Today, I'm working on a photo/t-shirt memory quilt for a local family. Not a happy place but it needs get done.

Partner projects with my daughters,DD2: Twist and Turn from Alex's first Super Simple Quilts https://alexandersonquilts.com/cart/product.php?prod_id=33&cat_id=2 , and DD2: Turning Twenty again friends quilt http://www.friendfolks.com/store-detail.php?ID=277

Some of the things I am working on are:
1 - my "Dear Jane" quilt doing it all by hand so it goes slow but sure.
2 - hand quilting a small Wall Hanging, A Celtic design which I appliqued years ago.
3 - a Red Work whole quilt wall hanging, doing the red work at this time.
and I go go on and on. but I think I will leave it at 3 for now.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

I'm still plugging away at the January block for the RR BOM. I finally finished the large heart, have cut out the smaller one and all my leaves are cut out. I'm in my tortoise mode here but I will finish.

dorothy,
that edyta pattern is beautiful - wow - yup another proof of a real artist
but i absolutely love those snowmen and pinguins - they're so much fun !!!
you've probably noticed that i found your fabulous potholder in my mailbox today - and it sooooooo made my week
that cat is just sooooooooo cooool
love it THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

dorfymid wrote: Dorothy, I want to make Edyta's pattern one of these days. It is one of my favorites. I absolutely love the fabric you have chosen. It is so different than what I've seen used for that pattern, but I love it. Please keep sharing photos.

I've been busy making purses. I have one more to go of the ones I promised people I'd make. Then I can decide what I'm doing with my HST's. I have some friends coming over today to make purses, so I'll try to blog pictures of them when we finish.

This is an Edyta pattern but in Lynette Anderson fabric.

Lotti love what you have been working on, and pleased my pot holder is on it's way can't show a photo of my pot holder as it a surprise for you. so here is a picture of my design wall and work table, showing what i have been working on.

have spent the entire easter weekend enjoying the sun and sewing - mostly out on my balcony - hand-stuff - easier than lugging the machine out - and driving the neighbors bonkers ...

so, finally got the potholders for the swap done - yeah - will be mailed to the uk tomorrow

have finished the binding & signing of a small & quick baby quilt i made sometime this winter

have made a bunch more squares for my "quilt-on-the-go" using some of the extra strips cut for the sensational strippers exchange - keep changing things around... wonder what i'll finally decide on making once i get the actual strips from the exchange


gotten quite a bit quilted on a simple quilt that is destined for japan (soft cotton front with a colourful and warm flannel backing) now i have to figure out how to finish it - will probably applique some animal(s) or something to make it fun for kids - will see
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and continuing on the latest baby play quilt - baby due in june... silly me - let the dad decide if they would rather have a small, cozy and fun baby quilt, or a baby play quilt - he decided that they will not be in the small apartment forever and they would much rather have the big heavy and soft playquilt ... now have to find a way to integrate a moose (parents are from sweden) and something american (at the moment living in boston) and something swiss (will be coming back to switzerland in a year or so.... then do a little lake for the fish and ducks, do the faces, add trees, shrubbery and flowers, etc etc etc


my livingroom/diningroom (which doubles as sewing studio - as my dining room table is my main sewing table) looks as if a fabric-bomb had hit it - oh well - will clean around it for the moment and NOT let anyone into the place until further notice

I took today off and have been doing a little spring cleaning. I am not done, but maybe I can get further next weekend.

I have two quilts going now...one is last year's Hugs and Kisses BOM--I'm on April, and the other is my knight art quilt intended for some contest or other (I'll decide which one(s) after I finish it).

I'm also drawing a couple of art quilts. Then I was so interested in Alex's New York beauty I'm thinking of making a baby quilt size of one for charity somewhere. Do you think babies would like that?

Sigh...I was thinking I would retire this fall but determined it would be better to wait until early next year. But I'm sure I would have to live to 200 or so to make all the quilts I want to even if that's all I ever did.

I am always scattered and working on way too many projects at once. Here are the active projects for now:

1. I'm on month 3 of the BOM. Just started putting the swags together and am really excited with how they are looking. I'm doing a scrappy version so each swag is a different pair of fabrics, but am using a single fabric for the small piping. All of the piping is prepared and I have 5 of the sashes sewn together. I'm really loving it.

2. I finished piecing my first Judy Martin log cabin quilt earlier this year. I'm now in the process of quilting it. (And I'm currently collecting fabrics for 2 more Judy Martin log cabin quilts....)

3. Two friends and I try to have monthly sew days together. For the past two years we've also picked a pattern and each of us has made the quilt in our own style. I just finished piecing my top and will start piecing the backing soon. It's a scrap quilt and I think the back will be pieced of an assortment of the fabrics used for the front.

4. I just finished piecing the main part of a quilt for my nephew's college graduation in May 2012. I'm now ready to put on the borders. I have to start early since I work on so many things at once!

5. Finally, we've just started a mystery quilt with our quilt guild. We just have the first set of instructions, which is picking out the fabrics. I have my main fabric and am picking out the matching fabrics.

Whew! If only my day job didn't get in the way of all of this sewing!!

Nancy

I am making the TQS BOM, but today I am dressmaking as DD needs some summer dresses. I am helping her get some finished before she goes back to University on Wednesday. Then the BOM will have 100% of my attention.

I'm well into a number of projects... and expecting to complete 2 of them this week.. maybe 3!

1. A vision wall quilt for my bestie who just turned 40. I had everyone at her party sign the quilt, and just have the border quilting and binding to go. It is awesome, and she was soooo chuffed when she saw the top before everyone signed. I have used criss crossed ribbon to allow her to add her vision pictures to the wall.

2. 2 cushion covers for my DS. He loves bright colours and VW vans, so the cushions are purple, blue, green and orange with VW material in the centre of every block.

3. My mum picked some African Sunset material, and I have 4 applique blocks to match to go... and then the piecing it all together. This is going to be a bed spread for their mobile home for the trip around Australia.

4. My first scrap quilt. I have to find the background fabric. I have finished 20 scrappy blocks and need to turn it into a quilt now.

Well I think that is it on my design wall.. I have commenced deciding my personal quilt.

I think that is plenty for now!!