Ready for some SPRINGTIME...

This quilt is made from more of my "Nickle" Exchange from the Quilt Guild. It's from 5 inch polka dot squares. All of the flowers are appliqued circles.... Big ones, little ones, lots of em or just one, but they all look so cheery and happy I want some in my yard right now.

Panama Quilt

I finally had a sunny day to take pictures of quilts. It almost took longer for that than to quilt them. Nah, I've been working on this one for about a year. One of my favorite things about this quilt is that Maddie, my 8 year old granddaughter helped me. When I was in Seattle last year I was working on the border. She wanted to help me....so one of the flower centers was done completely by her. Amelia, started to do one, but didn't get very far. Maddie's will be there for the life of the quilt.

Back in the Groove...

We "UNINVITED" our children to Thanksgiving dinner and left for two weeks on a cruise through the Panama Cananl. We had two weeks of fun, lots of food and plenty of time to work on a quilt while enjoying the sun.

I made the blocks for this quilt and then before I sewed them together, I needed something to work on while we were traveling. I sewed and sewed on the border and then when I got the blocks sewed together they looked like swastika's. I was so bumbed. I took the quilt on my cruise and worked on disguising them.

It turned out to be a magnet. Other quilters would see me sewing and stop by to visit. I met quilters from Texas, Michigan, England and Seattle. Lots of quilters just pulled up a chair and sat and visited. It was fun to meet so many people with the same love.
Now I have the quilt on the sewing machine and I've decided to call it PANAMA. It kind of has that look to it anyway. Cruise was fun. I got the blocks done. And now I am slowly quilting it to death.