Happy Worldwide Quilting Day!!

Today is Worldwide Quilting day!! Time to celebrate our art!

I hope you can set aside some time to do a bit of quilting or sewing…

even fondling a bit of your stash would count!!

Or even some fabric retail therapy!!  Yay!!

I normally don’t get much sewing done now over the weekends as when everyone is home, I prefer to do things with them rather than be in my sewing room all day.

However, my peeps are all out and about today, so as soon as I get this written and posted, I can get back to my latest project!!  Curious?

Well, when we moved into this house last August, I hung my poppies quilt up over the fireplace mantle, and it was a perfect fit for the space!

So, I’ve been making other quilts exactly that sixe, to hang there as the seasons of the year progress…

a fall one-

a Christmas one-

a winter one-

and now I’m working on a spring one!!

I’ve got the blocks made and sewn onto the background…the flower pots made and fused on…

and Thursday and Friday I selected the flower and plant fabrics from my stash..

got them laid out on the pots…

and finally fused on!  

Now I’m quilting it as I stitch around the petals, stems and leaves.

I’ve finished quilting the moss roses, the tulips and the berry grass pots!  And am quilting the pots and background areas equally densely!

I’ve added some ladybugs, a snail and a frog!

Stay tuned!!  More pix to come!

Where Could It Be????

I am sooooooo annoyed with myself!!  Arrrggghhhhh!!

I have been trying to finish up my sewing room and have looked everywhere all day for this little quilted wall banner! 

I have the perfect place to put it in my new room!

Dagnabbit!!  :-(

I simply cannot imagine where it could possibly be!! 

I have looked EVERYWHERE!!!

Does this EVER happen to you???  GRRRRRRR!  :-(

YAAAY! Caught up on my BOM!

I spent the day in my sewing room. I was waaaay behind my bee friend Linda on our "Calendar Kids" Block of the Month. Here's the quilt in case you've not seen it before!

Linda and I saw it at Hampton Roads Quilt show back in February and we got our first block kit in May. As we are both elementary teachers, we love the way it is arranged by the school year beginning with September and ending with August. So, today I made the September, October and November blocks as well as 8 house blocks and 7 tree blocks. Woo Hoo!! It was fun to do...allot like playing with paper dolls as you dress them according to the month.
I also finally completely finished quilting and binding the Gi Gi Girl quilt and the wallhanging made with the leftovers from the quilt. I named it Mainly Curls.

I used variegated thread in yellow, green, purple and red to quilt it . I made large wavy edged leaves as the design idea came from the paisley in the quilt.

I finished binding them both and attaching the labels, too. I took them to the Artful Quilter quilt shop as they are class samples for their upcoming class newsletter for the fall.

I'm thinking what UFO I can work on tomorrow...hmmm....