Crazy Quilts are Quilts Too

I started sane quilting back in 1998 and in 2007 I picked up a book about crazy quilting by Judith Baker Montano and never looked back. Next, I poured over books by Marsha Michler and Carole Samples and others and joined several Crazy Quilting online groups. I have spent a good deal of time learning various techniques used on crazy quilts and still have a LONG way to go! To me crazy quilting is an art where you can really let yourself get creative. There are so many techniques to learn -- it is never boring! I have posted some of the brides on the CQ brides quilt I am working on. You can see more of my work in "Completed CQ Projects" in the lables on the right side of my blog. Check out www.pigtales and quilts.com to find other crazy quilter blogs like mine and to vote on the crazy quilt contest going on there. There are even prizes to be won.

My First Snowball!

Will you look at this beautiful work of art?! Annamaria from Romania made it for me in my color choices. I LOVE it! Now I must run off and finish hers! You can see more pictures of it on her blog: http://manya72.blogspot.com/ Take some time to look at some of her other blog posts.

Valentine Blocks

These are my Valentine DYB blocks for CQI.

Post Christmas Christmas Tree

I went to Target the other day and picked up a tree I saw before Christmas for half price. It is 6 ft tall, but only about 20 inches wide at its widest point so it will fit in just about anywhere. It is champaigne colored and I bought white lights for it. I finally found a place for my white beaded (gold beads) crocheted garland I bought at an estate sale one time. It never quite looked right on our tree. Of course I had to put it up even though Christmas is over.

Pomegranate Dye

So, yesterday I took some silk velvet and silk ribbon and used them to squash pomegranate pieces. Nice color. I am going to iron them before I wash them out to see what the final color will be. Don't try this at home unless you like pomegranate splattering all over everything! lol! The first time I added too much water and it turned out pinkish and I wanted a deeper color. The picture shows velvet/ribbon pre-second squish.

Christmas Presents from dH

I know I'm going to make a lot of my friends jealous by posting these pictures, but they are just too lovely not to post! The box is actually an ammunition box that I am keeping jewelry parts and charms in. What I think is neat is that the knobs on each drawer look like little spools. Each drawer has two compartments -- the second picture shows only one compartment of a drawer. The last picture is of a lovely restored Victorian era frame that I may use some day to house a crazy quilt. Click on this picture to see the wonderful details of the frame. I just love them both.

Pin Cushion

Here is a pin cushion I made for a Christmas exchange I've been doing for several years on my Cyberbees group.