Stella's Ready for Paddling Season!

Both Stella and I are done with winter

and ready for paddling season.

Stella's former pfd was worn out and needed

to be replaced, so I bought this Ruffwear pfd at Altrec.

Here's Stella diving into Carlyle Lake,

wearing her older pfd:

Springtime, here we come!

Reproduction 1930's Fabrics Project: Hourglass

Here's a shot of the Repro Hourglass quilt in-progress.

These lovely prints were a gift from a fellow quilter.

Last night, I finished 53. Only 100 more to do!

There's a few other colors not represented in this photo... more coming soon.

Each hourglass is about 8 inches square.

I expect the finished project to be a queen-size.

Now, to pick a fabric for the back!

New Fabrics Delivered!

I just received some new fabrics from my favorite online fabric store.

Beautiful prints without a purpose-

The photo above is Meadowsweet by Sandi Henderson.

The photo below is Hope Valley by Denyse Schmidt.

Oh! The possibilities!

Dark Waterfalls: Finished!

"Dark Waterfalls" or "Purple Majesty" also was quilted by Melear Fabrics with my favorite wishbone pattern, too.

This quilt has small and large 1/4 courthouse step blocks and 4-patch blocks.

It was a lot of fun to make ... and I even snuck in some bonus reds! The binding is a black-on-black.

Solid purple flannel on the backside makes this perfectly naptakular.

After the quilting and binding, it measures about 70 inches square.

This was made for my soul-sister, Elaine.

I think she's going to love it!

Orange Crush: FINISHED!

My glorious orange crush quilt is finally finished!

This one's going on my bed ;)

The gals at Melear's Fabrics did another fine

job quilting this on their longarm.

Here's a close-up of the quilting.

She used one of my favorite designs - the "wishbone."

Here's what I chose for the backing.

It's yellow with a pink design -

but it reads as orange.

This was the first time I'd pieced the binding with different fabrics.

I had some left over from the blocks and supplemented

with some bonus orange & white polka-dots.

The photo above shows the polka-dots.

I think I like it more than a one-pattern binding.

Check it out: