Purple Spin

Quilt of the day is my Purple Spin. It was mostly completed at a quilt retreat I was at this past winter.  I had lots of input regarding the fabrics, and a couple of donations from other quilters.  Added the borders after I got home. There was a quilt shop owner that just happened to stop in at another retreat I was at after I had it totally done. I brought it to the retreat to inspire my quilting buddies to see it finished. The quilt shop owner wanted to take it to her shop for inspiration for her customers.  Stopped by that shop last week to find it prominently displayed behind the main cutting table.

I love the whole process of making a quilt, which means I have many more quilts around than I can display and/or enjoy.  This quilt is about 50" square... if anyone is interested in purchasing this quilt, leave a comment or send me an email.

My turtle is taking a little more shape.  I actually glued Seamus to the background.  Boston was sitting right in the middle of Seamus' shell until I was ready to take the picture... she was done posing just before I snapped it.  A couple more days and Seamus should have a whole new look.


My morning glories are starting to be glorious... although I have been warned, my sister had to pull most of  hers out because they were overtaking her flowerbed.  I planted these on the outside of the fence on the far side of the house where there are no other flowers in the flowerbed to overtake.

One of my little side projects is to make shorts from t-shirts to put in the Operation Christmas Child boxes.  We have made string backpacks and pillowcase dresses for the girls and they all  fold up and fit nicely in these boxes, but never got around to making any shorts for the little boys.

A friend that is in the screen printing business donated some of her extra t-shirts and I found a source online for some drawcord elastic that finishes off these easy to make little shorts.  With the drawcord waist there should be no sagging shorts.

This is what was left of the Key Lime Pie I was inspired to make after watching an episode of The Kitchen on Food Network.  I have made a key lime pie before, but this time I bought a mesh bag of those little key limes and had enough limes to dress it up nice and pretty. Of course there were enough limes in the bag to make two or three of these pies. Forgot to take the picture before it was cut into, but it still looked pretty cool.