The working woman...

Our quilt guild is making a Journey of a Woman's Life quilt.  This is our block that we will present this month...the working woman.  Can I just tell you that it was really hard to come up with something that would represent all women regardless of whether they worked in or outside of the home.  Here goes...Hope they like it!!

Sister Sew Day

Saturday, I got together with my little sister, Rosie. I was working on the Tidings quilt (labor intensive) while she was finishing up projects such as mending and banners and those adorable gumdrop pillows by Amy Butler...Rosie brought out a project that had wool cut-outs to be appliqued. The freezer paper technique was used, where you take and trace your design on the freezer paper and then iron to the wool. She knows a lady who does extensive applique with wool, who loaned her this pair of scissors. They are by Olfa and let me tell you--it was like slicing through butter--slick. Must have some.

Rose has been paper piecing these 3 1/2" blocks, using Halloween fabric. She is undecided what she is going to do with them, but aren't they fun!! I fell in love with these...

I thought this picture was too cute on the fridge. Kit colored it and I told her it was darling. She said, "Do you want to have it, Aunt Mary?" I told her I would take a picture of it, so I did!!

Fun Projects for the Blahhhhhhh January!!

I got an email from "You Can Make This", a pattern company that sells embroidery, quilting, sewing, crochet....patterns. It said if I took the survey, I would get a free download pattern. Well, here it is partially done. You paper piece the hearts, sew them together. Put a couple borders around them and add a back and it makes a cute long pillow--just in time for the L-O-V-E holiday. If you are like me, I love holidays and holiday quilts, pillows, etc. for decorating. This has been a fun project so far.

There is a fun blog called, "Kris Knits" on my sidebar. She designs all these cute things for knitting. This project is a knit along or KAL. If you go to her website, you can start up now because we are not too far along and you can catch up real quick. I wanted to show you the project without showing the design so it won't spoil it for you. She is going to do a dishcloth each month of the year as a knit along. Come join in on the fun. I had a blast doing this much!!

Spider Web Scrap Quilt

I got the idea to piece this spider web quilt from A Latte Quilts. She is a quilter who uses a lot of scraps in her quilts and I love the look and feel of them. She is currently working on this same quilt and so I thought it would be a great thing to do in 2010--try and use up some of those boxes and boxes of scaps. The pattern is found on Quilters Cache--a free download. It is called the Spider Web quilt. You paper piece 7" blocks and then sew them together to make a 14" block. I look at this as one of those great scrap busters. I have a bin of 1 1/2" strips that I use for the darks and have collected a number of neutrals for the lights. If you are overrun with scaps, you might want to give this a try.