Valentine Greetings

Wishing everyone a wonderful Valentine's Day!!

  Sewhappy.me has posted the instructions the last 3 weeks for this beautiful wall hanging.  I only did the two parts and there is a third.

The hearts have tatted edgings and a few tatted hearts attached to the wall hanging. One heart has silk ribbon flowers with beads and the other is done with satin stitch and silk ribbon leaves. 

Valentine BOM

Valentine Sal has been completed for this week. I might tat some small hearts for the centers or perhaps edging around the hearts.

Baby Quilts and Toys

The Vintage Quilting Society (4 ladies) made 8 crib size quilts and dressed up the bears and rabbits.  We gave them to the Child Protective Services in Tucumcari, New Mexico. They were very grateful to receive them.  It must be very frightening for a small child taken out of an abused home especially in the middle of the night. We hope to give them some small comfort.

Mug Rugs

Lots of Mug Rug swaps in different groups and seams to be the latest "New Thing" on the net! A Mug Rug is a place to put your mug on with a snack. This is my version I am sending to my swap partner

along with a few goodies below. I should have added a few cookies but I did not forget the tea!!

It is a great place to add small tatting and see how that new variegated thread looks....

Wedding Quilt

My niece will be getting married in 2012. She loves any thing hand made. This is the beginning of an appliqued quilt. It is a pattern by Beth Ferrier, the Queen of Hand Applique by Machine. I still have 32 leaves, 12 buds and 12 flowers to turn under and then I can place them on the background and start hand appliquing. I will have to design the outer edge because I want it for a queen bed. Beth will be starting her new BOM soon and it is gorgeous!! Check Beth's blog out under my blogs.

Houston Quilt Show

HOUSTON QUILT SHOW

Here are my favorite two but there are so many beautiful quilts. I met one of the judges a month ago and she said they were all stunning and hard to judge. Being at the show would be just awesome and pictures to not show all the detail.

In the Hoffman Challenge, Ann Faustino of NJ won first place in "Butterfly Dance".













The second one I really liked is "Sunset and Sandhill Cranes" by Joanne Baeth of Oregon. This was sponsored by Accu Quilt.

Click on the URL and enjoy the quilt show!!

http://www.quilts.org/winners.html

Chicken Quilt

I have a UFO quilt almost finished. The outside sunflower and leaves were finished in 2002! The leaves and sunflower are hand appliqued and the tulips are machine with invisible thread. A month ago I finished machine appliqueing the chickens. Now I am working on the border. The pattern did not have a border so I had to design one to make it fit on a queen bed. This pattern was from Quiltmaker, Spring of 2002. I will machine quilt it on my sewing machine. It will be a gift to my Mom, "The Chicken Lady", for Christmas!