Giddyap!

Horsey, Horsey, on your way
We've been together for many a day
So let your tail go swish
As the wheels go round
Giddyap! We're homeward bound! (Girl Scout song)

Yes, I did the horse today. The pattern calls for a brown horse, but my favorite coloring is buckskin! So why not personalize? This one's for me!



Yesterday was a bad day for thinking but a good day for goofy patchwork (i.e. stashbusting!), so that's what I did all day long! Now I have 36 of these blocks--enough for a lap quilt! I think the black I laid it out on would be good for sashing...or maybe a cream? Black would be more masculine and probably sharper, I think. What do you think?

On the cooking front: usually I don't really enjoy cooking, but tonight I got to sous chef for my DH and we made a divine lasagne. He asked, "Would you like this to be your last meal?" I responded, "I want this to be my first meal in heaven!" What a welcome, huh? Just inside the pearly gates are tables set up with all your pals and the most wonderful aroma...

The Amazing Six-Hour Quilt

Presenting the amazing... Six-Hour Quilt! This baby was cut and sewn in only six hours: one quilting session. I swear, I think the Holy Spirit got into my sewing machine yesterday! I call it Ballerina blocks. It has 48 6" blocks, only because that's how much fabric I had. The inner burgundy border had 1/2" of leftover fabric (eep!) and the outer border had about 8" by 4" left. (Enough to please Bethie as a little gift!)





I'm not the only creative one in the household, though. My daughter and her bud volunteered to make the banner for their soccer team, The Cherry Bombs. Teamwork made it fly: 3 1/2 hours and done! (And that includes shopping!)



Sad news: I had to spend plenty of time frogging the bottom of Jingle Bell. Boo. That sad little pile of threads in the corner are all that's left of 200 stitches or so. (sniffle)

Scrappy Tops Done!

Good news! My camera and my computer have kissed and made up. Their little tiff has kept me from blogging. Here's a picture of Jingle Bell Christmas Tree Farm. I've been playing with it lately so the next picture will show some progress. The pattern calls for fancy-shmancy overdyed silk threads and specialty stitches and beads, too. Fun stuff!

And in other news:

Tripping Out quilt top (for Vince) is done--yay! The detail picture shows the border fabric which I used for inspiration. The back will have travel fabric as the cross, a deep orangey sashing, and a denim-blue background.





Sunshower quilt top is done, too. See? I found the corners. (There are still 3 of those units left--the scrapper in me needs to find a home for them.) Valerie keeps teasing and telling me it's too bad my quilts have such muted colors. What do you think?