It's Been A While....

My dear Mother passed away on Easter Sunday after suffering a fall on the previous Sunday. She was 88 years old and had a good life with a long marriage and seven children.

We will miss her so much. 

Obviously, I haven't been able to spend much time in the sewing room, but I do have some older photos that I had planned to share. I will do a Simply Red update later this week--our meeting was last Monday.

I finally got my Schnibbles Canasta quilted.
This was one of the quilts from last year's Another Year of Schnibbles.
I got to use some of my Jo Morton Blue Variety fabrics for this one.
It looks kind of small laying on the king size bed--it's a throw size. 

Hard to see, but the main part of the quilt is a small stipple, the blue inner border is an egg and dart design and the outer border is a feather. 

The quilting shows much better on the back. I took the top to a long arm quilting group and the consensus was to use meandering rather than a more contemporary design--so that is what I did. 

Earlier this month, I covered a small paper mache box to keep my Stitch Society hexagons all together. It won't hold all 180 of them, but with my slow progress, it will do for quite a while.

A perfect fit.

The blackberries, fox and rag doll.