Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I have just finished the Dancing Batiks quilt top and I am glad.  So many pieces to get wrong!!!
I changed the border a bit but I like it. Maybe I can retrieve the picture.
Now if you know my house you will realize that this quilt is hanging sidewise in my kitchen door.
However Karma is great because I think I like it better this way  with the fushia borders on the bottom.  Isn't life wonderful.  After the "Desert Sky" workshop on June 30 I will have had my fill of Judy Niemeyer's paper piecing patterns for a while.

The day lilies and gardenias are just fantastic this time of year.  With the rain we have had and the cool weather life is indeed good and beautiful.

Happy Quilting
s

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Dancing Batiks




I am trying to finish the top for Dancing Batiks which I started in a workshop with Lucille Amos in January.  I have two more blocks and then I can do the border.  There are fifty pieces in each block and I have unsewed a lot which is tedious considering it is paper piecing and the stitches are tiny.  I will try to put a picture here of some of the blocks.  I forget each time how to do it. Well it worked but not where I wanted it.  Oh well.  Don't know why it is curving off the edge must be on the side of the bed.
Having a difficult time trying to decide which colors to put where.

I cut out the block for General Wives.  This month is the wife of J.E.B Stuart.  I never like the fabrics until I see it finished.  Am ready to see the entire quilt done.  I see it at Mary Ellen's but I mean mine.

We are putting the blocks together for our Raffle Quilt and I am anxious to see it done.  I know it will be awesome because we used the line "Blueberry Crumb Cake" and those are nice blues.

Time for snack.

Later.
S