Time flies............

It's been a while since my last post. (I started this blog on a Friday the 13th and now I'm back at it on a Friday the 13th) 

I am now back home in Idaho, my winter visit with my mom and brother was nice, but it is good to be home.  I did get to spend Mother's day weekend with her and all of my siblings were there.  First time we have all been home at the same time since 1958.

I'm not one for showing pictures of myself, but I'm the one in bright pink.

Quilting time has been hit and miss, but I finished a scrap quilt for one of my granddaughters.

 

 

I have 3 quilts sandwiched together that are ready for quilting, my maple leaf quilt, my Hocuspocusville and another scrap quilt.

I did get a little more accomplished on my deer in the pines quilt, 3 rows complete, 2 more to go.

 

It was nice to get back to my little quilting group here, I sure missed them, and with our weekly meet ups,  I'm getting back into a quilting routine.

 

Sunday Quilting

   

Today was very cold outside so I spent the day inside working on my brother's quilt.  My dog Molly looked at me with sad eyes, disappointed that we didn't take a walk (gave her a rawhide bone instead), but I had fun working on this quilt.   Don't have too much of a plan with this quilt, kind of figuring it out as I go.  I have one row sewn together.   Hoping the white part will look like snow when it's all finished.  Think I will make 3 more rows like this one with various cabins.  Still not sure how I'm going to fit the deer in yet.

 

 

 

Think my little log cabin turned out okay, still need to stitch the chimney down.

 

Slow Stitching Sunday

It was a productive day for me.  I finished this Hocuspocusville  block and traced the last four blocks.

 

 

These blocks are some that my brother's mother-in-law started for him and he asked if I could put them together in a small throw quilt for him.  They are laying on a dark blue print that I chose to use as a night sky. 

 

 

I'm thinking of putting a white tone on tone beneath the deer to make it look like they are walking through snow.

 

And I added the dark blue and the white to the tree blocks, hoping this will look like a night sky and snow.  Also thinking of adding a few house blocks in among the trees that hopefully will look like log cabins.

 

 

This is a new quilt book I purchased online.  (Added it to a purchase I made at Amazon so I would get free shipping.)  It isn't quite what I thought it would be, but it has some good ideas in it.  There are a few borders I would like to use in future quilts.