Spring Blooms Early

Sometimes 4:30 AM is the best time to have a French Press and get crackin' on the next quilt project!

Vintage fabrics from my Gran'ma Eva, quilter

and a few more from a favorite quilting shop down the road.

Little Quilt Shop

Dashed up to a favorite quilt shop recently in a neighboring country town. I noticed several things for the first time:  the antique door with a fascinating iron pull and the ancient scrabble game in the shop window. So quaint!

Pinning Binding

There's only one way I like pinning binding which helps prevent being pricked.

A Quilt in the Making

Swirls, twirls and pinwheels...

Morning Sunshine Quilt

Halfway there. This quilt is inspired by vintage fabrics from BettyGram. Which little one will receive this?    We shall see.

Summer Flowers

My adopted grandmother, BettyGram gave me a bundle of vintage flour sack fabrics several years ago. They are ending up in a quilt, a wanna-be vintage quilt. This time, it's all about the azure sky, sunshine and summer flowers.

Quilt in the Making

"Sunshine on Bluebird Lane" is the working name for this quilt top. Not the best photo, but you can get the idea. All the fabrics were mostly given to me. I'm venturing out from more subdued patterns to bolder statements in patchwork design. This is not "Amy" style, but I'm learning a thing or two in the creative process. More to come.

What Goes Together Perfectly?

Why tea of course. 

(Early stages of the latest quilt)

Quilting Fever

Sometimes I ache to drop in at my favorite quilt shop. The Ortho office I work for travels to the town several Mondays a month to see patients at a satellite office. The satellite office just happens to be literally just a skip around the alley from this amazing shop. I wonder if I might steal away for two seconds Monday morning to see what's new on display.

Project Organize: Quilting Paraphernalia

A slight upgrade from Betty Gram's Cupboard. This is a Duncan Phyfe china cabinet circa 1940 in fabulous condition. I paid half of what it's worth. Excited to have a more dignified piece with great storage possibilities.

A Latte Pin Cushion

A friend from church is always learning new handcraft skills. One of which has been felting. I was the happy recipient of this unique Latte Pin Cushion, which almost seems too nice to use.

Birthday Quilt from Betty Gram

I am so pleased with a beautiful quilt picked from Brylan Home...though it is a China made quilt. At this time I don't have time or space to finish a large queen size quilt for my bed. This one will be just dandy and it was on-sale significantly!

Craft Evening with Friends

Mum serving up iced tea to our guests.

Kayla hard at work on her embroidery project...well done, my dear!

Kaleb diligently works away on his "horse behind a white picket fence" latch hook rug. He looks pleasantly pleased with himself.

First Braided Rug

I don't think I ever shared a finished picture of the first rug. I think of it as a "flying carpet" or "Aladdin", but I'd rather name it something biblical. Perhaps "Joseph's Coat"...I like that.

Behold! The Rug Has Taken Shape

If you know me very well at all, you know that I love color and fabric and I have a great passion when both are combined. After collecting a good deal of woolen garments from various sources and making them into three inch strips, I at last set about to work on my second braided rug! Yipee, I thought. But as I progressed from the middle section to the second outer section, which involves lovely greens, I thought this is going to be some wacky rug...but with the four and fifth color scheme going on, I am truly excited. I think this one shall be called, "Joseph's Coat", because I have many more colors to add. I will keep adding pics until it is completed. Lillibeth, have you tried your hand at rug making? I can't wait to get this one completed and then I'm onto needlepoint and from there, to hooked rugs!

Woolen is in the Forcast

The last stash of woolen that I have needed for my next future braided rug has just come my way. I must wait until Saturday to make the appropriate strips of wool, but my hands are itching to get started! I suspect that this one will be larger that the last one made that I completed in June 2008. I have delved in a hooked rug making book that my Aunt Carole gave me a number of years ago, and that has spurred my interest in getting this rug started and completed before I move on to the land of the Hooked Rugs.

Aunt Edna's Crazy Quilt

Lillibeth,

What do you think of this? Before Gramzie passed away, she bequeathed me a quilt made of velvet silk and here you see it still in good condition. The quilt was made by her Aunt, Gussie Edna Pennington Henderson. She made it most likely during the 1930's. She backed the quilt with cranberry colored sateen and tacked the top with traditional yarn. It's nice to have atop my bed for awhile, until my comforter is dry.

I don't think I'll be turning it into a house robe though...so don't even suggest it!

Quilt Top Without a Name

This quilt top is needing an appropriate name. Most of the fabrics are patterned with florets, leave, or swirl designs. Any ideas?

Oregon Impressions Quilt

Lillibeth, do you remember when we were walking the beach north of the jetty and I said, "I'm going to make a quilt with the colors of the waves. I want to capture the essence of the inside of those waves."...? Well here is the finished project. I completed it in 2003. It took aproximately a month to quilt and that was working every day eight plus hours.

Heart Baby Quilt

Lillibeth, since you live so far way, I am going to post things to show you what is stashed away in you know what.