Time for another Quilt - English Enchantment

This quilt pattern was in Quilter magazine four years ago as a mystery quilt. I have had the rose fabric I used in this quilt for about ten years, and wondered what to do with it. I finally got to work on this last fall and this winter. The top is finished, but my design wall is in a gues bedroom, and I could not get back far enough to get a good picture of the top without including the footboard and a snitch of my teakettle quilt in the picture. Enlarge this picture to get a better view of the pattern.

More Blocks from They Danced All Night Quilt

Just had to put these on - This quilt tickled my funny bone all the time I was making it. When Suzanne's mom and her aunts come next week, they'll take the quilt home in preparation for the new baby. It's the best use of quilts that I can think of!

They Danced All Night - the Baby Quilt

These aren't the best pictures, but they do show the completed quilt - although I was still sewing the binding. This quilt was so much fun to make because every animal is so well designed for "cute". I quilted it on the machine - be sure to enlarge the pictures to see the details. This quilt will go to Washington - Suzanne's baby is due sometime in the month of April.

Creating a One Block Wonder Quilt

Making this quilt was a lot of fun. I began with the geranium fabric at the top of this posting. Carefully cutting and stacking the fabric to cause the repeats to come in exactly the same places, I made a stack of eight like fabrics, then cut strips to further cut triangles and squares that create the octagons and the squares. No two blocks are alike! Plotting placement on a big design wall, and taking a while to get what I felt was the best design took a while, but the results are very satisfying. Each patch truly looks like the wonderful pictures we would get in the old kaleidoscope. The quilt is still not quite finished - it needs a little more border work, and, of course, the final quilting and binding. Size of the quilt at present is 51" x 56"

Springtime in the Rockies?

After seeing the beautiful pictures of spring blooming trees, that my brother, Dwight, has been posting on The Curmudgeonly Professor, I could hardly wait for an opportunity to take some of my own. Since we live next door to an orchard full of fruit trees, the panorama of blooming trees lasts quite a while. However, this is the best I can do this morning. At 3 degrees F above zero this morning, the sun filtered through the old lilac bush in a beautiful way with the coating of hoar frost becoming our early blossoms. Spring must be just around the corner?

The Ernst family - and Hayden's 7th Birthday

Sara sent these pictures - they did find the ocean, and it looks like a good time was had by all. Can't believe how much Hayden has grown - and Lauren is certainly getting very grown up. Saturday is Hayden's 7th birthday - Happy birthday to you!

Brianna and Jackson Pollack

Andrea sent us this picture of Brianna a couple of weeks ago showing her Jackson Pollack painting after Andrea's class had studied him. Looks like she had fun doing this one. Andrea says that she is a bright star in her class. We feel so fortunate that Brianna could have the opportunity to have Andrea as her art teacher!