Glorious Baskets Quilt

Here are some pictures I took tonight of my Glorious Baskets quilt. I started hand quilting this in September 2007. I'm on my last row (which is the top row) of blocks to quilt and then I will get to start on the borders. I have a simple vine design I will probally do on the borders. I love this smaller quilting frame I bought to replace my larger one I started out with. It will be so exciting to do the borders and I should be able to hopefully finish this quilt by this September. I have 3 more quilt tops waiting!

Table Runner

Today I finished a double sided table runner that I started about a month ago. Worked on it alittle bit at a time during the past few weeks and today I finished putting the binding on it. I am SO happy to having finished something as I have been working on several quilt projects since last fall. I am going to make a little quilt to match this table runner eventually.

July 4th

Happy 4th of July!!

It was a quiet 4th of July for us today. It was just Mike and I today doing some bar-b-que and doing things around the house. I took a few pictures of some of my flowers and one of Ginger today. She certainly loves to sit and sleep on Oscar's doggy sofa.

I've attached a picture of my Banana plant I have in a hanging basket on our back porch and also a close-up of my Mezoo Doreanthus hanging basket. I need to look up the Mezoo Doreanthus and see if there is a nickname for it.

The last two pictures of the white flower in bloom, I have not been able to find what the name of it is. It grows from bulbs and has long shiny green leaves. Blooms once a year with these white blooms. It reminds me of flowers you would see in a Sci-fi movie going on another planet somewhere in space!

Ginger went to the Vet this morning

This morning I took Ginger to our vet for the first time and she did just great. She weighs 4lbs. After coming home and playing in the backyard with Oscar she came inside and passed out on the doggie sofa.
Had to get a picture of her to share!

Sunday

This morning the Yellow Bells blooms were so pretty in the sunlight that I took a couple of pictures of them to post today.

Ginger

Yesterday we drove to Stockdale, Tx and brought home our little new little dachshund, Ginger! She is 10 weeks old today. Oscar only took a few minutes to accept her into our family when she came home yesterday! I'm posting pictures that I took last night and this morning. Now I have two following me at my heels! Its wonderful!

2008 Crazy Quilt Blocks Project

I've decided to use up all my existing fancy fabric stash making new crazy quilt blocks. So far I've finished piecing about 27 or them. I'm using all fancy fabrics. When I get in the mood to sew on my sewing machine, I make some more cq blocks.
I'm embellishing the seams so far only with embroidery stitches.
I have alot of vintage waxed silk button hole twist thread that I am using do do all the stitching with. I have a huge amount of it in black and then some in red, gold and burgandy. The thread was sold on the internet by the lot and no choice of colors. I took a chance and got it. Since the thread is vintage and so nice I decided it had to be put to good use in this crazy quilt project.
This thread has always been my favorite thread to stitch with. The blocks are 10 x 10 and hopefully I will have enough for a copule quilt large tops. I've decided to try to piece some of the blocks in just light fabrics so as to make one quilt top in just the light blocks. When using the darker fabrics I'm not being particular about what fabrics I'm using on them. Some have some lights pieces in them. I've take a pictures to show the darker blocks, the light blocks and close-ups of the some of the stitching.