This past Thursday night was the last evening of the Reversible II "Eleventh Hour" class I taught at the LQS.

Here are the results . Some didn't get their borders on & others

only had their binding to finish when they got home. Side one & side two

I am so proud their results. Great work girls!


In the next quarter, we will be doing a series of quick classes for our customers. One I plan to teach is "Burps & Bubbles".

At one time or another everyone needs a last minute baby gift. So I will be covering different bib & burp cloth ideas.

These are two of four I have planned.

And the two below ARE a baby gift I am working on.

And I am now trying to get the crib blanket finished.

I just love the soft colors I have used to make this "blankie".

This coming week brings much to get done. Tuesday is $5 Quilt day at the LQS and I work that day. It will be good to see all the ladies who are participating in it this year. Next will be getting the baby quilt finished and the most fun of all will be getting things ready for shop retreat this coming weekend.

Where did January go?

Gee, I can't believe January has come and gone. It has been a busy month. Usually January is so-o-o-o-o slow. With the holidays behind us and nothing really to look forward to, January usually drags on. But this year it seems to have gone by in a flash!

I just put the finishing touches on the wallhanging the gals at the shop are going to present to the owners of the Bread & Breakfast where we go for our shop retreat. We choose Civil War themed blocks to surround a picture of Magnolias and the name of the B & B. I do think it turned out great. It goes to the quilter today. (I've done my part!)

Two weeks until the retreat. Can't wait, a whole weekend to sew,

laugh and just be friends with some great gals.

I am also participating in the Applique Quilting Bee at Sew Original. However, I have choosen to do machine applique instead of hand. The first two blocks are ready for the the machine stitches. This is one of the projects I'm getting ready for the retreat!

I hope to get a few more ready before then.
Stay warm on this cold, cold day. Hopefully by the weekend it will be warmer.

What a nice surprise the morning light brought us

This morning, we all had a pleasant surprise waiting for us when we awoke! It had snowed!

Not much, but enough to cancel schools in and around the area.

I remember during my years as a teacher in the Surry County School system the unexpected news in the morning that there would be no school. I and the kids during our unexpected "winter vacation" would sleep late, watch TV, play in the snow and make snow cream. Sometimes there would be a 1,000 piece puzzle to put together.

Ah, the fun!

Today, the cancellation of school, also keep the shop closed. Our policy is no school, no classes as well as the shop being closed! So I had another type of unexpected fun day ahead of me.

I used my time wisely. I stitched Block one "love" by Gail Pan Designs. This is the first of nine (I think) blocks she is creating for her BOM called "A Christmas Wish". Of course I am changing the colors. I plan to do all blocks in red. Here's hoping it will work, time will tell.







Another part of the day I worked on a "Speedy Stars Quilt" using the Fun & Done! Quilting method.

This is another quilt-as-you go method. No hand work, all machine. I will be teaching this method in the next quarter of classes at Sew Original. I'm only making a table top size sample of this quilt. The shop is so limited in its display space, I decided to keep it small. Students will be able to complete their quilt in crib, lap or twin size.

Tomorrow I hope to get this project completed.

(And a few other things too!)

Oh, I almost forgot! A quick Thank you to Ms. Goodneedle's D-I-L for my new button. If you would like to grab my button and add it to yours in your sidebar, use the HTML code to attach it to your blog.

The Geese are flying south.....

Quiltkeemosabe shared one of Ricky Timms "How to" videos..

One seam Flying Geese

Yes, one seam!

I now have a flock of geese ......

M-m-m-m........ what is a person to do with them?

The Mystery is solved!

Since last posting, I have been busy putting the finishing stitches to a class sample for the shop. I will be teaching Reversible Quilt II

"The Eleventh Hour"

for 3 Thursday nights beginning January 29th, 6pm - 8:30 pm at Sew Original.

This is a fun easy quilt using a "quilt as you go" technique. I also with this quilt checked off a "Bucket" list item, to make a Black, White & Red Quilt.

Back in October (I think it was) one of the local Quilting Guilds handed out directions for a Mystery Quilt. Never having done one I decided to participate!

Drum roll please........

And here is my completed

"Durango Mystery Quilt"

Of course being a Free-spirit and not ever being able to complete directions as given to me, I did use my "artistic license" to make it My Own!

The borders should have been one fabric (of my choice) with the same Green corner stones that are in the setting sashing.

Now, the next step is to Quilt (myself) or not to Quilt (someone else).......

Christmas will soon be here...ready or not!

The past month has flown by! I can't believe it has been

that long since I last posted.

I, like eveyone, have been getting things ready for Christmas.

There have been Christmas cards to address,

"thank you" gifts for the Augsburg quilters,

(who made this beautiful quilt for me) to be sewn,

Christmas tree ornaments to be made,

TWO tree skirts to be made,

and many more things to get finished before December 25th dawns.