Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope you are all having a wonderful day with family and friends with good food and lots of fun! 

I can't believe how long it has been since I updated my blog!  I can say I have been busy, busy, busy.  In my last post I was asking for ideas for a quilt for my daughters wedding.  I found a great, free pattern and went with it. 

Here is a close up of the center block.

She had requested something with a fall theme, a woodland theme, or a cowboy theme.  When I found this I feel like I got the cabin in the woods and fall theme all in one.  It is a pattern called "Maple Cabin" by Linda Hahn and you can find it here.  The original pattern called for teal fabrics to be used in the log cabin blocks, but I went with oranges instead to be more fall colors.   I really like the way it turned out and the kids liked it, too.    The wedding was 12-13-14, no one will have trouble remembering the date!  We had a nice time at the wedding.  My daughter did a wonderful job with all the plans.  It was a casual, cowboy, western theme and everything was really cute.  Here's a photo of the kids.

I was working hard to get the quilt finished in time.  I finished the binding on a Tuesday night and we left on Thursday for Arizona.  The last few weeks before the wedding, I was quilting all day and night while DH fixed dinners and helped out wherever he could.  But it is finished and gifted to them.

Since I last posted, I worked on a few other things, too.  Here are a few more A Tisket A Tasket blocks that I finished;

I only have four more to go before I can put the quilt top together.  That will have to wait a bit though.  I have one of the red, white and blue quilts for my grandkids that I have started quilting.

The second one, I still have to sew the blocks together into rows.  Things are coming together and there is no deadline for these two.  I am back to enjoying the process instead of trying to meet a deadline to have quilts done.

Another project I worked on was a secret santa gift for an exchange in a group I belong to.  This needlecase was fun to work on and I really like how it came out. 

The important thing is my exchange partner really likes it, too!    This is a free pattern on The Painted Quilt blog.  Here is a link to the pattern.  Kaaren has lots of other free patterns on her site listed under First Friday Freebies, stop by and take a look in the far right column for the links.  She does beautiful work!

One last photo, especially for Love.  She showed her completed Underground Railroad quilt a while back.  I dug up a picture of the one I made in 2009 or so.  She made the 12" block quilt and mine is the 6" block.  I love how hers is done, she used some beautiful fabrics.  Mine looks different:

I like mine, too.  It has hung in my family room since I made it but we took it down to paint the room a few months ago.  I need to get it hung back on the wall.  Hopefully I can do that soon!

I guess that almost catches up on what I have been working on.  In the December issue of American Patchwork and Quilting, there is a picture of the quilt I made in 2012 for my son's wedding.  It is on page 20 under I Am A Quilter.  I am thrilled they picked it to include in the magazine.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day today and I wish you all a Happy, Healthy, Quilty New Year!