Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

This was a paper pieced quilt that I did for a friend of mine.  The pattern is from Angela Pingel called Book Nerd - perfect for a retiring librarian.  You tell me, wasn't it perfect? Look at the pages, I used fabric that had text in it, just to give the interest. People wrote goodbye to her on the binding or on the small squares of fabric I put on some of the books.  It's a large lap quilt. Boundary Fabric. A charm of it's own.  It took a month to complete and quilt stitch in the ditch.  She loved it and the school was impressed.

The great news is I finished my May OMG for the Quilt show.  I'm so happy.  I had 14 squares to quilt with so much quilting to do.  Here's what the quilt looked like at the start. You can see how big it is, and some of the quilting in the front. Here's some blocks that I have to complete.  All that space.... but the colors are gorgeous on this one, wait and see.  The Craftsy course was by Leah Day, a free BOM with Craftsy.  She does wonderful designs.  I signed up for three courses.  But enough of that, lets continue.... AND now here it is all finished. One block all completed with little tiny pebbles. Each block had a different style of quilting.  I was learning as I went.  From a Craftsy course I signed up for years ago called "Free Motion Quilting a Sampler" with Leah Day.   The quilt pattern was a free course at Craftsy, so I signed up for the next one which was how to quilt it.  Well worth it don't you see? This

As stated in the title, I'm painting as well as quilting.  It runs in the family, but I'm so excited about the last two projects I've done that I just have to share.  This is the one most recent and not quite finished.  It still needs more flowers, but I love it right now as well and I can't believe I did it. It turned out great, if I do say so myself  :) The other one is much larger and It's one I worked on for hours.  I wanted to do some native art work (I'm Metis but not official).  I love the simplicity of the work, but of course I do nothing simple.  So here's that work... Love the mist and how it helps blend everything.  What do you think?  Leave a comment.  My students think I'm getting better.

It's been a while since I've blogged and I apologize for that, but as usual, work took over my life, and I'm trying to tamper that down.  As usual I have a number of deadlines that I had to meet (3 at the same time) and the last one had yesterday as a due date, so that's over with.  But now I have a new due date or deadline..... Don't get me wrong, I do best when I have a deadline to meet, that's why I make myself lists but these due dates are so tight, and stop the creativity of both my job and my crafts.  I'll be happy when the last one is done.  And that's why I'm doing May's UFO, to help me finish my last due date, a quilt that is due for a Quilt Show in two weeks time. It's almost complete.  It's all pieced and it's all tied/sewed down, I'm just doing the specific quilting on it, the binding needs to be completed, and then the sleeve.  It has 20 squares, and 14 are completed.  So I have 6 to go, but they're being qui