A Little Decorating

I, finally, got the chance to play around with my Dining Room Cabinet. I put up one of Jo's Little Women Club quilts that I made. It's Jo's Calicoes Surprise and is now in her book 'Yesterday's Charm'. I just got in this book and also her latest book, 'Vintage Journey'. Both books have some of her earlier Little Women club patterns in them. Found quite a few that I would like to do when I get back to my sewing room.

It's been warmer here, so I've been out more than in. I've also done a little more shopping with neighbors, so I am behind on housework. Oops, the dreaded H word. Next week is the last week of school, so the house will be even worse then. I figure while we have sun out, I'll be out with the kids and worry about major cleaning when school starts back. My little guy goes to Kindergarten in the coming school year, so I'll have more time to myself to clean and quilt! Yippee! Just a few months away.

Country Sampler Grouping

Country sampler grouping
Originally uploaded by WoolieChelle

Since I don't have any other progress pics to share yet, I thought I'd share another of my decorating with quilts. This is a grouping that I did many years ago in my dining room. The quilt is from one of the Little Quilts books. When we were stationed at Ramstein AFB, Germany, some friends and I did this pattern together. We divided up some of the blocks and each of us made enough for the rest in the group. We then swapped our blocks and put our own quilt together. It was such fun to see them come together and how each of them looked different. I hand quilted mine and love it!

I'm hoping this post goes through, as I'm trying something a bit different. Rather than uploading the pic through Blogger, I'm trying it from my Flickr album. I'm still learning how to blog and I'm sure there are lots of other features that I still have to learn.

Old and New

I am making some progress on the Churn Dash Quilt. I have all of the blocks completed and started sewing the rows together. My back is getting better, but I still have to take it easy on it. I keep doing a few household chores and then I get the pressure on my back again, so DH has told me to STOP! I was so anxious to get back to my sewing, that I snuck down and did a little here and there today. Don't want to push it, but when the quilting bug has hit me after so long, I don't want to lose it!

Since I don't have any progress pics yet of my Churn Dash, I thought I'd share an old pic of my Entry Way at our previous home. So this is Old to me, but New to you.
The mini quilt is a Jo Morton Little Women's club piece. The applique quilt is a pattern by Jan Patek. I will post a close up pic next time of the 'Basket & Blooms' by Jan Patek, as I did 'big stitch' quilting on it. I've tried to add it this time, but blogger isn't co-operating with me. Until next time......