in the works

Arrowhead

Rock a Bye Baby

Jacob's Ladder

Big Trucks

OK, I'm a bad blogger but have been quilting.
Here are some pictures of my latest things.  My Feb. doll quilt is called Rock a Bye Baby. It was super easy, a quilt as you go.
The Jacob's Ladder is on ongoing project (for me) from Joanne's outreach day last month. I'm sewing the components of blocks together, 4 patches and 1/2 square triangles that the group made that day. I still have some to do. I love that block and have put it onto my mental to do list.
The big trucks is a panel given to me by Gayle. It is going to the son of a young woman from work. Her daughter is quite ill and I'm making a Strawberry Shortcake panel for her and did the trucks for her little brother. I was going to outline quilt it but it would take me forever. The Arrowhead  was made by Lois and quilted by Betty in The Scrapbag group. It was donated to raffle at work for a fundraiser for this family.

Three Little Quilts

Here are 3 dolly quilts done this past week. The first 2 were made from leftover blocks from Alex and Patty's wedding quilt from 4 years ago. The 3rd one "Time Flies" is from a blog sent to me by Joanne. It is LynBrown.Com from California who is posting  a dolly quilt pattern each month. I will try to keep up.I'm not happy with the borders on any of them but I don't think the dollies will mind.

Merry Christmas....

....just putting in time before going to work. Spent some time on the phone with family which is always nice.

Here are a couple last minute gifts, well one is for me. It's hard to find the right background to show them properly.

lunch

Yesterday was the Sewcializers Christmas lunch at The Elk and Finch. Only 2 couldn't make it. The food was delicious and the gift exchange was fun. My friends are so talented. Thank you all for another year of companionship. As Cathy says, some days not much sewing gets done but we solve all the problems in the world. I had my camera with me and forgot to take pictures.

Then I had to go to a "tea" at my neighbour's. I'm not complaining because these ladies have been welcoming and friendly from the day I moved in. There are always too many goodies and yesterday was no exception. She went the extra mile with the fancy table and baking. Good thing I hadn't had dessert at lunch. Then she sent us home with a little plate of goodies. I'm not a fan of Christmas cake but since the others were saying how good it was, I tried it. And it was really good, nice and moist with icing on it too. But...afterwards I felt sick from all the sweets and skipped anything further to eat for the rest of the day.

Merry Christmas everyone.

I hate "garment" sewing

This apron pattern was one of the projects from the Schoolhouse Retreat in the spring. I  just made one  for my son and everything that could go wrong did..... from cutting of the brown  the wrong way to the beige being cut  too small, ( I measured 2 or 3 times)  to sewing the borders on wrong as the stripes were to be vertical and putting one of the slits for the ties in the wrong spot. But it looks OK cause you can't see where the beige is pieced.

He wanted some felt lapel flowers he had seen on an Etsy store for $20.00 each. I could buy a meter of wool felt for less than that. So I whipped up a few. The centre is needle felted in. That's a cool technique.

A few gifts....

for Gayle's birthday

for Sewcializers gift exchange

for my sister

I made a few runners for Christmas gifts. They have no batting or actual quilting holding the layers together which made them fast. Another circle one is underway as well as a wall banner for me. I think I will make myself a couple of new runners too as I'm tired of my old ones.

Phew!

Log Cabin Variation

Double Slice

As my friend Joanne would say "A flurry of finishes." These are all Scrap Bag quilts, some for donation this year and some to start up the stash for next year's donations. I think the one called Bricks cause I don't remember the name was from last year. The Log Cabin variation is something I started  last year when I was finally able to get back to sewing after Pete died. Just sewed pieces together and it came out OK looking. It's funny how doing these quilts to help out other people actually make us feel better.

Stash Buster

4 Patch

Bricks