Blocks 48, 49, 50, 51

Blocks 45, 46, 47

About all I can say about Thanksgiving. Magic marker and varigated thread


Using batik fabric and triangles


Butterfly novelty fabric. Thread painting with metalic thread

another 'not a journal block'

A quilted pillow, "Healing Hands", I made for a friend who has a passion for healing. I sketched the hands with a fine tip purple marker on mottled light yellow fabric. I used oil pastels to enhance the 'light' around the hands. Then added the border and quilted.

Quilted wall hanging and quilted pillows

Not a journal block but what I have been working on instead of journal blocks. The pillow tops are batik's and unwaled corduroy.Sandwiched using cotton batting and backed with muslin. The wall hanging depicting pine trees are one seam prarie points with the idea of sun shining from behind, entitled "Standing Tall",

Journal block 45 in 2009

This is my home made extension sewing table, we made it from a piece of Plexiglas we have had laying around for years, the legs are made from PVC connectors, I cut circles from a rubber jar opener and glued them to each end so it would not slide.

More free motion, I'm trying to get more control with speed and movement of the material, thinking out what you want to do is probably key, I didn't and encountered several problems. Also itsy bitsy details seem harder to accomplish than medium size. All I knew when I started this was I wanted to try pumpkins, vines and leaves. Hopefully with practice I will improve, regardless I am having loads of fun.

Journal block 44 in 2009

More playing with free motion.

Journal block 43 in 2009

Just playing with free motion.

Journal block 42 of 2009

Journal block 41 of 2009

Week 44 2009

Lame strips fused the satin stitched using two threads in needle.

Week 43

Week 42 2009

Thinking about a whole cloth quilt.

Week 41- 2009

Funky Town!!!

Week 40 - 2009

Free form circles with free motion quilting. After quilting I colored the circles with oil pastels. Hmmmm Didn't work as I thought. Must have been the pastel sticks.

Journal block 40 of 2009

Journal block 39 of 2009

Free motion, I think this is called Shadow waves.

Week - 39 - 2009

Intended to cut up this painted fabric but liked it as is. So...just did a bit of stitching. Backed with cotton batting and muslin.

Spray painting

The paint is air brush paint in a small spritzer bottle. Very, very diluted with water. Probably 10-20 drops paint in one ounce water. Wish I had known about this before buying fabric for my last project. Much less expensive and a whole lot more fun.
The pictures came out a bit pale. The fabric is a good deal darker.

Used foam brush on wet fabric.



Sprayed wet fabric.


Crumpled wet fabic. Sprayed one side. Turned over and sprayed other side. Used pink and purple. The fabric is slightly darker than photo.


This paint was not diluted with water. The small piece of fabric was crumpled. The larger one was laying flat.

Journal block 38 of 2009

I saw an apron with a painted chicken on it simular to this, this one is done with fusible fabric and embroidery.

Journal block 37 of 2009

Free motion leaves.

Week 38 - 2009

Pinwheel Star using triangles on a roll. Very easy.

Journal block 36 of 2009

Just stitching, I'm having a problem with free motion stitching so I did this with a narrow zigzag straight stitch. It would be much better done with free motion. Also easier.

Journal block 35 of 2009

Fused flowers out of scraps of material.

Journal block 34 of 2009

Fused strips and pieces cut from ugly fabric.

Journal Block 33 of 2009

Fused and stitched around.

Week 37 - 2009

Not a pattern folks. I put stripes of paper on fabric and free motion stitched around them. I saw on Quilting Arts they used masking tape for patterns and stitched around them. I was afraid of getting the needle in the tape and getting gooey so did it my way. Paper and glue stick.

Week 36 - 2009

The finished sqares ended up being slightly more than one inch. Sorta hard to get them even. The entire block is fairly small.

Journal Block 32 of 2009

Card Trick quilt block pattern. I won't be trying this one again, its not a beginner quilt block.

Week 35 - 2009

From the scrap bag which is getting pretty full.

Week 34 - 2009

Free motion quilting trying to follow design in fabric. Not as easy as I thought.

Not a journal block

My oldest daughter celebrated her 50th birthday this year. Members of our family wrote some of the things we love about her. Her sister and neice printed and framed the document for her. I made the quilt with as many of the sayings as I could. Combining and sadly omitted a few. Hopefully everytime she wraps herself in the quilt she will feel wrapped in our love.

Week 33 2009

Oil pastels and freezer paper for seagull stencils. Quilted using blended thread. That is Jonathan Livingston at the top. Doing all he ever wanted to do and flying higher than he ever flew before. :-) I learned to love Jonathan thanks to my youngest son. I made a quilt for him years ago that protrayed Jonathan flying high. Wish I had pictures of all the quilts I have made.