Bobby's Hospice House #3 - AKA "Strawberry Crumb Cake"

 Hi There!

Just an blog update - a sort of "Sew 'N Tell".

A few days before Easter, I made 10 pillowcases for family members.

They were well received!

Sew, I guess I'll make some more....

in the near future.

*grin*

Okay, you must be SICK of my red quilts, by now!

LOL

Well, I truly AM trying to use up all my bits and pieces and then, move onto some other projects.... hopefully projects with other colors, eh?

LOL!!!

Here's my pile of "crumbs".

For you non-quilters out there, "crumbs" are fabric bits and pieces and smidgeons, even!

 Here is a picture of me, making some "Crumb Blocks".

Here's a picture of my "Strawberry Crumb Cake".

I can assure you that the top is now completed but unfortunately, I didn't take a picture of it, yet.

And since I finished the quilt top this morning, I started working on piecing the back of the quilt.

As of supper time, I have 2 big chunks sewn up.

Tomorrow's another day, eh?

Rosa

Bertha's Room Got Another Face Lift!

Hi There!

Gilbert decided that our cutting board needed a face lift.

He removed our old Necchi sewing machine and added some wooden legs.

He says you can now put a total of 10 plastic totes filled with my fabric stash, underneath it now. NOTE: He will be painting the wooden legs white, to match the rest of the room.

He's almost finished painting those 3 quilt blocks, underneath his home made ironing board.

A close up of the blocks.

And yet another close up.

He informed me that they weren't completely finished. He still has some black lines to add and then a coat of varnish, to protect the paint.

I'm not sure if I posted pictures of our new "door". He picked it up at a 2nd place, called "Restore".... profits go to Habitat for Humanity.

And, this door only cost $2.50 !

Mind you, Gilbert did a few touch ups and painted it white.... and he had to buy the "hardware" - you know... the pins and sliding thingies at the top and bottom of the door, for $25.00 (approx.)

Not bad, eh?



Today, we also removed a few quilts in the Longarm Room and replaced them with other ones.

To the left, is last year's Halloween panel.

To the right, is the lastest baby quilt that I finished.

And here's a picture of my Christmas Leftover Lasagna Quilt.

Oh... I managed to finish a pillow case dress, last this afternoon.



It's got horseys all over it.

Still on vacation and still maintaining my "Vacation Journal".

Have a great weekend!

Rosa

Finished Project #2 - Florida Pillow Cases

Hi There!

While fabric shopping in Florida, I decided that I wanted to pick up some fabric with palm trees in it. I had a hard time finding some, till finally, in one of our last shopping spots, I grabbed some in Johann's!!!



Well, unfortunately, I didn't pick up enough to make the backs of these pillowcases.....

So, I had to wait and make a trip to Mardens, in Calais, to find some kind of coordinating fabric.

Here's the back of our pilllow cases.

It's not as dark as the picture. It's more like a (darkish) powder blue and it looks like clouds....



I figured with palm trees on one side and clouds on the other, these pillow cases would certainly provide us with pleasant dreams!

LOL

Rosa