"Dark Shadows"... (aka "The Beast")

It's finished and ready to go the quilter ~the decks are now cleared to start work on Eventide!

While I was working on this quilt top, I encountered some of my personal dark shadows... such as impatience... my tendency to get things turned upside down and/or backward...willingness to go back and correct things when I'm in a hurry.... and willingness to keep at it when I am just downright tired of the project. So I named it "Dark Shadows."

(Not to mention that Johnny Depp is making a movie based on the T.V. show I remember so well!)

However, toward the bitter end,

:)

I just kept thinking, this thing is a BEAST! (It measures 80x96, my largest quilt so far.)

So I guess it will always have a nickname as well as it's name!

It's a bit difficult to see the Log Cabin surround blocks and setting triangles in the picture... those were the main source of those upside down/backwards moments! They are really what make the quilt so special.

True Blue

True Blue, (pattern by Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie's Quilt Company,) was my first "full-size" quilt. It measures 80x80 and was so much fun to make! I really think, though there are so many quilts and so little time, that I will make this one again... just for the fun of it! It gave me such a feeling of early success... I KNEW I could make quilts!

I gave it to my husband for his bedroom at our farm in the country. The farmhouse is 125 years old this year... the room is done in old fashioned blues, and has an antique full size bed. True Blue fits the bed perfectly, and is right at home!

Also, my hubby is a very true blue guy~

:)

Sal's quilt

The third quilt top I finished was a very simple one. The Pattern is "All Aflutter" by the Pattern Basket. I loved the Morris Workshop fabric, and I had told my my sis I would make her a quilt, so I went for it. She uses it in her computer chair.

My first finished quilt

Right after I started making 2nd Saturday blocks, I went to Texas to visit my family. I found the coolest quilt shop in Arlington, Tx. ~ "Lone Star House of Quilts." They had a quilt pattern which I loved, with hearts on a brown background, by a designer named Betsy Cutchian. ( It's still available at their store and on their website.) I was inspired! I bought the pattern and fabric, and brought it all home in my suitcase. The result was my first finished quilt top...

"Hot For Chocolate"

This quilt eventually went to be with my Mother in Law, who was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, and was her bedcovering when she passed away. It now belongs to my Father in Law.