Happy New Year everyone! Today is was very quiet around this house, DH is off in his big truck so no big party for us. So this is not to say I haven't been busy. On Sunday DH and I decided to redecorate our bathroom. After 7 years it was time, and we really changed it, much darker paint on the walls, no wallpaper, and new shower curtain, towels and rugs, the whole bit. When I finished putting it all together the walls looked really bare. Nothing I currently had matched, well I did find that a small collage done last Feb. fit in very well so that went up. Then the search for fabric and a pattern for more things. I actually found a number of fabrics that will work, but one in particular pleased me, it was a fat quarter I dyed a few years ago, it turned out an odd color so hadn't found a use, and guess what, it matched almost perfectly. So then, what to do with it, I take pictures at every quilt show I go to and also have a huge library of magazines and books. Well looking through some of the photos taken, I passed over a bunch my DS#4 took on a trip up to Glacier Nat'l Park. One he took of pebbles in water caught my eye, the colors were perfect, so it was printed out on Iron On Transfer, transferred onto white fabric, and low and behold, it came out just right. The print got trimmed, 1st border was dark brown to go with the other new things, and then I used the dyed fat quarter for a larger border. I am so pleased with the way it turned out, I named it "The Pebble Beach Pine" and you will see why in the photo. My next post will show you a scrap quilt I made for DS#3. The top is finished, the back needs piecing and it needs quilting, that is all for next week. Until then, have a Happy New Year, stay safe and have a Blessed Day.

Okay, it's been a long time, but there is so much to do at this time of year. I finally finished all my client's quilts and have been working feverishly on finishing some of my own. Boy is it ever fun to work on my own things. So here are some photos of what got finished. The first one is of my newly organized stash. Doesn't it look great, I'm not quite done, I had to order more of these neat little inventions from The Fabric Organizer. They are the coolest idea in a long time. Anyway before I did this I quilted my Christmas Sparkler from Patchalot Patterns, the Merry Christmas wall hanging from Whimsicals, the SnowGlobes from Birch Creek Quilts (along with an addition of my own) and yesterday I finished fusing, but not quilted, O Christmas Tree from Quilt Poetry, and painted a sweatshirt using a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop. Following are the photos of each. While I was taking photos I decided to add a few of my other Christmas decorations, why is this underlining? So here they are, all the little stocking are for my 13 grandchildren