How could I forget

To post a pic of the finished wallhanging??? It's been done for a couple of weeks and looks great hanging over my bed :)






Isn't this great how close this butterfly let me get to him in my lily????

At least it's something

Well I tried working on my ocean waves quilt this morning...wasn't in the mood. Also tried the love quilt I need to finish- nope, not that either :( .
But I grabbed the card tricks wall hanging, my hand quilting stuff, bottle of water, my ipod and I went OUTSIDE to work on my hand quilting.
I just love the backs of hand quilted pieces almost as much as I love the fronts. Sometimes more the backs. I would so love to be able to design a wholecloth and hand quilt it in this lifetime. I really need to work on my stitching and this seemed like a small enough project that won't stir up the dreaded carpal tunnel. And it's very soothing to just sew without worrying about anything.

While minding my own business

The nice mail lady brought me a package yesterday, actually 2. But this is the one we're going to worry about since I'm not buying fabric except the borders, backing and bindings ( ok I cheat and buy whites too to help get this stuff used- it's still a b-backgrounds)I got a package STUFFED and I mean STUFFED of 30's repros....pretty pretty :). But now I have more fabric I "need" to use up. Heavy Sigh.
Then I remembered I'm supposed to be working on a love quilt for one of the groups I used to belong to, a commitment is a commitment so I go looking for the few blocks that came and find these:



and while working away on making more blocks for the love quilt I keep seeing the repro red I used for sashing and borders. They're hand pieced pretty much and everything I won them at an auction at our guild's annual luncheon. So I used up some of the incoming fabric but created a UFO - well for a day or two it is as the backing is in the dryer and I'm putting together some of the 36 patch blocks I have used for leaders and enders and some cool block I saw on someone's blog and decided to use some more of these insane 2 1/2" squares I seem to have become preoccupied with, I mean I must have 1,000's. I kid you not....but that's another story for another day......