I have been slacking from the blogging world for a long time.   There are no excuses, only that life happens.  I'm still sewing, quilting and working.   I wish I could quit the latter so I have more time for the first two.

Here are a couple of my more recent projects.  The Crossroads quilt is only partially quilted.  I am doing echo quilting and it is taking forevvvvvvvvvver....


For my bosses birthday everyone at work chipped in and I made her a Pittsburgh Steeler's quilt.   She was ecstatic when she opened it up.


Below are a couple of pictures from our recent trip through Smoky Mountain National Park. I believe both of these pictures are in North Carolina.  I love nature and spending time with my family.



The next picture is of Cumberland Falls in Corbin, Kentucky.


These are just pictures off of my phone, I haven't had time to download the ones off of the camera.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful month.  My sewing machine has been humming away.  I finished my block of the month.   These blocks are very tedious and time consuming, but they are absolutely beautiful in my opinion.


 I finally added the binding and a hanging sleeve to my Circles of Hope quilt.  I'm not sure what part of life got in my way of finishing this, but I know it was in a bag for well over a year maybe 2.  Now I need to decide just where I want to hang it.


I have also made a couple of pillow cases this month and am trying to decide which quilt top I am going to pull out of the bag to finish up next.  

January 2016, how did you get here so fast, let alone it almost be February!   While I didn't blog a whole lot in 2015, I did sew up a  storm.     For 2016 I have decided to do a Block of the month called 'Ray of Hope'   You can find information and patterns HERE.

I just finished January's block and this is how mine turned out.


I cropped my side points out, but it is truly an amazing block.  It is paper pieced, (lots of little pieces) so if paper piecing isn't your thing, you have been warned. Each finished block measures 12".

I am using batiks left from a previous project paired with black Kona.

I have been keeping super busy with this and that projects over the past few months.  I still can't find a balance with kid activities, sewing, and blogging, so I have just stuck to sewing for the most part.

These pictures are in no particular order.

This adorable Double Irish Chain baby quilt was pieced by my mother and I finished up the quilting on it for her as her health isn't the best right now.


I made these cute durable totes for my kids teachers at the end of the school year.


These blocks are from a Quiltoberfest from 2011 I think.  I started them then, and finally finished them up a few months ago.


This is my Sew Swap It mystery quilt.  I love it.  I sent it out to be quilted.



I used up some fat quarters along with some bright Kona for this pretty that is waiting to be quilted.


Our church moved into a building of its own back in December and I have added a few wall decorations.


I made a new purse from my scraps of another project.


My Mariner's Star wall hanging.  I entered this in our county fair and received Judges Honors.


Sweet baby Emma, has a long road ahead.  She was born on Tuesday.  In the womb she was diagnosed with Trisomy 13, severe cleft pallet, and only has 2 chambers in her heart.  Please pray for her and her family.


My sweet Minnie Mouse,  who could say no to that face when she asks for me to make her a Minnie Mouse dress.


Have a Blessed day my friends,
Debbe

A labor of love that looked like this when it was finished.


Which left almost the entire box of little squares, which made their rounds in my sewing room for a good 4 years.  Until one day I was asked to make a 'scrappy table cloth' out of little bits of fabric.   I was quite excited actually even though everyone I told thought I might have fallen off the deep end.

So the little squares found a mate and made pairs.


I then decided that they needed some mixing up and hand mixing wasn't going to do, so into the dryer they went for a few minutes.



Looks about perfect to me.  So out they came and went from twosies to foursies and so on and so forth until all 1,200 came together to look something like this.



The lighting is bad, but you can see the simplicity of it all.



This pretty table cloth went home with it's owner yesterday and is all happy with its new surroundings.

Hey all, I hope you are doing well.   My life has been on the extreme side of crazy lately and and hopefully it slows down soon.  Right now I'm thankful that we rent from a great property management company.  A while back we smelled mold in the place we were renting, the smell eventually went away or we got used to it until the day we got a whole lot of rain in one day and then the smell was back and never went away.  We even invested in these cool odor eater air freshener things.   We once again had the maintenance people come out (after my foot almost went through the floor in one spot near a wall) and they had some 'friends' (the mold experts) with them.  So in a period of less than 2 weeks we were told we had to move and were in a new place with all of our belongings.  We have been in the new place for a little over a week now and no one has been sick, had bloodshot eyes, or any other allergy related symptoms.

Living in a receding sea of boxes could be worse.  One day I will be able to get my sewing machine back out and sew.  I already have projects lined up.

This is just all my sewing room stuff.  I have learned that I am a pack-rat.

Have a great day and I hope to be back posting pictures of sewing projects soon.    

Well I only completed 6 goals this year, but that is ok, I did finish more than 6 projects.
January

Febuary

May

June

July

September