Monday, December 24, 2007

Recent animal rescue


Our neighbor kids brought this one home but their mom was allergic and had an asthma attack. So I took it. Wanted to keep it of course, but DH said 3 animals in the house was enough. :-(
I did find a good cat lover home for him. He was such a sweet kitty.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Raggedy Ann Quilt

Five years ago I decided to get a sewing machine and start sewing for the first time since high school. This was my first major project: a raggedy ann quilt for my mom. Here is a picture of her puppy, Xander sitting on the bed...LOL. Anyway, I found some raggedy ann fabric, but I did a lot of drawing on many of the squares. I also had my children draw squares for it. It is a king size. When she came to see me from out of state, I had it on my bed. She came back to my room and said, "where did you get the raggedy ann quilt? " I said, "I made it. It's yours." It was so fun. Most of the squares are 12". It was my first quilt in 15 years so I was afraid to start something with smaller squares. This only took me 2 weeks to complete, so that motivated me to start more complicated quilts.