Tah - - Dah ! ! !

Finished.... well,,, I'll add the binding and ship it off to my Florida grandma 4 her one yr old precious lady-bug!!!

ASK ME.... what have I been up to...??? A Bug's Life???

I'll tell you in pictures!!

Then Blog-World....

A situation came up,,,, my daughter searched all links on Google for her name.... it showed up on one of my blogs!   Thus,  TOO MUCH INFORMATION ....


Lastly... I guess I wanted to make a quilt in a day??   More like I wanted some sense of accomplishment... so I started a LADYBUG Quilt for a one-year old Florida girl!

I Have To Fuss a'bit

Ok, so here goes.   Trying to motivate myself, I took a Jan-2009 Obama quilt out.  It only needs a backing in order to have Buddy Bill long-arm quilt it.   I pulled my quilt frame.. for this gigantic quilt.  Took beautiful backyard pictures.... welll they were ok.   Then....    Here goes...  I'm mad at myself...

It rained the rest of the day... so my quilt stand STOOD overnight in the elements!    WHY OR WHY...???  can't I DO what needs to be done... when it needs to be done.... WHETHER I like it or not???

By the way.... I refolded the Obama quilt.. and it sits again.

KIRK...KREATING A KEEPSAKE

thought I might go overboard on the KKK issue today...;)))

The Work of my Hands...

LOOKING BACK >>>

I made this log-cabin antique (mid 1960's) quilt from a stack of blocks given to me by Ms Merlene Amey!  I took the photo November 2008: it's completely finished with  binding and on the guest bedroom bed!

I luv the Lord.... and I love quiltin.....

So many parallels to the process of stitch by stitch, tuff pulling the needle thru several layers of folded fabric.... the many folds in life........

Good Morning Friends & Enemies! QUILTING DISCONTENTEDLY>>>> ?? !!

NO... not really.  I've lived long enuf that I've not made anybody mad in years....    Just a love shout-out to my quilting buddies that emailed comments about my blogging.   So nice to hear from you LB.   

Picture above is my trip around the world.  That partially explains my short absence -- had another Jeep wreck....    I have this maybe SANCTIFIED discontent....desires...  A raisin yet in the sun???

Happy, blessed and quilting -- daily.  but a quiet unsettling, maybe future planning for a reasonable degree of security?  Yep...

It's identical to the quilting process, looking back and forward... putting the pieces together.  When they are mixed wrongly.... I see the beauty nevertheless!

Golly Geessssccch Hand-stitching

is quite a task,,, tedious (make me wanna holler)!  More than a notion!   But alas! I hand stitched all of this four-patch Cathedral Window!

First to mention, is that needle size, type of thimble/push,glide and handling/wax threading/hiding knots and the like ... these things make a difference in handling the fabric. (ps...the red block is the messiest!   :)  :)

Here's my process....

I've posted my 4 1/2 inch squares which I made into a large scale panel for my Cathedral Quilt:  light tan-ish muslin fabric.  I started this quilt on an October 31 st Cruise... which placed me on the sea at 9-pm +++ the moment Obama won the Presidency!!!


I've continued on...

Met up with my quilting girls (Afrono) on noon Monday and was stunned and delighted to see their smaller squares on white-ish muslin, stuffed puffy, and sewn all the way thru so that the back of the Cathedral Quilt will be georgous!  

So now, you know for a fact... I'm a woman of substance...............
 Also, looked around and there are not enough tutorials....   Here's my s ## 1:  Cut my place-card into a 7inch square.  Cut the muslin about  1 to 1 1/4th inch larger than place-card.

 

### 2

  

Press into 7inch square
Press Once

Press Twice

 

Open, then fold corners into your first square

FOLD AGAIN, Finger Press four corners.   Then I did not hot iron this final small square!

Now, I'm ready to sew this Square Closed!  KNOT IT....



ALL OF THIS IS REPEATED.



WHEN YOU MAKE FOUR SQUARES knotted.... join 4-squares together.... joining them pointed corner   to pointed corner.

Like Marvin Gaye said it...............

What's goin on?

My meds...

 My girlfriends...

 

 My scraps....

My how-to ... on my second cathedral window quilt !!

One Finished quilt....  and one more to go... to my longarm quilter!!!

TOday is

Quiltin Joyously

"Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."  spoken by the Prophet Amos (Dr. M.L. King Jr)