Tuesday Thoughts

Tomorrow I will post progress on "Spoolin' Around," my selvage-edge challenge quilt. So excited. It has turned out even better than I expected!

But for today, it is kind of dreary outside so I thought pictures of colorful fabric might be cheerful.

The top two are Patricia Bravo's yummy new solids and Nature Elements (LOTS of gorgeous colors) , and the bottom is from Laura Gunn's new line. Thank you, Hawthorne Threads, for your super speedy service!

Sunday night I was catching up on some reading. Paging through this magazine...

...when I saw this picture. The one on the right.

What? See the plate that salmon is sitting on? Mark made that plate!!  Each one is totally one of a kind, but it is very similar to this one:

Or this one:

Alex Anderson has been a huge supporter of Mark's fused glass business, Around the Block Designs.
He has designed and made the plaques that The Quilt Show presents to their chosen Quilter of the Year each year, and Alex has purchased quite a few things over the years. 

Anyway, I just wasn't expecting to see it in the magazine and it was quite exciting.

I'll be back tomorrow. Hope all of you experiencing Snowmageddon are getting a lot of quilting done!

Broken Dishes

It's done I looked back and I started this quilt in June of 2008. I'm giving it to my grand daughter for her 3rd birthday in March. I started the month with the quilt about 1/3 quilted. It's been sitting in my sewing machine at that stage since last May. And the things got busy and crazy and I just stopped sewing for the summer. Now thanks to a few good snowstorms and very cold weather I back into the groove of sewing. Hopefully I'll get a bunch more done this year. I'm off to a good start so far.

This is the first quilt from Judy's UFO challenge you can check it out at Judy's blog HERE . For February Judy picked number 10 on the list. I'm going to have to get busy to get it done by the end of the month I only have the blocks done. But it will be a good UFO to get off my list. I'll post about it latter this week.

Broken Dishes

It's done I looked back and I started this quilt in June of 2008. I'm giving it to my grand daughter for her 3rd birthday in March. I started the month with the quilt about 1/3 quilted. It's been sitting in my sewing machine at that stage since last May. And the things got busy and crazy and I just stopped sewing for the summer. Now thanks to a few good snowstorms and very cold weather I back into the groove of sewing. Hopefully I'll get a bunch more done this year. I'm off to a good start so far.

This is the first quilt from Judy's UFO challenge you can check it out at Judy's blog HERE . For February Judy picked number 10 on the list. I'm going to have to get busy to get it done by the end of the month I only have the blocks done. But it will be a good UFO to get off my list. I'll post about it latter this week.