Cranberry Wishes

Two days of quilting with the Wheat City Quilters - that's the name we're going by. Four of us this weekend, which amounts to three paper piecers plus me. I have yet to master paper piecing (and for that matter, may never even try) and admire from afar, which means from the other side of the table.

I had a Moda grouping - one package of charm squares, one of 10" squares and a Jelly Roll. To start - 21 eight inch pinwheels - and there you can see in the centre of the photo - my entire Sunday's contribution - three eight inch blocks of small pinwheels.

This quilt will almost certainly be for my brother John, who has been bugging me for a quilt for a very long time. This one can go in the living room of his new house - assuming, of course, I can get it finished before it's time to put him into the personal care home.

That will mean finishing the renovations at home - but hey, what is a litle pressure for?

(The fabric is Cranberry Wishes by Kansas Troubles. These aren't quite my colours, but John will love them.)

Time to start quilting again

It's been almost a year since I did any serious quilting. When we began the renovations on our house, we put most of my sewing room into storage. I wish I could say the renovations are done, but that would be stretching the truth more than it can take, so I won't do it. Instead, rather than think about the baseboards that aren't on the bottom of the walls, the cupboard doors that don't have doorknobs or the cupboard that doesn't have a door. Nope - I won't think about that.

Instead, it's time to start quilting again, regardless of whether the house is read for it, because I need it. I miss it - I miss me.

I can't be the only quilter who has stopped for a while because life got in the way.