The Next Two Things To Be Quilted

This will be a valance which will hang in my craft room - but it will double as a table runner.

And this will be a coffee-table runner for summer:

A FINISH!!!

At long last the 2009 Block-of-the-Month, the very first one I ever did, is finished!   I call it the Rosetree Cottage quilt - after the name of the line of fabric from Studio E.
It is hand-quilted and I used WOOL batting with this one which was just pure joy to quilt.

A detail of the center:

A few new crumb blocks

Made a few new ones, I am thinking I might be able to make enough for a whole quilt.   I certainly have enough bags of crumbs!

On the left are a few Mama crumbs (6 1/2") and on the right some baby crumbs (3 1/2").

It's been awhile, but I've been busy....

Just the last few days I have finished a couple of small mats which I call crumb blocks surrounded by logs. Actually a good friend made this up as far as I know and I like the design. The center crumb block is 6".
I am enjoying them at work - they really bring up my spirits!

Attack of LIFE

It's not that I haven't been quilting - but life has attacked. I am now a diabetic. Also my hubby and I recently brought my mother from Oregon to Indiana to live in an assisted-living facility, an expensive & extremely stress-FULL event.

Somewhere in the past month or so I have managed to cut out blocks for the 2010 Jelly-Roll Sampler and I'll get some pictures posted.

I have only lately picked up some hand-quilting again, working on my 2009 Saturday Sampler, it is a great joy to do that!

The world of quilting is saving me again!

Finished the Pink & Brown Square!

I had an extra block from my pink and brown quilt and I wanted a square to put on my desk at work. I just finished it today - the day of the ice storm.

This says FEBRUARY to me!

2009 Quilting Workspace - I need an updated picture for 2011

This was where I worked and made my quilts in 2009 and half-through 2010. Then, we moved. I still have a bedroom to work in and it isn't much different.

Much of the stuff on the left is for working on the miniatures/dollhouses.
But that will be another blog!