Our Guild has a machine embroidery interest group . We had a challenge to stitch out a Picasso cat design from BFC Creations. This is my contribution, with a little quilting around the outside background. I’m calling it double trouble cats. Size is about11x14

This black tabletop Singer is circa 1948, belonged to my mom; I learned to sew on it in jr. High. Still works.

Just finished the top for this stained glas quilt; pattern and most of the fabric from #Cherrywood hand dyed fabrics. Dark pink from my stash. #quiltsky

Took Karen Eckmeier’s Happy Villages workshop on Saturday, with dallas Quilt Guild. Beginning photo as i turn a Tetris fabric puzzle into a seaside village. More to come. #quiltsky

I spent the day finishing a backing for a Christmas quilt. I used 6 13x13 panel blocks and constructed wide sashings around them. I drew a diagram and bought what i thought was enough for the sashings. This is all i had left! Whew! #Mathworks!#quiltsky

Today we start the setup process for the #DallasQuiltShow at #DallasMarketHall. Show runs Fri-Sunday. 300+ judged quilts; 200+special exhibits. Live miniquilt auction Saturday afternoon. I’m entering this hand quilted Song Birds. I rescued the embroidered top on EBay last year. A year of hand

I gave a talk to our church’s seniors yesterday on 15 reasons i love quilting, and exhibited about 20 of my quilts and minis I’ve collected. Doing the talk got me to organize my quilt photos & i still have 6 quilts that still need labels. Next job: spreadsheet of all the quilts.

Happy Valentine’s Day. 2 quilts: a whole cloth embroidered heart made of flowers, and another with a heart made of varicolored pink strips with a border of love words, Love, sweetheart, darling, babycakes, pumpkin, honeybunch. #quiltsky

I had block kits from the dfw quilt store shop hop. Added 3 blocks from other sources. Added sashing and borders; now to pick a backing, probably piece something from my big stash of xmas fabrics

Picture of found red and green column quit with wonky stars. Airing out after a wash and dry to get rid of the cat hair. I won the blocks in an online Block Lotto a decade ago

I might do a longer joseph’s coat with vertical stripes, more figure flattering for me. A garment take on Jen Kingwell’s “wandering wife’ pattern, with all the one and one and a half inch colorful stripes as the background. #quiltsky

Decide on borders on my Xmas sampler,decide on a quilt plan for a wine-theme table topper (quilt on my Pfaff Quilt Expressions, problyjust some echoing seams cause i still find free motion frustrating); almost finished with handquilting a whole cloth cross stitch top i rescued on Ebay. #quiltsky

Quilt work in progress. Most blocks were from a 2022 Christmas in July shop in dallas area, plus the Lori Holt “present block and 2 thimbleberry blocks from a book. Next step is deciding on a border from my xmas fabric stash.

Work in progress; needs borders. Currently 54x54

Work in progress. Most of blocks are from 2022 xmas shop hop in dfw, but added a block from Lori Holt and 2 from a Thimbleberries book. I need to add border (s); I’m thinking of keyboard or 4 patches outside a thin solid inner border in green; maybe some xmas novelty in the 4 corners or an appliqué.