Fruit Basket Upset

Fruit Basket Upset, originally uploaded by mamacjt.

Remember all those pretty Kaffe prints? Well, lookie!! Pretty, huh? It's in the works.....and at the quilters. I can't wait to get it back!

Computers???????????

Oh poor me!! My Apple laptop died yesterday. Sob-sob!! And I can't seem to access anything on my husbands PC for some reason. Who knows why Yahoo and Flickr and Google all have me as something else, all of which confuse me to no end!!! Lord knows, I don't even know who I am anymore!!! I am surprised that I even got into my blog. Eikes!!! I could sit here and scream all day, but what good would that do?? Instead. I'll sew so I'll have lots to show you when I do get my "baby" back......unless the dummies erase my hard drive.....$CW@*C%^*&!!! Pray!! Please??

Shame on Me

I took my latest quilt into my favorite quilt shop today for quilting and swore I wasn't going to buy anything, (duh, HELLO?). But, I couldn't help it after I stepped in. Wow, it's soooo cool in there and the colors are so marvelous, I just love it!! And these are just a tiny bit of the bolts upon bolts of fabrics they have. Aren't those Kaffe fabrics just so gorgeous?? You wouldn't be able you help yourself either, do you think?????

"Colors"

I swore I wasn't going to post this for awhile, but I just couldn't help myself. This little quilt turned out so neat and I love it so much!! Originally I was going to quilt it myself, but when I got done piecing it, I was too afraid that I'd mess it up.....especially with all my math in figuring out the perfect back for it, so off the the quilters it went. I just got it back on Thursday, so I bound it yesterday and bribed my husband to hold it today. (Those are his feet in the one pic., not mine. I'm the photographer in this operation.) Tee-hee!! Finished, it measures only 43x56 inches so it's a nice little lap quilt.

And the back...note how the colors could go round and round and round...

And naturally, I ALWAYS take a close-up:

In case any of you want to make one of these for yourself, I found this pattern in the Atkinson Design book, "Allegro". And it's not very hard at all!!!

Now I better get a-sewin' because I'm almost out of new stuff to show you. (And I have company coming tomorrow too, so it'll be a day or two before I can even get the machine out again.) E-gads!!!

"Under the Sea"

Boy oh boy, Diana, the quilter is going so fast lately, I don't even have time to post one quilt before she's done quilting another. Actually, it's probably my fault for making so many at one time a few weeks back. I think I had 7 there to be quilted at one time. Thankfully, I'm down to only one, although I do have another to take there tomorrow. My $$ was flying in that shop like a wild woman!!! (Much to their delight, I'm sure.)

Anyway, I wanted to take a pic of this by the pool (I thought that'd be cool considering the name) but I was too afraid the poor thing would fall in and then I'd be shot waiting for it to dry out. LOL I do love it! I used colors way serene for my normal "wild" taste, but it makes me feel calm. Let me show you all the pic I took tonight. I was only going to post a few, but what the heck???

That one was with the sun filtering through the trees.......so here is another big one of the front with my husband standing in the sun. Maybe that will show it better???

Then, of course, I do my normal close-ups:

And another one from in the house showing truer colors:

I shouldn't even show you the back since this is not one of my better ones.

Did you see my shadow?? Eikes!! Anyway, the name of this pattern was "In and Out" by Blue Underground. According to the instructions, it was supposed to be 77x91" finished. I changed mine (so what else is new, huh?) so mine ended up at 54x68". The perfect size for a nice nap quilt. Don't you think???