Another WIP Completed

Wow! This month I have finished 3 WIPs. I have a couple of more WIPs to do. One is an antique (maybe vintage) wedding ring quilt top. The other is also an old quilt top made by my husband's grandmother out of old clothes. It has an assortment of fabrics other than cotton. I can show you two of the quilts I finished. The other is a surprise for someone and I must get it in the mail before showing. It is an interesting quilt and not like any I have seen on my blog hopping.

I am always wanting to be more creative in my picture taking but I think I have a lot to learn. This first quilt is "my quilt". My husband went on a school trip to Wyoming--without me. He went shopping at a quilt shop and the wonderful ladies at the quilt shop helped him pick out these fabrics and also the pattern. He bought the material home and said, "Make you a quilt." At the time I was always making quilts for grandbabies. So here is "My Quilt."

My husband capture this quilt blowing in the breeze. I liked the quilt with the sky background.

Sampler Quilt

I have been working on a strip quilt but ran out of thread on the final border. The local quilt shop (30 miles close) was out of the thread and had to reorder. So I decided to finish quilting a quilt I have had for a while. Years ago, I began by hand quilting it, but it was taking too long--since I never would pick it up to quilt. Anyway, I decided to finish it by machine quilting. I really had fun because I quilted much of it free hand. The quilting is not perfect, but it is my quilt and I love it.

My big, big problem is my wavy border. I think since the quilt has been finished for three years and just being sifted from place to place caused some stretching in the border. Hopefully, the strip quilt will be an improvement on the border. I will post it soon.

Back to this quilt--I saw a similar quilt hanging in one of my favorite quilt shops -- Yoder's in Shipshewanna, IN. On one of my trips up there, I bought the pattern and some 30's fabric. I later bought some more 30's fabric in a shop on the coast of Mississippi. That shop is no longer there after Hurricane Katrina washed it away.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

May the Lord richly bless each person reading my blog.