Happy 4th of July

No, it is not our place. We live in a town. Some people call our town a city but it is really only a town, quite spread out, but a town.

I hope everyone is having a great 4th of July. We are. Quiet, I am getting some quilting done between laundry loads. DH went and worked on our boat (it is 11 1/2 feet long.) we built it 3 years ago. We want to take it on our camping trip in Aug.

DH fishing from our boat in one of the tributary to the San Francisco Bay. This was taken last Fall on one of our few 2 hour breaks from care giving with my father.

Well if blogger will keep cooperating I will show you more of my stoles.

This is a detailed look of the appliqued Dove on my sisters Pentecost Stole. (Just to refresh your memory, my sister is a minister.)

This is an advent stole. It really is purple but it comes
out so dark in this photo. To the right is a detailed look at the embroidery and cross. I have learned so much about the different crosses and other Christian symbol's. For instance this cross is the resurrection cross. Note the pointed ends and no base. I first embroidered the palm branch then appliques the gold and white cross over it.

The white stole on the right is a communion stole that I made for her for her ordination.

The wheat is embroidered. The grapes and leaves are appliqued. I used embroidery floes to applique both the grapes and leaves. I can show you a detail of the grapes but blogger just stopped cooperating. No detail of the wheat.

I haven't been able to share any thing that is current as our digital camera has just recently died. As soon as I get my film developed from my camera (old fashioned film camera), I will be able to share.

Now to other news. 1) I am trying to patiently wait for an answer on whether or not I am excepted to the maverick guilders blog ring. Keeping my fingers crossed.

2) I may not get to blog again until next week as we are expecting more company. My cousin and her 16 year old daughter this time. We are beginning to feel like we are living in Grand Central Station. And as DH says "about 95 % of them have had a y chromosome deficiency." In other wards mostly women.