Category: Family

  • A quilter lives here

    A quilter lives here

    My son-in-law was bored today so he came over to our house looking for something to do. No problem! Sweet hubby was already more than half way through installing a new sink in our kitchen, and SIL jumped in to help. My previous sink was an inexpensive fiberglass one that had become very badly scratched,…

  • Disassembling FMIL’s dress

    Disassembling FMIL’s dress

    I started disassembling DD#1’s future mother-in-law’s (FMIL, for short) dress today. She had such a beautiful dress, and I am so thrilled she wanted us to include portions of it. I want to make the very best use of it with as little waste as possible, so I started by removing the lace at the…

  • Next project: wedding dress

    Next project: wedding dress

    Now that I’ve finished my Nancy Crow classes and the six workshops I taught at the NQA show, I have time to breathe. I think the next major project on my horizon is altering a wedding dress. As I’ve mentioned before, DD#1 is getting married. She wants a vintage feel for the wedding. We’ll be…

  • Poor RV

    Poor RV

    Poor sweet hubby! The wind gusts that came through our town about 6 PM tonight blew the roof off his RV. It pulled up the roof for the entire length of the RV on the driver’s side, and it was standing up when we came out of the house. It also tore in half crosswise…

  • Happy father’s day and thank you

    Happy father’s day and thank you

    This is one of my favorite pictures of my sweet hubby with our girls when they were little. It was one of their favorite games. Thank you, sweet husband, for being such a good father. Thank you for purposefully being a different father than yours was. Thank you for loving Jesus and for being soft…

  • Life party for Amalya

    Life party for Amalya

    I’ve mentioned before about how our daughter and her husband are expecting their first child, but the baby has a condition that will not allow for him to survive outside the womb. I know some people don’t understand, but our daughter and son-in-law (and all of us as a family) have chosen to fully embrace…

  • Winners from the 2012 MVQG show

    Winners from the 2012 MVQG show

    The Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild met last night, and they announced the winners from last weekend’s show. Our guild doesn’t use a panel of judges to pick the winners. Instead, each person that comes to the show is given a ballot as they enter, and they get to vote on their favorite quilt in each…

  • Deal of the Day

    Deal of the Day

    I’m so excited about my great deal, I just had to share about it!!! I met another one of my deadlines, and just have one more to do this week, so I decided to reward myself by going to our favorite thrift store. This is the place that sells stuff by the pound. I headed…

  • Permanent pages for Surrender and Quilt Queen

    Permanent pages for Surrender and Quilt Queen

    I have added Surrender and Quilt Queen to the “My Quilts” page. I’m sure I’ll be tweaking the information a bit from time to time, but for now you can read about each of these quilts on their own pages: “Surrender” can be found at http://mariaelkins.com/index.php/quilts/surrender/. “Quilt Queen” can be found at http://mariaelkins.com/index.php/quilts/quilt-queen/.

  • Quilting is done!

    Quilting is done!

    Hooray!!! I’ve finished all the quilting, and we’ve celebrated with Dairy Queen! Now I just need to label it, sleeve it, photograph it, document it…what else? I’m afraid all that is going to have to wait a bit since I have two other deadlines to work on first. BUT, I did finish it in time…