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!

My first trip to the Paducah quilt show - the fabric buys

April of 2009 I went on a Turner Travel bus trip to the big Paducah, KY quilt show. What a day it was, one which I have in memory to treasure the rest of my life.
I bought a bunch of fabric, of course, and took photos of it all.

In the background is the yellow dollhouse I built which is called Slothaven.

Some more pics of that crazy quilt - found old photos....

Having found my jump key with the photos taken before the great computer crash last fall, I have pictures of some of the other blocks from my crazy quilt.

It is a UFO and MUST be finished this year, I vow to!

This square is called Big Red Dot.

This square is called Bumble Bee.

This square is named the Dragonfly Square.

This one is called the Lady Bug Square.

Here is the Monarch Butterfly Square.

This one was just called "Plain Old Square"

The Red Heart Square.

And the Spiderweb Square.

This one is the finished version of the one shown at the end of this post, I call it the Rajah square. Rajah was my favorite cat who died in 1994 and whom I got as tiny kitten in 1979.

This is called the SAC block, for Strategic Air Command.

Here is the early version of the Rajah block. There will be 4 more squares all them surrounding the center medallion.

The Sanity Color Wheels quilt

This quilt was started in the fall of 2008 and at a very difficult time in my life. It kept me sane and so I call it my Sanity Color Wheels. There are fabrics from all of my life in it and a bunch from a scrap bag a friend gave me. I hand-quilted it in black thread.

The work in progress:

It here looks positively like a happy time, and the working on it was. I'm glad I took these pictures.
In the background you can see some of the dollhouses I've made. We've moved but my quilting space is still surrounded by "the town".

Yes, that is my foot.

Triangles

Yes, I just want to post about my "dear little Triangles". This quilt came about quite by chance. Some left-overs from my 2009 Block-of-the-Month quilt (which is currently being hand-quilted) and I made a 6" 9-patch out of them. I thought at first I'd make a pot-holder or two but somehow it evolved into this quilt.

I had three blocks done when I had my hysterectomy and they were put in my Bible and taken to the hospital with me where I could look at them and think about my quilting. That's why this quilt means so much to me.

It is hand-quilted with the "hanging diamond" pattern and with a leaf design I made up in each of the non-pieced blocks.