My string quilt is coming along and I think at this point I may add some sashing to separate the blocks and call it done and use it for a baby quilt. I am thinking about adding the name of the recipient in the borders using the freestyle letters I so love from Tonya.
Another crumb quilt was mailed today to my friends 3rd grandchild....
Clara :0)...both her parents graduated from Michigan.
I had a skunk and a deer grazing together in the back yard this afternoon :0), think they are friends?
I am ankle deep in scraps up in my sewing room.....time to sew some of them up and get them out the house. Have you noticed that scraps never really get used up they just keep multiplying?
I love the beauty of a perfect morning glory
One of my shade loving peonies going to seed. Yes, these are the true colors.
Shirt pockets left on...........
sewn right into the top
And its done :0).......into the pile waiting for Debby to quilt .
I'm playing around with the blocks trying to get an even flow of color across the top.
I'm ready to put these blocks up on the design wall......yep 273 blocks.
This 4.5 inch elephant is on the hunt! I made this for my dear granddaughter Lily to go with her elephant quilt for her birthday. Its from "Sewing tiny toys" by Carolyn Vosburg Hall. Her book gives the best directions with pictures. I enjoyed sewing this by hand, I stuffed it with leftover pieces of wool batting........isn't he cute?
Happy scraps :0) made into a little log cabin..the logs are .5 inch finished, this hangs upstairs in my hallway and is a 24" square
This little tumbling block quilt was made in 1989 completely by hand, it is a 22" square. I remember dragging these pieces around to my childrens activities to keep me busy while I waited.
I love this little quilt, it hangs in my powder room where the 28 inch square does not get lost in a big space. I quilted it by copying a pattern on tracing paper then stitching by machine through the paper then tearing it away.
Oh how I love this orange striped shirt......so much so that I hate to cut it and I got it for FREE!
My granddaughter turns one today! This is the label for her Elephant quilt
My little woolly sheep is celebrating the 4th of July. In Ireland they were wondering everywhere in the country side with their black faces I remember the Irish call them "killer sheep".
Everything but the kitchen sink is in this scrappy top. Directions on how to make a fabric book from a panel, scraps sent by Erin, reused pieces from my top swing your partner, and left over bits from various other Bonnie Hunter mysteries. Somehow it just doesn't feel finished. Lazy Gal pointed it out to me and I have the left the top out to study it a bit more.........maybe it will tell me what it wants.......I'm listening :0).
So I added the border.....is it better or worse? Well... it is done. This is how it will stay :0)
So when does a scrap quilt become just too scrappy and start looking like a jumbled mess.....this quilt is right on the edge of being that mess......I'm going to try adding a border of two constant colors, still following the pattern and see if that helps.
This quilt is for a dear friends little girl.......she is turning 13 this week! I made the label by tracing her hand then transferring it with stitches to the label, adding some embroidery from my new Janome 6600, then writing Happy birthday and signing it in my own hand with red ink.
Lily Kate is going to be 1 year old in a couple of weeks and I just finished sewing a sleeve for hanging on the back and finished the binding today. 
It will hang in her room. Happy Birthday little Princess, Love, Grandma :0)
Yesterday I got to do some free shopping at my friends thrift store.........she gives me 100% cotton shirts if I use part of them for a charity quilt.....which I do in the form of a QOV.
Okay so I could not stop looking at this fantastic quilt. Made by Ronda Kae Beyer of Tualatin, OR. Ronda was inspired by a trip to Darwin, Australia.. This is an original design. It was Best of Show at the "Maine Quilts 2009" 32nd annual show in Augusta.
Hand applique, machine applique, long arm, with a stitch regulator, with a machine quilting frame system. It is an 80 inch square. " Loving traditional in a nontraditional way..."
It was so evenly quilted with original quilting motifs.
The backing fabric had all the colors repeated on the front. What work of art!
This wedding ring quilt was given to me by my Mom who thought it was made by my great Aunt...my Dad's uncle's wife.......but sadly there is no label, no dates, no clues. It is true a beauty though....a 78 inch square work of fine quilting and stitching.
Debby and I have been busy piecing and quilting two more QOV'S
I hope whoever receives them will know how much we tried to thank and honor them with our work.
Dawn, who I met in a chat group, sent me two complete quilt tops that need to be pieced. She was giving them away so I asked if I could have them to make for our wounded soldiers returning from war. Dawn sent them in the form of block of the month packages and soon they will be made into QOV's! Here is the first block! How kind, thank you so much Dawn.
I made this for friends to hang in their livingroom when they moved to their lovely new home a year ago using all their colors. 
