Happy New Year!

Star #7

Merry Christmas!

A new BOM?

I'm debating about starting a new BOM from this book. hmmm...

Getting in the Christmas spirit

I have spent the last day shopping and I'm having so much fun! I hope everyone likes their gifts!

Bella

Bella getting comfy on an older quilt. 

I am a proud member!

here is the button for the mystery quilt I am working on. I can't wait to see what it will end up looking like!

Christmas Quilt

The center blocks are solid fabrics and the busy looking borders are Sesame Street fabric with Burt and Ernie on them. I loved Sesame Street when I was a kid!

Charm Quilt

This is a charm quilt with 5" squares. I chose different red fabrics to sort of highlight the fact these blocks are large 9-patches. I love charm quilts!

Christmas Quilt

This is an unlikely Christmas quilt. The fabrics are mainly from one line and they all have white/gold pointsettas on them.

Orca Bay

This is Bonnie Hunter's step 1 for the Orka Bay mystery quilt. My colors are light yellow, brown, green and rust. She introduced the mystery in October so all I could think about was Fall colors.

Butterfly Quilt

This is a quilt I made using a pattern from Quiltmaker magazine. I just love the bright colors!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday(life is good)

Latest QAL star block

I started using other colors than just red, white and blue. I just don't have enough in the Civil War fabrics to be so inclusive color wise. What do you think?

Thimbleberries Quilt

This is a Thimbleberries quilt I finished last year around Christmas time. I bought the kit off eBay in 2006 and finished it in 2010. Not bad because I still have UFO's older than that :)

What I did this weekend

You can't beat sitting around a fire pit on a chilly October day with friends. This was my weekend and it was wonderful.

Giraffe

This is the giraffe my friends and I have adopted as our mascot. This picture shows him enjoying the smoke from the fire pit.

Wordless Wednesday

My Cats

Here is a photo of all 3 of my cats on a quilt created from a Kaffe jelly roll. Honestly, the only reason the 3 of them would sleep together is because it is now starting to get cold and they want their collective body heat. 

Moose on the Porch Quilts

This is the second block for Moose on the Porch Fat Quarters Quilt Along. I'm using reproduction fabrics in red, white and blue. I say "reproduction" in a loose way because these fabrics may be a copy of a colonial era cotton or from the Civil War, it doesn't matter, they will be used in this quilt.

Civil War Dresses Quilt

This quilt was 12 years in the making. I appliqued the dresses and sewed on old jewelry pieces onto the dresses.My plan was that this would be a wallhanging but my taste has changed over the years so for now this will live in an old chest we have.

Wordless Wednesday

Pearl

Pearl is feeling the Buffalo Bills love. Go Bills!!!!

Conversational Print Quilt

This quilt is made from conversational prints paired with a complemetary color. The center squares are stripe fabric left over from another quilt. I hand quilted this and used wool batting for the first time. This quilt is actually on my bed now. 

New fabric

I bought these fabrics from Z&S Fabrics. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them but I love them!

Garden Fence Quilt DONE!

Well, the quilt top is done. I really love this pattern and hope to make some more with this fabric.

FQ Stars block

I started a block of the week through Moose on the Porch Quilts. It will be all stars and will last until March. I'm using red, white and blue with Civil War fabrics that I have on hand.

Bella

Bella on the move....

Charm Quilt

This is a charm quilt I made a few years ago. It is the snowball pattern with yellow corner squares. Charm quilts are a special favorite of mine. I always look at new quilt patterns wondering if I could adapt it to a charm quilt.

Pearl on an old quilt

I call this quilt "All About Me- the First 30 Years". Each square has a conversation print which is symbolic of some event in my life from 0 to 30. I hand quilted this with black thread.  I think pearl likes it.

Stack and Whack

This is a stack and whack I made in 2001 or 2002 with casino novelty fabric I bought from Hancocks for about $2.00 a yard. Those were the days....  with the remains from this quilt I made a companion quilt with a red background. This quilt is above.

Pearl

This is Pearl on a Thimbleberries quilt I finished in 2002. Do you recognize the pattern? It was very popular back in the day.

Pickles

Here is Pickles lounging after a hard day of..... what does he do all day?

Stash enhancement and Garden Fence progress

THis is fabric I ordered from Connecting Threads. I love shopping there. I have no idea what I am going to do with these fabrics but I just love them!

The following 3 photos are progress on my Garden Fence. I really like this and hope to make another soon.



My 36 patch QAL quilt is a flimsy!

 Here are a few closeups...

I paired Jane Sassaman FQ with solids to make the blocks.

36 patch quilt along progress

The blocks for this QAL are really coming together. This is going to be a big quilt!

Moving along on my Garden Fence quilt

Ok, the pieces are coming together on my Garden Fence QAL. I am enjoying this so much I may make it in a pink/orange/white colorway.

Angel Christmas Quilt

This is what I'm machine quilting now.  They are mostly Chrismas fabrics but in a light color way so it doesn't look like a holiday themed quilt. I don't do much machine quilting but I think that is going to change because the LA is expensive and I can't hand quilt fast enough to keep up with all of my tops.