It's been Ages!! as the saying goes

My appologies to those that have been keeping a tab on me it has been busy, busy, busy. Spring brings on a nuance of chores and meetings and outside duties that takes me away from my passion.. quilting. This is not to say that I haven't been sewing!! I have made my BOM for Carol Doaks Group

this is April's block I took from some FQ's rather than my scrap barrel.. sometimes it is more work to dig through that thing!!


We also had a challenge of Viewers Choice for Carol's site the theme was spring..she has this cutest little 2"block that I could see as a brides bouquet so when I made it that was the intent we had to use batiks

If you win the viewers Choice you will win 15 of the blocks that were entered so I am keeping my fingers crossed... wish me luck will ya!!

Then to top it all off (whew as I am writing this I am thinking i have been busy)we had to make batik blocks to swap that had to have spring green in it and had to have the theme of spring.. all these had to be of Carol's patterns. (which makes it really easy since she practical does everyting to make it easy)
So I made 12 blocks so that I can get 12 back... in the long run when I get my 12 blocks and then if I win the viewers choice I will have 25 blocks to make my own Batik quilt sampler with Carol's blocks.. what a deal!! Do you think I am excited I sure am!!


So this is what is happening so far with Carol Doak's stuff.. now I have a few of the UFO's that I have to catch up on.. Country Sunshine... but I will. There is other quilty stuff I have been doing but I am sure you are ready to start your day.

Temptations of Quilting

Good Afternoon...It has been a while have been sick and not able to do anything about quilting for the last week.. yesturday I got my act in gear and started with a quilt that you need to know a little history on first...I will try to make this short.

Two Quilting Forums were closed abruptly by Major companies without any notice. All friends that were connected through these forums lost the ability to contact each other. Some of us were lucky to have emails and contacted others to this new forum. www.quilterssanctary.com we were able to slowly meet and greet and become a community again... the individual that had developed this forum for us did this all for free and asks of nothing for the maintence.

We as quilters of course had to do something in thanks so we did. We thought the only way besides money was to make a quilt. Blue/cream was decided and 10 1/2in block. I volunteered to put it all the blocks together and another lady volunteered to LAQ it. The person that helped us find a home is going to bind it.

I have completed all of the top now except for the boarders. The Gentleman lives in Australia and loves to garden.. you will see by some of the blocks that people have went with that theme... others developed their own block.

The joy is putting all of these lovely blocks together. They went together so well and didn't have to be resized it was lovely. My contibution of the boarders has meaning.. the red around each of the blocks is the path between each block.. the gold stars are in 2 part 1. each member deserves a gold star for the exceptional job they done. 2. The sun to keep our gardeners garden growing.
Hope you like what has brought 40 women that don't know each other together except through cyberspace and what they can accomplish.

Feb BOM Done !!

It's not even Feb and I have my Carol Doak BOM done. I am continuing to make these blocks from my scrap barrel. This one was easy cause I got to use alot of stips which the barrel is full of!!


I tried to make it like a pond with the merky water and dragonflies/ladybugs. I put all the blocks I have together so far in a layout and there is starting to be some wonderful results!! Now I have to sit and wait for March to post...so glad that Feb is a short month.

Paper Piecing Day

Well I finally was able to work on a little quilting. I have alot to catch up on and today I had some time. I pieced 2 more blocks for the Carol Doak BOM series she is doing on line
I was behind 2 blocks and so Dec and Jan are now posted. Carol posted her Feb block today so I am just in time to get that one done.


I bet when you are looking at these you are asking "where in the world is she getting her color palette from?" it is from my scrap barrel. I hav a whole garbage pail full of scraps and it really needs to get some fabric emptied out of it!

here are the 2 blocks.. have a great night

Rotary Cutting is a dangerous tool!!

Little did they realize when they post this on the package that the danger is once you start cutting your project it is very hard to stop... I have been busy the last 5hrs witha new 4patch posey...I got 42 blocks cut and sewn together. I just have to decide on what boarder to do!!

Well I have to get some sleep my parents are coming tomorrow and I have some house cleaning to do!! Nite

Deadlines!!

Well I have spent the last 2 days working on a deadline quilt. It is the 4Patch Posey.. or another name Stacked Posey's. I teach this plus 2 other stack and whack techniques. One block Wonder and of Course Stack and Whack... I love the effect you get when you make these quilts.. each block has its own personallity..

This quilt was easy to make the hardest part is there are so many options on the layout and the boarder... sometimes it is very hard to decide on how to showcase your quilt the best possible way... and then have enough fabric to utilize these creative ideas.. I was lucky I had enough fabric that I can also make prairie points!! I am posting a pic of it.. I used 2 fabrics from the same line rather than one and I love how it turned out!! I also have a few blocks that I am posting so you can see a close up.

Quilt A Long 2008

Good Morning.. on top of the other projects I have started to make blocks on a quilt a long that is happening in one of the sites I belong to www.quilterssanctuary.com

The member that finishes their block first gets to pick the next block. We have just started in Jan08 and you can join anytime. The quilt is yours to keep when done... mine will be from the scraps in the barrel.



The blocks are selected from www.quilterscache.com . Our theme is stars.. I did the quilt a long for 2007 when there was another site open but they closed and we were able to meet again on another site to continue.

Here is the 2007 blocks from that Quilt a Long