Geez...first I don't blog forever and now you can't shut me up! Two posts in one weekend! Gotta blog when the spirit moves me! I'm going to try to cut back my hours at work to no more than 9...not 9.5, not 10 and DEFINITELY not 12. I get so exhausted that by the time the weekend rolls around...I don't get much housework done...all I want to do is play. So, I did this weekend :)
Here's a quilt I've been working on. I call it Rose Garden. I love the fabrics. They came out around Valentine's Day and I bought a yard of a few designs. Then I thought of making this quilt, so I ordered a whole big bunch more. Good thing, because I can't find it anymore.
I'm using setting squares for the sashing, something I haven't done in a long time. I always sucked at measuring and getting the squares right. But, this time it's going quite well. The blocks are about 14" square with 3" sashing, so few blocks will go a long way. Funny thing is I made a BUNCH of blocks, so I have a whole lot leftover.
I'm not done with this yet. I'm adding at least one more row horizontally. Then I think I'll put a 2" border of the sashing fabric and then either the red rose fabric or the striped fabric for a 4" border.
Stay tuned!
Although I haven't been blogging on this blog, I have been working on quilts and fabric in general. While looking through my extensive stash of fabric, I found some that made me wonder what I was thinking when I bought it. Like this piece:
It is probably the ugliest piece of fabric I've owned..EVER...and I've been quilting since 1987.
When I first found it, I thought it was inside out....but, nope, it is right side out the way you see it. The stuff I would never put in a quilt is going into a pile to be made into cotton crocheted rugs like this one I made:
I had yards and yards of drapery weight fabric my mom had gotten in a community yard sale years ago. The fabric was leftovers from the funeral parlor across the street from my mom's house when they made new drapes....kinda funny :)
This rug is almost 4ft across and it is gracing my foyer. We have beige carpeting in this house and it never stays clean...so I'm covering it up. Here are some others I made:
I think I am obsessed...there are a few more rugs in my future as I clean out my stash....
