Little Projects...

Happy New Year to you all!

Are you full of resolve for the new year?

Resolutions...goals.

I have plans for this year.

My fave quote is this one...

"A year from now, you may wish you had started today."

Amen to that!

Yesterday, I made a comment on Facebook that

I was in my happy place.

Here's what I was making...

12 inch pillow cover

Way back in 2010, I received a very special gift.

Read about it here.

It took me forever to quilt it...

but I finally did.

July of 2012.

I call it my winter quilt.

I love throw pillows

and had decided a long time ago

that I needed to have at least one

to go with each of my quilts.

I didn't make this winter quilt, 

so I didn't have scraps to match it.

Initially, I had thrown a pillow cover

 made with vintage happy fabrics

on the 12" pillow form and had that on the bed.

And, though I love this pillow cover,

it just doesn't work with the winter quilt.

Looks too....happy.

Ya know?

So, I pulled out my container of primitive fabrics

and put together a pillow cover.

I made it using the same pattern as the quilt...

alternating 9 patch squares with squares.

I quilted it in the same pattern (diagonal lines)

as I had quilted the winter quilt.

I love it.

I am very pleased with how it turned out!

(I am going to break my arm patting myself on the back one of these days!)

"I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.". Jeremiah 29:11

Displaced...

Well...all good things do end.  {sigh}

We are being displaced by a family member ( landlord's mother) so we need to move out of this house.

Julie is going north to live with our Mom.   Long story...but me Mum needs someone to live with her.

I have my job with the state, so need to stay in this area.  For now.  So...I am looking for a place to live.  Must be out by September 1.

Say prayers that I find somewhere good.  Fast.  Please and thank you.

I definitely need to declutter...we will have a huge garage sale very soon.
In the meantime...I do need my creative outlet...so have done a little quilting and sewing!

Kelley's quilt - as posted a few posts ago - is now finished!!!  And, of course, I am in love with it!!!  Thank you, Kelley!! 

I am publishing this post with my phone...hope it all works okay!
Will post again soon.

Follow-Through...

See, I am NOT all talk.  I am following through...yup, I actually am!  


Here is the first of the unfinished quilt tops that I have to finish.  I posted about them recently...here.  After that posting, I made a plan to finish one of these quilts each month.  That way, by the end of the year, they'll all be done.  And, one a month won't interfere with the other things I want to do.  Shouldn't, anyway.

So.  This is the hand-pieced quilt from Kelley.  She had left a comment stating that I should 'just get the darn thing quilted and use it, for pete's sake'.  Or, something to that effect.  {grin}.  I already had the batting for this quilt measured and cut, so it's getting done first.  This month.  July. 

It is now pin-basted and ready to quilt.  So, as soon as I figure out what color of thread to use and what quilting pattern, I'll be off and running with it!  

Staying in the ac keeping cool.  Are you?




"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11