New project....

I do not need another new project but I couldn't resist after seeing a friend working on hers at the retreat.

It is  called Hearts & Apron Strings.
This is the center and first row, as it were.  I haven't stitched down the blades of the Dresden Plate center and I made them longer than the original.

I am also using two (maybe three) different backgrounds which you can tell if you look at it close enough.

Just gotta report...

I am recouperating from that cold or flu or whatever it was and at 4 am this morning I could sleep no more thanks to coughing and some congestion.   So I got up and started in on my Mill Creek blocks all laid out and ready to be sewn - I should get a picture - and I now have another row done but for some sashing, 12 blocks now done!

BB's Civil War quilt

BB's Civil War quilt, a set on Flickr.

Another Project-In-Progress....

Civil War Love Letter blocks

Civil War Love Letter blocks, a set on Flickr.

There are a LOT more now but I haven't scanned them in yet. I have all 121 cut out, but 20 or so more to sew up.

Mill Girls Quilt Progress

Even though I was sick this past weekend, I managed to sew up 4 more Mill Girls blocks.   I was able to do that only because I had them all laid out and waiting to be just sewn together and my craft room was set up and ready to go.  This is just the PRETTIEST quilt!!!

Maple Leaf blocks

I can't help it.  Seeing others working on maple leaf blocks for quilts, in the Fall, seeing the leaves all around...I couldn't help it - I have started making one myself.  I have fabrics picked for 20 of these beauties.
Two I sewed up last night having cut them out on my lunch hour at work.  The other two shown here on their felts, I actually sewed up this very morning before I left for work.

Mill Girls - First Block!

I did it!  I got the first block done and actually I got 4 blocks done and sashed together.  I don't have a picture of those yet but I do have one of my first block in two kinds of light.    I am more than ever IN LOVE with this quilt, the colors, the fabrics, the design.