Holiday

Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I'll leave all you quilters with this:

All sewing is on hold...

I'm really getting tired of this once a year move but this time it's for my own good. Steps are not my friend and old damp houses make me feel miserable.  We'll be moving January 1st to one floor living in a more modern house without 12 foot Victorian ceilings so the heat won't be over my head!

In the meantime I've begun to collect fabrics for my battenburg lace quilt for my bed. I've pretty much decided on floral hex's in square's...on point. I'm hoping I can find all rose fabric's. Although red is one of my favorite colors it just is not how I see my bedroom.  This is the first fabric I've chosen.

I don't usually like black in a floral quilt but in this case with all the white it needs some pop. My inspiration was this quilt. I have no idea where I got this photo so I can't give credit to anyone for it.

I don't think I'll be using any yellow in my quilt since that is the only block in this quilt that I don't like. Since I'll be using squares in my quilt I'll have to figure out what to do with the corners...the original quilt had colored squares to fill up the empty space. I'm thinking sage green like the stems of flowers.

Each of the hex's is embroidered around the edge. I figure that can be a work in progress..one block at a time. 

I also have a lot of doll clothes to finish up next year and that is just too much fun!  What I am doing right now in between packing up is repairing the lace pieces. Only a few need fixing but that takes pinning them to a wood frame to get the thread taught. Once I get started on the quilt it shouldn't take long to put together since half the quilt is finished because of the lace pieces. 

I've looked at so many "new" quilts with all the bright colors. I've come to the conclusion that I just don't like the brights for quilts. Sleeping is suppose to be a calm quiet time. I've seen some quilts that would make me want to jump up and dance a wild dance. 

But with that said, this new living space is modern so I intend to try out some wild colors for table runners and placemats. Also I have a granddaughter that will graduate in the spring and go off to college. I might make her a quilt with vivid colors to take with her. I've seen some I like with circles. I was thinking of calling one Tiny Bubbles, like the song. I can see it in my head. Tiny bubbles and hearts floating all over in colors coming from a Hawaiian lei with maybe a lime green background. Guess that song makes me pretty old!  

Hawaiian Ginger lei

Even with all the packing, Thanksgiving and Christmas will still be celebrated. I was just looking at tickets for the Nutcracker in Philly. They still have a few orchestra seats left for some of the shows. Maybe I'll get to see it again this year. 

I've never seen our Capital

My son started a new job out of the State Capital in Pennsylvania. I've never seen the Capital so he took a photo of it. It just happens that last month to support Breast Cancer they colored the fountain water Pink. Thought I'd share it with you.

Halloween Contest

PLEASE VOTE NOW.....THANKS  http://quiltinggallery.com/2013/11/01/halloween-fun-quilts/

I like a good race and this will be a fight to the end!  She's one vote ahead of me! (we still have all day tomorrow)

I never enter contests but this one I liked because the rules were easy. Do you remember this table runner?

This is what I entered so if you want to vote for my quilt just go to

http://quiltinggallery.com/  this weekend, voting starts Friday and you could win too! ....and Thanks!

Son's project fixed

Looks like Facebook doesn't allow you to share anything posted so my son had to load his video to youtube. I still can't believe this works!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDiPl3Vwto&feature=youtu.be

Starting a new project

I should really be ashamed because I've never made myself a quilt. About 10 years ago I bought a quilt on sale on Home Shopping Net Work for $35.00. I loved the battenburg lace in the quilt. Many times I've priced the lace thinking I would make a new quilt but it's really expensive for the amount I would need.

Today I washed the quilt...well it's really showing how old it is. But, surprisingly the battenburg lace looks wonderful. I decided I would try and remove one of the circles of lace. It went really well. So that's my new project. I'll be removing all the blocks of lace and sewing them to Kona white.

Next I have to decide what block and what color I'll use for the other blocks. I think 10 years of pastels is enough so I might make this quilt red and white. For now I'll just be sitting quietly and ripping stitches!

I'M DONE!

Well here it is, the last outfit from the Royal collection! A Scottish plaid skirt and a navy wool jacket

 The Fascinater...what a crazy hat to make!

And then the pack up that will not take place until I come home from Pittsburgh. I intended to count the outfits and lay out those that I didn't show, but there is just too many to do that...so off they go along with the bed and suitcase I found. She has her own doll from her Nana so this one will stay here so I can finish the outfits.