Join Kelly's MUF group

I have joined the MUF's. It means 'Masterpieces Under Fermentation'. After 50 years of quilting I have lots of MUF's. I used to call them PIGS which means projects in grocery sacks.. My goal is to get some of the blocks I have into quilt tops in 2011. I also will be doing a few new projects.

Look what I rec'd

Rec'd a box yesterday. It came from Kelly @ Cotton Charm Quilts in St. Joseph, MO and had a pretty card signed- Mrs. Claus. What a beautiful collection of fabric in charm packs and layer cakes. Thank you very much Mrs. Claus. I have been admiring and playing with the fabric ever since it arrived. Click on the picture to enlarge.

inside of purse

This is the inside of the purse and it is reversed with the polka dots on the outside on the second purse.

Last minute gifts

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas- we certainly did and the weather co-operated. Although the pictures aren't very good I will show a purse I made for a gift. I actually made 2 but gave one away. I used pre-quilted fabric so one was the brown floral and the other polka-dots.

Merry Christmas

Hope you all are having a great Christmas. Thanks to all who follow my blog. It really is a great way to make new quilting friends and get ideas and hints. I've learned 'lots'

Small Wall-Hanging

Just showing you a wall hanging I made. Think I should have given my snowman a hat. Have you purchased any thread lately?????? I stopped at our local fabric warehouse today and it cost me $2.81 with tax. Guess I'll be using my old thread and doing scrappy quilts. They tell me there is a shortage of cotton. Maybe they should not have shipped everything out of the country

Quilt is finished

Finally finished. This is the quilt I had to take off the frame and mark again. Really glad this one is done.

Christmas Wallhanging

One of my wall-hangings

I'm back

but I haven't been anywhere. Just busy. Am almost finished with the binding on my quilt. I do the back by hand so it takes a while-the quilt is 90 x104. Also have my holiday goodies ready to eat. I really miss my sewing machine and will almost be happy when the holidays are over and I can get to sewing.
We don't have much snow- just enough for a white Christmas but the weather has been cold.
Crazy about quilts is hosting a snowman and snowflake swap on HGTV so I entered that. She is swapping 10 1/2 squares so I had to go shopping ; )
Hope to get back to posting some pictures soon. Happy sewing

finished- finally

I finally finished the quilt I was hand-quilting and will give you a peek. It is still on the frame and I will take it off tomorrow and start on the binding. I wanted to show you my clamps but my camera died- anyhow my DH was always borrowing my clamps and when I needed them I couldn't find them or they were dirty. One day I bought new ones and spray painted them bright pink and he hasn't borrowed them since.
Now I have to get busy on some Christmas projects. We had our guild party on Sat. and it was very nice. We collected 40 pillows and lots of pillowcases for the needy,