Diane's Quilting: July 2015

On May 26 our son was ordained to the diaconate!!

It was a very special evening for us and his order; The Oratory of St. Phillip Neri.

With Bishop Zubik after the ceremony.

And no my husband rarely smiles for the camera- but I promise he's a happy guy in real life-😁

Here is Paul deaconing at Mass with Fr Zach at our home parish.

***************

In June we went to the Outer Banks for a week. Our son Paul drove down with me. Husband, Paul and his sister and her husband rode down on the bikes. We had a great time. We rented wave runners-so much fun!!! I laughed like a kid. (Which is necessary occasionally I think to maintain sanity!!) 💦

***************

Back at home it's been a rainy soggy summer. Besides my usual customer quilts, I had two of my own that had to get finished.

This one was an ordination gift for our Parish Deacon Zach, who was ordained to the priesthood in June here in the Pittsburgh diocese. I sewed the label on two days before I had to wrap it--no pressure!!

Here's the pieced back!

The other quilt is for my nieces first baby. A girl!

The shower is today actually and the quilt has been done for a week! Yay!

From her registry I gathered that the colors are pink, lavender and grey. I used part of a Tula Pink FQ bundle and some Kona solids all from my stash!

The back is pieced from stash as well!

**************

And since this post has picture overload already, here are a few more!!

Libby's Henrietta whiskers- I custom quilted it for her.

Lois' beautiful Batik quilt that I can't remember the pattern name.

She just wanted an edge to edge design, but always tells me to do what I want. So I did a little ruler work and the E2E pattern as a fill in the center star. She was really happy with it (me too-whew)