April 24, 2008

So I started off my evening playing or pounding as I call it when I do the Hanson finger exercises!  What a stress relief playing can be.  I forget how much I enjoy it, then the kids try and take over!  My five year old daughter wants to learn but only on the black keys!  Anyways,  I went to the Chicago Quilt Festival last week? and bought this little fish pattern……cute, hey?  You should have seen all of the cute hanging fish she had in her booth!  CUTE.  Not so cute when you are trying to make the FISH.  I guess that is why I am a quilter and not a sewer.  I sew straight seams well.  Not fish.  It still needs the fin on top.  Sara stuffed it, she sure liked that part!    I finally finished quilting my daughters flower quilt that she cut out and ironed on the fabric.  Now, I am not a creative type of quilter so my meandering around on  the quilt here is pretty sad!  I need some Suzanne Earley books!  So please don’t laugh at my attempt at freehanding around on this and my next quilt my sons quilt.  He picked out the fabrics, cut out the squares, sewed them all together (I did the outside border)  He is now 8 but was 7 when he started it.  It has been hanging around for awhile waiting for me to put it on the machine!So, like I said, don’t laugh!  This was my attempt to make it look like “flames”!  Pretty silly!  Happy quilting!  Trish