Smokey Mountain Stars...now a Flimsy!

This is a Bonnie Hunter pattern...called Smokey Mountain Stars. I just love her patterns. Well, remember those little pinwheel blocks I sewed a few weeks back? They became the border for this quilt! 


I started this quilt about 4 years ago. Don't ask me why it took so long to finish! I just love how it looks...and can hardly wait to quilt it. This top will fit a queen size bed so will definitely get some use! My daughters are already staking claim on it! I wonder which one will end up with it?! 


The centers of the stars were fabric from a sample card. They have little chicks and roosters on them...and even rabbits carrying garden rakes! How fun! See...anything can go in a quilt and look fabulous! 

Half Square Triangles (HSTs)…what do you do with them?

I pulled an old project from the bin and decided I needed to put the final border on it. Not remembering what I had finished to date on this particular top…and assuming I was just going to add a solid single piece border to finish it…I unfolded the top and voila…out fell a baggie full of untrimmed, pressed HSTs. Well, of course, I decided to start trimming these little fellows…down to 1-3/4” I might add.

2 hours later…and still motivated to sew…I started to turn them into 77 tiny little pinwheels! That was as far as I got last night…as I became tired and went to bed. Can you blame a gal for sewing into the late night and then needing sleep?!

I still need to put them together into some arrangement and get the final border done…but that will happen another day. I have the layout in my head…just need to make it materialize into a border!

Oh, by the way, I am NOT going to show the quilt top these belong to…until it gets completely finished. This is on my UFO list to finish this year…and I still have 2 months left!  Happy quilting  ;0) k

A Hike...and Applique in the Desert

Last weekend we went on a hike.

The kids and I finished ahead of Bryson (he was taking photos of plants, ants, anything he saw!) so I found a nice spot in the desert and nearly finished my Butterfly applique project that I started in California just 2 weeks previous.

I love needle-turn applique...how it looks, the portablility of it, everything about it. 

Layout designed for Spring Swap Blocks!

I did it! With the help of my friend Shannon...I have a layout and I have designed a border to go with it for the spring block swap.

This picture is of her blocks...but, mine are very similar.

I am using 25 of these beautiful star blocks!

This fabric...is of course, going to be used in the quilt too.









Stay tuned to see how it all comes together.

Chain Piecing Froggy Blocks

I am ready for spring! How about you?
It snowed a couple of days this past week...and with ball/track season underway...the weather better start cooperating!

I decided to finish some spring blocks I had cut out a while back. They were intended for a swap...but it didn't come together. These blocks have all been chain pieced.

Aren't they neat looking all laid out on the floor! Tiny thread tails lock the entire block segments together!

Just thought I would share what I was working on. For those of you who haven't seen me piece anything before...I chain piece everything! It is the only way to go.