I have been hibernating to finish out this crazy winter! At long last most of our snow is melting. Chicago (Chi-beria) is now beginning to thaw. We have had a few warmer days, but not enough! However, I did finish a few things while keeping warm.
My yellow whole-cloth quilt is now complete. I finished doing the trapunto work a few weeks ago. I am in love with the quilt and am so sorry it took me SO LONG to finish it. My thanks to Tim Latimer whose beautiful hand quilting and exquisite trapunto inspired me to complete this. Please visit his blog to see his work.
Next I finally did the “finishing” of two Christmas ornaments I did a while ago. I made some for friends for Christmas and liked them so much I made a couple for myself. I KNOW that the photo background is not exactly a “christmasy” background, but my quilt was JUST SITTING THERE waiting to be photographed again! Note…the red on the ornaments is really red…not orange! (Both ornaments are Little House Needlework patterns.)
And last but not least is an Easter ornament that I love. I have a couple more in the works but they are not completed yet. This ornament is from a Prairie Schooler leaflet entitled “Folk Eggs.”
QUESTION FOR MY READERS:
Does anyone out there have the pattern from Prairie Schooler called “A Prairie Garden“? It is rather old. I wondered if anyone out there would be willing to sell me theirs? Please let me know if you have one for sale or trade.
During the last blog hop I was lucky enough to be the recipient of some very nice gifts from Joyce at “Joyces Love of Life” blog. Please visit her here. She has a LOT of lovely cross-stitch projects in the works! Thank you again Joyce for the lovely gifts.
Others things have been in the in my studio, but my wonderful lovely Husqvarna sewing machine is in for repair at the moment. Hopefully it won’t be TOO expensive for the repairs. I was working on a king size red and white quilt and it just up and quit on me! Oh the pain! But then my hand stitching is getting caught up, so I shouldn’t complain!
Hope the Spring Solstice scares away the frigid north winds and lets the balmy breezes blow up from down south!
Amities, Averyclaire
