Here's another view. It was quite the process blending 2 patterns together to make a young bride's dream dress. 
I finished all of the quilts I need to take with me & am mostly packed. I guess it's been really hot in Fremont, 100 degrees a couple days ago! This Nana doesn't dare. Can't wait to see the Birthday Boy! 
She talked about feathers in this space. I'm better at leaves, so a leaf wreath seemed perfect. 
The borders are sometimes a challenge for me. I think I need a pedicure.
She found the pattern in this book from 1988!
Got a chuckle when I read who the publisher was.
I also has this come in the mail last week. I saw the frowny face & wondered what that was all about.
The message inside was "Rain , Rain go away. Better go to a movie!" I can do that. Thank you Secret Pal for the nice surprise! Hmmm, a self made card. Who could it be?
I still have a couple quilts to wrap up before take off tomorrow to Nanaland. It's hard to believe our Little Mister is 2 already. I'll be sure & post while I'm there.
Down the street from this.
And saw this. Be still my beating heart! I almost had to pull the car over. Could it really be a Cupcake Store?
A closer look & yes they are going to have hard ice cream too. Dad craves hard ice cream sometimes & this will be a close place to take him.
Joanna & I are crazy about cupcakes. We have our favorite cupcake blogs. Seattle's
Mr S & I are going to the Harvest Jubilee today. Fun, food & local farms. 
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Wanda from Heartbeat Quilting brings batting to Innovations for us to buy. It's great because we save the cost of shipping. There was just one slight problem. We were parked several levels down from where the batting was. Leave it to Jenny & Pam to come up with a great solution.
They were parked on the first level of the parking garage & the batting was in the parking lot on the roof. Pam dropped 5 rolls of batting down to Jenny. She did a fine job being very careful to drop them on the side & not crush the tube inside the roll. They loaded theirs into the van & then came across the street to get mine down to me.
I parked under the Convention Center 3 stories down from where the batting started. It sure was easier than carrying the awkward roll down stairs across parking lots.
I'm sure you are asking yourself, Why didn't they just move their cars? Wanda went down to get batting certain times during the day & we would've had to find another place to park & pay more for parking!
Laundry & quilting are calling. Later! Sharon
These are the Honey Glazed Walnut Prawns. One of their house specialties.
Pam ordered Spicy Siamese Noodles. You can order your spice level preference, so don't be afraid! Jenny had a delicious Green Chicken Curry.
On the way there we passed this. hello, cupcake
Isn't this bike cute? 
Of course every cupcake store has a cute cupcake girl!
Trying to decide which ones to get. Luckily they had little take out boxes. 
On the way back we had to get our batting. It's a whole post of it's own. I'll try & get at it soon!
It's off to Innovations for me this afternoon. I'm happy to get off of the roller coaster for a couple of days & have some "me" time. Don't worry I'll give a full report with pictures of the quilts when I get back. I have Hero Quilts on Saturday , so be patient. That "super woman" cape of mine is getting a little tattered. 
These are some of the beauties that will be given to wounded soldiers.
Stunning center to this one. Half square triangles & squares. How simple is that?
This one was a little kit we made up from a huge fabric donation we got from Mary D. Thank you Mary! 
Love this!
A Roxanne Carter pattern. Joni did a great job piecing this one!
The Snohomish Senior strip group made the squares, they got sewn into big squares with sashing at one of our Sew Days the, I made a border using 5" squares. It's always a challenge to make small quilts bigger. We hit the jackpot with Pat Speth's new border book.
The dedication of quilters is amazing. As always, thank you for all you do. 
We all went together & shopped for fabric & the perfect lace to go around the bottom of the dress.
Sorry I don't have a bigger picture. I wasn't sure if she wanted anyone to see her in the dress yet. This is the train with the lace. She was really happy with how it turned out. It will have satin buttons all the way down the back, even on the lace train. Her almost MIL volunteered to sew them all on!
I've made lots of wedding dresses. The last being Joanna's in 2004. I somehow forgot how long it takes, totally underestimated the amount of time to hand sew on all the lace(18 hours). I do enjoy the process of all of this. It's just that darn roller coaster sucked me in a few times & wouldn't let me off. You know how it goes.
Here is Batting Mountain along with quilt tops & backs waiting for their turn on Susan's machine.
As of Saturday she had finished 39 quilts. Hooray for Susan!
Here's a video of Susan & her Statler in action.I'll post a final tally later in the week.
Sharon
The fabric had a subtle western theme. You know how much I love leaves. Thought they were perfect in the large diamonds. 
Did a ribbon question mark with leaves & big "swirly girly" quilting to fill in these monster spaces. Actually "big" spaces provide excellent quilting opportunities!
Here's the back of the star.
Kim needed to make a baby quilt with a lady bug theme. Isn't this fabric cute? She got it at The Quiltmaker's Shoppe. I used that new design I told you about here. Head over to Green Fairy Quilts & check it out for yourself.
Our Stanwood-Camano Hero Quilters have given her 50+ and 50 from a group in Coupeville. I am going to help tomorrow with taking quilts on & off the machine. I'll take more pictures & post an update later this weekend.
As you can see in this picture. The bathroom door is always shut now. I got tired of cleaning dirty paw prints off of the sink & counter!
This is an innocent picture. So sweet when they are sleeping. I look forward to their nap time.
The best is sleeping on Mr S & his quilt in the recliner!
So far they have turned the computer off twice by stepping on the surge protector , stepped on the pedal of my sewing machine making it sew(thankfully nothing under the pressure foot), scaled the sliding door screen to the top, & basically the whole house should be renamed "Szekely Speedway" for all the "racing " that goes on.