Thursday

An April quilt I made many years ago, hanging in the dining room this month.

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Demented: crazy; insane; mad

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Halloween Quilts

 Here's a through-the-years gallery of the Halloween quilts I've made.  I think there were a couple more but I can't find the pictures.  

Not in chronological order, and photo quality varies ... but anyway, quite a body of work!

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My favorite Christmas quilts ...

 Through the years I've created MANY Christmas quilts.
  Here are a few of my all-time favorites.

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Quilt show -- Inspiring myself

I've been distracted with real life recently: no quiltmaking or embroidery or creativity at all during the past few weeks.  Our lovely visit with Nick, Stacey and Rhiannon is concluding.  We've enjoyed a wonderful time together, but this is a very small house, and our guests, including a three-year-old, who have been staying here with us for several weeks have made life very busy indeed. My health challenges have definitely made me less resilient than I'd like to be.  Anyway,  they are returning to Boston tomorrow, and we all have a new treasure trove of memories. 

To get my creative vibes humming again, I took a browse through some of my Christmas quilts from years gone by.  Here are a few of my old favorites:  

After putting the house back in order, I'm looking forward to getting back into the studio with Kindred Souls!  After things settle down, I'll go back and add some happy photos of our visit.

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UFO completion

I got the finishing work and binding completed on this old UFO. 

Odd color scheme, but it goes with several other older quilts in my collection, so apparently they're a 'set.'

I'm going to trudge through my UFOs.  Some of them are years old, and they feel like a dark cloud hanging over me.  I probably won't complete all of them because my interests have changed, but I want to resolve them in some manner, maybe as donations.

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Wandering along Memory Lane

Next month, the Country Threads ladies, Mary Etherington and Connie Tesene, will be releasing a new book entitled 'Beyond the Battlefield'.  I'm looking forward to getting it, and meanwhile did some internet browsing for Country Threads stuff.  Lo and behold, they have a blog that I wasn't aware of:

CHICKEN SCRATCH

And lo and behold again, they're currently having a Bullseye quilt sew along! The original instructions for Bullseye quilts were published in this book in 1999:

This jogged my memory: I made *several* Bullseye quilts through the years, more than these, but these photos were easy to find.  Going back twenty years here! 

Hmmm, might be time for another Bullseye quilt :)

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Thursday

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Tulip Farm

TULIP FARM

A quilt by Blackbird Designs that I made many years ago.  We enjoy it hanging in the sunroom during the Easter season.

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