Bent!

My pal and I are registered for a quilt retreat in Litchfield in early November. This is something we've been wanting to do for a long time and this year is it! The issue today is, "What the heck are we going to work on?" So we spent a good part of the day recently teaching ourselves a new technique for putting together a Hunter's Star. So we picked some ugly fabric to experiment on. Well, the results are OK, but the method to make the star with a "special tool" was no time-saver and is not fail-safe by ANY means. It took the two of us to puzzle over and think about the written directions. AND did I say it took almost a whole day to do this? Perhaps if we had treated ourselves to our glasses of Sam Adams Summer Ale first we would have breezed through this exercise.

My vote? Thumbs down.

Unhappy blocks

Pre-Quilting Era

Before I took up quilting, I did a LOT of needlepoint and bargello. Because I give everything I make away, the only piece I've got is this one that lives over my bed.

I loved working on the patterns from a graph. No painted canvas for this girl!

Gratuitous picture of adorable grandson #3

(I admit it - I'm only posting so I can put pics of him here!)

Quilts for MIL

These quilts were made over the years and given to my mother-in-law.

Flannel Lap Quilt made from scraps of
Kim's "pregnant" quilt

A Star for All Seasons, a perennial favorite

First ever Mystery Quilt

My favorite Christmas quilt, also a mystery project.

Blue and Yellow Fans, from a class.

Gratuitous picture of adorable grandson #3