A baby quilt.....

Well, I am working on a Baby Quilt, that I just can-not get into. I have been working on it for awhile. I have all the little blocks done. And I think that was my problem. It's a pattern with little triangles to make a little fan. It just dealing with the little pieces. I am a quilter that likes to work with 2 1/2 strips, and nothing smaller then a 2 in square. Yes I like blocks that end up being about 12 1/2 unfinish. And this quilt the blocks are 6 1/2 unfinish. Yeah....that is my problem, and that is why it is taking me forever to get into making this quilt. And I have to....it's for my SIL GD. So I am off to finish this baby quilt by this weekend....!! I'll post pictures when I do finish it.

Just love BOM's....

I have so many BOM's to do. I find them, and save them into my computer. Also my LQS has a few. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month I am there collecting 2 different - BOMs. I do this every year. Then I start next year - working on a BOM that I have - had for 2 years or so. Am I the only one that get's herself into a mess like this??

I had 18 UFO's at the beginning of this year. Most of them was BOMs. I am now down to 6. Yes, 6. It feel's so good to finish and get the quilt done. But here I go, and start collecting some BOMs, and then they turn into UFO's. Hmmmm...!!

Here's a BOM I just finished. And yes it's 2 yrs. old. But finished...!!

Finish the quilt for my Friend

Well, I finished the photo quilt that my friend asked me to. I put the photo's on black background fabric. Make it look like the old scrapebook pages. When they were just nothing but black. I pinked cut -out the photo's to also make them look old. Remember when all the photos would have that, and times when the date was printed on the white part of the photo's. Even put black corners on them.

My friend loved it. And I also like the way it turned out. Here's the finish project. I do like having the time to quilt. And try to finish up all my UFO's. I am off to quilt some more...Yippee!!

Plenty of Time..

Well I got laid off from my job. I have been in mourning for a few weeks. Yes, how does that go. First shock, anger, denial, worry, I think I am on depression. What I don't like the most about the whole situation is... I'll be 50 this year, and have to start over. I want to work on retiring not starting over. I was with the company for 8 yrs. DH and myself moved in this area 9 yrs ago....his job relocated here. I loved the job, love the area, etc. I am being offered some perks from the company for being let-go. Like retraining, and help with resumes, etc. I know the job market here is slim.

Think I will go to my sewing room, and quilt for a long while. And just play with some of scraps, I need to finish the quilt I am working on for a friend .... with those photo's. Yeah, I am heading to do some quilting and eat chocolate. That should help with my depression...!!

Here's some pictures of the quilt.....

I have posted earlier about the pictures my friend asked me to work on. I am posting some pictures of them. So I can keep track of progress for me. Here's what they look like...!!

Time to start....

I love reading other's blogger. And well, decided I would love to do this myself. I am up early this morning and just can not sleep. And what a better time to start..!!

I am working on some UFO's in my quilting. But need to start on a project that a friend asked me to do. She had some pictures of her family screen printed on some pre-quilted fabric. The fabric is white, and the pic's are cut up in different sizes. The pic's are old, and some of the white fabric they (the pic's) are on turned yellow. Not much - but some. Wonder if I could tea dye them to fix some of that yellowing. Hm mm.....To get a balance of color on the background fabric, without hurting the pictures. Then again, I am going for an old scrapbook looking quilt. And the yellowing just add character. Want to put the pic's on black fabric, have the corners squared off...(like the snowball quilt block corners). To make it look like they are in a scrapbook. And the old scrapbooks pages use to be all black. Oh yeah, I remember those pages. That's why I want them on black fabric. Even, use pinking shears, or the pinking rotary cutter on outside pictures to make them look like the old photo's. Then just use a nice neutral fabric for the background of the quilt. That is my plans on this quilt. Have the ideas, and just hope it works.