Trouble with the internet this morning, which is why today's blog isn't being posted until this evening.  

At least whatever the problem was, it has solved itself (which is always nice!)

Yesterday morning was the Tea & Bed-turning at Busy Bees.  The tables turned out lovely (can you tell which one of the five Sharon and I did?)

And there was WAY more food than we needed.... all of it yummy!  But first we had the bed-turning.  

Here are the ladies setting that up.

  

Pati Cook's quilt was on top, so she started us off with this colorful quilt.  In 2002 she spent all 18 days of the Arizona State Fair in the Home Arts building, working on this quilt to increase interest in quilting.  All of the blocks represent something at the fair!

This key on the back helps explain her blocks.

Carol Knopf was next showing her very first quilt, which combined machine embroidered cats (the 8 blocks in the center) with Catberry Tails fabric.

Sharon Lichter made this classic quilt in the late 90s; I believe it graces the bed in her guest bedroom.

Monica Matteo made this strip-pieced quilt at a Pat Armstrong class.  

It has rounded corners so it doesn't drag on the ground.

Monica made this Mulqueen BOM quilt in 2009

and it won a ribbon at the fair.

Bobbi Carr brought in this machine embroidered "Simon's Follies"

and also her first embroidered quilt, "Rose Garden".

Three of Bobbi's four cornerstones are the same, but when she made a mistake on the one at the lower left, she turned it into a block for her initial... just another example of a 'design opportunity"!

Melissa Turner worked up this Thanksgiving quilt, complete with signature blocks, using a Jo Morton pattern.  It was originally meant as a sample for a class she was slated to teach - except that she ended up being out of town on that date for a family funeral.

This is another sample quilt Melissa made up.  

Those are cupcakes (from a panel) in the centers of the squares.

Louise Grant calls this Roses For My Bed.  The blocks are appliqued by hand using the buttonhole stitch.  Louise was inspired by a quilt she saw in American Patchwork magazine.

This is an original design Louise worked up using the EQ Challenge, and calls it Falling Leaves at Nightfall.

This folk art Heart to Heart quilt is hand appliqued.  Louise started it in 2007, and finished it up in 2010.

Jan Hansen embroidered this quilt, and had to design the two basket blocks because she did not want to repeat any of the patterns.

Jan's Spring Bouquet in beautiful bright colors in done in raw edge applique.  

Penny Crouch brought in this old quilt that was given to her by a customer at her restaurant.  Apparently an elderly neighbor of the customer had died, and when the family cleaned out her house they tossed all of her quilts out by the curb for the trash!  Happily the neighbor rescued the heirlooms before they ended up at the dump!!!

From the shape the quilt is in (it needs some TLC in the way of repairs) it obviously was well used (and no doubt well loved!) by the quilter.

Pat Wills likes to make scrappy quilts, as evidenced by this Ohio Star that she hand quilted.

Pat's simple 2-color pinwheel quilt was beautiful, and she uses it daily.

Joanne Lancaster bought this Prima Vera kit in 2005.  Because it was all hand-appliqued, she didn't finish it until 2013.

Joyce made this mystery quilt from a class taught by Carol Simpson.

Joyce made up this Quilter's Garden from a Lynette Jesse kit.  Not only is the front beautiful...

but look at the quilting from the back side.

(I think it was quilted by Cynthia Smith, who also quilted my hand-pieced Ohio Star currently on my bed.)

Joyce was really thrilled when she finally finished this hand-appliqued Falling Leaves.  Can you tell?

Then it was time to eat.  Here are just a few pix of the food:

Obviously NOBODY left there hungry!  Or IF she did

My egg salad sandwiches were a hit - and when I offered the leftovers to the ladies, several of them took me up on it so I didn't have to bring any home.  (I do have a tub of egg salad in the frig that never made it into the sandwiches, and even having it for dinner last night I hardly made a dent.)

After a brief stop at home, I was off to PT.  Again, it seemed to go well and the hour passed quickly.  Although I have noticed that on PT days I am much more tired by the time evening rolls around.

Plus last night I had another attack of vertigo... as in serious spinning.  

NO idea what causes that (and it's been quite a while since it last happened) although I did have a 'migraine' (fuzzy floaters but no headache) earlier in the day which I cured with a little bit of sugar.  Wonder if they're related?  Will start keeping track!

I had great plans for today <g> but slept in, and then Alex called and we ended up going to lunch together (at Humble Pie, near Desert Ridge, where his roommate Clay works) and then running some errands together.  He also paid me another installment on what he owes me (and Saturday Lisa paid me 2-months-worth of car insurance and cell phone) so I'm pretty flush.

Guess that Pei Wei fortune in my cookie not too long ago was on target!

I stopped in at Hoogie's yard sale next door (and made arrangements with Louis to fix the back gate where it came loose from the block wall during the intense winds last year) and by the time I got home it was really too hot to mow the backyard.  I did, however, finish up the bib for Laura's grand-niece, Ariya, who was born a couple of weeks ago. 

I'll be giving it to Laura tomorrow after PT; she lives right nearby!  Sadly Laura's sister Amy died shortly before last Thanksgiving, and so 19-year-old Courtney doesn't have her mom to do any of the things a new grandmother would.  Courtney (and Ariya) live in Kingman, but may be coming down to visit Laura next weekend.  Good timing!