Flowers of Hope

| January 21, 2010

I finished my Haiti Quilt this morning before I went to school.  I made it all – the piecing and the quilting and I think it will be my last machine quilting for awhile.  It looks pretty bad – maybe a little better than a crib quilt that I tried to quilt last year – […]

Basketball, Virginia Scrappers and Hand Quilting

| January 16, 2010

Screams, laughter, blood, sweat and tears – that describes my day! Screams at Sarah’s basketball game today – she made four baskets and I was SOOOOOOOO EXCITED.  I think EVERYONE in the church could hear my elation!  WAY TO GO SARAH – turns out #13 is a LUCKY NUMBER!!! And if that weren’t enough excitement […]

Raising Cane

| January 15, 2010

When I was posting my QUILTY THINGS for this week, I totally forgot to include my quilt top for Dorothy Young’s Mystery – RAISING CANE.  It is crib sized and if my neice has a little girl, this will be her baby quilt.  The back will be out of the same red and white fabric that […]

QUILTY THINGS IN SAO’S WORLD

| January 14, 2010

    I did someting NEW this year – I took a hand quilting class last Sunday at Quilter’s Corner!  I CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT TO TAKE PICTURES.   I guess I was really having a GOOD TIME!  I am excited about learning to do this very special and age-old quilting technique though and after a few […]

Carolina Christmas Star Progress

| December 16, 2009

   I fell in LOVE with the Carolina Christmas Star block from Bonnie Hunter’s Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt  and I felt that I just HAD TO SHOWCASE IT……..so I decided to make TWO QUILTS – one from each block.  The first quilt top is together and I have named it Carolina Christmas Star.  It has one 2 1/2″ […]