My man on the mountain, Mt Blanc....

Finished quilt for Quilts of Valor, I was wrong!

I was wrong..This is not the ugly quilt I thought it was.  The backing and the wonderful quilting by Terri has made this quilt a lovely donation to Quilts of Valor        http://www.qovf.org/

Although I hate to be wrong, it is nice to be so in a good way.  This quilt is now all finished and ready to give to the Guild for donation.  The batik backing is perfect!

Emily and Daddy in Cork, Ireland without Mommy!!!

Fabric making frenzy or OCD

I cannot stop sewing scraps together...I cannot throw them away...It is not that I do not have enough fabric...I am just obsessed...Now what to do with them....hmmm

Onion bag

Still up late, a bit..tiny bit, wired still from the steroids..I decided to make this little bag.  I was cleaning up after our Sit and Sew today, when I saw this empty onion bag and started wondering what I could do with it. I took some of the "made" fabric and sewed up this funky bag.  It was so much fun to make! 

NOW, it is bed time....xxoo

My favorite word is D..O..N..E

And ahead of time is even better!

The Christmas stocking for our guild.decorated with bells!!  Our guild asks for a homemade Christmas stocking and two cans of food for admittance to our holiday party in December.  We have fun by putting dollar bills in our favorite ones, the money going for goodies to fill the stockings for charity.  This is the first year that I actually have mine done in advance.  That is thanks to our Sit and Sew today and the wonderful support of my friends.

Kathy Lynn's First Quilt

About 35 years ago Kathy Lynn's grandmother gave her this Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt top, hand pieced from the clothes of Kathy Lynn and her sisters.  Today, Kathy Lynn finished quilting it.  You go girl. It is awesome and perfect for Charlotte's first cold winter's night.

Ironing pad tutorial

Well, injury or not, I have finished my ironing pad..maybe it is the steroids for the asthma, but it is late and I am still at the sewing machine, bandaged finger and all....I do think that I will leave the ties till tomorrow!!!!!

Ironing pad tutorial

Thank you Liz Copeland for this great tutorial.

A little bite of nothing was so much fun

I was going to take a nap today, but I so got into this fun that it didn't happen and now it is 5 o'clock. Going into my bits and pieces last night, I found this orphan block left over from my Grandmother's embroidery. She made these cats from Better Homes and Gardens magazine in the 1970's. I made a quilt from them and this one was left over. After a few years I decided to paint it orange with a Marvy marker. I totally hated it and yet couldn't throw it away cause Grandma embroidered it. You can see that I keep things forever. But, now I see that I no longer have forever. So, I made another block medallion quilt and appliqued a fish in the mouth...It was so much fun that I was driven to enjoy and finished it right now.

The skeletons that are not in my closet!

Gotta love those grandkids....just taking a baby break from quilting!

Blogger's Quilt Festival..My Flower Garden

This quilt is special to me because of the creative energy needed to make the block medallion quilt. The orphan flower block from Mary Lou Weideman's workshop many moons ago sat in a box unused. In the making do spirit, I decided to make a quilt around the orphan block.

Click on this button below to see the hundreds of entries in this great show!!

Mini snowball for the children's hospital

I got a cold. It went into my asthma and 2 weeks later, I am still sick. My husband got the cold. Three days later he is well. Whine, whine, whine.....Oh, well, I remember what Mother said about this!!! She is almost 90, so I had better listen up!!...

She said that when you are feeling down, do something for someone else....OK, already!..... Here is the result...my scrap mini snowball quilt for the hospital!! Yeah Mom! Love, from your slow learner:)

And, look at the so adorable backing...pink giraffes!

White log cabin experiment/ for Quilts of Valor

This top is now ready for my friend, Terri Feehan to quilt it for Quilts of Valor.
http://www.qovf-um.org/

Margaret's chemo quilt

No words needed. This is a disappearing nine patch group quilt. We are hoping that Margaret's lung cancer disappears too. We put in airplanes for her time as a flight attendant, and shamrocks cause she was born in Ireland and cats and dogs and love.

Ugly as sin......

Well, what turned out to be sooo much fun to put together without thinking, turned out to be ugly as sin!! It is hard to put together something pretty when you have limited yourself to using what is already cut and at hand...using up without adding anything else.

So, I can put it together and put a simple border and give it to a long armer for donation to the soldiers. I can do a quick quilting and donate it to the cancer women's floor at the hospital. I can cut my losses and just give the blocks unset to my sister....oh what to do with the uglies????

Log cabin variation/ process

Here are 1.5 inch stripsHere are more and more and more...hanging in my creative way, safety pinned to old wire hangers! Hanging here for 7 years plus....gotta get going using them up....

I found 20!! Can you believe it was 20, orange squares. I separated the white strips from the colored and started making squares. So much fun...no thinking, just sewing...I think I will keep on going, one more round of white and one more round of color...could be doing this all night!!!

My Blogiversary!!

My give away is: Hugs and thanks to all of my readers and friends and family for comments and support and sharing. I have just loved this past year in the blogging world.

Diane

Trees and stars?

I had been working on these wonky stars I made from leftover 16 patches from a baby quilt I made in the winter. Now, I have pulled out of a drawer, trees made 15 years ago in a swap from a now defunt quilting group. The new challenge of the day is can I use these together in a quilt....stay tuned.....

So very happy to be away from the browns!!!!!! I found this link with a similar pattern for the trees.

http://www.simplicity.com/t-free-quilt-patterns-White-House-Christmas-Tree-Quilt.aspx

Done, done and done...Brown star top!!

So, it may not be my finest work, but my challenge to self has been met! I shopped only from my stash and started with only two orphan blocks....two stars... I am so glad this top is done.

Choice

Just got this surprise in the mail!! Oh, Tatyana, you make my heart sing!! Thank you so much!

Painting by Tatyana Kulida Shelley

This is my favorite of all your paintings. It reminds me so much of my mother's poem below.


CHOICE

In a niche in a rock carved by the sea lies a
cradle of comfort, a haven for me.

Threatening tides roar with their spume of
salt spray while seductive waves rise only
two feet away.

Danger abounds on this high windy place as
the lure of forever kisses my face.

Alone in a circle of stone, protected yet
wildly free, will I cling to the solid
rock...or yield to the tempting sea?

Alice Burt

I am surrounded by such talent and love. I am so grateful.