All Gave Some - Some Gave All

Memorial Day

Happy Spring

My blog is as neglected as my sewing....hope you all are having a Happy Spring!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Well, you can see from my lack of posts that No Sewing Seems to Be Occurring - -and you would be correct. Between work and my online masters coursework - there is little time left. I can see the fabric and the piles of "to be completed" from where I sit - online at every spare moment - but they are merely gathering dust.

Here's hoping your springtime is allowing you some sewing time!

Deer is Nearly finished.....

This wallhanging is a gift for a family member. Unfortunately it had some mysterious item spill on it - so I had to bind and wash several times...even though I really hadn't done all the quilting I intended to do on it....so - it needs a little more stitching and its done.

Flannel Quilt Done!

Daughter's Flannel Quilt is done!

Christmas Quilt is Done!

This Quilt is another one that I quilted on the long arm machine at the local quilt shop. The design is snowflakes.

Thorns and roses

This quilt is called Thorns and Roses. The roses are my 3 children.

The Thorns are the divorce and difficult times throughout the years. I cannot believe how far back I had to go to find where I started piecing the blocks

and wrote about the beginnings of this quilt: February 2008.

When I wrote:

Long long ago there was a bedroom in a home with the most beautiful cabbage rose wallpaper on the walls. A young maiden bought this lovely fabric for a quilt for that home. She knew she wanted it to be an Irish Chain because she had admired a similar quilt made with the large blocks of the irish chain done in floral fabric. And it was sooo lovely. Many many years later that maiden and her stash of fabric - having survived a divorce, then a 400 mile move and then 5 local moves later - realized that fabric lay uncut - in a clear container in the front of the garage where the maiden now parks her vehicle. Every day when she backed out and every day when she pulled in - she saw that fabric for the Irish Chain quilt. For many many days. One day - she decided - even though she no longer had the lovely wallpaper and room - that it was TIME for the fabric to reach its destiny. It was meant to be an Irish Chain Quilt. It was not meant for the garage or the yard sale pile. It has begun its journey to becoming an Irish Chain Quilt. How much longer will it be before the journey is complete and the quilt is resting on the bed? This is only the beginning... The local quilt show rents time on their long arm machine. Here you can see Thorns and Roses on the long arm and the pattern that you follow to create the quilting. It is so much fun to quilt this way!
I used a solid back so you can see the beautiful feather design I quilted into the quilt.
The Moral of the Story is - Some patterns and fabrics it seems - just need lots of time to gel before they actually start to become ANYTHING.