Quilting Fever

I've got it!

I love coming to Camp Cascadia for the summer because I have SPACE. (In Coarsegold there is a quilting group that meets weekly, and there is a craft room where we can bring our quilts to work on but we have to clean up each time.) In our pole barn there is space to do the things I love doing like tole painting and quilting, and I don't have to clean up until I feel like cleaning up. So this week it's quilting that has captured my time. About four years ago I got the quilting bug, and I've loved making them ever since as gifts as well as for our own use.

This one is made from one of the JoAnn's kits I bought at a day-after-Christmas sale about four years ago. It caught my eye and each of the twelve blocks (it's a block-a-month type of quilt kit) was available at half price . . . half off the already discounted price . . .you gotta love that kinda deal! Plus I really like the colors in this one. And also, what is nice about these kits is, the pieces are all cut out for me. All I had to do was carefully sew them together, and voilah—done!

This one may be a keeper. I think it will go nicely on our bed in the travel trailer! I hope to have the top done tomorrow. Then it'll need to be quilted.

This name JoAnn's gave this quilt is "Mystic Blues"

There must be a thousand different quilt blocks designed through the years, and I get a kick out of the names given them. This one, which I found to be the most difficult to put together, is called "Grandmother's Puzzle."

"Four X"

"Cross and Crown"

"Lucky Clover"

Yesterday I added the four corners to each block, and the inside sashing.

Today I could only work a half-day on it and I finished the sashing. Tomorrow the borders will be added.

Life is Good!
. . . especially when you can snuggle up in a quilt!