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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Junk Drawer Collage

This is my version of a junk drawer collage. Lots of odds and ends from my stash and some founds items. My daughter painted the canvas and then I laid everything out. I used gel medium to adhere the paper and fabric. Some of the other items were stitched or glued with E600.

Friday, January 27, 2012

A Few New Quilts

I have recently finished up some quilts that I have had laying around. It seems like I am really good at getting the tops done but drag my feet on the quilting. I try and hand quilt at one quilt a year and would like to do more but the frame takes up so much room that one is about all I get done. I do not own a quilting machine and never got the hang of quilting on my Bernina so I take mine to a local machine quilter and love her work. This first quilt is a block of the month from several years ago, in fact the quilt shop is out of business. They offered this in two color ways and I made both but have since sold the one that was made with brights. This is the Batik color way.

All the squares are quilted with a Celtic motif.

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Celtic Knot

This next is from the Michael Miller Bird Swing line and a pattern from ohfransson.com.

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Back

This last one is from an old Fons and Porter magazine and uses reproduction prints from the 20's-40's.

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Dogwood and leaf motif.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

ATC's

Here are the next few ATC's in my One-A-Day challenge.

I think this brings me current...until tomorrow.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

New Treasures

I have been hunting some vintage spools for the last few weeks. I had a bunch at one time and used them all and now have a project in mind that I need them again. So, I had a lovely package in the mail when I got home today full of spools and buttons and an amazing green belt buckle. Can't wait to get busy and put them all to good use.