Two finishes so far this year.

Christmas Day my 8 year old grandson had an allergic reaction to almonds.  It wasn't as serious as it could have been, but life changes after something like that.  So...I went to work.

This is the first of four I plan to make.  I was almost finished with the second one when the needle broke.  Time to quit for the day (week).  Back to work tomorrow.

The second finish is a retirement quilt.  Some time back I purchased two fat quarter bundles.  This is the fourth quilt I have made for retiring coworkers with those bundles and some background fabric.  The bundles are gone now.  I had to piece small pieces for the scrappy binding.  It is also my first feathers on the Sweet Sixteen.  I'm kinda proud of them.

My youngest granddaughter (5) saw this on the design wall and said "that looks like a brick wall."

I almost waited too late in the day to take the picture.  At least the sun was shining.  

This quilt will be gifted on Thursday at the retirement party.  

Hope everyone has a great week.

I love quilting.  I created this blog so I could share my quilting finishes.  In 2015 I gave up my sewing room to make room for family members that needed to have a place to call home.  I gave 11 tubs of fabric to a friend, not knowing how long it would be before I had my sewing space again.  I made baby quilts on a treadle sewing machine because that's the only one I had access to at the time.  In the spring of 2017 I had saved up to have heat and air added to the room over our garage.  Low and behold, my new sewing space. My friend was afraid I was going to want my fabric back.  I told her I would start over.  The only thing is, I don't have my mom anymore to decide that she wasn't going to quilt anymore and give me her stash. That happened multiple times. 

I saw a sign in a quilt stop that said "My husband lets me buy all the fabric I can hide".  That's me.

I purchased a sit-down mid arm quilting machine in May, 2018. Prior to that I did all of my free motion quilting on my 40 year old Kenmore domestic sewing machine which I still use for my piecing.  I LOVE QUILTING.