Before

This is what my beautiful Keeshon, Lady Bug, is suppose to look like.

... after

This is Lady Bug in her "summer" trim. Very frightning to me when I first saw her. I've gotten use to the look, if not acustomed. I think she looks like that freaky character from the Lord of the Rings movie, Golum? I'm not sure of it's name. But when she lies down and her legs are all sticking out, very skinny compared to her chest. Very LotR. Otherwise, a shorn sheep.

Left side

of my not so organized stash closet.

It no longer looks as organized... but it still makes me happy when I open the door to add more fabric to the collection.

Put your Right Arm in

Here is the right side of my quilting closet. Primarily, Asian prints and hand dyed fabrics.

The rubbermaid holder is a "pre-sorter" of sorts, that holds projects I am either working on or am still collecting fabrics for. Example, my black and white quilt. My batik quilt. My polka dot quilt out grew this method and now has it's own box. Entire box! As does all my flannels. And yard sized or larger cut misc prints.

It is not an illness. It is therapy!

Oh Canada!

Yes, another scrappy strip quilt... but this is a joint effort with Suzy. Blocks are smaller (cut 6 1/2") and the unifying color is royal blue (hope I have the right color) and the finished product will go up to the cabin in Canada. I have a whopping six done in one night!

Hubby Quilt

I have since added one more row so as to insure E can actually cover up with it!! But I love my scrappy quilt because I enjoy looking at the various prints and remembering which quilt they went into, or who swapped scraps with me. I plan to back with fleece and tack.

Up Close

Polka Dot

I will applique a giant "dot" in the center of the blocks. I have 9 of the 12 blocks set, need to finish the strips that will go vertically between the rows. And then I will do more set strips in my darker polka dots for the outer border of the quilt. This pattern was in American Quilts and designed by "Piece of Cake" quilt designers, and fellow Oklahoman's! Becky & Linda.

I started this quilt 2 or 3 years ago and finally decided I want to be able to start using allll thos PD prints in other things, so I need to get this done. My only complaint about the pattern... did not give generous enough measurements for the foundation pieces. You have to really pay attention to make sure you don't loose a corner... May very well be sewer error... but I prefer generous pieces that I don't have to be so aware of. Other than that, loving how it is turning out.

More Scraps

See earlier posting for a closer view of the blocks... but here it is quilted... I got ahead of myself and put the binding on... only to discover I had forgotten to quilt the darn thing!! I was lazy and didn't remove the binding... just quilted it since it is a scrappy quilt, so it bunched up in a couple of places. Oh well. Makes it easier to just throw around, seeing how it is definately no work of art!!

Summer in the City

This is from the Moda line "Summer in the City" I bought a charm pack of 5 inch squares and four pieces from the line... I added enough of the dark brown floral and an extra blue like the inner border to make it 49 squares... and pieced the back using the left over pinks and brown floral. Note on the binding, I added small pieces of the pinks to insure I had enough to get allll around the quilt! As I literally used all the fabric I had!