Grandkid Pics - Home from Indiana

 Lucy, two weeks old

Don't you wonder what  life will be like for a child born in 2014.

Good morning, blogger friends! It's good to be home, but it was hard to leave those sweet grandkids in Indiana, knowing it will be a while before we get to see them again - and Lucy especially will have changed so much in the interim. Good thing we have Skype and cell phones and text messages with photos!

Thank you to all of you for the nice wishes for us while we were gone. Now I have a lot of catching up to do, for I did nothing online during the 6 days we were gone. It was wonderful to have a little time to spend with the new little one and her family. She seems to be a very contented baby, and you can see that the big brother enjoys his little sister, and I think only a few times has suggested that they take Lucy back to the hospital. :-)

Mama and Kids

 Having a picnic with Grandpa

 Since I'm still using a cane, he needed a walking stick too.

Time to get busy around here. Hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday! I just had to post a few pics of the Indiana grandkids. Did you expect anything less?

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Baby Henry's Blankie

Getting ready to put on the satin edge - every baby's favorite part!

I'm sure that my Kenmore is older than many, if not most, if my blog readers. At the time I purchased it, I wanted a commercial-grade sewing machine, and this was the last one they had in the store, because they weren't going to be making them anymore - at least that's the story we were told. I knew I wouldn't get another machine like my even older Singer, which could sew through shoe straps, but I'm still surprised that my Kenmore has lasted this long. It's had a lot of use!

Yes, Misty, lying under the table, right beside my feet!! while I'm sewing.

Why didn't I think of this years ago??

It finally occurred to me as I was sewing this blankie and becoming frustrated  while struggling to thread the needle, that a small piece of white paper behind the needle would make the thread and needle so much easier to see. Oh yes, it worked! So why didn't anyone tell me this before, and more distressing, why didn't I think of it before? I mean, it's a sad day when threading the needle is the most difficult part of the project! And sadder yet, when I realize I've fought with needles for years when the solution was so simple. :-(

Flannel blankie with satin edge and mitered corners

Puppy with matching satin collar

I always make mitered corners on the flannel baby blankies I make, then I stitch them so that baby can't snake his little fingers into the corners and turn them inside-out!

I was going to get a little GSD stuffed toy, but my husband just gave me a look and asked if I didn't think that was a little over the top. Okay, okay!! I didn't get it, did I. So now the baby has some who-knows-what-breed stuffed toy puppy this is supposed to be. Oh well.

I do like this flannel with its Richard Scarry -type print. Reminds me of the book Cars and Trucks and Things That Go!  My kids loved that book and Lowly Worm, who was to be found somewhere on every page. Maybe Lowly Worm was the inspiration for the Where's Waldo? books. :-)





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