Still here ...

Hmmmm, haven't blogged for quite a while. Here is a quick rundown of the last six months ...

I worked a long-term temporary job from October until the end of January, which made my Christmas difficult.  I like to give hand-made gifts, and working full-time and having my fall weekends pretty much taken up providing bed & breakfast to hunters, I didn't have the time I needed.  So, no hand-made gifts.  Which made me very sad.  So, THIS year, I made a resolution to make ONE gift every month, rather than leaving them all until December.  Which never works.  December has only 24 gift-making days until Christmas.  And one quilt can take up half of them!  (Machine-quilted quilt, that is;  hand quilting definitely needs more than 24 days!)


I started off pretty well, considering I was still working in January.  (I decided that since most people work full-time and still manage to accomplish things,  I had to quit complaining about my lack of time and just start accomplishing things!)  I made a sofa quilt for my mom AND I finished a knitted/felted cat bed.  Both were planned as presents for Christmas 2010, but ... I gave the quilt to my mom for her January birthday, and put the cat bed aside for Christmas 2011.  So far, so good.  As long as I don't forget where I put it!

In February, I made a valentine wall-quilt.  It is supposed to look like an old fashioned Valentine, with flowery material and hearts and lavish quilting!  I wish the quilting showed up in this picture; it is machine quilted, but I still like it a lot.

I also finished a quilt top (my second 2011 Christmas present), but have not quilted it yet.  That makes three completed tops that need to be quilted;  one of these days ...

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