I can’t believe this day has arrived!

 

I can’t believe it – after quilting all these many years and giving quilts away, and having too many UFOs to count, I finally finished a quilt for my own bed!  I can hardly believe it. Thankfully the temperature dropped last evening – so it was nice to sleep under it with a cool breeze coming in the windows. Otherwise I would have cranked up the air conditioning and cooled down the bedroom enough so that I could use the quilt to keep me warm!

The name of the quilt is Jungle Red – can anyone tell me where that name came from?

Design Muse: In Front of You (again) – On Broadway

Buildings need columns to support the structure – so it’s great that these large pieces of stone and metal also are pretty to look at!

And here a few more items to inspire

Design Muse: Look Up (again)-On Broadway

And here we are gazing skyward again – what wonderful things are put in the nooks and crannies of the buildings! The folks who designed these buildings sure had fun. Thankfully they are still around for us to enjoy and to inspire.

Design Dilemma – Log Cabin Results

The votes are in and Setting B won.

As a recap…

Here are the fabrics…

Here is the block…

Here is the finished quilt top…

Close up of quilting on the front…

The back of the quilt (quilting reminds me of a lamp shade at home when I was growing up!)…

Close up of the quilting on the back…

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Quilter of the Month

Today I had the honor of being “Quilter of the Month” at the Empire Quilters Guild’s May Meeting. (We meet the second Saturday of the month at FIT[Fashion Institute of Technology] in NYC) Here are some shots from the day.   It was a lot of fun to show folks what I have been doing – and to get some great feedback from them.

Here is Naomi who greets everyone and gets them to buy raffle tickets!

Here are a few shots of some of the quilts…..

Chatting with some folks at the end of the meeting……..