2018 - What's Up?

Can't believe I've not posted in 3 years!  So much has happened.

Best thing is we have a Grandson now.  Connor is 15 months old and as cute as he can be.  Molly is now 6 and what a smart little girl she's turning out to be.  She's in kindergarten now.  Reading everything she can get her hands on and loving doing math problems with Grampa.  They have the times table written on her white board here at the house.  She won't ease it to draw pictures cause she hasn't memorized it all yet.

I've joined the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild besides being a member of the Camarillo Quilt Association.  Really enjoying the modern guild because it's small and easier to get to know people.

From our driveway

Night after the fire started

I'm sure most of you have heard about the Thomas Fire that happened here in Ventura last December.  The first night of the fire came within a few blocks of our home.  We stood in the street watching flames come over the hills behind the orchard until 3 am.  Our subdivision was spared.  The winds blew it westward through the city of Ventura and up the coast to Montecito and Santa Barbara county.  We were in a cloud of smoke for many days.

Our Modern guild has spearheaded making quilts for all the victims.  Not only here in Ventura but those of the Montecito mud slides.  I've been doing as many as I can.  So grateful our home was spared; feel a need to give to those who weren't as fortunate.

I've lost my website.  And apparently there is now a new company called The Quilting Co.  I had received an email asking to sell my domain over a year ago.  I get those every now and then.  I didn't realize they were actually going to start a business with that name.  It makes me said every time I see it.  I didn't sell the domains.  And if I let them expire, they'll just take them.  Having a hard time letting it go.  

Was hoping to have my pattern line up and selling under that name.  But family life has made it too hectic to get the patterns designed.  Some day maybe.

For now, I'm hoping to post tips and suggests to this blog.  Don't give up on me.  Below are a few of the quilts and quilt tops I've done for the Thomas Fire Project.  The one with people in it is a quilt top I made while still living in Walnut Creek.  Got it quilted with feathers and donated it.  The gal on the right is the recipient.   

made from donated TF blocks