That’s Life

Everyone has a passion, even if it’s only to avoid having one. At the moment, my huge passion is quilting. After moving to Rison and looking around (not very well, evidently) for a quilting guild or group, I finally found not one… but two!

Last week I joined one of them, and I plan to visit the other one at their next meeting. I’m happy.

What I’m learning very quickly since setting up my sewing machine this past week is that I am not a very good quilter. I do much better with hand-piecing. For some reason my machine piecing just doesn’t look that great lately. (Maybe I just have to get back into practice.) I’ve checked my seams for the appropriate size. I’ve read and re-read directions for certain blocks. I’ve said little prayers. And still my latest block does not work. The sizes of the pieces are off, even though I’ve read and re-read and checked and re-checked.

Oh, well, I’ll figure it out.

In the meantime, I’m going to post some pictures of past work and some still unfinished UFO’s. 

This first quilt is my first finished quilt, a log cabin quilt that I pieced while we lived in Wilson. It’s paper-pieced, and I paid $30 to have it machine quilted. Since I hadn’t provided any binding, the machine quilter simply hemmed the edges. I was going to bind it properly, but before I could do that, my son Billy came to visit and begged me to give it to him. Who can resist a child, even a grown child?

I’m in the process of hand-quilting the following baby quilt. I started it about 18 years ago when one of my daughters was pregnant. Now 15 grandchildren later, it still isn’t finished. And all of the grandchildren are too old for a baby quilt. Oh, well, I consider this a huge learning project.

The following two photos are of blocks are made about a year ago when I was smitten with the 30’s fabrics. They reside on my design board, since I can’t decide on a layout.

And the last photo is of my honeycomb quilt. It’s a works in progress, and if God is kind, I’ll live long enough to finish it. It’s hand-pieced with one-inch hexagon pieces. 

Thanks for indulging me this little bit of whimsey. I guess this is my way of saying I hope to finish these UFO’s, as well as complete some new projects this year. With the inspiration and encouragement of the quilting guild, I might make it.