A Quick one Day Project

So it has been a wet rainny weekend, so it is a good time to do a quick project. I decided to make a quilted tote. As the pattern called for "pre-quilted" fabric, and because I have a HQ16 long arm quilting machine I thought that I would make my own quilted fabric. The fabric I choose was 100% cotton upholstery fabric. and I used poly. quilt batting. I took the leaf pattern from the fabric and decided to make "tumbeling leaves" as my quilt design. It took me 10 hours to make, but it was fun, easy, and it will be very functional. Lots of outside pockets to carry those little extras.

Friendship Block

Faster than a Speeding Snow Storm, I feel that Summer is passing on! So it has become apparent that I must hasten to complete my Friendship Blocks for my Quilting Groups Block Exchange that is to take place the first week in September! We were asked to use 3 fabrics in our block, a background of white, and then blue and yellow fabric. I choose a simple "Mariners Star" Block...(Did I just say simple?!) This block even though it is paper pieced is proving to be "time absorbing!" Oh well ... one makes ones own choices, and this is the one I choose. By the time I have completed 22 of these blocks I should be able to assemble them with my eyes' closed?!