Window Office

This is where I work.

It isn't fancy.

There isn't a design wall...

but there's a pretty VIEW!

Roses, Lemons, hydrangeas.....

The fabric is not within reach...

It hides in closets and cupboards...under beds....

The Batting lives on the top bunk of my daughter's bed....

But....

I have a VIEW!!!

I often spy hummingbirds and butterflies

flying around....Just outside the windows....

Thanks to my husband's beautiful garden!

;)

Last year I borrowed my daughter's room while she was away at school.

It WAS nice to have a room that I could shut the door on....

It WAS nice to leave fabric laying about

in semi-organized piles....  :/

Maybe someday I'll have that luxury again...???

This is what's BEHIND me as I sew!!!

It's easy to ignore the kitchen mess IF I WANT to...

and ....

It's easy to stir dinner IF I NEED TO.... :)

One night this week...

I DIDN'T HAVE to cook!

My daughter made dinner for this quilt!!!

The quilt top was already finished.....

and had been folded up in my quilt top pile for a while now.

She needed a going away gift for a special friend.

We traded:

I quilted.

She cooked....

A delicious Dinner!!!

I had fabric for the backing...

and....

It didn't take long to finish it up.

Now that it's quilted I really LOVE this quilt!!!

Amazing what quilting a quilt does for perspective.

I'd say she STILL owes me though.......

Maybe a couple more dinners...???

Hmmm.....

Soft lavender

My friend, who ordered this for her friend, said....

"It's JUST right."

Oh good!

I struggled a bit with the lavender....

But....she knew what she wanted...

and this is it!!!

I did find the perfect backing and gingham binding....

Don't ya' think??

This quilt will be cuddling soon...

with a Mom who's very ill....

sitting right next to her children...

Reading a book!

I need to speed it on it's way.....

Lavender Lament.

I spent ALL morning making a very

B.O.R.I.N.G.

quilt.

I didn't realize how hard lavender is to get along with.

Now I know.

After deciding this was way to blah....

I began adding some white to

the leftover scraps.

I made another quilt top.

:/

My friend who ordered this

will now have TWO to choose from!!!

Maybe contrast will help??

It does.

A little.

I still don't love lavender...

and neither does my camera.

Wow!!!

It's hard to take pictures of this color!!!

Are there other difficult colors I need to beware of???

Lavender

My friend asked me to make a quilt for her friend who is ill.

A LAVENDeR quilt.

Hmmmm......

I've got lots of lavender inspiration in my garden.

It's really my HUSBAND's garden.

I just get to enjoy the Fruit of his labors!!!

I get to look at this outside my kitchen window every morning!!!

Yes.

Lots of inspiration out there!!!

NOT in my fabric cupboard.

These are pretty....but...

 kind of blah...I think.

There's not a lot of singing going on in this fabric..

IS there???

Aaaaah!!!!

That's better.

I went shopping and found this.

This fabric is singing MY kind of song!!!

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NOTE!!!

I'm still getting comments with a NO REPLY setting.

That's O.K.....

Unless you need my address to send a quilt block!!! ;)

If you didn't get my address via email...

That means....

You're a NO REPLY blogger.

I couldn't send it to you!!

:(

Great news!!

I think we've got lots of blocks coming in the mail.

QUILT(s?) TO JAPAN....

HERE WE COME!!!