This is another one of the many quilts that my mother has borrowed. It is a small nine patch that hangs in the hallway of my parents’ house.

I have resolved that is probably a good thing that there are so many of my pieces “on loan” to my mother. This way the collection is spread between houses. In the event of natural disaster or fire, at least I will loose only 1/2 of my work!

Do you recognize this one?

This is the crumb quilt as a completed top or “flimsy”. I finished adding the extra row of blocks and borders on Sunday night.

This is the quilt’s debut on my Parents’ bed.

The quilt now needs to be quilted.

I think the blue lamp is going to have to go though, don’t you?

This picture is of my Dad and I having a look at some of the details in the fabric scraps that went into this quilt.

My mother is one of my biggest fans. She has several quilts that I have given her as gifts over the years. However, sometimes she has a “need” for a quilt that I have not yet fulfilled with a gifted quilt. This is when she “borrows” just the right quilt from my stash of finished projects. Yesterday, she hung this “borrowed” quilt near her front door. It was just the right size and says, “Spring” a little better than the Snowman Quilt that was previously hanging in that spot.

This quilt was too large to hang next to the front door, so this “borrowed” quilt found a temporary new home on the centre of my parents’ table.

This is the view from our house. When you look out the living room window, my bedroom, and the office, this is the view that you see.

It is sunny and cold here today. The humidity is only at 23% – very low for a climate known for its endless rain in the winter. Tonight we are expecting high winds. The weather man says that the temperature is supposed to drop to -14 degrees Celsius tonight. This is also much colder that we usually see at this time of year.

This is a picture of the Nine Patch and Snowball UFO that I am currently working on. I posted a picture of the un-quilted top on Feb. 3. Here it is re-loaded on my long arm – turned 180 degrees so that I can quilt the borders.

By the way, today is a beautiful clear sunny day! There is no better place to be on a day like this than in my quilt studio. I have a very large window that runs the length of my long arm. I love nothing more than to open the blinds and quilt in the perfect light of the sun! Even Joey loves this weather. That is Joey sitting on the window ledge.