Last Year's Christmas Quilt Finally Finished

I finally finished last years Christmas Quilt. Mary and I were at the Cutting Edge last year and I bought the fabric for this quilt. It is a Nancy Halverson pattern. I got it all together and started quilting on it and had only the border to do and it sat in my sewing room forever. Well, this month I finished it. It is not my best work. I guess my heart was not into it. I quilted the border with a design I learned from the Patsy Thompson CD. I did it kind of fast so the work is not the best but it is done. Now it will adorn my house for this Christmas season. Yahoo!

Chirstmas Quilt to Win

My good friend Mary Hartmann (unfortunately she's not related) is giving a small quilt away for her first year with a blog website. Please check it out and enter to win. She is very creative and generous to do this. It would be so nice to have a new quilt decoration for this Christmas season.

Saying for the Day

"Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems."
Life's Little Instruction Book (Rutledge Hill Press)

Red Delicious

I have all the Red Delicious Blocks fused and hanging on the design board. I now have to do all the detail work and cut the blocks to size and put on the sashing. There is a mistake on one of the wave looking blocks and I have to redo it so it matches up with the adjoining block. It was fun to get this far with it. Quilting will be a challenge.

Fall Quilt

I finally put up my Fall Quilt but just think in a just few weeks Thanksgiving will be over and everything will be Christmas. I made this a few years ago and quilted it with leaf and pumpkin designs. I got the fabric in Tucson at one of the quilt stores there. Also is a picture is my sewing machine. I sure have enjoyed it.