How Do You Spell Relief?

My son's going-off-to-college quilt was finished a few days ago with 12 days to spare (we're down to one week from today, folks). I'm quite pleased with it and Nick seems to be as well.

I had an awful time trying to take a photo that would show off the quilting...perhaps if you click on the following, you'll be able to see a larger view.


And because the fabric is so busy, it's especially difficult to see the quilting on the front, even in person.

I had great fun making this quilt, especially because Nick was involved in the entire design process. Did I tell you he's a wonderful son?

In a Bind

I finished the binding on my son's college quilt this past weekend and now I'm working on more binding for the two other quilts that I just finished quilting. Miles and miles of binding....thank goodness for Netflix.
P.S. I'll post photos of Nick's finished quilt in a day or two...my Facebook friends have already gotten a peek!

Sweat Shop

Thankfully, the weather has been great these last few days and my quilting studio is not literally a "sweat"shop. However, I have been busy working away at a few quilts...this is the latest one ready to be quilted. Then comes the binding for three quilts...miles and miles of binding...thank goodness for Netflix.

One of Many

This is one of the quilts that I'm working on for my guild's September exhibit. It's made with a line of flannel by designer Valori Wells. I hope to have it quilted this weekend and then work on the binding next week. Then it will be time to put the next quilt on the frame...

More From the Past

I'm working feverishly to finish my son's quilt and a couple of other quilts that I plan to enter in my guild's September exhibit....I hope to have photos of the completed work for you soon.

In the meantime, this is a collage of the ten quilts that I made for the children on my husband's side of the family in late 2007 (actually only nine of them were made in 2007, the tenth was made in 2008 for the new addition who arrived that year). It was great fun watching all nine of them open them up when we visited at Thanksgiving.

My stash of novelty fabrics was pretty much used up by the time I finished the last one.

Another Project To Add To The List

I made this quilt for my aunt back in the spring of 2001 when I was still quite a novice at quilting. It was just my attempt to make a scrap quilt using up some really ugly fabrics in my very small stash. The photo is awful -- it was taken with one of my very primitive digital cameras -- the quilt has quite a bit more color than you can see. The triangles are actually green. My aunt has used this quilt quite a bit and it's now time for it to be replaced, as you can tell by these photos.

I plan to make her another scrappy quilt; I think I've learned a thing or two over the last nine years of quilting, so this time I plan to make it a bit more appealing to the eye...

Sunday Is a Day of Rest

OK, I'll go with this idea...but only for a little while...too much quilting and sewing going on around here...