Goldfinch....

Another bird applique done!  Now for the crazy stitching.

Working on......

I haven't posted in this blog for awhile, so I thought I would post a couple small projects I'm working on. Click on the photos and they look better up-close.

 I call this one "Cats in the Cabin".  I wanted to make a small quilt to put on my lap for when my cats want to curl up with me.  They love to lie on quilts, but a quilt plus a cat in the summer is hot!  So I thought I would make a couple of small quilts big enough for them to lie on , but not so hot as a bigger quilt draped over me.  I chose to make some cat blocks....they still need embroidered faces and tails.  I had a lot of left over strips from my strip quilt, so I surrounded the cats on two sides with color log cabin style.  Didn't get my colors distributed too well, but I like it and will use it.  I'm kind of leaning towards wishing it was a wall hanging rather than a cat quilt :-)

This wall hanging isn't quite finished....never sure when I am done with things.  I just keep working until I either run out of time for a project, or get tired of working on it.  Our guild has a challenge this year and it is complicated to explain all the details, but the main idea is "Simply Charming, Darling.....".  Everything except borders has to be made from charm squares and it has to represent something charming.  I didn't like that charm square part....it made my fence posts have seams :-(  I've had fun working on this and hope to have it hanging on the wall in my bedroom soon.