A little further along…

I have the blocks made and am now squaring them up.

Baby steps…Here is a peak of what the finished quilt will look like…

I decided to make wonky nine patch blocks. More on that later. Happy Crafting!!!

A good start…

I’ve been collecting vintage sheets for about a year now. Whenever I’ve gone to a garage sale or a thrift store I’ve pounced on them…I’ll take anyone down who tries to get between me and a good vintage sheet. I battled with a few senior citizens for some of them – not one of my proudest moments…It is finally time to put them together to make a quilt. This isn’t the exact pattern I’ll be using – I found a couple more sheets after I took this picture – but you get the idea. I laid them on top of a blanket that we seem to use over and over again in the living room to get the size I want. I hope the quilt will be just a little bigger and will replace that ugly blanket. Have a good weekend! Happy Crafting!!!

Polyester Paradise II

Over the weekend I put together another polyester quilt. The colors are based on the colors that I had. I didn't go out and buy these colors. ha ha. Overall I really like how this turned out. I cut out all the pieces on Saturday evening - at the kitchen table - big projects need more room. Then I moved my sewing machine to the kitchen and sewed it together on Sunday. I got my pattern from http://www.andoverfabrics.com/ and I just love the patch-work feel of this quilt. I'd really like to pick out and actually buy fabric and remake this!

This week hasn't been such a crafty week. I decided to hang some scrapbook frames I recently got and once I took down other pictures on the wall I noticed that the wall was in bad shape. So, I get out my paint and spackle and get busy. Well. . . next thing you know I realize the ceiling looks like heck. . . then the kitchen looks just plain dingy. . . a little caulking could help. . . a trip to the hardware store. . . paint some more. . . I really HATE caulking. The caulk sucked up into the gaps and I had to re caulk today. Gonna let it dry overnight and paint tomorrow? Who knows. At this rate it could be next week!!! All because I wanted to hang some pictures. sigh.