A Year In Review....

Wow!  This has been some year! 

Cheery Dresden Plate...inspired by Sarah Fielke!!!  Love Dresden Plate Quilts...this one is hand appliqued (plate and center) and hand quilted with perle cotton...

Cog and Wheel....pattern by Denyse Schmidt....machine quilted circles....

 Cathedral Window Quilt....full size quilt....

Embroidered pillow...I love this little guy....

Molly's first embroidery....all of my pillow cases are now embroidered :).....I am a lucky girl!

Coin Quilt....straight line machine quilting...with pick stitching...

Hourglass Quilt....this one still needs to be quilted...I think that would help perk it up as well...hmmm....

Molly named this the Mariposa Quilt....

Wonky Log Cabin Quilt...completely hand quilted with perle cotton...

Molly's tea towel embroidery.... 

Single Girl by Denyse Schmidt....love this quilt!

Star Quilt...hand quilted....

Cathedral Window Pillow...

Stashbuster Quilt....from Material Obsession 2...hand quilted with perle cotton....

Zig-Zag Quilts for the twins...Far, Far Away fabric...hand quilted...

Baby Quilt from Scandinavian Stitches....machine quilted...

Scandinavian Stitches...

Pinwheel Quilt from Cloud 9 fabric....for baby shower tonight!!!

Those are the major projects....many other little ones in between....

For 2011...I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel for my current project...

And I have many more quilts I want to tackle....can't wait!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!!

Mary

    

Molly Making.....

Here is a little peek at Molly's new project....

Love it Molly!!!

Mary:)

Pinwheel Update....

Finished the pinwheel quilting and binding....to save time I simply meandered all over the center....loopy loops in the borders (technical term - tee hee)....

It has been washed and dried for crinkly goodness...

The back is a solid piece of fabric...white with blue spots....

The binding (Cloud 9 fabric ) hand stitched....

I even managed to crank out a few pickle-dish arcs today....now only 24 more....groan....

Off to the grocery...

Mary

Meandering About....

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!!  Ours was fun with family in and almost everyone healthy :)  And fortunately, only two gifts to exchange!  YAY!  

The rush of Christmas left Flanders exhausted....last night, after the dust had settled, she found a spot under the tree to take a rest....

Flanders turned 10 yrs. old yesterday!!!  Happy Birthday Flanders!

While Flanders dog chilled, I did a little meandering on the baby quilt (baby shower this week)....

Only a little more to do on the borders....then binding....followed by a nice wash so it is all quilty crinkly good!!!!

I am so excited that gifts are finished and I can devote my time to the pickle-dish quilt....I can't wait to see it all together.

Stay warm :)

Mary 

Busy Little Elves....

The blocks are trimmed, sewn together, and borders added.....

The quilt will need to be basted, quilted and bound before the middle of next week...I think this one will be machine quilted due to the time crunch...

It has been fun putting this together...I had the "inside" scoop on mom's fabric choice for the nursery...so, hopefully, this will be a fun addition!!!

Molly has been busy embroidering and embellishing towels for her cousins....lovely as usual....she used Jenny Hart designs....so cute!!!

Today, Flanders and I will be driving over the river and through the woods to pick up grandma....Flanders is so excited!!!  She loves riding in the car and LOVES fetching grandma!!!  Woof!!!

Merry Christmas to All!!!

Cheers :)

Mary 

M.I.A.......

Ugh!  I have been so durn busy this week....sometimes I have felt like I am just spinning my wheels (ever felt like that ?)....

I have done some shopping, some Christmas present making, and puttering away at the pickle-dish, and to top it all off....a baby shower gift....for NEXT WEEK!!!  Yikes!

For the baby shower I am working on a Pinwheel Quilt with the lovely Cloud 9 fabrics...from the best shoppe in Central Ohio....

Love these fat little elephants!

I do love this pickle-dish...even though it seems never-ending...I wish I had an entire day to just sit and work on it...maybe next week...huh?

Some of my time this past week was spent bonding with my new LOVE....my husband decided a new machine would make a great Christmas gift....who am I to argue?????

So I decided to upgrade from my MC6600 to the new Horizon 7700!!!!  YAY!  I really like the 6600 and could not imagine liking anything more, but this is quickly becoming my new best friend....

It is huge....a clear advantage for pushing a big quilt through....I love the free motion on this machine....thank you Mr. M!!!

Hi Ho, Hi Ho....it's off to work I go!!!!

Mary  

 



Hello Winter!!!!

Here is the view outside my front window...the first snow is always so pretty....

But it did interrupt my plans to quilt with some friends (boo)...the roads were treacherous - so I just stayed inside and finished the zig zag quilt #2.....

Just like the first quilt, this one is completely hand quilted with perle cotton...ready for the little girls to wrap up in this winter...

It is good to have that finished...more projects to finish this week...and shopping left to do before Santa's big day!

Stay warm and dry!

Mary :) 

AHHHHH.....Technology!!!

Well, we have phone service but the internet is still not at all reliable and is running sooooo slow!  I guess the problem is a router (which we just purchased a couple months ago).  We ordered a new router and found out the current router has had very bad reviews....it is an AT&T router...not feeling the love for AT&T right now.   Ugh!

Working on a few more tea towels...

Molly drew the teacups!

I stitched using the free motion foot.  This Liberty fabric is such a delight to work with... 

  Working on a few other projects, the pickle-dish and quilting the zig-zag #2....but it is taking FOREVER to download anything right now....so that will have to wait for another day :)

On a positive note I am staying toasty warm hand quilting with the quilt over my lap...it is very cold in Ohio right now.  I guess winter has arrived!

Mary:)  

No Phone, No Internet....What is a Girl To Do.....

Well....sew of course...

feeling the crunch of Christmas and the need to get gift making complete...not to mention the shopping I need to do.  But this weekend I spent a good deal of my time "negotiating" with AT&T....ugh!  The first repair date they gave me was next Friday!  Are you kidding! 

So I did a little shopping and then worked on some Christmas gifts...ho, ho, ho!

I picked up a few small cuts of Liberty at the shoppe this weekend.....ohhhhhhh.....I am in love!

Again, I used the designs from Scandinavian Stitches....this little pony was added to a tea towel....

Add a little Liberty to the saddle, cart and a ruffle....cute, cute...

Lots more to do...how is your gift sewing going?

Mary :)