Wednesday, May 2, 2012

A dozen years in the making...




I still have to attach the borders, so it is not really done but....

I began this quilt center in 1999, when it was all sorts of trendy to make a Millenium quilt....which meant a charm quilt with 2,000 different fabrics.  I managed about 1,600 before this piece got put away and I focused more on baby quilts for more then a decade.  Well when I moved my studio and was trying to figure out what to do with all of my fabric stash...so also finishing a few projects.  Specifically the quilts for my kids (which I am embroidering on the last one and will add the border soon) finishing this one and one other that I bought the kit for to make for my husband for our 10th anniversary....we celebrate our 15th in August.  I love this one though, it is purely mine.  I now have 2015 different 2 inch squares.  It was done on fusible  interfacing, which I kind of hate but made it much easier.  I plan to embroider the words to Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" on it.  I have great backing fabric too...of a line of fabric made in 1999to celebrate the turn of the century.  I know weird to say, but true.

Enjoy your evening!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

I can see the light


This is what a wore yesterday to walk to pick up my boys from their bus stop.  I have been busy this winter painting and rearranging rooms in my house.  I have continued to work on the same quilt tops for a while.  Though now it is not the Superman quilt but it's twin the Harry Potter quilt.  I am working on embroidering the entire Wikipedia list of HP spells on it.  Next is a Fancy Nancy quilt for my daughter with most of the Fancy words from the Fancy Nancy books....5 pages single spaced of a list of words so far.  I will post as I get further, I hope.

For now the light at the end of the winter is coming....even though it has been a pretty sunny winter here.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Leaves and Blossoms

Leaves are quilted, blossoms next.  Vega has not arrived, yet...

Work on other projects took president...4 tutus, 8 tee shirts, a Kindle cover, plus cookies and teacher gifts and Christmas cards! 

Once I can excavate my home after having boys home for 2 weeks I will get back to my more, well normal(ish) thus back to quilt time and my mantra for this ear

Banish the Beige!