BACK TO NATURE QUILT IS DONE--well, the top is done!!

The past month or so I have been assembling a quilt top for the shop--~I~T ~ I~S ~ D~O~N~E! It is beautiful...Yea to the designers Toni Steere and Jenny Foltz. Yea to Timeless Treasures!! This is the most thought out B.O.M. I have ever done! no guessing and step by step instructions for everything! even alternative methods...I was forced to take my time and read everything and I still ripped out stitches but that is ok...hehehehe--you cant tell! There were many things to be learned working up this top! and flying geese--I cant tell you how many and there were even geese within geese! can you find them? hehehe
these are the blocks! 9 and 4 corners. I had two friends work one block each to see what they thought of the patterns. ---the rest I worked up. This is just SOME of the geese--Laci had to get in on the action! took me quite a while to make all these but the technique makes them easy and almost perfect...it was me folks,! hehehe here are more geese! This was for an inner border....and of course, log cabin style for corners...


this next picture is the center assembled and the corners ready to be sewn on....at this point I am liking this much more! I thought I was going to e done real soon-this was taken on Dec 30th --DONE wasnt going to happen till later on....

I was to the point below yesterday and I thought I was going to be done 4 days ago! Looking really good and John likes it too....Too bad it has to hang for display in the shop for the next year!
but that is ok--I will get to look at it often! Busy Season is here!!!


and now--TADA--the final border..I have never mitered corners but with the GALS' instructions, it was a breeze!!! I almost feel like a pro :o))
now --here is this baby in the living room on the floor.... cant really tell the size? look at it on our KING sized bed---- I might have to turn it the other way but that is ok--there isnt really a top or bottom per say, unless ya wanna tuck one end but it will look terrific when it gets back home. Tomorrow this baby goes to the quilter then I add the binding....tonight I begin cutting another project!

yeah, it's been a while!

This is what I have been doing! the girls ar there because they wanted to be! hehehe The quilt top is this year's Thimbleberries club quilt--mine is smaller, I didnt want to use the pre-printed blocks nor the border---the border fabric I used in the swing jacket :o) and I will make a dress (one day) to go with. Placemats are done and on the table and the wall hanging is in the quilt shop...blankies and slippers were *orders* or for shower gifts! not sure about the scarf yet--I dont like the hood :o)) any hoo--more soon--or later!

BACK to the HEAT!

here are pics of recent quilt show I attended--stupid batteries died and of course, the others were dead, too, from lack of use I guess....and pics of the girls before we left and a roadrunner I managed to catch a picture through a window.....

MY STATUS FOR TODAY!!!

"No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick." President Obama

I agree with this 100% --therefore this is my status for today and every day!!

WHEW--no work today!

for the past month or so, I have been participating in a TOM and JERRY challenge...we were given fabric with tossed motifs of T and J and we needed to add to it to make a top...I went and bought more T and J fabric and used that and coordinating colors as well! I am happy to say I am delighted with the results...I hope some child will be just as happy!


These pics are of another sort of challenge..TRIPS FOR TWO TO BOSTON
I asked a friend to *play* with me on this one...didnt take too much effort..however, I wasnt able to meet up with her as we had gone out of town or I had to work!
we were to share the cutting, ironing, and sewing...my friend did most of all that....assembly was time consuming but well worth it! I have to trim off the points and add a border....this is rather small, so not sure what I want to do with it! Dont want to go too big because then I wont be able to quilt it myself....I am thinking 12 inches in borders.....any ideas?

I am working another project using paper-piecing technique. using fabrics in browns, pinks, and whites to creams and tans....I am 1/3 done so far----will take pics of that soon....also beginning stages of quilt on cover of Fons and Porter J/A issue...this I am going to love! tata!!