Kimono quilt

I finally finished the kimono quilt for my niece who lives in California.  It was my biggest UFO and I don't know why I didn't finish it before but at least now I can say that I only have one small UFO left lol.

Mug Rug Swap

I received two gorgeous mug rugs from my swap partner Sharon in New York and she included a sweet fat quarter of Valentine's Day fabric and a pretty paper pieced heart card.  I love swapping!

Garden Patch

I admired this paper pieced pattern from Quiltmaker magazine for some time and finally bought the pattern.  This was a really fast project as it only took me a few weekends to do.  This is when a nice sized stash comes in handy lol.  I didn't buy a single fabric for this wall hanging and it has about 75 different fabrics.  I am going to stitch in the ditch because I don't want the quilting to be prominent.

Australian ladies need our help!

The flooding in Australian has been devastating and we have a chance to help ladies who lost everything by contributing something to help start them sewing again.  Please click this link to read more about it and give what you can  http://www.gumtree-designers.com/2011/01/we-need-your-help.html. Here's the sewing caddy I made and now I just need to fill it with some sewing goodies and mail it off!

Rolling Stars Quilt

I just finished this Rolling Stars quilt top that I started 10 weeks ago.  It is almost entirely made with Civil War reproduction fabrics and I like the darker colors for this quilt. I also quilted a Christmas wallhanging yesterday.  It was a preprinted panel and I added some gold bells and ribbon on the top.  I have about 50 more projects that I need to do lol but it feels good to get a couple of them crossed off my list of things to do.  Next weekend I'm off for 4 days again and already have plans to sew most of those days (again!).  I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

Navy Shawl

I love shawls and made a navy colored shawl using Caron's Simply Soft yarn.  As you can probably tell, my crocheting skills are pretty basic right now but it's fun to do while watching tv at night.  I can't just sit doing nothing so it seems I'm always working on something lol.

Christmas Tree Napkins and Ornaments

I learned out to make these cute Christmas Tree Napkins and Ornaments at the quilt store in my new town.  You use a half yard of two different fabrics and it makes 4 napkins and 2 small ornaments.  They're sew in a half moon shape and then folded a certain way and pressed.

Finally back to blogging!

We moved to a new town the end of October and I finally got internet today!  I've missed posting to my blog but even more I've missed visiting other quilters blogs.  I can't wait to see what everyone has been doing and will post some of my recently completed projects soon.

Prayer shawl quilt for Tammy

A dear friend has pancreatic cancer and has a pretty bad year so the girls in my quilting circle and I got together and made her a prayer shawl quilt.  All of us (Terri, Sue, Lori, Leslie, Tinker, Judy and me worked on this as a joint project for Tammy and we presented it to her today.

Prayer shawl for Lisa

My friend and co-worker Lisa is going through a really tough time right now.  Her house burned down about a month ago and she lost everything including her pets.  She had insurance but now she is going through the process of having to make a list of everything she had in her house, when she bought each thing and how much it was.  I can't imagine having to do that, I couldn't write down everything in my sewing room, let alone in my entire house.  She is a quilter and had recently gotten a new sewing and embroidery machine and luckily she was able to contact the company and get a copy of the receipt so at least it will be easily replaced.  I've been reading about knitted prayer shawls and started teaching myself how to knit so I could make some.  In the meantime I found some patterns for crocheted shawls and made one for Lisa that I'll give her next week.  My crochet and pattern reading skills are rusty since I haven't done any crocheting for some years so I picked a simple pattern and made it with an angora blend in sage green (green is her favorite color).  I hope she likes it and knows how many people are praying for her when she wears it.