a place to hang quilts outside.....

The wire/cable stuff is hung between two nails.

Maybe next year this building will get painted, for now it will be a weathered wood background.

This should work out really well!

Christmas Eve was warmish and snowless. 

It's like we went on vacation to a warmer place but never left the house.

I was able to take a bunch of pictures of the latest quilts.

iheart flowers.... 

The hearts were won from block lotto in February. 

The flowers were one of the summer blocks. 

When I combined them I thought of my father-in-law, he has so many flowers in the summer. So this went to tractor joe's mom and dad.

Aubri received a baby quilt. Her mom was very excited. I had done one for Aubri's brother a couple years ago. She was hoping Aubri would get a name quilt too.

A breeze came along. The backing is a hot pink sheet, just right for a girl.

As long as I was out there hanging quilts, I went and grabbed this off my bed. Finally, a fairly decent picture of the geocaching quilt!

This isn't a very good picture, but take note of the packages behind the cat. 

They are nicely wrapped gifts for my children.

I am patting myself on the back here, 

because last year....

I didn't put much effort into wrapping. 

My poor children got grocery sacks that I just stapled shut. Each one got a different store bag. Looks like one of them needed two bags, so they got matching bomgaars bags.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

made by others....

My sister made me a postcard for Christmas. I loved the way she cut the pictures to make the letters in the words claws. After she finished it she thought...wait, we think of cats as having claws, not dogs, oh well.

It is just way to cute.

This quilt was made by a mom who has a visually impaired son. She collected fabrics that all felt different. He may not see all the colors, but he will feel all the variety.

Lots of different textures.....

...including some white fur fabric. 

She said there were pieces of white fur flying around for days after she cut and sewed it in. I think she also said this was the first and last time she will use fur in a quilt.

Famous last words.

One of my goals today......rig up some wire outside, hang quilts and take pictures of my quilted presents. 

They need to be wrapped for Christmas Eve gift opening.

Now is not the time to dilly-dally. I am off to find the hammer and a couple nails.

& clothes pins...

where did I put the clothes pins?

it is about time....

Seems like forever since I was last posting.
My sister asked me to make a "blue baby quilt" for a friend of hers. She didn't care what I did, she trusted me to come up with something.
Using this technique... (8 at a time)....I made blue HST's for all the points.
I wanted to make some bears paw blocks for the quilt. Doing them this way REALLY made it all quite painless.

The 9 patches are randomly sewn 1 1/2 inch squares. As I sew other things, they get put through the machine.  I emptied the drawer they were stored in. But there is still a box on the desk full of squares. Eventually there will be more 9 patches that finish at 3 inches, in theory anyway.
The HST's finish at 1 1/2 inches. I think the starting squares were cut at 4 3/4 inches.

Crispy brought home his art project from school today. I was so excited to see it! I was squealing in delight! 

OMG, I LOVE it. I needed to find the camera right away and take a picture. 

Then I had to ask....who is it?

He says, "if you were a fan of Weezer, you would know who this is."

It is Rivers Cuomo. oh, of course. 

It is already hanging up in his room.

a quilt top...

These blocks are from Block Lotto when I won back in May. 

(block lotto was very good to me this year)

I painted Crispy's room a deep blue this past summer...so I used orange and blue to finish off the blocks.

It should look good in there!

and it snowed....the sticking kind...everything is white now.