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I love taking pictures. I have taken classes, shot thousands of pictures, joined a group and just jumped in with two feet. I tried a couple competitions, but my skin wasn’t too thick. I took a year off and today I sent in digital prints, these photo’s here were close but didn’t make the cut…..I have no idea why, I think it’s at the moment kind of thing, but I really like these too.
Finished block size 14″ x 14″
Cutting for ONE Block
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Can you see the Horse here in a wave? From our trip to the ocean the other day. I only have to be asked once to go sit in the sand and just watch nature. The wind and wave made for some great spray. I just waited and this was one of MANY shots.
Make a Pin Wheel Quilt Block
Sew into rows
Sew rows together
Please remember, 
Simmer and let cook down.
I needed a little project to take to my quilt group and so here we go ! ! Finished quilt is 36″ x 36″ perfect for a lap quilt.
This is the one I’m using
Cut 2 Strips of 2 1/2″ white fabric or
I like to chain piece these, make sure of your 1/4″ seam allowance
When the row is done, I press and I like to hand cut with scissors.
I’m lazy and don’t want to get up and walk the 3 steps to my cutting board….
You do as you like !
Open and press to the dark side or charm pack side
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Take two of above unit and pin together to form 4-patch block,
Open each up and press 
B is for Black 
Move them to your sewing table
Cut black strips OR
Cut 26 Black 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″
Sew to the sides of 4-patches
Again, press and cut.
Press to the out side,
Cut white strips OR
Strip on top white or
Cut 16 White – 6 1/2″ x 1 1/2″
Sew to the top and bottom
Press to the outside
For the off blocks I used black
Cut white strips OR
Strip of white or
Cut 8 White – 6 1/2″ x 1 1/2″
Sew to the top and bottom
Press to the outside
Lay out as shown Row 1
Rows 1, 2, 3
Row 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
Cut 2 Border – 30 1/2 x 3 1/2
Quilt as you like – Machine, Hand or tie with yarn
Cut Binding 2 1/2″ x 164″ I’m hand quilting now, no hoop, just pinned well and hand quilting.
Not tiny stitches, but that’s just fine for this !
I missed last Wednesday….I was on a plane to Dallas and taking care of GRAND’s. Nothing better ! I started two weeks ago with fifteen facts about me, and didn’t get past number one, you can see it here.
A Sister – I have a sister 9 years older, (she’s first born). I came nine years later (I am considered first born) and a brother (male, first born) ! Tells a lot about us.
A Wife – I love this guy who decided to marry me. Husband is a keeper, he told me once, it will never be dull and it never has been.
A Mother – I have two grown boys
A Mother-n-Law – I adore my/our two daughter-n-laws
A Grandmother – Each boy gave me two – I have FOUR GRANDS
A Friend – I have friends for forty years, friends new today, friends who have come and gone
A Quilter – I love quilting. I made all my clothes all through school. I took up cross stitch after being married and quilting when the boys were little, so just over 38 years of quilting……
A Photographer – My newest hobby and I LOVE it.
A Cook – Aren’t we all – Or don’t we just have to be?
A Writer – As you can see I am loving this part of me A LOT !
A Good Person –
A Painter – My Dad was a house painter when I was growing up. I think it just stuck to me. I love to decorate and I’m back into watercolors and drawing again.
I am Funny – Nothing makes me happier than Laughter. Loud or soft. I love to laugh and I think it’s part of LOVING to TALK
And Kind – I try hard to be kind, good and in the moment.
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I love sharing my photo’s and today I’m giving myself a Mother’s Day treat. I have been working on macro photography, (up close photo’s) it’s a little hard to do with a point and shot camera, my camera, but I’m fine with that. I guess it’s my form of macro?? Or close but not too close? Happy Mother’s Day to ALL !
This is Lily….
Nature Perfect…
Stop and Pose…
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So, I’ve collected fabrics and this is my starting off place. 
Adding the Grandma fun !
No solid background for this one !
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WRITE IT WEDNESDAY – Fifteen Facts about ME (I only made it to the first one my list)
I’m a Daughter – I am a daughter… I have had a couple of questions since my last Wednesday post and typing, I am a daughter, just opened up HUNDREDS of emotions. It’s been a long couple of months and seeing myself type, I am a Daughter….???
My mom is 88 years old and recently fell, a week in the hospital and 4 weeks in rehab. I learned a lot about me… Funny it’s about me and not about her. I have said for YEARS that, “I want to be a daughter.” Plain and simple, “A Daughter.” Not so plain and NEVER simple.
Mom would not come home with Husband and I, or into a home of some kind, she is in her home. I HAD to give up 100 percent of all control. And it’s been SO…..hard for me. (I’m the one who has a list of the lists I make) We have services and helpers etc. The conversation about a “help button” turned into me saying, “it’s that or assisted living” but I’m still on a daily drive over and lots of phone calls.
In all this process my Mom has and will NEVER change. That’s my Mom, she was a 1960’s-70’s-80’s working woman and always put that first. (Looking back even over my father) I remember when my Grandmother moved it with us (my older sister married, she had been on call before that) and I then understood….time. They both gave me time.
It’s funny at my age, 59, when she doesn’t notice a new haircut or doesn’t acknowledge my work, (Ever…) I am upset and try to think somewhere inside her she has to gets it?? But, I really don’t think so.
What I’ve learned, prayer and talking with God is my go to happiness. The saying, “I think I can” runs through my head when cleaning up a mess or accident (better than, “don’t throw up, don’t throw up”) and Husband letting me be 100 percent honest, when I just need to say things I feel in your heart, but they just don’t sound very good coming out of my mouth.
I am a Daughter – Well, I started in our 59th year of our relationship, but….I think I needed this…Write it Wednesday ! I will TRY the next 14 facts about me next?? Hopefully without as many emotions.
If you made it this far…thank you for letting me talk. This is what I need this site to be about…www.bethanndoing.com
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