Madonnas

Each year our guild has a challenge at Christmas time, we hang the challenge entries at our Christmas party and its always been very nice! This was my entry from this year, I went a little religious and I had fun finally using up the red fabric that is behind the Madonna. Just one of those pieces that sit around and you wonder when you will find a place for it.

I painted the faces of the characters, its machine quilted and appliqued.

Heres a couple other "madonnas"sleeping with my labrador, Bleu. He does keep your feet warm.

A bit cooler here today then the past couple days but it is sunny and that really is nice. My mom is recovering from a surgery so I am going back and forth from my house to her's, taking turns with my sister to keep an eye on the Mom. Its good when the roads are clear as you never know around this part of the country.

More Sweet Candy Dots

I'll try and post a couple more photos of the quilt I'm calling Sweet Candy Dots. My sister named it, she said it was a really sweet quilt and didn't the dotty fabric remind me of those candies that were all glued to paper, the ones we loved as kids. And why did we love them? But it was a sweet project for me as I used some kinda strange fabrics and went back to some techniques that I love such as hand applique and embroidery embellishments.

This is one of the corners, did some reverse applique to expose that blue, hope the green isn't too much but I liked it.

There are French knots in all the grey vines, they add a lot of texture that I like in a quilt.

Quilt labors

Last year found me working very hard on customer quilts and my posts became less and less. More working less posting, not good. I also tried to fit a quilt in between all the other stuff of life and it took a lot longer than anticipated. I finally have it done!

It is hand appliqued, embellished with embroidery and rick rack and machine quilted. It is also an original design.

I will have to upload more another time as blogger is very slow this morning.