Pointless Quilter

Don't even remember how I first heard of the Moda Blockheads block of the week program but I started it this year by breaking up a fat quarter pack of Hi-De-Ho from Me and My Sisters Designs (Moda fabrics) and went for it.  A nice lady from New York sent me some more fabrics when I realized that some of the blocks were so big and I wouldn't have enough big pieces to complete using the fabric line.  And then after a few blocks I decided to use the background color white more to have some continuity.  I really love the spring, happy, cheerful colors.  I machine quilted it myself by marking all those fans 1st (took 3 lunch hours and a few hours at home to mark) then free motioned the quilt.  I love the texture of the fans but boy that was a lot of work.  I also finished this little table topper using the HST left over from my heart quilt I made in February.  This will be donated to our guild's boutique. I'm behind on my Birds Blooms and Baske...

In April 2018 I took a Bonnie Hunter Class in Bakersfield.   It was a Jamestown Landing quilt - and I finally finished it this week. I custom quilted it but you really can't tell in the photo.  I like how it turned out and can't wait to put it on my bed in the summer.  It takes a lot of half square triangles which I did a lot of them as leaders-enders.  I'm glad it's done.  I will be taking another Bonnie class this summer so another scrap buster coming up.  I've also finished these other tops that I started in Cambria last month.  A simple little baby quilt with Minkee backing --probably donate to our guild boutique. I finished the heart quilt.  Did feather hearts in each heart and straight-lined quilting in the sashing area.   Kept it pretty simple and I finished it on Valentine's Day!!! I'm still working on the Moda Blockheads 2 - here's a picture of the latest blocks.  Just a couple more weeks and then...

I took a long trip in early November to the great state of Texas.  The first part of my trip was to visit my sister who just moved to New Braunfels.  She took me all over that part of Texas.  We went to San Antonio, Austin, and all points in between.  I had great barbecue at the Salt Lick. Also went to a Cracker Barrel (not that impressed this time) and she took me to a Buc-ee's gas station.  WOW! We took a tour of the Alamo.  No pictures taken but learned a lot about Texas history there. San Jose Mission This is called the Rose Window at the mission. Brenda and I in one of the cells or rooms. We went to Austin to have dinner with my nephew but before we saw him we took a tour of the State Capital Building.  I highly recommend this tour.  Learned a whole lot more about Texas and the people from Texas. She took me around New Braunfels.  We went to some outdoor market I think in a town called Wimberly.  We had...

I finished this little pin cushion - the packet has been sitting on my cutting table for over 6 months so I decided to finally finish it.  I made a mistake when it came to putting the screws in on the legs.  I will try to figure out a way to fix them-if not the screws will just have to be it's legs.  It still works so I may just leave it be.  I used left over fabrics from a current project.  Last weekend I pinned five quilts.  Two are charity quilts that my friend Adena made the tops and gave to me the tops to finish.  One is a panel quilt that I will donate to our guilds boutique, another is a baby quilt that I will try to sell via our guilds boutique (for a commission) and the last is the 2017/2018 Fat Quarter Shop block of the month quilt.  I have since finished 3 of these.     These are the charity quilts. Here's the panel quilt. I'm also participating in Moda's Blockheads 2 quilt along.  Here is bloc...