You know those awards they give out in school, “best in reading”, “best in art”, etc, well, in kindergarten, I was named “most optimistic”. I think that my optimistic qualities were truly apparent at that early age, or the teacher ran out of awards to give, and that was all she could think of. (in [...]
So I resumed counting yesterday on my 29 days and yesterday’s gift was a quilt to my mother-in-law. Yes this was her Christmas gift, and yes, its over a month late. But its still a gift because I worked SO hard on it. And its late because my father-in-law had very unexpected open heart surgery [...]
I’m in only (ahem) FIVE quilting bees… I don’t know what I’ve done to myself. And, I’m hosting one of them. Wow – busy. I’ve just finished one of the January blocks – and its for the Spider Bee – here are the blocks (triangles) I did for Anna.
Anna requested that we not combine the [...]
I think this was a success. Lainey seemed super happy to receive it; it was probably one of the very rare times I’ve seen her speechless!
The entire quilt is sashed in a 4″ kona white, and I love the way it made the colors pop! The binding was a vibrant orange that was used [...]
Its 22″ square, and only took (gasp!) 4 hours to complete!
This will be one of many in the queen sized quilt to come!
Just a little something I’m working on…
These little crib quilts really come together so quickly!
I’ve been so busy sewing, and not blogging. Obviously.
I’ve got tons of things to post, but I wanted to get this up right away, because I’m giving to Emily today! This quilt started as a smaller quilt (the stripes in the center)- a crib sized quilt for her son, James. Now that he’s three (and [...]
