One block at a time

This quilt needs JUST two more stars.

Maybe you'll fill those blanks in???

I'm collecting star blocks to be made into quilts

for my local Veteran's Hospital.

Aren't these stars GREAT????

I love that they're ALL unique!

The deadline is July 1.

Still LOTS of time!!!

Details here.

There's also an other block collection going on here.

I think it's kind of fun to make ONE or TWO blocks

to be included in these donation quilts!!!

You learn how to make a different kind of block...

and...

You're not committing to a WHOLE quilt!!!

Have a GREAT weekend!

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.....

Thursday

One more graduation quilt is D.O.N.E.

Quilted and everything!

;)

I blogged about the top here.

well......technically....

I STILL need to add a label.

Yes....but first......

I still need to MAKE a label!!!

Why do I drag my feet when it comes to labels?????

No. clue.

happy house

A little house.

For Rachael.

My scraps and I had FUN yesterday!

;)

International Quilt Festival....here I come!

Friends!

If you're going to be at the

International Quilt Festival

in LONG BEACH this year....

Look for me!

I will have a quilt hanging in this exhibit!!!

You can see it in the photo above....

 second from the left in the bottom row.

All those swirly vines!!!

I'm excited to be a part of this great group

of art quilters!!!!

Monday

I'm beginning my week with a FINISH!

A very. simple. finish.

This little quilt began with these two fabrics

found in the remnant pile at a VERY reduced price.

I liked that little print...

but wondered how I would add some color!!!!

GREEN was the answer.

I used ONLY what I could find in my stash.

It worked!

I'm sure I would NEVER have chosen that backing

 IF I had been shopping!

BUT....

since I didn't want to go shopping....

I found something that worked...

and....

I think it gives this quilt even MORE color!

The front of this quilt is nice soft flannel.

The backing is cotton.

Sometimes if you use ALL flannel

 the quilt becomes TOO Heavy and warm.

Ingredients for this quilt:

sixteen squares of fun fabric: 7"x7"

forty strips for sashing:  3"x7"

twenty five cornerstones:  3"x3"

Put it all together!

Baby quilt measures about 39"x39"

Mostly Modern

This quilt began with a very MODERN idea.

Four Large Simple blocks using half square triangles.

and.....

Straight LINES.

I'm sorry to say the straight lines and I did not get along.

There was too much puckering...

and I wasn't liking it.

:/

We parted ways YESTERDAY....

Thanks to my little seam ripper.

:)

I ended up loop-de-looping...

a quilting pattern that's in my comfort zone. ;)

So.... I guess this quilt is a little LESS modern

than I had anticipated.

When I went "shopping" in my stash

for backing fabric.......

These pieces of fabric practically FELL OUT

of my cupboard TOGETHER!!!

More often than NOT.....

I have to DIG AROUND

for quite a while until I'm pleased with

the collection of pieces to use for the backing!

Except for the TIME SPENT UN-sewing...

I loved making this quilt!

Those BIG pieced triangles have me thinking.....

Hmmm.....

So many possibilities!!!!