Quilts, Quilts, Quilts

 My "Crumb" quilt won second place for viewers choice in the "small traditional" category at the Longmont Quilt show. I made the quilt out of small paper-pieced blocks made by myself, my mom and my sister-in-law. Mom came up with this idea and the 3 of us made blocks for one year and then exchanged them the next year. We each designed our own quilt and this is what I came up with.

 The blocks were made out of "crumb" (meaning small) scraps from previous projects.

 This quilt is called "In My Garden" and I started it 2 years ago and just finished it after Christmas. It was started at a class my mom taught in Riverside CA. Everyone in the class brought 6" squares and 10 "x 2.5" strips to share. We brought fabrics that were things you would find in a garden like flowers, leaves, vegetables, fruit, bugs, birds etc. We exchanged squares with each other and then started sewing---so much fun and I love how it turned out!

All in a Day's Work

 I have been thinking about making curtains for some of our windows and decided to start in the master bathroom. We have a window over the tub that has gets glaring sunlight, hence the ugly pull-down shade.

I searched my stash of fabric and found this lovely old-fashioned toile fabric. Here are the curtains I made. I love them!! What a huge difference and only a couple of hours of work.

Happy New Year

You can tell we are really getting old when we go out to eat at 5pm on New Year's Eve! We had a fun meal at Texas Roadhouse and then came home and watched "The Electric Horseman", which was free from On Demand. (Can we say "old" again--watching old movies on TV but they have to be FREE?) Later on we had popcorn and actually stayed up until past 11pm---WOW!