Client quilt

Finished the Double Nine Patch for an old friend. In fact, totally quilted, bound and presented!! He loved it!

Cool Mornings!

We Arizonans love this time of year and sometimes it only seems to last a few weeks before it gets cold (for Phoenix, that is!). But these lovely mornings do not go unnoticed. Heaven!

I am reading "Comfortable with Uncertainty" a bit every morning. There are about 100 short essays from the American Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron. Many persons have mentioned her works to me and this was my selection to begin with. The book is now lovingly and repeatedly dog-eared.

Just want to offer a sampling of the wisdom in this book.

"Six ways of compassionate living-generosity, discipline, patience, joyful exertion, meditation, and pranja or unconditional wisdom. Each one is an activity we can use to take us beyond aversion and attachment, beyond being caught up in ourselves, beyond our illusion of separateness."

OK on with the day!

Christmas stockings!

Working on Bags

Beginning Hallowe'en 1904 by Blackbird Designs!!

Needlebook Completed, Too!

Tying one of the Cabin Throws (harvested wool quilts)

I still cannot get the colors right, but be assured, these are very vibrantly colored autumn leaves!

Another Snow Days block done!

Finished the needlebook!! Only a few final flourishes remain before I mail it!

better picture this time i hope! anyway i am working on the 3rd embroidery block!!

Snow Days by Crabapple Hill

Dunno how to photograph!! But you may be able to get the idea of this project with this shot--it will be all neutrals and the embroidered snow scenes are so lovely!!!

Okayyy!! Using the good floss now!! It is a Cosmo product and looks like silk!!

"Snow Days" project

First block done for my "Snow Days" quilt from the Crabapple Hill pattern!!! Soon Jilly sez I will be a "master 'broiderer"-LOL

All my Booty from Cincy Quilt Show, etc!

Had a very clever post all typed and then-Poof! It disappeared!

But you get the idea of all the fun to be had!!! Right? LOL!

Met the owner, Beverly Neff, as she got out of the car in the morning!!1 Yeah we were anxious to get the shopping done!!! LOL!

And we were so welcomed!

Thanks again--love ALL my treasures!!!!

Back From Cincy Quilt Show and Visiting Friends/family!

Believe it or not, this is the biggest show I have ever attended!!! Two days and about 6 hours, and I guess I might have seen about 1/3 of it!!

BUT I *did* shop!! lol! Got a carrycase for my little Featherweight, a kit and book for a primitive applique quilt in MY colors, and several other bits of fabric and patterns.

THEN Janice and I went to Belpre, OH and Neff's Country Loft where the shop is built around a TREE!!! And thousands of tiny lights adorn the tree--altogether magical!!

There, I bought "Snow Days" by Crabapple Hill, the floss for the embroidery (I AM going to master embroidery!) by Cosmo, and then asked the owner, Beverly Neff, to forward the kit for the quilt---and it was waiting for me when I got home--Thanks, Beverly!!!

Little piles adding up!! soon will be ready to piece the base for the appliques!

MMMMMM! Now for a wonderful WOOL quilt!!

This is part of my stash of recycled wool, along with some wonderful hand-dyes!!! I plan on piecing the quilt, scrappy-fashion, and the appliqueing the leaves cut from the autumnal shades of hand-dye!! Then back with snuggly flannel and just hand, tieing with crochet cotton!! I canot wait! It will be a kind of cabin throw for our cruel Phoenix winters!!

UFO"S etc. just about done! one looming task...

All righty, now! Only one more "got-to" project (a baby quilt) and then i will begin in earnest to finish the Botanical Wreath!! Lots of fabric selecting, template making to do, so get out the freezer paper!!

Third Grandson Quilt-Hockey!

This is the flannel bakcing for the hockey quilt! I am using rainbow variegated thread (King Tut) on the quilt top and light aqua So Fine in the bobbin.

Hopefully have it and two others on their way real soooon!