MY Name Tag

I belong to a couple of Quilt Guilds and each one insist on having us wear name tags (to the point of making us pay a fee if we do not wear one.) I was given a blank fabric quilted name tag at each guild and told to write my name on it. I hated wearing these. Not that I didn't appreciate the guilds efforts, they just weren't me.


So it's been on my list of "To Do's" for some time, but not until the most recent guild meeting where I had to drudge back to my car to get the old name tag did I vow to get a new one made.


So I used an old paper stick-on name tag as my template and a scrap of my own hand-dyed fabric. I then used my embroidery machine to embroider my name and for added touch my city, just in case anyone wanted to know. That looked a bit plain, so I dug out some beads and added those to give it a surface design feature in honor of the surface design group that I belong to. Finally I added the zig zag border. On the back I enclosed two small round magnets between the batting and backing fabric before I stitched the border. I've got two more magnets that I can now use to wear it on my shirt without worrying about a pin poking a hole in my clothes (another reason I didn't like any of the old fabric name tags.)

Here is the result -


(I tried to get a close up, but it made it a bit blurry in parts. I'm not an expert on photography or photoshop, so forgive the novice picture here.)

Fun at the Lake

Faith had her first summer of fun on the lake.

While she loves swimming, her main interest is playing in the sand and riding in her Pop Pop's boat. She's gotten really good at asking for a boat ride.

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June Beach Trip

As summer begins to wind down here in the south, I'll recap some of our fun.

We took the family to the beach back in June for a couple of days. It was lots of fun to watch our granddaughter play with shear delight. She loves the sand and could dig and dig for hours.

Here she is with her Pop Pop as they play in the sand.

And after lots of playing, all girls have to take a break to relax.