I'm Home!!

Look at this!! A beautiful new blog layout! For the longest time, I tried to get this blog to look more like "me", and I couldn't do it. Blame my computer illiteracy.

Enter Amber from The Shabbee Chick! She came to the rescue and just made this blog look beautiful. Thank you, Amber! I love it! I feel like I'm home now. Thank you, thank you!

A Twist

I thought a lot about what to do with the quilt "center" I have. I thought about wide borders, lots of skinny borders, vertical borders, pieced borders, you name it. I did even think about leaving it and having it be a table topper, because I thought maybe it was telling me it was done. I was stymied. But then I said to myself, "Self, you're looking at this all the wrong way". So, I did this:

That worked.

Damned if I can get a good picture of it, though.

Sorry about the wrinkles. I had just brought it out of my studio without stopping at the iron first. Shoulda done that...

Does putting Sam in the picture(or him putting himself in it, as it was) make it better?

....Not really. I've got to find a better way to do this.

Anywho, I have one yard and 7 charm squares left. It needs finishing, just to "stop" the middle. Hopefully tomorrow....

Have a great day, everyone!

Border 1

Added the first border:

It helped pop it.

This is a little challenging because using the rest of the charm squares left me with only two fabrics--one a blue with a large print, and one a yellow with a med/small print. I have only 2 yards of one, and 1 of another. It sounds like a lot of fabric, but the quilt is really still small, and I have to "grow" it without adding 10" borders (that would be sucky). As a challenge to myself, I won't buy any more of this fabric to finish this quilt (I don't even know if I could find it anyway). But I have an idea. Stay tuned...

The giveaway is over, and hmm..... didn't go so well. Lesson learned: no more giveaways for quite a while.

But, I got two entries, so you both win!! I have one more teacup and a whole lot of cool bits and pieces and ribbons, so I can make another pincushion and send you both one. Seems only fair since you were the only two to comment. Jan and Cathey, please send me your addresses, and I will send them post-haste. Thank you both for your comments on that post! Congratulations!