Ta-done! x 2

First up - Jack of Heart's, Heather Spence's Fall 2012 Mystery Quilt. 
 

 

Finished at 64 x 64" and is quite sufficient to be used as a sail on a windy day.  The wind is all that is holding my quilt to the fence.

 

 

 

Quilted in Vicki Malaski's "Circus 1".  If you look closely you can see the Ring Master, a lion, an elephant, a circus tent, and a tall skinny clown in the quilting.

 

 

 

 

The back has adorable lions with bunting mains on it.

 

My second finish this week is Garden Steps - a stitch-a-long with Clover & Violet done quite a while ago.

  

 

It finished out at 57" x 74" and features 12 hand embroidered centers surrounded by purples and aquas from Kate Spain's beautiful "Good Fortune" line.

 

 

It is quilted in Anne Bright's "Joy" - a playful pattern of flowers, leaves, and butterflies that curls like a breeze across the quilt.

 

 

 

 

Spring seems to have suddenly sprung out of now where in North Texas.  I hope it isn't too long before it is traveling further north and melting all of the ice and snow.

Goodness Gracious...

...what a weekend.

I spent the last three days at a quilt retreat at beautiful lake Texoma's Tanglewood Resort.  Wow.  I think I would love to live there if I could figure out how to pay the bills that far from the city.

I got three quilts tackled...two of them need borders...which will require some shopping (oh darn).  Wanna see?  These are the pictures I took while at retreat - the color quality is pretty terrible...you don't mind do you..
 

 

This was my first project.  It measures 54 x 64 and is made from 42, 9 1/2" squares of muslin with selvedge edges layered on top like shingles.  I love the way it looks, but think it a border so plan to make it a bit bigger as soon as I can go shopping and then get back to the project.

 

 

Project # 2 - I finished the top from Heather Spence's Fall Mystery Quilt.  Yeah!  I love these happy fabrics.  It is now on it's way to the quilter.  (That would be me...lol...but I am kind of busy so it may be a little while before this gets the big Ta-done!)

 

 

Project #3 - Garden Steps by Clover & Violet, August 2012.  Yeah!  I have all of my blocks finished and put together, but think it needs a nice dark border to finish it well.  Darn - another reason to go shopping!

 

 

The last thing I worked on was a mini - or blocks for one.  It is going to have 9 crazy hats on it!  Gotta say I am loving this project.

 

Today, while I am digging out from underneath all that was done and not done over the weekend, I am waiting for a special express package to get here from Moda.  I've been asked to help with with a project.  I have mixed emotions about it...but I think it is going to be fun.  You will have to wait to see it though - I can tell you that it has something to do with Julie Comstock and American Patchwork Quilting.