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 – […]

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″ […]

Carolina Christmas The First Two Blocks of Part 6

| December 14, 2009

I just had to sit down and put TWO of the last two blocks from the Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt from quiltville.com together to see how it was all going to look……TA DA This is going to be a beautiful quilt.  I am so thrilled – but I shouldn’t be surprised because I am consistently […]

sao’s QUILTY NEWS

| December 13, 2009

After the Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild Meeting yesterday,  I went right to work putting the pieces of our BOM Mystery Quilt together.  Sandie and Catherine did a great job of hosting and DESIGNING the mystery.  It is scrappy – very BONNIE HUNTER STYLE.   Some of you may notice the 3 baskets with appliqued critters – that is […]