Sew On The Go by Michelle Renee Hiatt

Over the last few days, I've had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with my nieces. It was a nice interlude for busy holiday. In my Friday Night Quilt Club, I've had the pleasure of seeing some of my friends children growing into little quilters, well my little nieces are getting big enough to sew now.  Wow, Madeline is now 8, Lauren 6 and little Anna is almost 4. I found such joy in seeing what the girls could create. Madeline made a scarf on her Bernette this past week (wish I had a picture). As well as interviewed Jean and Cindy,two of my friends, on a trip to Pennington Quilt Works and Olde City Quilts, on their quilting tools. I definitely think we have another quilter in the making. Now, Lauren is the color placement expert, instructing us to move blocks on the design wall for her quilt throw which Madeline and I were sewing for her. (Can anyone say Cindy or Diane...LOL) While at the house, Madeline drew these pictures for me, of our dog...

Apologies, it has been some time since I posted last... and I haven't been sewing either.  First, I was ill and then our 10 year old German Shepherd, Moose, suddenly took sick last week.  For days, we tried everything and asked the Northstar Vets to try everything.   After many test and procedures, it ended up being a septic abdomen tumor which burst.  The surgeon's at Northstar Vets, went in to remove it.  They warned us that it would be an invasive surgery, but Moose, our ever strong man, made it through.  However,  shortly after coming out of surgery they believe he threw a clot and stopped breathing.  They performed CPR for 20 minutes but they were unable to bring him back.  I guess his body just wasn't strong enough.  That was Tuesday night, and we've been in mourning ever since.  I'm sure you pet lovers know what we are going through. I finally pulled myself together e...