It's the day before Christmas, and all through the house.........

 Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse......

Is this your favorite Christmas story?  I know it is mine.

These past few days/weeks, there has been a lot of designing, sewing, quilting and the such around our house in preparation for the Christmas season.

This is my newest quilt, Heart and Home.  It is off the quilting frame now and awaiting time for me to prepare and sew on the binding, hanging sleeve and put its label on it.








I really did some custom quilting on this one to make the parts stand out.  Let me know what you think of the quilting.  I would love some feed back, good or bad or just other ideas.

This is a quilted table runner is for Jeff's youngest son.  He asked for a table runner in red and black for his coffee table that his dad made for him last year.  I really like how it turned out.  I think I need to make another one or two in different colors.  It was easy and fast to make.  I used the backing fabric as the binding as well.  I guess I didn't get that picture taken once it was finished.  I think he'll like it.  Hope so, anyway.

Now, on to cooking, baking and cleaning house for company tomorrow.

It looks like it's going to be ham, shoepeg corn, scalloped potatoes, broccoli, rice and cheese casserole with some purple hull peas.  Let's top it off with some banana cream pie, pumpkin bread and pumpkin cheesecake.  Doesn't that all sound delicious?

What is on your agenda for Christmas dinner?  I'm sure it will all be just yummy.

Merry Christmas to all my friends, family and blog followers!  Hoping for a healthy and prosperous New Year in 2016!

Happy quilting!

Glenda

Heart and Home quilt

I've been working in my studio on this newest quilt, Heart and Home.

Aren't the colors just the best?  I have really enjoyed working on it these past couple of weeks.

With the heart in the center, it makes you think of home, doesn't it?  Perfect to hang on the wall or snuggle under, right?

Here it is on the quilting frame.  I'm doing some real custom quilting on it.  This block is called flower box.  Doesn't it look like a flower box in your garden?

 Here is the heart block and the tree block.  You can see some of the quilting I have done on it.  Echoing around the heart, then added some meander fill on the bottom half, with rays at the top.

The tree block I added a swirl with a basket at the bottom and a star at the top.  This one isn't finished yet.  I will add some more quilting before it will be finished.

Working right now on the house block.  It has a door and 5 windows.  I am working on bricks for the main walls of the house and there will be shingles for the roof and more bricks on the chimneys.  Won't that be cute?

 Not sure how I will finish the outer borders just yet.  It's a work in progress.


For today, I had to take it off the quilting frame so Jeff can put a customer quilt on to quilt before the week is out.  A last minute job for a Christmas gift.

I will get back to this one next week sometime, I hope.

What are you working on now?  More Christmas gifts?  What is that special someone going to get under the tree this year?

Happy quilting!

Glenda