Productive Saturday

Unfortunately I did not take a before picture, but believe me the flower beds were full of grass and weeds. We purchased at our Church's fall fundraiser a day of gardening offered by one of the Adult Sunday school classes. So we had them remove all of the rose bushes,day lilies, weeds and grass from the front flower beds.Now the beds are ready for us to redo this spring with a low maintenance set of plants. So my day was spent supervising and helping clean up our garden.

100 Block and 100 Cookies

The binding is on my scrap quilt, yea! It turned out 86"x103"

Here's a close up so you can see the binding and quilting.

This is the scrappy back. The problem fabric was the two brown pieces. The straight of grain was not the length of the piece, so they stretched and puckered when machine quilted. From afar you can't notice and after I wash the quilt I think it will be less noticeable.

I was out yesterday buying supplies to finish projects that I am working on for Christmas Presents and found these two magazines. I am studying these so that mid December I can make some cookies. I think that cookies and quilt blocks go well together!

Hope you are all having fun quilting and getting ready for the Holidays.

Glad to be Home

It was very cold in Ohio when we left. The temperature makes me appreciate the warmth of the South.

This is my mother's cat Lily. She was good company while we sewed.

This was one of the quilt shops that my Mother took me to. It is run by Mennonite Ladies and is located near Kent,Ohio. Very small, but had lots of fun fabrics and patterns.

The rulers came from the shop in Kent and the reproduction fabric came from The Good Wife's Club in Marion.

 I picked up a cute book and fabric to go in a barn quit at the shop in Kent.

This is a scrap quilt that my Mom's friend quilted for me. It has a scrappy back that gave her trouble, issues with the straight of grain made one piece pucker while the rest laid flat and smooth. So she was not happy with the quilting, but it is only a scrap quilt that will be used not shown in a quilt show. She gave me a gift of some cat fabric that I love. I also love how the quilt came out. Now I just have to decide, red or blue binding?

My DH took this picture the day we let to go home from a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with my family.

Hope that you had a wonderful holiday with your family.