Light at the Window

I made this quilt for Habitat for Humanity of Omaha and their Brew Ha Ha event. They are doing a local artist sale in conjunction with the event. I'll be putting this on the longarm next weekend. I still haven't decided how to quilted it. Any suggestions?

I was inspired by this quilt. I changed up the colours and paper pieced all the trees and houses. The quilt is 60 inches square. I don't think it needs a border. I'm very pleased with how it turned out.

Wedded Bliss

This is a wedding gift for one of the five weddings I have to go to this summer. The teal fabric is hand-dyed and the ajoining squares are from multiple, multiple fabric lines. This quilt was easy and fun just to see what fabric combinations I could get away with. The total quilt is 84" x 84". I'm not sure how I will quilt it just yet, but I'm sure any large meander will do.

Charmed

I've started collecting 2 1/2 inch charm squares. This picture is from when I first started collecting. I think I'm up to about 800 squares now. I will probably start sewing them together this summer. My goal is a large quilt for myself or for a future mini me.

New Fabric Home

In the last two years, my fabric collection has been moved from Syracuse, NY to Lake City, CO and now to Omaha, NE. Here is just a snapshot of the tonage I've been moving. My goal is to reduce by making quilts for charity.

What are your favourite quilting charities?

Got Pyrex?

Happy Campers Baby Quilt

I gave this disappearing nine patch to my friend, Misty, as she is expecting her second child. I do love all the fabric from American Jane and this was no exception. I used two charm packs and some background fabric for the center of the quilt. For the quilting I opted for a simple figure eight.

Omaha

Here is the quilt I've been working on for the past two weeks. Each of the blocks is paper-pieced or includes paper piecing elements from Foundation Factory. This is probably the most intricate quilt I've made. I love it!

I slept under the quilt for the first time last night during my first night in Omaha. My first night was a bit restless and lonely.

Today I found a local quilt shop in the Omaha, chatted up the staff and got invited to a guild meeting on Monday night!

New Block

This may be my favourite block of the day. This is a housewarming/ homecoming gift for myself so the little house seems very appropriate.

I love this quilt!

Current Project

The big news around here is that I'm moving to Omaha in a little over a week. I've accepted a job at a small, private, Catholic college there. I fell in love with the school and the students; therefore, I'm very eager to start.

I've been wanting to start a quilt for myself, but waiting for inspiration to strike. The lightning finally struck a few days ago. I bookmarked this quilt a few weeks ago. I fell in love with the beauty and simplicity of the quilt.

Here is an EQ6 mock-up of the quilt I'm piecing in my signature colours of red, turquoise and pink. This will be my welcome to Omaha quilt and gift to myself. I've pieced almost half of the star blocks and I love the way they are turning out. This is one of those labor of love projects that keeps me up late at night and I just can't wait until I'm able to finish the last inches of binding.

Valentine's Day Printables.

From Handmade & Homebaked

Good Gravy's printable gift tags

From Tricia Rennea

Inside a Black Apple's sweetie pie valentines

Tribute

My mom belongs to the Civil War Tribute block of the month. She's had some problems piecing the blocks, so I've been trying to piece ahead of her to help her out.

While I do love the fabrics in the kits, I thought I'd use some of my own fat quarters. I saw a quilt at the Rocky Mountain Quilt museum that was predominately pinks and poison greens, and I fell in love with the colour combination. Looks like I'll be making my own Civil War Tribute quilt. Oh darn.

Geek

I'm reaping the benefits of dating a gadget geek. What I'd like to know is why on earth would a purse maker use black lining. I can never find anything in my bag because everything is black.

The one thing missing from the photo is my black Canon Elph, but it was busy taking the photo.

Gifted

This was a belated Christmas gift for Slane. I created the design myself using EQ6. I'm not sure that Slane understood that the quilt was for her, but her parents were thrilled.

Magic Blanket

I had a dream a few days ago that my friend Riley and I were trying to steal his Magic Blanket from a group of Carnies. It was a beautiful quilt, although I'm unsure what magical powers the quilt imbues its owner.

Here is a rendering of the dream quilt. The dream quilt was made with chenilles and other touchable fabrics, which is perfect because Riley is a very tactile person.

Any thoughts?

Christmas Cards

I just wanted to pass this along for those who have an abundance of Christmas cards! The ones you received, the ones you have left over, any!!! I thought you might want to know that St. Jude's Ranch encourages people to send their left over and old Christmas cards for the children to use to make decorations and recycle the cards to sell in future years as a fundraiser. Please pass this onto everyone you know.

Please send left over or old cards to:

St. Jude's Card Recycling

100 St. Jude Street

PO Box 60100

Bolder City, NV 89006