Home Dec-LOL!

Just finished painting my bedroom, since I am NOT moving back home, and it needed a new quilt of course!

One view of Joani's Four-Patch Posy!

Hello from dry, dusty AZ!

Well, we are most of the way thru our monsoon season and have had a bit of rain-Yay!!  I have been working on a few things--notably finishing the Americana banner that Sandi Steele taught in our Busy Bees  chapter a couple months ago.  I soaked in and dried it on my ironing board to get that nice puckery look!  I also made a Taliswomyn doll pin from a pattern by Ellise Peeples-love it!  Used it as my project for the end of the Treatment and Meditation class taught by Reverend Karen Rice!! 

Today I will be quilting for another quilter--Joanie from Busy Bees made this cute log cabin/watermelon quilt-hope to get it completely finished today so I can give it to her at quilt group tomorrow.  Hope she likes it!

Praying for all in the wake of Isaac and for that ever-elusive Peace on Earth.

Hugs.

Current projects 8/2012

Dog Daze

All finished now!!  Check Out the Stars quilt for raffle at church.   Made from a pattern I saw in the Hancock's of Paducah catalog.   Destined to be above a couch or a bed!

Body of quilt done! Just auditioning border fabric-Think I will use the red and white print to the right!

Coming along-actually farther than this, but images on my phone and I can't figure out how to upload them here!! dang! Working on borders now!

One block of my new project!

One of Jane's basketball quilts-- both done now!

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!!