Krazy Kats quilt

This is one of my favorite quilts. I made it some time ago. It's the right size to throw over a sofa or easy-chair. I like to do embroidery--by hand. I don't have one of those sewing machines that does embroidery, although I do use some of the fancy stitches on my regular machine sometimes. My grandmother taught me to embroider when I was a little girl. But I don't recall seeing her embroider or sew anything. She had a treadle sewing machine that was all painted with a lovely flower design. I remember that I used it on rare occasions. Grandma was a queen in the kitchen, though. She could bake bread that was heavenly, make pickles and pickled salmon. It wasn't easy to make pickles then, first Grandma had to hire a farmer to grow the pickling cucumbers, and we had to go out to the farm and walk around in the field while she looked at them and he picked them for us. Grandma had some of those big old-fashioned candy jars, the kind with the slanted tops. She would put the pickles and solution in the jars and then she had a special flat rock (that she had of course cleaned very well) and she would weigh the cucumbers down with that. To be continued--someday I'll tell you about the cherry wine she made.... The quilt pattern is still available from http://www.whitepicketfencequilts.com/

Finished baby quilt

Here it is, all free-motion quilted and bound! I'm so excited. I used to bind quilts only with bias, but lately I've been cutting straight strips. And I have another exciting project that I'm working on: To Be Continued-----

baby quilt in progress

This quilt is the latest that I'm working on. I designed the applique myself. It is hand work, needleturn applique and hand embroidered.