Our Back Porch

We have a spider living on our back porch. 

 

My Easter Lilies are going to bloom soon.  

We're going to have blackberries again soon.  

 

Cake Decorating Class

 

Paper piecing with my quilting group

It's been a while...

I finished Eveline's duvet.  Here it is on our bed.  Making a duvet was a lot harder than I thought.  I think I'll do it differently next time...if I ever make one again. 

I've been playing with my new camera.  Poor Sadie has been the subject of many pictures; however, she's not very excited about it. 

The flowers are more cooperative.  

This is a quilt that I made a long time ago, but I didn't quilt it the way I wanted to.  Now that I've done my free motion quilting class, I went back and quilted it.  I also added a label. 

 For the last challenge my quilting group was North Carolina Themed.  I made Julio an NCSU quilt.  This is the front and the back.  I still have to quilt it. 

 

Our next quilting challenge is a UFO or UnFinished Object.  I am going to work on a blue and white quilt I started about 8 years ago.  

In order to be more productive I set up my sewing machine on my sewing table upstairs.  

I've also been working on my free motion quilting.  This is a panel I bought a few years ago, but didn't know what to do it.  I did a leave pattern on it.  

 

 Finally, I am teaching a paper piecing workshop for my quilting group in two weeks.  Here is a sample.  Then I practice free motion quilting on there...circles.  

10 minute table runner!

My friend, Pat, showed me how to make a table runner....so I couldn't resist making a few for Christmas presents.

Baby It's Cold Outside!

 Our fire...

 

Sadie is enjoying the fire too!  

I took a free motion quilting class at Quilts Like Crazy this morning.  Look at what I learned!  I can't wait to try it out on a quilt!

 

Christmas presents.....

I made this for Wanda at work....

I also made a bowl for Linda...

 

She came by tonight and gave me this big bag!  It's to carry big quilts.  So cute!  I love the chickens!

Pictures of the other things I made will be online after Christmas!  :)

A little bit of everything...

 

 I got a new camera!  I made the strap to go on it!

 Coasters I made for Janine, my boss.  We're putting a basket together for her!

 The beautiful tulips I got from my Girls on the Run!

Our Christmas tree....and Sadie.  

 It's Christmas time!  I have all my Santas out and ready.  This is the first one I got.  

 I gave Julio a pizza stone for his birthday.  This is our favorite pizza- pesto, artichokes, olives, sun dried tomatoes, feta cheese, and a little mozzarella.  Yummy!

 

I found this recipe in my Classic Home Cooking cook book.   Usually all the recipes from there are great, but this one wasn't that good.  It's a pizza with tomatoes, tuna, capers, mozzarella, oregano, and a little olive oil. 

NC State Fair

These are my two entries for the NC State Fair.  Wish me luck...

Quilt Tags

I bought some quilt tags at Etsy.com! 

Learning to Crochet

 

I'm learning how to crochet.  It's a lot better than knitting.  

Here is my first project... a scarf!