Quilty Stuff

I've been doing a little more stitching. Finished this basket quilt and gave it away for a birthday gift - I think the recipient was very pleased to have it.

It was the cover pattern in the most recent issue of Primitive Quilts, but I tweaked it just a bit by making three basket blocks instead of the four that they had.

Then, I did six blocks for Cheri's recent stitch-along, but I'm not really loving this one. Don't know if it's my choice of fabrics & colors, or what - but I doubt it's one that'll ever get finished.

I started making tiny 3" paper-pieced house blocks - you've seen them all over blogland, I'm sure. The idea is to make one house each day for the entire year so you'd end up with a huge village by the time you're done. I know I won't make that many, but it has been lots of fun going through my scrap baskets and pulling out old favorites to use in these scrappy blocks. I even found some small novelty print fabrics that I could fussy cut and place a cat or a star or a heart in the window. They'll all end up having blue sky so that's why I have all those blue fabrics sitting here.

Here's a picture of my design wall - just a block or two of this & that - nothing really serious going on..... 

And speaking of design walls - I know a lot of quilters spend big money on specially marketed products to use for their design walls, but I use a very inexpensive vinyl tablecloth - the kind that has a flannel backing. It's just thumb tacked up on the wall - and it holds onto my quilt blocks without any problems. Just thought I'd share that tidbit in case anyone is needing a wall - it can be very portable too - take it to class - then fold it up and bring it home without disturbing your layout......