a late valentine

Valentine's Day has come and gone, but I hope it's not too late to spread the love:

Have a chocolate covered strawberry!

What do you think of this for a doll quilt?
  It's 18 x 18.
Does it need more blocks?
Does it need borders?

I added more zig zags to this top. Again, it's from leftovers. Not sure what size it will end up being.

The blocks are 3" finished, so if I do the math, this is about 21 x 30.

 I have some green borders for this.

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Don't get too close to the screen:. there's been a lot of coughing going on around here. This has messed up our vacation/travel plans.... waaah!

After the snow

Here is my snow storm quilt trying to keep the Silver Blur cozy. I was working on this during the snow days using the never-ending pile of leftovers from the triple rail experiment.

This measures about 48 x 48, and I think I am going to make it into a wall hanging for our pink dining room. It goes into the "Needs to be quilted" pile, which is huge.

It's a beautiful sunny day today but super cold. The snow piles are solid ice.

I thought I'd pick a better name to sign in and out with. Big Sis and Old Sis didn't seem quite right, although I am Big and Old.

"Old Patchy" appealed to me, because I"m feeling very worn to bits, but that didn't seem too positive.

And then I thought of my old friend, Raggedy Ann, and "Raggedy Sister" sounded good.

So that's it.

Doll quilt progress

I'm trying to get myself to finish more projects. I have so many undone and I'm feeling stuck. I had the big idea of making up a batch of doll quilts from the leftovers of my larger projects, so I'd have something done. In order to test out the pattern I wrote for a twin-size split rail fence block quilt for the guild's benefit night last week, I made up the following top. Colors don't really show well here, it's very light and cheerful.

This needs borders, etc. But meanwhile, in the spirit of getting something done, I made up a doll quilt::

Simple gets it done. I'll keep on with more doll quilts.....

Here we go

My sister and I have been talking about making a little place to share our enthusiasm for fabric and quilting and general craftiness, and since we are now too big to fit in the clubhouse under the stairs, I thought this would be a good spot for sharing our fun. 

Ready or not, here we come!