2010 Ronald McDonald House Raffle Quilts! Photos Updated 3/5

Join us in our efforts to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House of Stanford located at 520 Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, CA!! Our contact at the House is Linda Lyons, Development Director! Why don't you take a tour through their HOUSE! Quilters from the HGTV Quilting and Needlework Forum have joined together to make this fundraiser possible! The whole month of February, quilts will be arriving from all over the country from each of the HGTV Quilters who signed on to make a quilt for the raffle. Visit the RAFFLE POST and read about our raffle and then help us by purchasing tickets! The Ronald McDonald House of Stanford will receive 100% of the proceeds from the raffle! I will continue to update the photos on the slideshow as the quilts arrive! There will be 36 quilts eligible for winning in this years raffle on September 11, 2010!! We raised $1,835.00 for the Ronald McDonald House in Durham, NC in 2008! We were able to present the Ronald McDonald House in Dallas, TX with $4,000 from last years raffle which was held in July 2009! Can we bust that mark wide open and raise even more with the current raffle! We need your help! Please, tell your family, friends or co workers about this and help us reach our goal of exceeding last year’s ticket sales!! Email me for tickets! Thanks so much for your support!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

My Watch Monkey "Paduche"

Meet Paduche....This little fellow is my "Watch Monkey". He was mascot to a trip I took with 7 other quilters to the Paducah, KY Quilt Show in April of 2008. We stopped at Subway for lunch on the trip there and I won him out of one of the stuffed animal machines. I named him our mascot and he went happily along with us to the show! Now he hangs on my machine and watches everything I do. He sees every quilt go on the machine, he sees them come off. He hears me when I might use some harsh language on "Sassy", my machine, and he hears me squeal with delight when I quilt a design to suit me! Don't you think he is so cute!


Paduche was about as glad as I was when I finished this quilt tonight. It was due off the machine yesterday but as I said in a previous post, my mother-n-law was hurt, so it had to wait until today. And to give you a quick update, she has a fracture to her right ankle and her left knee is really bummed up but luckily no tendon or tissue damage. She will be hobbling about for a good while but knowing her, she will try to do everything she can get by with. We will have to watch her like a hawk! We all are just glad it was no worse!




And this 30's quilt went on the frame tonight...Let's see if tomorrow will come and go without happenstance so I can show you a "finished" photo sometime tomorrow evening!

5 comments:

tisme said...

I am so glad to hear it was not worse! Thanks for letting us know the updated news.
And WTG, one down, and one more in.
Remember I am watching!! lol

Shogun said...

I am also glad to hear it was not worse, although the knee and ankle still sound pretty painful. Being December, I can see the temptation to do just as much as you would without an injury.

bingo~bonnie said...

I love your mascot monkey and her name - it has to be a she, since she made the trip to Paduka! ;) And b/c she appears to be pink ;)

I love that you included the photo of the back side so the letters you quilted would show up. looks like a very special quilt for a very special grandma.

sorry to hear about your MIL - but good to hear that it wasn't worse! I hope that she heals in due time.

Love from Texas! ~bonnie

The Nikkels said...

Glad to hear your MIL is healing! and seeing your pics of your quilts is so inspiring!! and i might even see one there that might be coming to live with me!! :)

Micki said...

Your monkey is adorable! I was glad to hear that you MIL was healing and your work is just gorgeous!
Micki