My goodness time sure does fly by fast.  Hard to believe that it has been almost 2 years since I have put anything on my blog.  I'm determined to do better in the next year.  I'll try to put up as many pictures as possible of the projects that I have been working on over my absence from my blog.

This is a quilt that one of my Besties and I made for her daughter, I call her my niece.  The young lady is currently in the U. S. Navy and residing in Florida.  I told her she would have to sleep on it instead of under it.  Made this one spring of 2012

This quilt has baby sea turtles.  I made this one for another one of my Besties.  Actually for her newest grandson who live near the beach.   This was May 2012

Mike's Quilt

This summer my son ask me for a new quilt as his quilt from high school graduation was falling apart. So the question was what style and what fabrics. Think, think, think. I wanted to make something meaningful but simple for him. Something usable. While playing on the Internet one day I came across a link on my local quilt guild's site for jelly roll races http://www.bakersfieldquiltguild.org/sharing.html . Boy did this look like fun. So out to the sewing room I went. I collected fabrics from my shelves that represented memories of my son. Into the quilt went scraps from shorts I had made for him as a child (he is 30 years old now, goes to prove I never throw anything away. LOL) . Some of the themes were cub scouts, boy scouts, fishing, soccer, music, army, fabric from his wedding quilt, left overs from the quilts I made for his son, my grandson, and in between I place strips of muslin to record memories and important dates for him. I sewed the strips in chronological order rather than the way the video showed though. What a great way to express memories through quilting.

This is something I would be willing to do as a special order for others.