Sewing on a Sunday.......

        We still have a little snow left in the front yard from our "blizzard" this last week. I am enjoying a quiet Sunday at home with my sewing machine and Pandora tunes playing. I love that pandora, it streams music that I like with limited commercials. I got an IPOD touch for christmas and have it on my sewing table docked in a small speaker system.
................and so Today I find myself at home. It is quiet at work and so I am home on call. I am working on a my sliced coins quilt . I decided to quilt each "coin" in a different way to practice my freemotion. I must say it is a great way to practice, practice, practice...Here is a picture of what I am doing. I guess it is now half finished!

                                                            and here is another shot

practice,practice,practice......JERI

Charity Quilting

Last night was my guild meeting. I haven't been able to attend in a while due to my work schedule. It was fun to see all my fellow quilters and see what they have been up to. Our program was a lovely lady and her mom who sell vintage linens. You know the embroidery and hankies of years gone by. I have a few pieces in my closet and trunk from both my husbands side of the family and my own. The program made me get a few of them out and just start thinking of what could be done with them. Some of them are stained and a few even have holes. This woman and her mother cut them into usable pieces and repurpose them into small quilts. Lovely.

We also have a show and tell before our meeting starts. I had three charity baby quilts to take for the lullabye quilts. These are the three quilts......

                                                                                   
I love making these quilts. It gives such satisfaction to know they will go to a great cause.  Jeri

Happy Valentines Day!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!  /jeri

Birdie Stitches BOM

Finished my block for February today.

Itsy Bitsy Spider....

Yay it is finished. I finally put in the last stitch. This one has been in the works for a while and I LOVE IT!
                                                        
                                                        Sew scrappy. Here is the top.

                                                                SpiderWeb

               and here is the back. Love the letters SPIDERWEB across the back.

another shot of the back.

             and I just love this label. Had to have a spider to go on the web. So cute. 

                                               This is my favorite quilt....
                                                                                          .......so far!  Jeri  :)

Picasso?

I have been embroidering some blocks lately for the http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdiestitches/ Birdie Stitches BOM and have kind of got the urge to do a little more. It is a lot of fun and I am enjoying the freshness of the whole hand embroidery thing. I use to embroider as a teenager on Chambray Long sleeved button down shirts. Hey it was the thing in the 70's! I guess I date myself....... Anyway back to the topic at hand. I just love this print by Picasso

Hands with Flowers I think it is called.

This is my version of it......

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and here they are side by side.....

I think my version came out pretty close....

Next to find a frame for it.

Picasso AKA....../ Jeri    :-)



Punxatawny Phil

This just in....
    
He surveyed his surroundings carefully and found that there was no shadow around,


                                                  So, an early spring it will be.

Happy Groundhogs Day!    Jeri