ALMOST finished!

I was so eager to try the nearly complete postage stamp quilt top on my bed. This piece is a lot of fun to look at. As I laid it out, it was fun to hear my daughter get excited about remebering past projects when she'd seen the tiny pieces of fabric long ago.

I am quite pleased with this project so far.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

I got go out for a little bit and do just a tiny bit of shopping. I stopped at the quilting shop in Castle Rock. I wasn't even in the store very long. I knew I wanted fat quarters. I found the colors I liked and picked out patterns. Two of them are.....PAISLEYS! I don't know what it is about those swoopy tear drop shapes! I just love them. Not sure why I was more drawn blues and greens today. I think they will look lovely in the postage stamp quilt I'm working on now.

As you can see in this photo, I DO have a plan...well sortof. I really love the look of piece-y, scrappy quilts and that is what is intended for this work. There will be lots of different colors and lots of different prints. Each of the squares will be added in a very random pattern. I'll probably just throw all of the squares into a basket and as I'm sewing them together, I'll just grab and sew and whatever comes out, will be sewn into the quilt. I am really eager to start sewing, but I still have more than 750 squares that I have to cut out.

....I'm getting there!

Comforts Handmade

I love this quilt! It was one of my first "big quilt projects." It's a lap quilt or a snuggle quilt, but I love that it is a star quilt and I love that it is so bright and colorful. It was made to become a Halloween "decoration" of sorts. I wash it and fold it up and tuck it away at the end of each Halloween...to make it all that more special. I think this is one of the things I can't wait to see when we pull out all that black and orange stuff.

My KaitieBug is happy to have it. :) She is never far from her cellular device...see it there in her hand? It almost looks like she'd just received a new text message as I snapped this picture of her with MY cellular device!

An Afternoon With Q

The air was just right for a little picnic in the backyard. We laid out a little quilt and grabbed a few favorite books from the shelf, a little snack of popcorn balls...and headed out for a little quality time.

This little book makes me giggle. "I Love You, Stinkyface!"

We laid on the quilt and watched the clouds drift quietly along and eventually give way to a thunderstorm....

...and of course...it wouldn't be a picnic without a few of these fellas!

HOORAY for FAT QUARTERS

I love 'em! I love to go into a quilt shop and look at all the different fat quarters and imagine them as pieces and parts of a whole project. This was my haul from High Prairie Quilts the last time I went in there........aren't they FUN!?!?

The Quilt Is Finished!

This was the label i handstamped...mostly as kind of an inside joke with my dear friend Russell in mind...it turned out pretty cute and when my Aunt Dianne read it, tears welled up in her eyes.

Typically, when I make a gift like this for someone, I am frantically trying to put all the finishing touches on the item at 3 in the morning. I am proud to tell you that this gift was completed before the day of presentation...and with a few days to spare, I might add. When I first laid the quilt top out, I was concerned it might look like Binky the Birthday Clown threw up...but the more I looked at it, the more I really started to like it. It definitely makes me think of BIRTHDAYS!

the finished measurements are: 59 x 77

Saturday's Five

I live in a beuatiful place
Sonic ice is THE BEST ice!
United States Postal Service...delivering treasures to my friends
Got my first rating and it was a FIVE ... WITH a heart, thankyouverymuch!
Quilting. I really do love it! It is extremely gratifying.