Renee Nanneman

What a treat we had in store at our guild meeting yesterday! Renee Nanneman of those wonderful Need'L Love books was our speaker. Her beautiful quilts are such an inspiration. I have long been a fan of her designs, dating all the way back to her beginnings as a cross-stitch designer. In fact, I still have a few of those booklets in my possession--they survived the great cross-stitch purge of moving-to-a-new-house! I have tons of those Threads books (Bittersweet Threads, Snowman Threads, French Market Threads, etc.) and love them for their variety of projects and decidedly folk art/prim look. Just great eye candy too! And what an absolute sweetie she is!

Of course, I had to add to my collection (Big Evil Grin) with these two books based on her fabric design line from Andover! It's so neat to see such a nice Missouri girl making it big on the quilting front.

HAPPY NEWS!!! My DH's niece and hubby have been waiting for years to adopt a baby from China. Their dream came true in December and Baby Emily is now at home with them in Colorado. We are so-o-o very happy for the three of them and anxiously await a time when we can meet our newest great-niece in person. Till then a quilt and a sock beagle will have to stand in for us! You may remember this Broken Dishes quilt I finished several months ago in anticipation of the newest family member's arrival. It is winging its way across Kansas and may even have arrived already in Colorado.