Strawberry Fields

Happy Sunday - Here is my Strawberry Fields quilts, which I'm calling Strawberry Wine because I spilled an entire glass of white wine on it while I was machine quilting it. Yes, you can quilt on a slightly damp quilt.


Thanks Lori! Her blog, Humble Quilts is always a great place to visit for inspiration. After much deliberation and trials, I decided on this red dot fabric, which reminded me of a strawberry.


I was too engrossed in the Masterpiece episode I was watching and didn't line up the third vertical row correctly, thus losing a little of it forever. I was quilting when I noticed it....how do I get so distracted? And no, I wasn't drinking wine at that time :)

My doll, Annie, seems to like it fine.


I chose this pretty green fabric with the butterflies for the backing.


This week I heard back from the Special Exhibits coordinator and my quilt "Lunar Pineapple" has been accepted to be in the special exhibit "Trash to Treasure" at the Long Beach and Houston Quilt Festivals. I'm very excited to be included and I look forward to seeing all 30 quilts.

After cutting out a white batting, I soon realized that black batting was the only way to go. So I arranged an emergency lunch meeting with Jill on Friday who had a black batting to give me. It was great because it was also her Birthday and we had a lovely time.

I'm quilting it in all over tea-cup pattern. It is difficult to see, but I'm hoping it will give it a nice texture.


Sneak peak at the backing.


This one is for Mary, who asked for a coco fix. All she's missing here is a glass of wine and a little applique'.

Monday Updates

Good Monday Morning!

I have many irons in the fire at the moment so I thought I'd do an update on a couple of things.

I'm trying to put in a little quicting each day on my Olympic Star quilt. I love the way the quilting is looking so far.


Here are the blocks I have finished so far for the doll quilt along, Strawberry fields on Lori's blog.

I have finally figured out a border solution that I like for this quilt, which I started late last year. Sorry, the colors are hard to read, I'll take another photo when I finish the borders. It's hard to catch the right light in the morning in the sewing room because it's on the west side of the house.


When I went to the quilt show about a week ago, my friend Susan bought a pattern for a tote bag. Pauline and I jumped on the idea and we had a sew day last week to get started.

And here is my new tote bag.


okay, so this is only the beginning.

You wrap clothesline with folded fabric strips -

Then you zig-zag them together into a strada

Here is a close up. I'm using neutral tans, which I pieced together.


Pauline is using gorgeous batiks and Susan is using a beautiful green fabric. They are all very different, so stay tuned to see more on this.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, I hope you had a nice day. I received these beautiful caladiums from my kids. Pink and Green? my favorite!

Finally, while coco was busy elsewhere, Luna (the one gold eyed cat) decided to visit me in the sewing room and use coco's bed.