Christmas Quilt

My daughter thought she wanted to quilt for about two months, or maybe that was two weeks, or maybe two seconds.  She purchased a number of beautiful fabrics in Christmas colors and cut out a few four inch squares.  Then she decided she really wasn't into quilting and would stick to her scrapbooking and card designing.  She is really a pro at both of those.  Naturally she brought all of her fabrics over to me and asked if I could make a quilt from them.  They sat around for at least a year and then I found this block.  Love, love this block and so much fun to make.  These are the blocks I have to date.  I keep going to my stash pulling more fabrics out and the blocks just get more interesting.  Have no idea how many block I will end up making but I would like to have at least thirty and maybe more.

Springtime in Georgia

These petunias just appeared in my yard last year.  I roped them off so our yard service would not mow over them.  And here they are back this year.  Just beautiful!  And they are larger this year than last year.  I hope they continue spreading as they are in a perfect spot to spread out.

Less Blogging

My blogging is slim these days due to my husband being ill.  His illness is very demanding on my time and I really do not have too much free time.  I have also had to cut back on the time I spend on my quilting.  But he is the most important thing in my life and whatever it takes to make him happy is what I am doing.  One day I will be able to post more blogs and until then Happy Quilting to everyone.

Spring is Here

Today I was in the yard working and decided to take the camera and snap a couple of pictures.
Most of the daffodils have seen their better day but these two are in their full bloom.

Quilting has been placed on the back burner due to my husband's illness.  Have no idea when I will get back to the quilt room.  But thankfully I do have a project that I am hand quilting.

Happy Quilting to all.

Rethinking a Project

I started the Farmers Wife quilt and have about 17 blocks completed.  At this time in my life it is not a fun quilt to make.  I prefer quilt instructions that give me measurements to cut.  I prefer a page of many templates if templates are to be used.  I prefer detailed instructions. 

I used the block print outs from the Yahoo group and still found it frustrating having to remember in paper piecing you are working in the reverse.

So for now I am placing everything in a box and maybe at some later time I can pick it up again.

Mistake

I kept looking at the picture of the first four blocks I have completed of the FWS quilt and something just looked odd.  Finally it dawned on me.  The rail fence block is not put together correctly.  So tomorrow I will rip it apart and sew back together correctly.  I have completed two additional blocks and working on another block.
 When I have four additional blocks completed I will add a photo.

The Farmer's Wife Sampler

I purchased this quilt book and CD before Christmas thinking what a fun project that would be for 2012.  After Christmas I sat down and really started looking at the blocks and studying the CD.  There are  100 blocks, size 6 x 6 finished.  Most of the blocks will be done using a paper piecing method.
Now I do not enjoy paper piecing.  But my Nicholson group uses another method of paper piecing that I think will make the process move along quicker.  It is the freezer paper paper piecing method.  Yesterday I used the freezer paper method and  liked it very much as compared to the standard paper piecing method.  If I can make one block a day or five a week then I should be finished by July.  I selected fabrics that have a 1940 look.  You can see the first few blocks that I have made.
Will keep you posted on how the project is going.