I found a page while surfing the net that allows you to create your own candy hearts for Valentine’s Day! Follow this link and have fun creating your own messages: http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/

Supper doesn’t get fresher than this!

This fish was caught today by my husband – a Steelhead. We will be barbecuing it tonight.

I just love the language of quilting. Quilters are not only creative with their craft, but they are also creative in the words that they develop to describe what they are doing. While surfing quilt blogs, I came across Darilyn’s blog from Hawaii where she refers to her UFOs as “Projects in Motion”. I just love that description.

This is the Project In Motion that I am currently working on. This photo shows the quilt as a flimsy. It has been partly quilted on my long arm. I have quilted many concentric circles on the blocks and a clam shell design on the top and bottom borders. After I am finished tying off and burying all of the threads from the circles in the batting layer, I will re-mount in on the long arm and quilt the remaining two borders. I will re-post a picture after it is bound.

I finished another UFO. It is a Christmas quilt – 44″ square – perfect as a wall hanging or table topper.

This quilt was started for Christmas three years ago. The nine patches were made from scraps of Christmas fabircs that were in my stash – left overs from previous Christmas quilts that I have made.

I started quilting it in the ditch with my domestic sewing machine and added the circles on my long arm.

I have taken close ups so that you can see the buttons that have been added to the centre of the circles. The quilt perimeter is finished off with a “flap” of white rick rack.

My Mother has been watching my blog for prospective quilts for her bed. She spied the Green Crumb Block Quilt on-line and when she was over for coffee Friday night she wanted to have a look at it. She says she will only borrow it. However, when we tried it out on my queen size bed, she declared it too narrow for her needs. As a result, I will be making another row of 9 blocks making the total blocks in this quilt, 63. With the borders I plan to put on the quilt, it should finish 96″ x 116″. What are the odds that she is only thinking of “borrowing” this quilt?

This is a picture of a log cabin quilt that I made my parents for Christmas a few years ago. It finished 94″ wide which makes a nice drop down the side of the mattress.

My Mother wants “her” Crumb Block quilt to finish at least the size of this quilt!