"At the beach Batik"

This one looks softer in person, it's queen size and was just a project in using up inherited batiks while trying to play with color...Okay  I'm still learning, but it will be a great blanket for picnics.

Really… What the Heck Was I Thinking???

I use to go through rolls and rolls of masking tape, have to move furniture…

Really???  IT’s not that difficult, a few clips from STAPLES…No crawling around on the floor…I love it!!  Sandwiching just became so much easier, and all because I needed to stretch a quilt with the Christmas tree taking up too much floor space.   Necessity is the mother of invention. Live and Learn.

It’s Almost Time to Fly the Coup

44 eye masks sewn, packed and alphabetized …CHECK

44 Cards “Wishing all Sweet Dreams and May visions of sugar plums continually dance in your head while expressing the fact I may not be seeing them next Christmas because of  my retirement at the end of this school Year but Giving instructions to visit me on Facebook, Goodreads or by  using my 3 personal emails and/or  by also my visiting this blog.” ….CHECK

The last mailbox Christmas stuffer of my working career completed. ….CHECK

Merry Christmas All It has been FUN...CHECK

Anne B's Batiks 1

In 2010 my quilting buddy Anne downsized moved to Arizona, and I inherited a third of her Batik stash.  Overwhelmed, and always the organizer, I cut 1 inch squares from each piece of fabric, pinned them together by color in hopes to use them as samples when I need a match. 

Two years I was still looking at the chain of pinned wads of color hanging in the sewing room.  On a whim I stitched several together to form small squares.  Still overwhelmed, and not really a batik fan, I took  all the batiks that I liked the least and formed 12 inch blocks around the blocks, and voila a not so unappealing quilt was born.

Fired Up and Ready to Go

Now that I have a few gifts under my belt I can now get to finishing the three quilts I have  yet to sandwich and quilt but luckily I'm fired up and ready to go.

Color Wheels

I piece in 3s and Quilt in 3s…so here is the first of my latest trilogy of UFOs. 

   

These 20” blocks started as color studies / color challenges now I may use them in a March Home decorating theme of pots of gold at the end of the rainbow, as in leprechauns and such…So many ideas, so little time.

It's Dear John to Dear Jane

Dear Jane, sorry but it's Dear John...

I love you, but I need my space.  Please don't call the quilt police  I carelessly printed patterns for your triangular  border rectangles without checking the default size box.  I then completed almost an entire row before I realized  each rectangle was really a "squatty" little 4.5 inch squares that I've now  grown to love.
Sometimes when you called for more flippin applique I made up patterns .  I guess you could say I did it "My Way".  I'll quilt you later sweetheart...Bye for now.