A True Mystery

This is my next project - a mystery quilt from last summer. I couldn't find the directions so I came up with this layout. What do you think?

Brian's Quilt

This is my current project - a quilt for Brian. I am using Minick & Simpson's "The Hamptons" collection. I had bought a jelly roll last fall and was going to do a rail fence, but I have since decided to make a Crazy Quilt. I have some wonderful Navy, Red & White sulky thread to do the decorative stitching. I plan on finishing this soon as I need to turn in my Bernina for tuning and cleaning. I have to take it to Louisville (52 miles away) and they have said the turn around is approximately 3 weeks. Thank God I didn't sell that Singer! I will post more pics soon.

Foundation Piecing

Foundation Piecing - I thought this was a great site and I wanted to share it with you.

small WWW (world wide web)

I have to tell you all about a new site I discovered tonight - Quiltcetera and I met Bradie, the woman whose site it is on Twitter, a site devoted to mini blogging. She followed me first and then I followed her. She was talking about a mini 9 patch tonight and I asked her what it looked like and she sent me her link to her website. On it, she does a live web show for beginning quilters for free!! I thought it was so cool. She basically goes through the basics and she describes what she is doing every step. Way too cool!

I also discovered another site called etsy - where people who make hand made crafts sell their wares. It's ebay for the artsy crater. I found this site through Flickr and made a contact with MooseandBear and going to her blog and voila! The first thing I thought about was calling my friend Sarah Raffuse, which I did, and telling her I found the perfect place for her to start selling her completed quilts. She already has a webite for her book Crazy Shortcut Quilts , which she co-authored with her mom, Marguerita McMannus.

By the way, MooseandBear blogs about me, I am the connection she made through Rob Williams who blogged about her wenis felt pin, in which I read and responded to as well. Small world this WWW (world wide web).

Frames or borders

Whatever you want to call them - I call them almost done. Here are two of the quilts I have been working on this past week. I know it seems like I haven't accomplished much, but keep in mind, I am moving and I watch my grandson every day. I consider this major progress!!!!

My friend Sarah has been coming over every Monday for the past 4 weeks and we have been working diligently on knocking out UFOs. It's paying off. Anyhow, next Monday we're going to have a pinning party and we're also going to hand stitch the binding on the quilt my daughter made 1 1/2 years ago. So I am trying to get as many tops wrapped up for the pinning party so next week I could actually start quilting some. More soon!

Working, working, working....

...I have been working hard on finishing projects. I plan to have at least two maybe three to post this weekend. It's been a long slow week because the projects I am working on are tedious. And then yesterday, my sewing machine decided to eat my thread and it took me half a day to figure out where the thread problem was. It's funny, the sewing machine eats the top thread and it causes the bobbin to nest and do very strange annoying stuff. Did a man invent this as well??
So my good friend Sarah was kind enough to indulge me last night and help me troubleshoot the issue. I should be back on track today. More later.

Stained Glass

This quilt is the product of several mystery quilt classes I took over 2006-07 in order to renew my quilting drive. At the time, I only seemed to be able to sew during class. It really didn't work the way I planned. Who knew all I needed was to quit my job and prepare to move across the country to get the muse going again. Actually ladies, you know who you are. Thanks so much! Here's my rail fence version of stained glass, at least that's what it looks like to me. I plan on putting the borders on this weekend; I am also working on my Fat Quarter Frenzy, Pineapples and June's Quilt. Wish me luck. I will post updates.