More of the quilt meandering

that didn't get shared from before Christmas!!
These were for Patty - 
She used her 50th anniversary, table decor - bandanas, 
and incorporated them into quilts for each of her grandchildren.  
First, Ohio State and bandanas:

 Chevron, cherries and bandanas:

 Rail Fence with Star Wars and Bandanas:

 And, the final Stack-o-quilts for the first round of gifts:

 Are they not all ADORABLE???

There are more to come with this 50th Anniversary memories/ bandana theme!!

For some reason or another,

the end of last year
I had some posts set to 'share' automatically,
but they did not.
So, here are some quilts that I got to meander over:
(Sorry gals!  I didn't mean to exclude your great works!!)

From October 2015 -
Janet did this great Attic Window:

I remember the border was snake fabrics.
And, then in early December, 
two more quilts for the twin nephews:

 Race cars!!

 Fun to quilt and nice to go back through pictures!!!

I think I'm back

Finally!! I'm back, I think!  
I've been locked out of my account for some unknown reason! 
Hopefully I've fixed it!  And I'll try re-posting the pictures of some of my quilting fun that I THOUGHT I'd shared. lol

Happy Easter wishes to everyone!

More fabrics I've added to the stash recently:

Check out that cute bunny in the tulips!!

Chosen for another baby quilt

And just for fun:

 Hope your weekend is great!

Happy February!!

February, already! 
Though I'm not a fan of the sugar heart candies, 
I do like the idea of the sentiments on them.
Wouldn't it be fun if they had quilting/sewing themed words, though?
Quilt. Sew. Stitch. Cut. Lets Quilt. 
Or better yet - Go Sew!
Directive to go to your sewing corner and stitch all day!
If anyone asked, 
you could say you were told by your conversation hearts 
to go to your quilting area and sew! LOL

Anyway, that what I'm planning for today - 
going to my my sewing room and do some stitching!
Even without the conversation hearts telling me to.

Hope you have some stitching time this week, too.

Happy New Year!

Yes, I know I'm late in wishing that - But I DO wish that to all!
And I promise I'll try to be better and get back to posting 
(to everyone that's inquired, I'm OK).
Just off routine and hopefully back on track :)

I'd like to start off the year with this graphic:

 I wish you all genuine happiness for 2016!!!

dappled sunshine on my Vintage Farm Girl blocks

We've had our killing frost here in central Ohio,
and Autumn weather has arrived.
Sunny, crisp, and a warm breeze trying to warm things up!
It was such a beautiful day today,
so I went out and walked around the back yard
(rather the back garden if you're from the other side of the pond - 
or so my Dutch friends tell me).

Whilst enjoying the weather and my walk, 
I realized it would be a great idea
to photograph my lastly made blocks
from the Vintage Farm Girl sew along!
(Yes, the sew-along is finished, but I'm still working on mine!)

I had a whole STACK of VFG blocks I'd made
and sandwiched in my pattern book,
so I checked to see what I'd already photographed, and
I guess when you have a stack of blocks almost 20 high
that it's waaaay past time to share!! :)

Notice the leaf that came to visit in the last picture?  
The wind picked up and that beauty fluttered in!

 I left the leaf there when I placed my next blocks:

 I laid out the following blocks, and another leaf came to visit, too:

 I LOVE all of the blocks, and have been doing them very scrappy.
I did do just a little fussy-placement of fabric when I did that last block, above ^.
Here's a closer view:

Wowza!!! NINETEEN blocks I hadn't shared! 
I didn't know it was that many!
I already have the next few blocks cut out, 
which leaves maybe only another six, so the end is in sight!!  

Oh, but I don't have my border fabric chosen for this.
I really should think about that, shouldn't I?

Thanks for visiting, 
and I hope your day has been filled with dappled sunshine, also!

things I haven't shared... and small quilt swap

Sounds deep, doesn't it.
Well, some of it is.  Deep that is.
Personal grief is something I've not shared here much.
(If you are a pray-er, please add me and my family to your list, thank you.)
But I believe there is a higher power
and a reason for things happening - reasons I just don't know, yet.
And out of it, comes strength, and deepening love.

So, out of the deep and into positiveness -
Also lately, I haven't shared much in the way of quilting fun.
I participated in a small, primitive quilt swap
and this is what I sent to my swap partner, 
Roberta of New York.
So My Ohio Geese flew to New York:

Not the greatest of pictures, with no staging or softness, but at least I got a picture before I mailed it!  I almost had it packed for shipping when I realized that I didn't have a picture.

I love flying geese, and I love the log cabin block,
so I put those two together and made her a 'Geese through the Cabin' little quilt!
I used some of my favorite browns and oranges, and some muslin for the geese,
and quilted it with my Sashiko machine in a dark ecru quilting thread.

I have shared the next photo before,
but I think, it's nice to put the two swap quilts together in a post -
the little quilt I received back in exchange -
the New York Geese that flew to Ohio:

I think it's great that we both did flying geese in our swap quilts
even though it wasn't a theme!! 

Thanks for visiting, and thanks in advance for prayers sent my way.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!