I'm In Love!

After living without an island in my kitchen for seven months, I am so excited to finally have one again. I mean, look at the room I have for cutting fabric! I haven't been in a very creative mode lately, but I have been working on some roman shades for some of the kids' rooms, and I have just been LOVING being able to use my island for the measuring, cutting, and pinning. So nice to not feel limited by lack of space.

Help Wanted:

I finished a "Little Red Hen" quilt about a year ago (the pattern is in this book). I've been trying to decide on what color of pillows to put with it to finish the look. I've gone back and forth several times and can't seem to make a decision. Does anyone have any great ideas? My furniture is black, and I do have a ceramic wash bowl and pitcher (made for me by Barry's Grandma several years ago--love it!) that has a really pretty blue in it--would you go with blue? Black? Red? Something completely different? This decision will also help me with curtains. Help me please!!!!

Scrappy Pinwheel Revealed

This is a fun quilt that I have loved working on over the last couple of months. Morgan and I decided to do her room in red and white, and this is the quilt I made for her bed. I took it to my wonderful quilter, and she quilted it with red daisies. I scalloped the edges (first attempt at such a thing) and I think it turned out really great! Most importantly, Morgan loves it too!

Cathedral Window

This is another overly ambitious project. Barry's Aunt was working on one of these when she visited a couple of years ago, and I fell in love with it. I decided to make two twin size Cathedral Window quilts for the girls' beds. Wow! What a lot of work. I ended up with two small runners, one of which is now at the foot of Madison's bed. Even though it is much smaller than I first planned, I really love it. When I finish the other things for her bed, I will post a picture of the whole thing so you can fully appreciate it too!

Yellow Brick Road

Now that we've moved and I'm taking pictures of quilts in the girls' rooms, I remembered I'd never taken a picture of this Yellow Brick Road Quilt on Alex's bed. Actually I made two of them for the bunk beds. I hand-quilted the first one--stippled it. How crazy was that! Anyway, the second one was machine quilted. Much faster and easier.