Thursday, October 31, 2013

samhain

this year i actually finished a halloween quilt in time to USE it ... his name is Samhain and he has lived on the OldManLeatherChair all month...
pattern is Fireworks! by Kim of Kim's Big Quilting Adventure
quilting by Liz Bowman of Milan, Michigan
pieced and bound by me, myself and i

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

batouttahell

my dad didn't get to cuss much around my mom, but she did cut him some slack every once in a while ... when another driver would whiz past us and he said 
like a bat out of hell!!! 
she didn't raise her eyebrows very high or admonish him with Guido!!!

so that's what i came up with when i was trying to think of a name for this wreath...
Bat out of Hell
it has been living on the back of Auntia's red leather chair... 

she says it doesn't keep her very warm... 

maybe that bat isn't outta Hell after all...

pattern and fabric by Jason Yenter of In The Beginning
quilted with BATS!!! by Liz Bowman of Milan, Michigan
pieced and bound by me, myself and i

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

the morning after the night before

does anyone remember Girls Night Out (formerly known as HPV not the virus? i didn't finish it till waaaaay too late for halloween last year and that is okay cuz it is not a feel-good-keep-warm kinda quilt and i would probably have to put a hurt on anyone who actually tried to use it... 
anywho...
 there were a LOT of leftover pinwheels ... 
i put some of them together...
the morning after the night before

and made a table runner for the long, skinny table that used to live in the Gotebo Oklahoma library...

speaking of long and skinny - did you check out my quilt holder upper?!?
NoJo is 12 and wears a men's size 12 shoe... 
he is officially taller than me even before i shrunk 3/4 of an inch at 5'5"...
the table runner is 16 inches wide... 
if not for his big man hands and black socks, you'd never know he was there!!!

the morning after the night before was
quilted by Liz Bowman of Milan, Michigan
and was pieced and bound by me, myself and i