January

Christmas in Chicago - A few new things, a few old things.

Christmas quilt in the sewing room.

Happy Twistmas Wreath. I just finished this last night.

Nothing new but still love this quilt up at Christmas 

Here is the new "Contrary Wife" I just love how it turned out.

I'm going to hate having to take it down.

Nothing new here either but love this little vignette on top of the pie safe.

Here is the new little wool Santa mat that I made this year

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Lisa Bongean Quilt Block Done!

ALERT - QUILT ROOM CHALLENGE CANCELLED!!!

I couldn't stand it anymore...I gave up on the quilt room challenge and cleaned it up. Now the challenge will be where to find everything when I actually want to make it. Some things may be lost forever...you know how that goes.

Isn't it great though. I could actually take a nap on the bed if I wanted or even sit in the chair to do some handwork.

Here is the Grandma's flower table mat I made for myself; on my "new" treadle sewing machine.

Remember the last Jo Morton quilt that had the green borders? I changed them to brown and like it much better.

These two table mats are some of Leigh's birthday presents. (Sorry, the vase and flowers are mine).

Quilt Room Challenge - October

OMG...What Happened?!?

September 1 Update

 OK, I didn't make any progress on the sewing room this month. None. Zippo. but  here is the Atlanta queen size quilt I am working on. It's a lot of little pieces - mostly half square triangles made the old way. One at a time!

This is the Jo Morten quilt from July...I don't think I showed you a picture of it before.

Here are the three challenge projects from the August Jo Morton meeting. Docia gave us a charm pack of blue and brown Jo fabric to see what we could make. I make the scrappy squares quilt first, then the basket quilt, then the Grandma's flowers pin cushion. I just added sashing, background and borders and a little narrow border respectively'

I'm thinking not too much progress will be made next month either. This is getting to be a trend. I'm going to the Madison Quilt Show next week. Then Mike and I are going to Charlotte, NC and Charleston, SC for 10 days in September. Ben and Daniel are meeting us in Charleston for a weekend, the last weekend we will be in Charlotte with Daniel. Those should be some fun photos.  I owe the boys a beer!

It Won!

"Journey to Baltimore" won Second Place in the Hand Applique Wall Quilt division at

the Milwaukee Machine Quilting Show, August, 2011. It also received a "Teacher's

Award" from Karen McTavish who developed McTavishing as a form of background

filler. Dawn Larsen, who quilted Journey to Baltimore used this technique as fill

in the applique blocks. Congratulations to Dawn and Me!

Since this is the first time I won some money for one of my quilts, I told the boys I would take them all out for a beer when we're in Charleston. It's their prize for enduring all my years of quilting! Watch for that pic coming soon.