CHRISTMAS WALL HANGING

Fireplace Santa

This is a project that I made a few months ago and I had set it aside.  Donna finally sewed it together. The squares are made from fleece.  I had never worked with fleece before.  It was a little more difficult for me.  It was not perfect but now that it is hanging on the door it looks pretty good.

THANKSGIVING

We had a nice thanksgiving

Just a couple of pictures of the group of about 28 people counting all the little ones running around.

I think everyone had a good time.

RUNNER FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER

A closer view of the designs

I made 20 squares for this Fall table runner for Thanksgiving. Donna made three runners from them for the large table and two smaller tables.

We are having thirty people including David and me coming for Thanksgiving dinner. 

FUN IN SEQUIM

OUR OWN LITTLE SEWING RETREAT

The first weekend of November Debbie came to spend time with us in Sequim.  She had some embroidery projects she was working on.  Donna was helping her.  We had such a nice time.  It was fun watching my daughters.

We have an extra table now and all my threads are in plastic boxes by the closet door.  You can see we have floor space.

Donna has a nice area now. She had been in the darkest corner.  Now she has good lighting.

Debbie decided to help rearrange our sewing room.  Our sewing room has been a disaster for a long time.  Debbie and Donna put in hours taking everything out and then put things back in a reasonable order. We basically had no floor space.  After all their hard work, we can now walk around.  Most  everything is on shelves or in drawers and looks nice and is within easy reach.

I have the sewing table by the window. That is probably selfish of me  but  I do more sewing than Donna.  

CHRISTMAS COASTERS

Just a little fun project that I have been working on.  These coasters were easy to make.  As it turned out I am glad they were easy.  I managed to injure a tendon in my right arm.  A few years ago I did that to my left arm.  It takes about a month or a little more for it to be completely healed. I was still able to work on these coasters being careful how I move my arm.

Here is a picture of how my arm looks now.

MY LAST COUSIN

Mildred May (Merriam) Shoeman

My cousin died on September 24th, 2018 at the age of 97.  She was born April 19th, 1921 in Mitchell, South Dakota. She was the daughter of Edward Justin and Bertha Lora (Field) Merriam.

Bertha was my mother's sister. My mother Lois (Field) Vetter was the youngest of the sisters. My mother and her sisters and brother were all born in Modale Iowa.

Jan Shoeman Peterson put an article about my cousin on Facebook a couple of days ago.  I sent a comment giving my condolences and said I would like to have known my mother's family.

Jan sent me this comment. "Thank you, Shirley. I wish we had lived closer so we could have known our fellow Field cousins.  You remind me so much of my grandmother.  The family resemblance is so strong."

In my generation, there were finally just four of us left. My cousin,Jean Baker Armstrong in Ennis, Montana on my father's side. She found my name in records that another cousin, who had passed away, had kept. She found my phone number and for about a year before she died we visited on the phone frequently. I was glad to have had that contact. She died a few years ago. She was about two weeks short of her 90th birthday,

Elsie, my sister and I and my cousin Mildred were the only cousins left after Jean died.
Then my sister, Elsie, died the day after Christmas in 2017. Elsie had a lot of health problems but did live to be 88.

Now I am the last one left of the Vetters and the Fields of this generation.

THE LAST SUPPER

This beautiful project lis done at last.  It was a lot of hours but it turned out so great.  Thanks to Donna for assembling it.