Saturday, February 20, 2010

I’ll be on border patrol for awhile



but luckily life just got a whole lot easier. After 50 years I’ve given up using my sister’s toy draw a cartoon from the 1960’s and purchased a real light box. With my trusty Morgan Soapstone and washable graphite markers and a good fabric eraser transferring sunflowers to the provincial quilt was a snap. Now on to the King Oriental…..

Thursday, February 18, 2010

A Tad On the Wild Side

The March Block




Living Dangerously
First project with batiks using colors outside my comfort zone... and horrors of horrors I didn't even prewash!!!!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

le mot pour "Borders" en Français c'est quoi?



En Français Border C' est Bordure !! presque le meme mot

Friday, February 5, 2010

February Challenge Block Completed


Okay so I cheated, I topped stitched by machine, but hey I'm old and my hands hurt too much for any kind of handwork, but I am ahead of the game. The Challenge is always going to be on or around the 11th of each month.

Now back to my French Quilt......

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Seriously I’m not a slacker



I haven’t posted much of my work lately because I’m working on three quilts at the same time. A King size oriental scrap that will have a dynamite blue border,

Seriously I’m not a slacker



an awesome French Provencal a la Kaffee Fasset that will have a stunning rainbow curved border

http://www.kaffefassett.

Seriously I’m not a slacker



and an “okay Sue I have accepted your challenge with batiks” quilt a la Laundry Basket Quilts .

http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/


Here is what I have so far.