Janice's Quilt

Janice's quilt. Civil War Stylized lap quilt.  I knew she was coming, so finished it off just before she arrived. It will have a good home with her......quilts always need a good place to live their years.  Quilts find their owners......not the other way round, which is   a good thing. And this one wanted to go home with Janice.......

Birthday Presents

 Tea cozies ( Bodem covers) for Armande. This is the front of each. One in Leopard print/music, and one in light spring colours.Hung  with fringe and pearls, beading.

 Civil War stylized table runner for Shirley, in California. All squares are different.....one is  a cross...

Reverse side of tea cozies. Just let imagination go wild.....

Teal Nights

Finally, a new quilt. Have had this panel sitting around since last summer. Was always going to hand quilt it, but have finally come to the conclusion that hand quilting is next to impossible these days. So, found a neato stitch on my machine, and had way more fun doing that. And my fingers were not screaming by the end of  it.
     I will miss hand quilting. It is by  far the best way to finish off a quilt. But, it's either give up quilting all together, or enjoy the piecing and do it by machine and still get to quilt. I think I'd rather still make up some things by hand, but the smaller stuff. Nothing too overwhelming. Anything with Godzilla like tendencies will feel the wrath of the machine needle.Giving it all up would be so defeatest. How silly would that be? Especially since I have a wall of fabric staring at me, downstairs, in the dungeon. And all of that fabric is  saying: "Piece me, piece me"........who am I to deny that?