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Most of my at home time this summer was spent cleaning, purging, and reorganizing. It feels good to have dug out from under some of the accumulated stuff. The best result is finally a dedicated sewing room (and sometime guest room). Many years ago our local grocery store (Wegmans) had a fabric department. When they decided to close that department, they offered a couple pattern book tables for free. We snapped them up to use for kids project tables, but for the last several years they've been stored in the basement. Somehow it seemed very appropriate to use them as sewing/cutting tables now.

There is also enough space over the tables to use as a design wall. I just tacked up a large piece of felt and put some of my current projects on it. Most of them are all pieced and ready to be quilted.

It's time for yet another loon isn't it? This was pieced and appliqued several years ago. The design, Loon Lake, comes from the book Spirit of the Northwoods by Debbie Field.

Here's a closer view of another wall hanging I started a couple years ago. I unearthed it in the big clean-up and have started finishing it up. This is called 'Along the Way' from the book Threads of Harmony by Whimsicals.

Finally school's out and there's time to quilt

Here're a few small wall hangings I started while on vacation at the family cottage on Paudash Lake in Ontario, Canada. The weather was pretty lousy so I had plenty of time to sew. They all still need to be quilted but I plan to do that here at home.

This one is called North Woods Noah from an Art to Heart pattern by Nancy Halvorsen. I love working on homespun north woods style things when I'm at the lake.

This next one is Summer Sunflowers from Garden Trellis Designs, designed by Janet Pittman. I've had my eye on this pattern for a long time and finally sent for it just before going away. I thought it would be a perfect project for summer and it's fun to use batik fabrics.

This design is a great combination of piecing and applique, and was a great way to use all those little bits and pieces of homespuns left over from other projects. It's called Five-Cent Fairy Garden and is from the book Simple Blessings by Kim Diehl.







And finally another sunflower design called For the Birds, from Pieces From My Heart by Sandy Gervais. I'd love to say I designed all these quilts myself, but these ladies are way more talented in that area than I. I'm just glad to have found their lovely patterns.

Baby toy

Ribbon loops will be stitched to the edges of this 12" square for baby to grab and chew.

Time for another loon wall hanging

Made recently as a gift. Machine quilted with monofilament.

folk art fancies wall hanging

The blocks are finally all done and sewn together

Tote bag

This is a tote I recently made with some batik fabrics from my stash.

The inside

The back

Close up of applique

Close up of machine quilting

A couple more WIPs

The first of several star blocks using Maywood fabric's Folk Art Fancies as centers. The pattern is from a Fons and Porter magazine.


Here are a few more star blocks, stitched and unstitched.

9 patch bed quilt

9 patch blocks laid out alternating with plain blocks

The plain blocks seemed a little, well, plain. So, I decided to use a few other fabrics. It seemed to add some depth.

Here are the blocks sewn together

More of the blocks sewn together. Now I need to figure out a quilting design. It will be machine quilted....the only way there's any hope of finishing it in my lifetime.

X Stitch

One of my favorite counted x stitch pieces, completed several years ago.

Theorem painting

A few years ago I did several theorem paintings. This is one of my favorites.

Christmas blocks

A few blocks for some sort of Christmas project...some day

Punchneedle

This is a little punchneedle piece I started some time ago. The rest of the red background still needs to be completed.

Punchneedle is worked from the back, so this is the side you see when doing the actual 'punching'.

Star wall hanging

I designed and made this little wall hanging to fit in a spot over my couch.

Crazy quilt block

Kitty wall hanging

Finished in November

Time for another loon

This one is also finished.

Log Cabin Wall Hanging

This wall hanging is really not a true WIP, as I finished it a few years ago. I like the combination of piecing and applique.

Christmas wall hanging

Here is the center of a wall hanging and a coordinating pillow. The red borders on the pillow are also used on the wall hanging. The pattern came from a McCall's quilting magazine a couple years ago. Both pieces are waiting to be quilted.

Homespun stars wall hanging

I'm almost finished hand quilting this wall hanging. You can see the needle and thread parked in the lower right corner