Go figure, I did this once and it did not publish. Now I will try again. I am trying a new method of madness. I bought a book, Quilts of a Different Color, and really wanted to try this. About a month ago, I did the quilting on this. I did it on my trusty Bernina 630 with the BSR foot on.

Then I rinsed out the blue marker and it took two days to dry on top of the hot tub. Then I started to color it with color pencils and then used fabric medium over that. The good part of that is you can go over it as many times as you want as long as you treat it with the medium between each coloring. It really is good fun to do and I want to see my friends do it too.

The right picture is of the first attempt at coloring. Then a few days later, I did one petal on the flower. That was about three weeks ago and life got in the way. Today I colored the rest of the flower petals but now know that I used different pencils for the other petals. But, I will go over that a little and fix it up and you will not know.

Changes

Thought as long as I was in the mood, I would change the layout a little. Hope you are all well with that. I spent some of this afternoon preparing some Dear Jane blocks. I have two rows of that quilt done. I am using Inklingo to do the sashing. I think it will be big enough not to need borders, but will look at that when I get a little further on this project.

I think I need to finish a few of these projects before I start another. I am also working on a challenge for the St Cloud Quilt Group. We had to draw a crayon and use that color somewhere on our wall hanging which will be 25 inches square. The other rule is that some of it be paper pieced. I have the background paper pieced and am appliqueing over that. I have the design ready and some of the applique done but need a little help. That help will be from Cousin Pris in Chicago when I go there next week.

Sooo long

Wow, I can't believe that it has been this long since I posted on my blog. Hang in there, I will get a picture or two and a few more comments soon.

Another Mn Shop Hop quilt done

Well, just the top is done, but I finished this a couple of months ago but didn't have it photo-ed. Is that a word? Well, anyway here is the post of that quilt top as well. I have a close up of one of the blocks to post as well. Enjoy.

Quilt is done

I finished the Block of the Month quilt from Gone to Pieces quilt shop in Kimball and finally got a chance to photo it. Hope you enjoy this as much as I do. There was a bite of wind out there today so the pictures are not the greatest but it is finished and published.

Fishing

I golfed pretty well this morning and then did some running around town, got my nails done and got home in time to put the final two borders on that quilt top. It looks really good, no picture yet, as it is too big to hold up and there was too much wind outside to hang it on the clothesline for photos. Maybe tomorrow.

Norb and I went fishing this evening and had a great time and success as well. I got my limit and Norb got a half a limit. I have 5 or 6 that were 3/4 of a pound to 1 pound. We weighed a couple with my Weight Watchers scale when we got home. It was a great night. It's a little after 10 and all the fish are cleaned and soaking in salt water in the frig, the dish washer is going and now a little time for computer.

Haven't been here for a long time but just got done eating at our church festival and now will be putting the borders on a quilt I started in January. It is a block of the month project and I am finished with the blocks and sashing so hopefully between working at the festival and golf tonight I will be able to get the borders on and finished. Then, decision time, will I quilt it myself or take it to a long arm quilter. Just don't know.

The quilt shop in Kimball will rent out their long arm quilting machine and that might be an option also. I will have to take a class on how that operates but that should not be too difficult for me to get done. I know that will all have to wait until fall when I can't golf three or four times a week.