Coming soon...

 Out with the old, and in with the new...

Going, going....almost gone...

(photo borrowed from cyberspace)

November Retreat

  Main Lodge - Camp Assiniboia, just outside Winnipeg

One side of the L-shaped workshop

You can see 2 vendor tables at the bottom of photo...

 Other side of L-shaped area

 4 round tables reserved for dining by the closed kitchen counters

 Some Sew, Show & Tell

 Happy stitching friends!

Myra

Got It!!

 My new camera!!! Finally!!

 Its nothing fancy... I wanted a smaller one this time. We will see how it goes...

I made our twins their Christmas stockings earlier in the month.

DD1 wanted something from the Nativity on them.

I delivered them to their Wisconsin farm this past weekend. 

A whirl-wind quick visit before Christmas. 

Only 10 hours driving, one way... LOL!!

 DD1 sent along a turtle outfit for our TJ. She knows how much our DD2 likes turtles...

TJ thought he looked great, and he does!! lol...

Well, we see how I've dropped the ball with posting twice a week... Sigh... 

Lets see if I can make it up. Tomorrow I will post some photos from our November Retreat...

Enjoy to season people!

Myra

The Newly Committed...

 ... Meaning that my friend K (Quilter Going Bananas) and I have committed to posting on our blogs twice a week till the new year, and possibly more in 2013... Haven't we K!?!  ;) 

We both seem to have fallen off the radar of keeping up with our blogging... Me more-so...

I just looked at my blog and realize that I only have 11 (now 12) posts up for 2012!!! Wow! That is terrible!! I seem to have lost some followers too. My fault for dropping the ball...

Now, having committed to posting more, I leave you with a couple of photos of our grand-baby-boys, and mention that they will have another little one to play with this coming April... 

Yup!! When it rains, it pours!!!

Our DD#2's TJ... Turned 1 in September.

Soon to have a sibling...

 Our DD#1's twins, F & D. Seven months old at months end.

I also leave a photo of what I was cutting up yesterday. 

Prep work for our quilt retreat next weekend...

I have a few things from this year to post about in the next couple of months...

I hope all is well with you and yours, and I am sorry I haven't kept my friends and family 

"in the know", nor been keeping up with everyone's blogs... 

Happy quilting!

Myra

Our twins...

 Just checking in...

Thought I would share a couple photos of our new grandson's.

Here I am holding them for the first time, 26 days old. Just out of NICU. 

Two days before bringing them home with DD1.

 I stayed with them for 2 weeks to help, and will be going down again sometime in July. 

DD1 has some wonderful friends coming out to help in the meantime...

Here is a more recent photo of our little guys that Great-Grandma took while visiting last week.

They are doing very well, and gaining weight steadily...

 Do you think they are identical, or fraternal?

I think fraternal, but time will tell...

Here are the quilts I made for the little ones. Frogs and Bugs.

DD1 picked out the fabrics and pattern...

And let us not forget our first grandson, TJ.

He is slowly walking holding one hand, but motors along quite well when holding two, 

and has 3 teeth now! Big boy is 9 months old...

Hope you are all doing well in your patches of the world...

Happy stitching!

Myra

Mr & Mrs Farmer's little family...

Our Grandbaby Boys...

 First let me say many thanks for all your comments of congrats! I so appreciate them! ;)

Sorry I haven't responded to them... A tad on the busy side in my patch of the world these days...

Thought I'd share some photos of our baby boys...

Here is TJ helping to spin lettuce dry...

7-months old

 He is a busy boy now that he is crawling and walking around furniture... 

Give him another couple months and he'll be walking on his own!!

This is baby FT, DD1's first born twin. The smaller of the two.

 Here is baby DS, twin #two...

Both babes have recently been out of their incubators, but still in NICU, and doing well, but not ready to come home yet. Hopefully in another couple weeks.

DD1 is already finding it exhausting, and that is with the nurse's help! 

I'll be going down south to help her when the three of them are ready to go home... I'm looking forward to that! I haven't seen the twins in person yet, but we are planning to set up Skype 

to see them... If I can figure it out... ;)

Well, I've got two baby quilts to finish binding, and some receiving blankets to make now. 

I will check in again soon... I hope! ;)

Happy stitching!

Myra

 

Our lives are ever changed and changing...

Hello blogging friends...

The author of the blog IS still alive and kicking...

Yup! Hanging in with all life throws us...

Just popping in to announce that this morning we became the proud grandparents to two more little boys... Which makes for 3 grandchildren now. Three boys...

F & D Farmer were born 6 weeks early, but are doing well. Both over 4 pounds...

Momma is tired but doing well, and Poppa is, I am sure, very happy...

This is my DD1 that moved to the USA, 12 hours away...

Still having "issues" with camera and photo program, thus no posts for a very long time... {I don't like doing posts without photos as you know}... and life seems to have a way of putting other priorities on us also...

I hope you are all doing well in your patches around the world...

Happy stitching!

Myra

Look at that! Myra posted something!!!

Hi all!!!

I went to a retreat this past weekend, and "got heck" (LOL) for not 

blogging much, so, as promised to you SS, here is a post....

Went to the annual Carberry Retreat. I think this was my 6th or 7th 

year attending. Always a good time!!! Thanks SS!!  ;)

Still having "issues" with my camera and photo program, so not all the "Sew & Tell" 

photos taken at this retreat turned out, and thus I will only post some of them...

A 4-Patch Posy...

 LBs Dragon WIP..

 Friend LSs Shadows WIP...

 LSs quilt top that she's donated now...

 D9-P

 Fall Sampler of sorts...

 Neat pattern...

 SSs Finish...

 Wonderful fabrics...

 Sampler...

 Scrap happy here...

 And finally mine..."Birthday Purples"

 The colors are not true on the photo, and the purples in the outer border aren't showing 

much at all... This is the "Hop Scotch" pattern... I used about 32 Purple FQs that I 

received for my birthday from all my gals... I just kept making blocks till the 

fabric was gone, and ended up with a 99"x111" quilt top...

Here is a close-up of the boarder/fabric...

 I also worked on my pieced border that I am "winging it" for my Picket Fences PhD,
but it wasn't going very well, so it is not ready to show.... I have some "picking" I
need to do to fix a wobble problem.... :(

I also had big plans to sandwich and quilt the 2 baby quilts for my expected twin grand-boys, but time got away from me... Going on holidays with my cousins, with sewing machine and projects, so maybe I'll get them done soon... The guys will golf while the gals sew... ;)

Here is Mr Snookums and Dora. Made his way to Gamma's sewing room... ;)

TJ and his parents are staying with us for a couple of months due to a job change, but will be back home and working out their way when boss-man and family makes their way out there too...

DD1, pregnant with the twins is doing fine, but very uncomfortable already. 

Babies due in early June... Will visit with them on the way home from holidays with cousins...

For all you wonderful bloggers that have been "checking in" on me, all is well, 

just busy and not much time for blogging/visiting right now...

Never a dull moment...

Take care!

Happy stitching!

Myra

The show & tell rail at from a small group quilt retreat over the weekend...

 Good food, good company, a fun time! ;)

A most recent photo of our precious peanut, TJ...

Six months old now...

Been having trouble loading and editing photos, plus I need a new camera... 

Been busy with other things too, so I haven't been doing any blog things either....

Thus you haven't heard much from me.... 

I hope you've all been well!

Myra

Blogger Question

 ?

I've started a Gramma's Brag blog that I wish to keep private between
my family and friends. Does anyone know how to go about this,
in a manner that they do not have to make Google Account?

Do I use that Open ID selection?

Also would like to know if they are having trouble with
their profile photo showing up properly on their blog...?

I would sure like to know...

Myra

OH MY GOODNESS...

First, let me say...
"Thanks so much for all your congratulatory comments on yesterday's posts!!"

Permission to also announce now...

IT'S GOING TO BE...

 When it rains it really pours around here!!!

Never a dull moment in these last 2 years...


Two baby quilts to make now,
which each will be different...

See my OOPS here...

Myra

WOW!

 I forgot to mention, this time it is DD1... 

Our Mr & Mrs Farmer in Wisconsin...

A bit of a change for a while...

Hello family, friends, and followers!

Again "Happy New Year" to you all!!

Just letting you know, that I'll not be posting often on my "Tactile Pleasures" blog for a bit. 

If you care to, I'd love for you to follow along on my "Myra's 365 Days" blog,
where I post a little something everyday...

This doesn't mean I'll not be posting on my Tactile Pleasures blog,
it just means it won't be as often...

Wishing you all the best in 2012!

Myra