Nine Patch Scrappy Quilt

This is my Singer Featherweight that I do my quilt sewing on. It really is a good little machine. I sew on the bindings of my quilts at my kitchen table so I have plenty of room to spread the quilt out and keep it even.

I am always glad to have it sewn on ......but then the hard work starts of sewing it down on the back of the quilt by hand.

Someday I am going to get brave again and try machine stitching the binding down.....did that on my first quilt and I was not very happy with how it looked. The blind stitching is really more exact but takes a lot of time.....or it does for me.

I was really happy with the quilt and entered it in a local small town Quilt Show.

It won a RED RIBBON!!!!!!!

The competition was not too stiff, but still....a second place...I am happy with that!!!

I got my idea for this quilt and design over on crazy mom's blog......THANKS CRAZY MOM for the idea.......http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com. Her blog has a lot of fun ideas on it and usually a quilt along taking place.

Cactus Plants

Hens and Chicks Cactus are so easy to grow. This picture was taken of my 2009 batch growing on the south side of our house. Also seen is my husband's Chiefs birdhouse given to him by one of his brothers.....Go Chiefs!!!

Butterfly Baby Quilt

I made this baby quilt in June 2010 as a gift for my grand kids half sister that was born June 5th . It was a little late but got it done. It is the first small quilt I have ever quilted myself on my Singer Featherweight. I used blue painter's tape to mark the lines to quilt and that made it go a lot easier. The butterflies are on the back and they have some sparkle to them!! The batting is 100% cotton Warm and Natural that I think washes up really nice and will make it really snugly!!

Milk Can and Flowers

Here is one of my milk cans sitting in the front yard with a Confetti Plant that did have some yellow with the red and purple flowers. I have Zinnias planted in the washtub. The taller Zinnias are planted in a whiskey barrel and were a little too tall when all was said and done this summer. Next year I will read the seed packages and know that when they say giant they did not mean the bloom they meant the height of the plant!! I also love the Bostons Ferns and try to have 2 or three out every year. I think it is somewhat soothing to watch the breeze blow through the ferns.

Braided Border

This is a quilt from 07 that I worked on in a brown bag swap. I was the last person to get this bag with this quilt in it and I decided to put a braid border around it. I liked how the braid border finished and pulls it all together. They do take time and you have to pay close attention when you add each strip or you will be spending time with the seam ripper. In this photo you see two other likes in my life......old milk cans and my hens and chicks cactus plants. I suppose I love old milk cans as they bring back good memories of when I was a kid.