A new wallhanging...

I've finished a wallhanging, 24" x 24", 19th Century reproduction prints. Hand-pieced and hand-quilted. I'll be sending it to a woman who had to re-home her two African Grey parrots in December and chose me to be their new "mom".


Love the way this turned out! Now I need to find time to make one for myself ;-)


The two new Birdy Girlz, Twiggy and Glory, supervising dinner preparations.

Hexagons

I'm back to being somewhat productive and alive, after quite a long "slump".

I've pulled out my hexagons and have been working on them again. Between my hexagon blocks and my Tumbling Blocks, I've been doing some marathon hand-piecing. My right hand is complaining, and my back and shoulders are also unhappy. But once I get started, it's hard to put these things down!

I have five completed diamonds.

I made this one today (to the exclusion of everything else I had intended to get done today. Oh well, housework is better put off until tomorrow) :

What I had done a few days ago.

Finished a Christmas top

I finished a Christmas quilt top. Yay! This is the first top (or ANYTHING) I've finished in over a year! So this is a big step in the right direction. Now to just keep the momentum going.

Oh my stars!

Here's a picture of my 1930's stars, (started about 6 years ago) where I am at the moment. I'm handpiecing, and have finished 7 blocks since I pulled these back out of the UFO box. I love these! I'll be making this quilt 7 blocks by 6 blocks, with 2" sashings in unbleached muslin and then figure out the border size when it's at that stage. 10 more blocks to go....

Thrift Shopping

On Friday I went out Thrift Shop Hopping with a friend. The weather was rainy and cold and awful, so we were done after the second one, but I am thrilled with what I found! I got about $400 worth of clothes, for SEVEN BUCKS! Some nice long-sleeved knit tops, beautiful black lace blouse, french terry lounging pants, some really nice summer shirts, a warm fleecy pullover top (my new favorite shirt!) a couple very nice all-linen dresses, and a wonderful, roomy leather tote/shoulder bag.

I also bought a porcelain cup painted with pansies, and a frilly-girly pillow with a hand-crocheted cover--pure white. I think I'm going to tea-dye it so it will match my quilts better.

Still have a lot more thrift shops to go to on the peninsula so we'll just pick up where we left off.

Crystal's Garden

Nothing going on in my life right now that I care to spill to the world, so I'll share one of my finished quilts. (Huge number of quilts in progress, but finishes are few and far between).

This is a wallhanging I made for a friend after she moved from Oregon to Las Vegas, where she has a stone yard. I made a flower garden for her.

I love the way this turned out, and I had a hard time letting it go! I think I'll have to make one for myself...someday.

Indian Feathers Update

When I started this project a year ago, I had hoped to have it finished by around July. Sure missed that goal! But at least I have finished hand-piecing all the little diamonds. Whew!

Since I got this idea from a picture of an antique quilt, I'm having to draft the patterns myself and my first attempt at a pattern for the plain wedge corner pieces was a bust. The whole project is currently wadded up in a big ball, out of sight and usually out of mind. I'm just about ready to bring it out, take a deep breath, and have another go at the wedges.