A New Year...............

Christmas and New Years............
Hope everyone had a  Merry Christmas and have a great New Year. 

I had a nice holiday, a Merry Christmas and the dogs, cats and I watched the festivities at Times Square and listened to my neighbors blow up their money.  I have never understood this, people so willing to blow up their hard earned cash.  I guess because I grew up in a state where it was illegal to have fireworks unless they were done by the city, state, or county I have just never understood the want to take the risk of possibly blowing off your hand.  When I lived in California, my son had a friend living in the house behind us.  He had a terrible accident and lost most of his hand.  I guess I just find it scary.

New on the quilting front............

X Marks the Spot
 

X Marks the Spot
 

This is one of my "quick quilts" to use up stash.  I had this line of fabric "Fandango" in my stash for some time.  I would look at it every now and then and think how pretty it was, but it was also very busy.  I would think what am I going to do with this and stuck it back on the shelf.   I was looking through a Quilt Sampler magazine.  That is probably my favorite quilt magazine.  In one of the pictures there was a quilt hanging.  Only about one block was showing going down the quilt.  It did not have borders.  This quilt was busy.  I thought maybe "Fandango" would work in this quilt.  I call this quilt, "X Marks the Spot."  You have to look hard.  See it?????  Here is a hint - it is brown going top left to bottom right and yellow top right to bottom left. Also going across the rows - top row: red, blue, red, blue etc - 2nd row: blue, red, blue, red etc.  This should be a quick quilt, notice I said should be.  I always get delayed trying to figure the right pattern of the fabric with the right color of the fabric.  It slows me down a bit.   In the second picture, I have the corner.  I put the binding fabric under the quilt corner so you can get an idea of what it will look like when it is finished. 

My next "quick" quilt is going to be "dotty."  I have always wanted to make a "dotty" quilt.  I have been saving polka dots and anything that looked like it might be a dot for a very long time.   I don't think it will be very quick, but hopefully, maybe in a month or so I will have it finished. 

Hope all is well with you.........