Just froggin' and bloggin'...


I have been trying to catch up with the hand stitching of prepped blocks!  As I put these pattern bundles on my store site next week, I want to have a finished color picture of each pattern in my store picture gallery.

This is Ola's Bog Buddy...


This spiky little fellow is Hedgehog With Melon...


This is Primrose Garland...


And Wisp of Fuchsia...


And Blueberry Season...


Iris Cluster...


And, A Pair of Pears...


I speak tomorrow night at the Quilt Guild in Athens, Alabama.  I have not taught a class or given a quilt talk in two years, so I feel a little rusty and nervous.  I'm sure it will come back to me like riding a bike and then they will have to "use the hook" to get me to shut up!  It will be nice to be around some quilters!

Oh my, and Ola sent me some more blocks for our Repro Madness swap project.  They are embroidered and just perfect with all the other applique and pieced blocks!  Aren't they awesome?!?  They will finish 6 inches.




I have got to get out and meet some local quilters...this is a very lonely mountain!  I spent a little time this week unpacking some more boxes...the moving in continues!  I had to stop for a while there after Christmas because I felt so cranky every time I spied a pile of boxes somewhere in the house.  

This week I focused on unpacking boxes of books...ugh.  Trying to find spaces for books is difficult.  Steve had made me built-in book shelves in Michigan, and we left them with the house when we sold it...sigh.

In stitches,
Teresa  :o)

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