Adam's quilt

The star quilt for Adam's wife is back from the Quilter's.
It really looks nice, now it is ready for binding. I was gifted with some star blocks that his great grandmother had pieced and want to hand applique them on the back. I will have to get busy, so it will be done by Feb. 18.

New year challenge

Our guild received a challenge from the local Relay for Life to make blocks for a Survivor quilt to be given at the Relay event this year.
Needless to say, this was met with a great deal of enthusiasm. Not only guild members, but friendsand family expressed interest in participating in this project. It should be easy to get enough for more than one quilt. Maybe there will even be enough for a raffle quilt for this good cause.
Now the challenge is to find the 'perfect' block and get it done.
I hope to have some pictures to put up soon of these blocks as they are constructed and the finished quilt(s).

winter weather

Freezing rain and snow on top! What a lovely day! I am enjoying staying inside and catching up some on the blog. The picture is from last years ice storm, but it looks pretty much the same today. I haven't gotten out to take any yet.

Comfort food, homemade soup, and chocolate chip cookies seemed like a good idea to fill in time, between finishing up the apple quilt, binding a baby quilt, doing some embriodery for Heather and working on a crochet project too. Nice and warm and get good warm fuzzies, feeling like I am accomplishing something too.

DD2 called from San Diego to say she had finished her quilt top today too. Can't wait to see it!

*Cheering all of you on with your projects*

BOM-ba-dom-dom

My turn to do the BOM for our guild. Our meeting was cancelled because of weather, but I posted the instructions on our guild site.

The purple, green and yellow one it the actual BOM.

I REALLY liked the block andhad a fat eighth of a fabric that just said I needed to do something with it so. . . . of course, I got utterly carried away, made the pattern smaller and now have 5 that I amde with the fat eighth in them and 5 more that sort of co-ordinate.

Now, I have to figure out what to do with them.

The apple quilt top is done!

The apple quilt is set! Thanks to all of you who helped make the blocks! I am VERY pleased with the outcome.

-The border was a challenge, I was about out of the apple print and the red dots, Walmart didn't have anymore of the dots either. When I finished it up I had just a handfull of scraps.

Anyway it is done now and can sit in the shelves until I can get around to getting it to the quilters. I have a chance to make a trade for some work for a small hand quilting frame. . . maybe I will get real carried away and quilt it myself.

Christmas Thoughts

This is the quilt for grand daughter for Christmas. She is the only grandchild I hadn't made a Christmas quilt for. Just got it back from quilter this week and will work on binding it today.

The 'rest' of Christmas this year is mainly 'gifts in a jar', copies ofthe family cookbook we made and little things for the rest of the grands and greats.

This year things got slowed down a bit - I volunteered to make reindeer costumes for the preschool class, and do embroidery name tags for gloves and hats for them. It was a lot of fun! My neice, Heather, who did not sew is the mom of one of the students. She helped cut, sew and them do embroidery. Now she wants a sewing machine too.

Seems the habit just keeps growing, doesn't it?

Quilting tools, sort of. . .

I was thinking about some of my quilting 'tools'. Well, to help keep my tools together at least.
I have a nice fishing tackle box that I use for thread, tape measure, pins, rotary cutter, pencil, etc. My DH, who loves to fish thought maybe I was going to take up fishing with him when I picked it out. Sorry dear!
I have a model car box (like for storing Hot Wheels) that houses my embroidery machine thread collection
A hook on the wall is handy for the hoop I use when hand quilting and I have a Liquid Tide Detergent lid with a lid on it that holds a spool of thread, needles, extra pins and folding scissors to take along when I am working on a hand quiltihng project.
I recently purchased a new cutting mat, and in the tradition of quilters, passed along the old one, an assortment of 'extras' and some fabric that I owned to my DD3 for her adventures in quilting.
In that same tradition, a friend of mine was gifted with a sewing machine and passed one of hers on to this same DD. Now she is set up to begin work on her own!
Quilters are special people, willing to share and pass along their expertise, knowledge, equipment, and friendship.