Happy Easter to all

I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Easter - belated posting but I think it still counts. It was a jammed full weekend of activity around here - no quilting but got some ebroidery done which was great. Yesterday, Jody and I celebrated 9 years together so I decided to embroider a fun crawfish design on an apron he can use for boiling crawfish, which is a ritual type event that happens on most weekends here in south Louisiana, especially on a holiday weekend like this one. I think it turned out great.






I also created some fun crawfish towels that I gifted to our friends Missy and Sonia who hosted us at their home today for a crawfish boil. I created them from a bunch of inexpensive kitchen towels I picked up at IKEA a while back - they were quite inexpensive and the redwork crawfish was fun - put my digitizing experience to a test but it turned out great.







I also need to repost a photo of the quilt Mom created for us -- I had neglected to place the quilt on the bed correctly to show the "shadow boxes" of the design - so now, that I have placed it on the bed correctly, thanks Mom, I can see the design beautifully.

I Wooly Love Ewe update and new bed quilt too!

So I finally had some time this weekend to get some piecing done on the "I Wooly Love Ewe" quilt. I just fell in love with this pattern when I saw it in a recent issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting. I will admit I had some difficulties in getting this thing pieced, I need to hone my rotary cutting and piecing skills a bit. The applique was fun but I had a few issues in my technique - I'll have to continue discovering the different techniques - I have yet to try a fusible/turned-edge technique but I still have the applique border to complete on this quilt top before it get's quilted so maybe I'll try it on those pieces. Well anyhoo - here's a pic of the progress I've made so far.

I also put out a new quilt that Mom had given to us this past Christmas during our visit to New Mexico - Jody and I both love the colors of this quilt. It looks great on our bed and even though the temperatures go up and down here in New Orleans lately, we love snuggling under this hand-made beauty. Mom's a much better quilter than me, that's for sure!

Ooops, Forgot to post this one!

OK -So I forgot to post this last month - it was sitting here in my draft box tonight when I logged in to create a new post. Anyways, our dear friend Linda celebrated her birthday in March and since she owns a bakery, I decided to embroider an apron she can use in her bake shop. She absolutely loved it!