I'm SO Excited!!! Guess where I'm going tomorrow???

I'm off to a fabulous quilt show:
 The Road To California
 at the Ontario Convention Center.
I don't think I've missed a year since I was bitten by the quilting bug in 1995

 I'm really looking forward to meeting up with
 many old quilting friends while there. 

Be back here tomorrow with oodles of pictures to share and lots of quilt show chatter.  

Goodnight and Pieceful Dreams,

Childhood Memories

Dad gave me this today - it's one of my childhood favorites!  It was originally my Mom's and I have such fond memories of hours and hours spent solving this puzzle, over and over and over again. The little papers with the different solutions are still intact.  Oh, how I treasure this little trinket of youthful memories.  

A Tisket, A Tasket.................

As soon as I saw this quilt pictured in this book I knew I had to make one - what a perfect little take along project that fits in a small bag to carry wherever I happen to be with idle time.
And the other positive to making these blocks is that I don't have to buy any fabric!  I can just dig in my stash.





















So far I have 20 little baskets appliqued and

 20 more prepped and waiting.  

I don't know right now how big this quilt will be - 

wall hanging or bed quilt -  it all depends

on when I'm tired of appliqueing little baskets.

I just love these precious little guys - aren't they cute?

Organize my Quiltmaking Time? You Must Be Kidding!

I was just over at my BFF's blog and I cannot believe that she told the whole blog world the truth about me! 

She told everyone what a terribly disorganized quilter I am!    I suppose that means that I am totally and completely out of the closet now.  Just because I cannot even stand to tie myself down to a regularly scheduled manicure appointment for fear that I may not be in the mood for it at the previously scheduled time,  how could I possibly organize my time as to when I will work on which project?   

Tis a mystery to me as to why I should do that.  

Thank goodness that I'm perfectly organized in my business life or I'd never have any clients!  

With all of that being said, in my spare time today, since I only have the setting blocks to make for an old UFO, I got them all made, and now once I cut out the setting triangles I can put the top together.

I should be able to cross this off the to do list as my first 2011 finish.  Stay tuned - anything is possible!

Happy New Year!!!

At the start of a new year many people like to make resolutions, things they want to accomplish or change or improve upon. The only real resolution I am making for 2011 is to be the best person I can be!

That doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about what I'd like to accomplish this year quiltwise. I've been giving lots of thought to actually applying the "F" word (finish) to my bazillion projects which languish in varying degrees of completedness. Is that a word???

Now, don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that I won't start a new project whenever the mood strikes, just that I will spend A LOT of time working on some of my older much loved projects.

Temptation and inspiration out in blogland too often has me mesmerized and I am suddenly out of control with wanting to make all the loveliness that I see others creating.

Upon further reflection, I've come to realize that I don't really care how many quilts I have in production stage when I get excited about one more new project - I suppose that makes me more of a process person - I'm not as interested in the completion of a project as I am in the journey I'm on in order to get there.

I also gravitate towards intricate time consuming projects with tiny fussy pieces. 

Oh how I love this quilt creating life - it's so freeing - I can create whatever I want, whenever I want - it's my time to play and revel in the yummyness of the scrumptious fabric to my hearts desire.

With all that being said I've spent some time inventorying what I want to delve into first.

Since I've got all of the blocks and border completely appliqued

except for a small amount of embroidery here and there on

The Great Pumpkin Quilt, I've been spending

most of my time working on this one. It will be exciting to finally

see it put together. I don't remember where I took this picture, but this is what it should look like when done.  

Next time you  see a picture of this quilt it will be a picture of mine!

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Another applique quilt that I've finished 

6 of 12 blocks from is "Flourishes"

by Piece of Cake, seen here:
Again, I don't remember where I took this picture.

And then there's Autumn Joy - I have 4 of these applique blocks completed.

It is my hope to have all three of these quilts completed this year.