Getting closer.......

This weekend it is my goal to make some progress!  I have a couple projects that need to move, go, get moving.

DONE!!!!!

I've been working on them (well one)  and this weekend my goal is to make some obvious, amazing, and MEASURABLE progress.

This is also why my blog postings have been farther apart.  Although, I did cheat this morning and talked to an old friend of mine for a little while on Facebook, it was a good thing!

So......I need to set up my workspace and clean up a bit so that I can get to work.  Hand quilting and sewing.

Do any of you have pressing projects calling your names?  I think Spring may actually be coming around the corner.  This may be a part of "Spring Cleaning"  feelings creeping up on me.

What about you?  Feel it coming on?

Gentrie

Another resolution (Quilt) close.....

I'm working on it!

It's so close I can taste it.  It's a wall hanging I am hand quilting.  Well, it's a big wall hanging.  I'm so in love with this quilt I can hardly stand it.  I want to look at it several times a day on my wall and get lost in the pictures and designs.

I'm on a mission and I cannot concentrate on anything else.

Here is a sneak peek.  Sorry it's blurry, evidently I have the shakes.  (They're all like this!Grrrrr)


I HAVE to get this quilt done!  The most intricate quilting is in this center section (which is most of the quilt).  The rest is simpler and will go quicker.

When it's done you'll be the first to see.

Gentrie

PS  My finger is soar!

Another Quilt Down

Last year the local quilt guild I belong to did a row quilt exchange for those who wanted to participate.  Sounded like fun, so I did.  It was fun.

I grabbed a bunch of north woods flannels I had accumulating in my stash and threw them into a bag.  I wrote up some loosey goosey instructions for the girls to follow.  I basically gave them a row length and a theme and said have fun!

Well, I got my rows back and was excited.  I pieced the quilt top together within a month I think, and pieced a back together out of a bunch of extra flannels I had left.

Then it sat, for a while.

I don't hand quilt flannels because it kills my fingers.  So it needed to go to a quilter, but that takes money.  In January I saved some pennies and sent it over to one of my favorite quilters.  I got it back just before our February Guild meeting.

I JUST finished binding the quilt and sewing down the label.

Want to see?

Here is the front.......

Here is the back.......

My label documenting the time frame and info about the quilt.........brief and to the point.  A good shot of my binding too.......byas.....don't look too close though!

Hubby has claimed this quilt for his own.  This is his first snuggle under it.  He was looking for a crepe recipe in a magazine I had.  I'm sure there is drool on this quilt now.  Sufficiently christened. 
This quilt is on my resolution list for the guild also, one down.

So what do you think?

Gentrie

Spring is here?

Can you tell I'm tired of snow?  I'm wishful thinking.  It has been so nice here the last few days.  It has been wonderful.  We can actually see the pavement on our street again.  The snow isn't quite 3 feet deep in the backyard anymore.

I think there may only be about 2 feet 3 inches left.  Yeah!  I actually saw a patch of grass where the path to the shed melted.

Hurry up Spring I am ready!

Gentrie

Happy Valentines Day!

So Valentines Day has never really been about Valentines Day in my house since I married my husband.  You see, Hubby's birthday is today.

So Valentines Day always ends up being about his Birthday.  Not that I am complaining really.  While it's nice to get flowers and such.  I think it's nicer to get them just because and out of the blue, not because some ding dong made a national day of love.

Love should be celebrated year round.

My Mom always got us kids something for Valentines Day, but then my Mom got us something for LOTS of holidays.  St Patricks Day, Easter, 4th of July, Halloween of course Christmas.  Now that I write this down, I see the reasoning behind almost all of them (we are part Irish after all).

Anyway, Happy Valentines Day!  Hope you all have a great one, and continued love every day after!

Gentrie