Friday, February 17, 2006

Thank you, Judy

I was totally *blogged* down in the gobbly-gook of getting this set up, and Judy rode in to the rescue! What a sweetie!

I finished appliqueing 63 polka dot circles to background squares last night, and hope to assemble the top this weekend. The background I already know will create a design quandry when they're sewn together, so I think I'm going to have to applique more circles over the intersecting seams. We'll see. Sounds confusing -- heck, I'm confused -- but I'll post a picture when it's all done. The quilt is from Teri Christopherson's book Summertime and named "Polka Dots"! The polka dot charms were from a swap with my online friends. I did stash bust a bit as I pulled 15 or so more polka dot fabrics, but I sheepishly admit to buying a few last weekend, too. It's a sickness. I can't help it. My QuiltMobile is on auto pilot right to The Fabric Patch every Saturday morning!

Rain, glorious rain today! It's pouring right now, and has certainly cooled things off. I actually turned on the heat tonight. I hope our mountaintops are white tomorrow. I haven't seen any snow on them yet this winter.

Time for a cup of hot tea. TGIF!!!

8 comments:

Evelyn aka Starfishy said...

Hi there! Welcome to Stash Quilts - sounds like you have lots of interesting projects in the works and I can't wait to see some photos of your progress! I have found this group to be a huge motivator to keep me creating - got to have a photo to post on my blog, you know?!

Cheers!

Evelyn

Cher said...

welcome to Stash Quilts! your polka dot quilt sounds quite interesting- will look forward to seeing a photo of the top...

Granny said...

So, did you go to FP this morning?

Judy L.

Vicky said...

ROFLOL -- I'm watching the clock! Almost have the polka dot top assembled, and I do *need* to get an inside border....... you're not buying that, are you? LOL

Vicky said...

Thanks for the warm welcome, ladies! I'm really looking forward to moving out a lot of this fabric, as well as eliminating a ton of UFOs! You all have really motivated me! I'm putting borders on the Polka Dot quilt now, so hopefully will be able to figure out the picture thing tomorrow!

Debby Brown said...

I love the Polka Dot quilt. Pictures, please!!!

Mary Johnson said...

Welcome - can't wait to see a picture of the circles. That's another quilt on my list and I'm trying to decide if I can fuse them and skip the applique step by stitching them down when I quilt them.

Patti said...

Welcome Vicki - glad to have you here!

I'm a big fan of both Teri Christopherson and her sister Barbara Brandeberg. I think I have every one of their books. I'll have to check out the Polka Dot quilt - sounds like fun!