Connecting Threads interview with Anita Grossman

Just read a great interview with Anita Grossman that Connecting Threads has posted. They've got a great contest going on right now to win her new book as well.

You can read the interview here and enter the contest as well.

To border or not to border....

Just finished a quilt top that was started with scraps from a friends stash.....have it all together except for the decision whether to border it or not. I did have to add a few squares of green from my stash to make the complete blocks, and have some yardage of the batiky looking squares. Pic of it is below...... What do you all think - does it need another border or does it look ok as is?

Gratitudes -

1. A job that helps pay the bills and that deals with things that I enjoy. =)
2. The cooler weather and rain here in N. Tx this week.

More Finished UFO's

The last 10 days have been stressful for me as I've been working over night shifts at a different store helping to get the remodel of it finished. Will be glad to not be working from 9 PM to 5 AM. And now trying to get back into a normal sleep pattern has proven to be harder than I thought it would be. Ugh.....I will say this though, in not being able to sleep I've been able to get a lot of quilting done and have finished up a bunch of UFO's over the last few days. =)


Finished off a set of basket swap blocks made from repro fabrics from a 2-3 (?) years ago and combined them with leftover strip sets from a swap that I was in last year. Set them all together in a strippy quilt and love how it turned out.

Have also finished off the final 4 Sunshine Challenge quilts. Blocks in these were from Claire A, Pat F, Ann D, Donna H, Shirlee G, and Lori A. Pics are below.

Gratitudes -
1. God's bountiful provision for all of my needs.
2. I'm done with the overnite shifts at work!

More Sunshine Challenge Quilts

Still working my way through the challenge blocks from Sunshine. I've finished off another 4 tops and have used a total of 92 blocks out of the 123 that I started with. =) Blocks in these tops were by Carol E, Betty H, Carol M, and Shirlee G. I've enjoyed playing with these blocks, and am planning to offer another challenge with the remaining inherited fall & halloween fabs once I've moved to IN later this summer. =) Pics of the quilts are below.

Gratitudes:
1. Registration for the Fall semester is done and I've been able to get into all of the classes I'm supposed to take!

2. The cooler weather yesterday and today here in N. TX.

Sunshine Challenge blocks

A couple of yrs ago (2008 I think it was) I issued a challenge to everyone that was a part of the Sunshine Quilts yahoo list............the challenge consisted of those who wanted to 'play' taking one (or more) of a bunch of FQ's that I had inherited from a quilting friend after she passed away. They were then to take the fabric and make 9" finished blocks and send the blocks to me. I would then put the blocks together into finished quilt tops. The tops would then be donated to Sunshine and would go to kids around the world.

Well with all of the turmoil of the past couple of yrs, I'm just now getting the blocks put together into tops. So far I've used 35 blocks out of the 123 that I received. Pics below are of the 4 tops that I've finished so far............. Blocks used in the quilts below came from Susan N. and Lori A.

Gratitudes -

1. for the meds that are sorta controlling my allergies............
2. for open enrollment that will enable me to have at least some health insurance

More quilts from Terry's legacy of scraps

Last year I inherited oodles of scraps from a friend who was a part of one of my online quilt groups. It has been my pleasure to make quilts from those scraps that are being donated to a couple of different groups in her honor. Over the last couple of weeks I've finished up quilt tops from the strings she had collected and from a whole bunch of 2" squares that she had saved. Pics of these quilts are below -

n addition, knowing that I won't have as much time to sew & quilt once I'm in school this fall, I've started working on Christmas gifts for this year. And have finished up three of them so far. Below are teasers of what I've been working on. =) Have fabric for three more and will be working on them next.....

Gratitudes -

1. for the gift of quilting friends

2. for the gift of being able to bless others through the quilts that I send to sunshine and American Heroes.