Last note of the year

Just a few hours left of 2011 with its up and downs. Hopes and prayers that the coming year will have more ups than downs and that all your loved ones will be safe and healthy.

I have done 2 blocks of the quilt for my bed. They are going together fairly easily. Just a few mistakes requiring some reverse sewing . Will get as much of it done as I can before I have to put it aside to move.

It is from a block of the month. You may have seen it in a quilt shop or magazine. It is beautiful when completed.

Happy New Year everyone.

Ainsley & her quilt

This is Ainsley with her birthday quilt. She really made a fuss over it when it was opened. she kept moving it around and straightening it.

Its almost Christmas

This is the 'Spicy Spiral Table Runner' that will go to my DMIL for Christmas. It is such a novel design.
I have accomplished everything on my to do list I have on this page and then some. It has been a busy year of sewing to be topped off hopefully with moving to a new home next month. Packing up a 2000+ square foot home and moving it to a 1000 square foot home will be a challenge. We will have to be ruthless in what we keep and don't keep.
Assuming the inspections of our soon to be new home goes well and we don't run into any real problems that would keep us from buying the house, I will be packing up my sewing room after Christmas, and we will start the process of deciding what goes with us, what we will try to sell and what will be pitched. A lot of work, but well worth it.

December update

This is the piece I did for my hairdresser's Christmas gift. I did a small piece for her a couple years ago that could be used as a hot pad on the table. She said she would love another one. I asked her what size and color she would like, and this is the result. I will give it to her next Tuesday.

Anxiously awaiting word on the house that we found. It would be a great way to start out the new year.

Baby Quilt

The quilt for our great-niece Ainsley is done and ready for the party next weekend. It is from a kit that I picked up a year ago, and the backing is all scraps. The quilt is called Spots favorite colors, and I really love it.

The different blocks have the names of the colors on them as well as showing the colors.

Hopefully will get 4 more projects done before Christmas. Will be harder now that we are juggling that with house hunting.