Ellie's Birthday Quilt

Ta-da!  I am so happy to have this original pattern completed finally for my miracle baby!  THe butterflies are appliqued.  I drew them myself and appliqued them.

Ellie sews with Baba (Courtesy of Craig)

A Weaving from the Summer

THis rug is on the floor in front of my kitchen sink.  It's fabulous there!

Pat's Quilt, Katherine's Quilt, Craig's Quilt, Sarah's too

Patrick's Christmas 2009 quilt in progress. It is  California Rail Fence Quilt that Im made completely out of Batiks.  I love my boy.

Katherine Ophelia's Wise Old Owl Quilt.  I made the pattern up for this one.  I also made miniature fabric photo albums for the owl's pocket because smart owl know that family is the most important thing of all.

Patrick's quilt, all finished.

Patrick and his quilt.  2009 was a hard year for Pat.  2010 has been better, I think.

Quilting detail of Craig's Flutterby anniversary quilt.

This is a quilt that I made as a hug for someone who helped me in lots of ways to feel more whole, even though she, herself, had been ripped apart by life.

Projects finished or in the works -- going through photos!

A work in progress -- Ellie's 3rd birthday quilt.

Bags with the girls -- Christmas gifts.

Flutterby quilt to celebrate 20 years of marriage.

A pillow for my ma-ma.  It's bright and for her new sunroom

A swing bag.

A sewing kit that Ma-ma and I did on our first Fancy Gap Quilt Camp in 2008

 Another gift for my ma-ma.

This is the summer of many plans. I spent a week in Fancy Gap, VA with girlfriends and Craig. He spent the week riding on the Blue ridge Parkway (250 miles!) and I enjoyed finishing up a few sewing projects.

 I first completed a pillow sham that I started a month ago. It's a small pillow sham made from blocks that were from kits at the Ocracoke Island museum. The week I spent there, and at Manteo and Kitty Hawk, were important to me and I wanted to finish the sham as a remembrance.

I also sewed up a "Practical Bag" that I will keep and use myself.  I rarely do that -- always end up giving things away.    And this one is uncharacteristically flowery.  I like it.

I finished four bags that I definitely want to give as gifts, probably to parent volunteers or at Christmas to co-workers.

Finally, I finished Zelda, the Gypsy doll that I started when I was teaching 3rd grade.  I used to read my kids the story Babushka's Doll by Patricia Polacco.  The story is about a little girl who misbehaves and then the grandma goes away and leaves the little girl alone to play with the doll.  The doll misbehaves and teaches the little girl a lesson.  Anyway, I loved that story and was making a doll to go with it, so when I read it to my 3rd graders it would be special.  I love this doll.  She is an Elinor Peace Bailey pattern, and she turned out really good.  Here she sits in the window by where we sewed.  See the mountains in the background?