Still stitching

I have been having a hard time posting some photos lately.  I am not the most computer savvy person.  I have gotten a lot done recently.  Our church had a small quilt show, so that prompted me into working on my hexagon quilt.  I have more of it sewn together.  It is looking great.  I just can't decide how big to make it.  A friend suggested that I make it into a full size quilt.  I will decide later.

I have been taking my stitching to McDonald's.  I used to go and study there when I was in school.  The lighting is great and I have met some nice regular customers.  It gets me out of the house as well. Smile.

I wanted to do a quick quilt and found a free pattern on allpeoplequilt.com.  It is going to be a red white and blue quilt made with "bricks".

I will try to get some pictures up soon

Block 2

Block 2 of the owl quilt is almost complete.  I had to take a trip to Nebraska to be with family.  While my dad was in the hospital I worked on this square.  It has taken about 2 weeks to complete.

Happy Birthday to me

It hard to believe, but today I celebrated my 50th birthday.  Wow, where does time go?  Here is  a picture of my roses and lace quilt.  I have a long ways to go.

No time to sew or stitch

I have been taking an online class for work.  My attention has been on this class.  I can hardly wait until it is over.  I have been reading some blogs and looking at a lot of pictures.

A few completions and a work in progress

Here are 4 more diamonds that I have completed

for my Martha Washington Flower Garden Quilt 

Here is another diamond.  I am getting so close in getting enough diamonds to finish the quilt it is exciting.  I had to take a break from hand sewing because my wrist was aching a little.  I am glad that I did because I finished 2 quilts this week. 

This is a scrappy quilt.  I found the pattern out of a Fons and Porter magazine.  I had actually started it before our move, but like so many other things, it was put away.  It was a simple quilt with lots of strips and a few squares.

Here is the picture of the Mary Engelbriet  quilt that I had promised to post. I normally don't put blue and orange together, but because the orange was in the floral fabric I decided to give it a try.  I do wish that the border was a little wider.  I may play with it and widen it.  Or I may just leave it.

sashing squares

 

No photo, but use your imagination

I am happy to say that I completed my Mary Engelbreit quilt top the other day.  Like all other quilts, the quilt top has a story.  Because of the blues, red, and black in the embroidered squares I had chosen some floral fabric with those same colors in it and some blue border fabric.  When I finally decided to put the quilt top together, I couldn't find my fabric. Sigh.  I had decided that I wasn't going to buy any, but only use what I had.  I liked my decision.  I found a pretty blue, some floral, and some orange fabric and put it together.  It turned out better than I expected.  I will try to post a picture later today.  The next step will be quilting the quilt.  That is my weak area.  Oh well.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog.

Finding Time

The countdown has begun until we move.  4 days.  Wow.  There is still a lot to pack and clean.  After I take the kids to school, I plan to buckle down and get some more packing and cleaning done.  I wish someone could help.  Oh well.  While I wait for the kids to wake up I have been working on a diamond for my quilt.