Tis Love, Tis Love

As some of you know I am the photographer for the Kingwood Area Quilt Guild and every month we do a lottery block. For the month of February we did a heart pattern called Cross My Heart by Sindy Rodenmayer.

 On the pattern there is not a list of materials or instructions that tell you that if you start with 12 fabrics you get 12 blocks! I was thinking I would have 6 blocks. But I am getting off track. The lottery block works that each person who makes blocks get their name in equal to the number of blocks they made. The name that is pulled from the hat gets all the blocks. When I saw the pattern, which is raw edge appliqué, I thought “Gee that looks funs and easy and Lord knows I have lots of red and white fabrics. Well it was easy but like I said above I used 6 red fabrics and 6 white fabrics so now I have 12 block. If I turn them in I have a good chance of winning, but I like them so much and it would be nice to have a quilt of hearts to toss over a chair in the living room for Feb. And as far as that goes, I think I might do one for every season. March - St. Patrick’s, April and May - Flowers, June - July- The 4^th of July, August -September - ???, Oct. - Nov. - Fall leaves so it covers Halloween and Thanksgiving, and I already have one for Christmas. The very 1^st quilt I ever…finished. (Gee I guess I need to take a picture of that so ya’ll can see. ) So I am torn, do I keep them and just make my lap quilt or do I put them in the lottery and chance losing them? HELP!!!
Well on the off chance I keep them I was playing around to seeing how I like adding sashing cause it has got to be bigger and I really don’t want to make more blocks, I would want to go get more red and white fabric the I really can’t afford.

1st Finished Quilt! I was told it is a God's Eye Pattern.

Ambitious first attempt at free motion quilting.

The Block...the edges fray when washed, Love it!

Where they would live.

Without sashing.

With sashing.

http://www.fatcatpatterns.com/PDFs/CrossMyHeart.pdf

Look at this!

I have told many people about the poinsettia in my backyard and everyone has wanted to see it. So….

Every year on black Friday, Thom and I go Home Depot and get their 99 cent poinsettias. Well last year one of them lasted in the house till spring. Now I have been told that you can plant them in TX if you place them on a south facing wall. It did very well last summer even with the 100+ temps we had. And during the end of summer/early fall the leaves started turning red and by Christmas it was just stunning. Needless to say we purchased more this past Christmas and as it is so warm I am going to be putting them in the ground as soon as I get Christmas down, yes our Christmas is still up. We have been so busy and now that I have hurt my ankle…..