the neighbors' guineas and chickens, pine cones from upstate NY, and the piece of ribbon from Hobby Lobby. It was fun using the materials available around the place!

Christmas stocking started by my son and daughter-in-law, then they gave up and brought it to me. So I sewed the back and the fronts together, after fixing a couple of little things and finished it for Christina. She was so delighted when she saw it.

I made the quilt hanging on the bottom rack of this quilt rack. It is a double wedding ring with solid arcs. The one above is one my grandmother made for my mother in the early 1950's and sent to her. I WANTED that quilt! My mother told me NO! It was HER quilt! She said one day it would be mine, but for then it was HERS! I couldn't believe my mama told me NO! Well, obviously it's mine now, but I'd much rather have my mother than her quilt! The top one I got at auction in NY. I made the counted cross-stitched butterfly pillow on the little rocking chair.

Here I am surrounded with my ribbons at the Lee County Fair! I entered 7 items and received 2 Champions, 1 Reserve Champion, 3 Blue and 1 Red! WOW!

This is a little Christmas fairy quilt kit that I saw in All Around the Block one day. I HAD to get it for Alison! I finished it for her 5th birthday.

Kathi O talked me into making the backing for this quilt this way. It turned out looking like a window into the quilt! Super idea, Kathi!

Clara Grace gave me numerous cannas for my first flower bed down here in Texas. I wanted to make something memorable for her, so I decided to attempt printing pictures of the two rarest cannas that she gave me on fabric and then make them into pillows. The canna on the left is a cream-colored one that goes to a delicate peach in the center. She told me she had had that canna for about 50 years and that the lady who gave her a start of them, had them for about 30-40 years. The one on the right is a yellow bird-of-paradise canna which she brought from Mexico. She was pretty pleased with those little pillows!

I stitched this giant poppy on the way to upstate NY in 2011, did the beading in the center in 2012, and finally finished it into a pillow in 2013! I think it is beautiful!

The night I joined the Happy Hearts Quilt Guild in Giddings, they announced that they were extending the deadline for the Deep in the Heart of Texas challenge because they had only two entries for it! When we moved down here, I found this kit at Gerline's Quilt Shop in Giddings. I was soooo delighted to FINALLY be back in Texas that I bought it - of course, it helped that it was on sale, too! Anyway, I decided that I'd just make that little wall quilt right up and I did. I then took it to Mimi's in Giddings for machine-quilting. I told them what I wanted and they decided that it was a Linda Moss job. I think she did a fantastic job on it and exactly what I was wanting! I have just the place to display it in the house!

I loved the way that heart showed up on the Texas flag!

I wanted quilting around the star, but I didn't want it to detract from the star, so she quilted it in blue thread.

Look at the heart on the Alamo!

And the hearts on this block!

This is the backing I used.

This is the Whisper of God - when I saw this kit, I had to get it. When we bought the ranch outside of Fredericksburg, Brian and I were standing on the deck after the closing. He was talking and I said, "Shissssshhh! Listen!" He listened and listened and finally he asked when he was supposed to be listening for. There were absolutely no sounds! I said, "Nothing!" He looked at me and then started laughing and said, "you're the only person I know who would tell me to listen for nothing! But I understand what you're saying!" That's what's so great about the Hill Country and where our ranch is!

I love witches!

I think Alison liked her quilt!

This is the alphabet sampler I made for one of my grand-daughters before she was born.

Alison likes to play doctor, so Laurel got her a labcoat and I made the badge with her name - Dr. Alison. She was pretty pleased with the coat and the stethescope!

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