While everyone else has been taking down their Christmas trees and getting organized for the year to come, I have been working on my next quilt. I admit to being a bit obsessive about my projects. I only have one block to applique and I can start the final shuffle and decide where to place them. If I can find more of this fabric, I might but some more fabric between the blocks to allow more quilting space. Decisions!
So far I've done the applique on 4 of the 9 blocks I need for my new quilt. I'm starting to think about sashing and how it should look when it's done. Got to keep the momentum up because I'm probably going to be a lot less excited about a Christmas quilt after Christmas!
Christmas Eve we'll be at Heather's and she is making Cioppino- for those of you unfamiliar with this - do yourself a favor and give it a try! It's a seafood stew with a spicy Italian tomato sauce base. If you are really lucky and have fresh Dungeness crab from the San Francisco area to go in it, you will come very close to heaven! It also requires sourdough garlic bread to sop up the juices.
Not long ago I saw the movie Because I Said So. I was delighted that polka dots were part of the costuming. I almost always have a black and white polka dot dress in my closet. I only wish I looked like Diane Keaton in mine! The fashion police have been after me for a long time and I have taken a lot of flack about my dots but as you can see from my wallpaper-- I just love them. Polka dots always make me smile. I have been so happy to see them breaking out all over, even in Horchow's catalogue. This is not just some passing fancy with me, when I was ten or so, my parents made the mistake of telling me I could pick out the material for the curtains for my bedroom. Easy enough I picked a lovely bright pink background with dinner plate sized white dots on it! They were so beautiful to me! Sadly, not long after they were up they just disappeared! I asked and asked about them but they never again materialized (shame on you Mom and Dad!) You can imagine how thrilled I was to find the fabric above on Ebay. Now some may find this obsessive but I just couldn't help myself.
Backing for the Snowflake quilt.
