Wool Applique

A look at the wool applique and embellishment that I am stitching for a hat and a purse.  I love the look of black wool for a background, but what I don't love about it, it shows every little hair and misplaced thread.

Quilt Country Mag from France from a Friend

I received this wonderful patchwork and applique magazine from France, from a wonderful internet friend, thank you so much Mickaela!

Filled with prim projects as you can tell from the pictures.  I love the quilted tablecloth that is pictured on the back of the magazine.  Quilting and stitching can pretty much be self explanatory regardless of the language, but I've been translating some of it from Google translate. 

Then a picture of pure content.  Sidney and Bailey soaking up the heat from the fake fireplace, just a small electric heater.

Sweet Grace by Jan Patek, Top Finished

 I finished stitching the blocks today and added the red print borders.  Love that dark red.  I can't take credit for the fabric choices.  The fabrics came with the BOM kit and out of the left over fabrics, I chose the red for the borders.

The triangles inside the pineapple were suppose to be stitched, but not liking to stitch triangles, I appliqued them to the background.  Now that I see the quilt, wow, it's bigger than a lap quilt, unless I have a big lap.

The cats have their noses pressed to the screen in the one open window that I leave open for air, must be a bear or a maybe a mountain lion, but then being cats, it could be a moth.  I can remember one time when Jim and I had a bear come to each window, late at night.  The bear was looking in each window, I finally opened a window and slapped the bear on his nose, didn't want him tearing the screen.  It startled the bear and I yelled to Jim,  "I touched his nose."  "You did what?"  "I touched his nose, felt just like a dog's"  "Oh for goodness sakes."

Primitive Checkerboard Quilt

A nice surprise in the mail today.  A letter from Fons & Porter magazine.  They are publishing a new book called Best of Fons and Porter Gift Quilts and want to use my quilt that was published in their magazine back in 2008.  The book won't be out until early 2012.  Such a simple little quilt using Brannock and Patek fabrics.  I'm delighted.

Another Ark Quilt

I love this wool Ark quilt, called Wool Ark Crazy by A Piece of Work Designs, just love the little wool appliques. Here's the link for the pattern:
http://www.apieceofworkdesigns.com/id26.html

or Primitive Gatherings quilt store is having it made up as kit, Lisa has it noted on her blog, she's on the list I follow,
http://www.primitivegatheringsquiltshop.wordpress.com/


If the links don't work, just google wool ark crazy

Cross Quilt

Started on the Cross quilt, I cut the the crosses out first from Jim's shirts and am appliqueing them instead of sewing them to strips as Linda did. Then I'm adding the strips to the center cross. Linda's is a wallhanging size, going to make mine just a little larger and then see what I have left of the shirts.

I have it

I have to thank one of my quilting friends from my quilting group that asked if Noah could be in one of Jan's older patterns, yes, some quilters are able to keep track of these things, then I realized I had the book Noah and there is the quilt with lots of other projects with a Noah theme, from Gerry Kimmel, Linda Brannock and Jan from 1991, a Red Wagon book. Something old, becomes new again.

I saw my ortho doc last week and am at full weight bearing, no work for another month, don't think they will hold my job much longer, I keep saying that, and they keep calling to see when I can come back, and then in two months, I will have xrays again, and if not totally healed, he may have to take a peek inside. Inside my hip, I think not.

And a pic of a prim quilt I designed and hand appliquéd many years ago using those typical prim appliqué designs from Patek, using my stash of vintage Brannock and Patek fabrics.