Flower Pot Wall Hanging

After sitting around for months and months, I finally got a border on this over-sized Baltimore album block. This is going on the kitchen wall. The border matches the valance on the kitchen window and the place-mats I made. Now it can sit for a while longer while I work on other things. My ‘things-needing-quilting’ [...]

Guild Challenge Charity Quilt

I finished this just in time. It has to be turned in on Wednesday. This is the front and you can see the back in the next picture. I used up the rest of the animal fabric for the back. If I had been thinking, I could probably have made a checkerboard out of the [...]

Tablecloth

Here is the table cloth I made from the fabrics left over from the sudoku wall hanging. I used the same pattern as the green quilt that I finished a while back. It is a quick and interesting block.
Here is another view showing the tablecloth and wall hanging together. You can also see the newly [...]

An Experiment

These are some test blocks I made the other day. I am looking for an interesting pattern for a quilt for the guest room and wanted to use my brown fabrics. This is a pattern that I found in Scraps by Judy Martin. I love the way the dark fabric makes the brown squares float [...]

Looking Ahead

I realized the other day that the year is nearly up and my 2009 journal is nearly full of writing so I will be needing another journal soon. It always surprises me how some projects take days, even weeks of planning and others just fall together almost instantly.  This is one of the quick ones.

I [...]

Guild Challenge

The Crazy Quilters guild that I joined recently has something called the president’s challenge. Every year the club president challenges the members to make a quilt from a pattern she selects or designs. This year the quilt is lap sized and once finished, will be donated to the Linus Project. Over the last couple of [...]

Dear Hannah – All Together Now!

I got the two borders on. The quilt is too big to get it all in one photo, so here are a few to give you an idea how it turned out:

See how it is too wide for the design wall?  It was also too long, but this gives an idea of it.  The colors [...]

Dear Hannah update

Well, this top is almost done. I got all the blocks and sashing sewed together. Here is how it is looking so far:

I am planning a narrow dark green border maybe 1 1/2″ or 2″ and then a lavender border maybe 4″ or 6″.  I am liking it more and more.

Dear Hannah Progress

This is a quilt I started maybe five years ago. My plan was to use some blocks from the book Dear Jane by Brenda Manges Papadakis to make a quilt for my son Chris, and to use some blocks from the book Dear Hannah, also by Brenda, to make a quilt for my daughter, Jenny. [...]