GONE TO MARKET

A picture of Beth's "Gone to Market" quilt is in the right column.  Perry and I are working on ours.  Beth's quilt is gorgeous. 

Design Wall and St. Francis...............

I have more Spinning Stars on my design wall.  They are coming out really nice.  Pictures just don't do them justice.  See the two at the bottom (by themselves), they are mistakes.  They will go on the back.  I don't know how I did that, but evidently my brain was in the wrong gear.  Thankfully I have enough fabric to make new ones.  The little white squares are numbers. 


Isn't St. Francis beautiful?  At Christmas time, one of the quilting chicks (Kathy) and I were out doing our yearly Christmas shopping.  We have great fun.  We start with Mistletoe and Moss (held at the Civic Center (many vendors)), we eat, we shop, we eat, we shop.  It is a fun day and I look froward to it every year.  This year we were almost finished with our day, when we pulled into a strip mall to do our last thing.  As we entered the mall, we noticed on the corner a window with a sign, it said SALE.  The things in the window looked interesting so we went in.  They had very nice and different things.  I spotted St. Francis.  Most of the St. Francis statuary I have seen are small and if they are larger the price would break the bank.  Remember the sign said SALE.  It was a good one............I could not resist St. Francis.

Vic was here on Saturday doing yard work.  He cleaned out the rose garden, and we decided it was a good place for St. Francis.  We still need to do a little more to the rose garden, like get rid of the fire ants and mulch, and trim back the Rosemary.  I lost one rose bush over the winter so I need to replace that also.

Gone to Market Quilt..........Look for a posting this week.  I hope to get more baskets completed.  Perry is way ahead of me and Beth is finished.  Beth's quilt is lovely and I am waiting for a picture to post.

Hope you all have a terrific day..............

Going to Market

Gone to Market 1

Hooray...........I have 3 blocks made.  Perry and I are making it.  If there is anyone that wants to make it with us, the information is in the right column.  Beth has finished already.  She does not have a blog.  If I get a picture I will post it.  It is going to be a great quilt. 

Check the right column under Gone to Market for Perry's blog address.......

DESIGN WALL MONDAY AND ETC.................

This is not exactly my design wall.  The quilt I am working on is for the Des Moines show so am keeping it under wraps for awhile.  I thought I would show you the fabric that I am going to use for the  "Going to Market" quilt.  See the right column for information about the quilt.  I found two different lines of fabric plus I added one or two pieces and have come up with this.  I think it will be jazzy.  The plans are to start the quilt March 1st. 

My cat scratch fever looks much better and I am on the mend.  My kitty looks at me with guilty looks. 

We have a gorgeous day in southwest Louisiana.  It is super.........I wish it would be like this year round.  But, if it was like this we would be like California, very much over populated and that would not be good.  According to the 2010 census we have not grown very much and I can honestly say, I am glad.  I think, if my memory serves me well, Lake Charles grew by 236 people in ten years.  Actually, when I lived here in 1974 the population was about 70,000, today it is about 71000.  I can handle that.  When I lived in San Diego county we had 3 million in the county.  It is so nice to be able to drive to a distination within a reasonable period of time. 

Hope all is well....................