Two More Finishes

Yes, I know ~ they're just alike!

I used up the last of my racecar fabric to make these two cuties for two cuties. My great-grandson Kyle just got his first big boy bed and it's one of those race car beds. The little boy across the hall, Jesse, who is a month older than Kyle just got his first big boy bed too and it's a race car bed too.

So, in celebration of this momentous event in their lives, I hit my stash up and made two. I've found that making two is as easy as making one, if they are both alike and use the same fabrics.

I sewed the binding on yesterday and today washed them and dried them...I love that moment when I take them out of the dryer and see them in all their crinkly loveliness.

Ahhhhh.

Now I have some blocks in progress that I'll pick up and work on tomorrow.

A Satisfying Finish ~

love this quilt!

I've been saving these fabrics for more than a few years knowing that I wanted to make a scrap quilt using these colorways.

Then a year ago I started cutting into the fabrics thinking I would make a scrappy mountain majesty quilt. But, I needed to stop so I could pack for my move to California.

Then I hit the wall, once here, and was in a creative slump and little depression.

Finally, I pulled the pieces out and thought about it a while and changed my mind. I wanted a zig zag quilt.

More cutting and playing around with the fabrics....trying some and then setting them aside. This is the result.

My cousin Ted who is a fine artist who loves to tease me and always asks if I'm still making "those pot-holders" will get this one.

Pot holder? I don't think so.



This fabric is my favorite. It has script which I can't read (is it me in my old age or is that how it was designed?) and scattered throughout are some images. I love the horse. I hope it will remind Ted of our Grandparent's farm.

Sally Bramald's Wonderful Feathered Star....

If you are not familiar with this blog (Feather on a Wire) you need to go have a look. I started reading it oh at least a couple of years ago. I initially was attracted to her wonderful quilting....Sally is the queen of feathers and I love feathers. For several months she has been working on a feathered star quilt with some swags on the border to die for. Go have a look. Go on, be envious, it's okay. And while you're there, say hi.

The Direct Link to the Quilt....

is HERE
Go Bid it Up!!!
Remember it's called Nothin But Kisses......Muah!

Love Without Boundaries

The live auction of the quilt that many of us contributed to will be up on EBay Here tomorrow. Be sure to bid on it to help raise as much money as possible to this worthwhile cause. If you don't remember the quilt.... Here it is.

Last Week it was Susan Boyle....

But this week on Britain's Got Talent it was a 12 year old...check him out!

Has he got amazing pipes or what?

I've gone missing again!

I realize that I've been gone, but haven't felt up to blogging as it is serious allergy season here in the valley and I've been gone for 10 years and now that I'm back for my first spring, it's like I'm fresh meat to all the pollen! Yikes! Hack, hack, wheeze, wheeze, and all the lovely other bits. So, I'm out of it. This too shall pass, but in the meantime, I'm out of it.

In the mail today I got a card from Victoria of the Bumblebeans Blog. She put a picture of her Nothing but Kisses quilt that she made from 9 patches gathered from friends. I sent her some, but they were the wrong size...doh!
Anyway, this quilt will be auctioned at the Born in my Heart Art Auction. You can read about the non-profit group sponsoring this auction by clicking HERE.

The auction will be online on April 23-28, and I hope you will bookmark the link and bid up the quilt. It will help a lot of children.

I've got a couple of things in process, but going is slow. And now, I'm back to the couch!