My Best And Favorites Of 2015

Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs has a linky party going on for sharing our "Best of 2015" 

projects so I thought I'd join in the fun. Lots of amazing quilts in the shared links!

One of my favorites was working on the EQ7 Seasons Row-A-Long. This quilt and the

process involved making it was both educational and extremely fun.

This year I was really into making heart quilts to show my love for the recipients.

This one was for a sweet guy battling cancer. I just love him so much!

He loved his "Let Me Count The Ways We Love You" quilt.

Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts made me go a little crazy with this Dog Gone Cute quilt.

I've always been a dog lover, so this quilt was my kind of project!

The owls on this quilt were so dang cute! 

Margie at Ribbon Candy Quilt Company stole my heart with her sweet patterns. 

This is my version of Hoots Hollow.

Ending 2015 with my favorite guy, The Grinch, was a blast. He makes me smile!

I created this quilt after seeing the Grinch hand pattern by Angie Padilla. The rest of the

quilt was created by me drawing and playing around with applique pieces. I "embroidered" his

face using my machine and one of it's special stitches. I totally enjoyed making this quilt!

Thanks, Cheryl, for letting me share a few of my best and favorite quilts.

Here's to 2016 and even more creativity for all of us!

Have A Heart Quilt All Done

My "Have A Heart Quilt" is all done being quilted and the binding is on.

I love the quilting on it...feathers and flowers!

I really enjoy making these heart quilts and have another one cut out and ready to sew.

The "Let Us Count The Ways We Love You" quilt is in the hands of my sweet family member.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, to those who have offered prayers and hugs...much appreciated!

He's still very, very sick, but hopefully things will turn around for him. During a treatment 

he sent me a text saying that he just wanted to go home to his quilt and some coffee. 

Such a sweet guy...love him bunches and bunches!

Have a safe and peaceful weekend!

Hearts All Quilted And Ready To Go

I finished the "Let Us Count The Ways We Love You" Quilt and it is now ready to go wrap up

a special person with all the love we have. The quilting is straight lines and the binding is blue.

The total size of the quilt is 54" x 68" and I added a little corner pocket on the back for love notes.

It was a beautiful day for taking pictures, even at 91 degrees!

The bad part was all the critter holes I had to avoid to get the quilt pic.

Yikes! Snakes, lizards, rats, or who-knows-what was living in those holes.

Luckily, the red rocks were especially beautiful so dodging creepy things was worth it!

Let Us Count The Ways We Love You Quilt

Sometimes people need to be reminded of how much we love them, especially when they are sick.

This "manly" heart quilt will let us count the ways we love our sweet family member...which is a lot!

It's got some Tim Holtz number fabric in it that I've been holding on to for something just like this.

It just needs some quilting and binding and it will be done!

Let Us Count The Ways We Love You

I begged The Monkey Boys to come outside in their pajamas to help me hold this up for a pic. 

Thanks, boys! I love having them come visit!

Have A Heart Quilt

I've finished my quilt, Have A Heart, by adding a scalloped border.

It needs some quilting and binding and then it will be a sweet treat to wrap up in.

Have A Heart

It's was such a fun and happy quilt to make!

I need to make a more "manly" one for a sweet family member who is quite ill.

He's in my family's heart and he needs to know that we love him. Maybe reds and blacks?

Here's a little snippet from my row for the Row-A-Long in September.

It's paper pieced and made with Northcott's fabulous Artisan Spirit fabric.

My row is simple compared to some of the other amazing designers. Their rows will wow you!

Plus, lots and lots of giveaways have been donated by so many sponsors thanks to

 Marian at Seams to be Sew and her hard work at putting this blog hop together. 

My monsters multiplied and began to be stuffed by some nice ladies who even sat through

my class on freezer meals. It was such a fun night with lots of service projects going on.

I found some HUGE zucchinis in my garden...wowzers! Luckily I picked them before the skin got

too tough and they got all seedy. I ended up with 10 bags of shredded zucchini to put in the freezer. 

 They'll be great in muffins, breads, and spaghetti sauce. Yum!

My sister shared some of her overgrown plants and now our yard is looking pretty amazing. 

We weren't sure they'd survive transplanting them in the summer heat, 

but they were tough and made it. Even the rose bush made it. Yay!

Take time to smell the roses and of course, sew!