Suzan's Patchwork Garden

Can you imagine....  Cold weather, snow, rain and more wind and rain... But busy at the same time...  January was Collage Quilts by Laura Heine  Here are a few that we did... The weather has been awful.... Rain, snow and more  We have had red alerts for snow, wind, rain and flooding...  I hope that spring has really arrived now!! That's all for today, but I promise to get back to positing                  

A sew very happy New Year to all  May all of your dreams come true

December is here and is almost over. Birthdays, Christmas lunch with the girls, Christmas dinner with family  and finishing up some UPP, which are unfinished patchwork projects!! Well, it started on December 1st with a  real Christmas tree.   The first in many years, guess the fake one was to fake this year and too much of a job to get  it down, unpacked and set up.   We had a great time finding just the perfect one   WOW!! they are expensive!! But, remember... we only live once.... SO !  OH Christmas Tree!! Getting closer to Christmas and  It's my birthday !!  Celebrating...  lunch with the kids, big and small  Of course,  it wouldn't be Christmas without cookies!! This year cookie jars went out to all my special friends...  The butcher and all of his employees,  the paper girl, my two special florists and of course another special lady!!!...

How time flies Just yesterday it was Halloween and now!! Thanksgiving is over I did decorate the dining room a little for the fall holidays,  first time in a few years.   Guess this will have to go soon and I will start decorating for the Christmas season !! My oldies but goodies, all hand quilted...  YES!!  Quilted by hand,   I didn't have an APQS longarm  a few or many years ago. I enjoyed quilting by hand and when I went home to Vermont I would get Mom on one side of the quilt and me on the other and we would quilt in the afternoon for an hour or so and just talk.  Sometimes it was a game...to see how much we could quilt in an hour , then reward ourselves with a cup of tea and a cookie :-)  or two!!    It's finished binding is done and the quilt is washed and dried. This one will be going home on Tuesday.   I so love the texture on the black rose background I quilted t...