Sunday, August 30, 2009

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.)

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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.