It's a walk on Easy Street

It's that time of year again for Bonnie Hunter's mystery.  If you want to participate, you can find it here.  This year it is called Easy Street.  And true to the name, it is a walk on Easy Street.  We are making 4 patch units for the first clue.  Thank you Bonnie for teaching me how to spin my seams. 
 

 



I cannot wait to see how this mystery comes out.  Besides the browns and creams, I will be using purple, lime green and turquoise.  Some of my favorite colors!!!!

I know that I have not posted a lot in the last few months.  I do need to get back in the habit of posting once a week if not more.

Thank you all for coming .  I hope y'all have a wonderful time blog hopping.



 

Quilts of Valor

I have been named the Tennessee Regional Coordinator for Quilts of Valor.  I had the honor of presenting my first two quilts on Saturday at the Tennessee Smokies Salute to Heroes Night. 





I had a table on the concourse telling people about the Quilts of Valor Foundation.

The first presentation was to the team physician. He was a full time medic deployed with a MASH unit, but now he is in the reserves and takes his turn in the rotation as he is an orthopedic surgeon. He says he will be going back to Afghanistan sooner rather than later. He didn't know he was receiving a quilt until I told him. (I let the goose out of the bag.). He told me he didn't deserve to receive a quilt like this. I told him yes he did because of all the sacrifice that he has made for our country. This presentation was made before the game on the field. I didn't have to talk for this one, as they had to keep a very tight time schedule and we (the announcer and I) had already decided what he was going to say. It was a very humbling and special first presentation.

The second presentation was at the top of the 7th inning. It was to a World War II Purple Heart veteran. He had just gone overseas and he was wounded. He had to have his leg amputated. There were problems and he have to have the rest of his leg amputated. He was only nineteen years old at the time. That happened 67 years ago. I tried to talk when they had the microphone in front of me. I got out "I would like to present this quilt to.....then I forgot everything I was going to say. Luckily my husband was in front of me taking pictures and he mouthed "Purple Heart" so I got out Purple Heart and I looked at him again like now what. He mouthed "recipient" and I said recipient and then the rest just flowed from there. I'm so glad that he was there in front of me. When I got done my recipient turned to me and said he was so grateful that someone thought enough of him to nominate him for the quilt. He said through tears that he was going to use it while he watched TV in the evenings. He said that when he passed, he was going to have it go to his great granddaughter.

I was on the news that night for all of maybe 10 seconds but you can see the news broadcast at the link below.

http://www.local8now.com/sports/headlines/Smokies_honor_all_branches_of_military_with_Salute_to_Heroes_Night_160978835.html

Have a wonderful 4th of July.  Be safe and God Bless America!!!

Sandy

What's on YOUR Bed

Bonnie Hunter from Quiltville's Quips & Snips is having a Linky Party over on her site here.  She was changing her sheets and quilts today and wanted to know what everyone else had on their beds.  I wanted to play too so here is mine.

Up until this past week it seemed like summer so we only had 1 quilt on the bed.  Then it got chilly at night again.  Down into the 40's.  I had to throw another quilt on the bed.  My DH had double bypass surgery 7 years ago and gets colder than I do.  So he has an extra quilt on his side.  That is my baby kitty Daisy.  She's not really a baby kitty anymore, but that is still how I think of her.

This is DH's Tennessee Music quilt.  We lived in Nashville for a while and he was a musician.  I just wanted him something to remember our time there.  Of course it is Tennessee orange and there is also music fabric in there.  I did machine embroidery on it for him.  I even let him pick out the pattern from Marcie Hohn Quilter's Cache here.

Here is a close up of the center.  The bottom left green thing is his logo.

And for the back I used a piece of music fabric I had left for the center and then just put leftover orange and black until the back was large enough.

On my half and under his quilt is my split nine patch.  I am in a couple of other yahoo groups and one of them had this swap back in 2001.  I had just bought my tri recs ruler at the time and wanted to try it out.  I interspersed my split nine patches with them.  I have the rest of the split nine patches on the border.

Under that and what I had on in the first place my friendship star swap.  This was from the same group I did the split nine patches with.  I did a piano key border before I even knew what a piano key border was.  I thought I was being creative doing it.  These are from 2000 and most of the stars are signed by the person who made it with the date and their city.  It has been washed many many times and the signatures are still there.

My piano key border with my half square triangles. 

Signatures still there.

I hope you have enjoyed your tour of what is on my bed.  Now what is on your bed?

Sandy