Lois..16 x21.... 4 inch blocks...but paper pieced so are pretty easy to do ! That pile of UFOs is big and
I haven't even got down to an older one yet !! These have all been done in the last year or so ! :shock:

Honestly Marilyn, you could knock my socks off with the way you are knocking these blocks off! Another beautiful quilt. What drugs are you taking to keep you up all night quilting?

Thanks, Renata ! I've really gotten sucked into the Civil War reproduction fabrics ! They are so warm and comfortable !
I sort of follow the pattern picture...but using what the shop has available and what's in my collection. This one was a
paper pieced block..I printed on Stable Stuff and left it in ! Worked just fine ! Hard part was figuring out how to quilt it as
the designer does not give indication of what might be historically appropriate. Well, phooey ! Anybody have good titles
for that kind of info ? That really is a red in the cornerstones tho' it looks quite orange in the photo !

Holy Moley, Marilyn! You are definately on a roll. I am very much impressed. This one is beautiful too. What are the dimentions of this one?

Marilyn - I can't believe how many UFOs you are finishing! And they are all so beautiful! Good job!!

Nancy

How do you come up with such wonderful colors and fabrics, Marilyn? I love your quilt, can't wait to see your next, but I will click on this one several more times to enjoy it!

Well..here's this weekends' UFO finished ! And on to the next one !!

Welcome home, Rosemary!
We missed you,

Looks like everyone has been having fun, whilst I was away at my parents. (I haven't dared look at how many pages I have to catch up with on the Laura Nownes thread yet!)

Personally I think something must have been wrong with me, although I went into the LQS, The Nimble Thimble, Buckingham, twice, I didn't buy a single fq :shock: or anything else there. I did get asked to do a teaching 'gig' after I showed off my japanese thimbles though Despite this I still had 2 large bundles & 1 large box (about the size of 2 copier paper boxes) of fabric to bring home, most of which are furnishing fabrics, from when I worked for a furnishing fabric company, and had first dibs on the discontinued samples - about the size of a fq, and display hangings . For this lot I am planning on making up a load of pieced coverlets* similar in style to the early 19th C medallion ones and see if they can be sold down the road at a local antiques centre.

(Pieced coverlets - a pieced top that is simplely lined, with no quilting )

OK Lorna---I'm motivated

Lorna, I agree with you seeing what everyone else is doing motivates me too. My TQS friends are great inspiration!

Thanks everyone.

So far I have the pins grouped by category though I suppose over time they may blend together. Some from the Houston IQF and a couple other shows, pins from guilds I have belonged to and the Bluebonnet Trail quilt shop hops. But then there is also my old Girl Scout pin, pins from the American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Assembly and then a few other commerative ones.

As to the name of this topic...this is where I get my motivation to get on with my projects!

Lorna

Lorna, your quilts are lovely!!! How did I miss them?

Lorna -

What wonderful quilts! Thanks for sharing! I'm just like you and Marilyn -- I like to try everything and have things at all different stages so I can do whatever strikes my fancy at any time. And I definitely have plenty to choose from right now!! Also, my fun projects tend to get put on hold when I run into something that needs to be made as a gift or has a deadline for some reason. I'm going to have to put my stuff aside soon so that I can make an angel wallhanging for my mom for Christmas and I have a niece who has been really wanting a quilt. Then I want to make a vintage tablecloth quilt for my mom for next Mother's Day (May in the US). So all of the other stuff will go on the back burner again soon and I'll be starting yet more projects. But I love it!!

Nancy