Guest Room....finally finished for good!

Since the room is only 10 x 10 its hard to get a good pic.  However I am in love with this room now!! So peaceful and simple.  Makes me want to redo every room in my home and simplify it.



Guest room.....

So you can disregard all previous pics of the new guest room.  We spent the day at IKEA on Saturday (just love that store!!) and bought a new bed for the room.  Of course that means a new arrangement also! 

Will be posting pics on Wednesday of the completed room.  I can't wait to have overnight company!

Quilt Class Block # 7...

So....true to form I mess up the easy ones and do better with the harder blocks!  This one was supposed to be easy, however I had to miss the class and only had the written instructions.  When I cut the spool ends I cut from the short side of the fabric instead of the long resulting in tiny spools with large blocks of 'thread'. 

I have learned that to be a true quilter you have to learn to rework what does not work!  I cut the thread down smaller and used the extra pieces to make a scrappy border.  Then I used the fabric that was supposed to be the barn from last month as the second border.  The final border is the same fabric I am using on all the 12 inch blocks to bring them to 15 inches. This way there will be some continuity in the final quilt.

I happen to love it, although it is a bit southwestern, but the southwest is part of America and the class is Americana so I guess its all good!

PIllow from clothes cut off and shredded.......

So I mentioned in one of my last posts that I had been down with my son in Atlanta.   I was there because he was biking to school, in a crosswalk, and got hit by a car.  He will be fine in a few weeks, he has a fractured hip.  Praise the Lord that is all that happened!!

Anyway at the hospital they cut his clothes off him and pretty well shredded them in the process (not important!!).  I decided to use what I could to make him a pillow that would remind him to be extra careful in the future.  The pics make it look off, but it really is square!!