Crazy Quilting International Up Date

My latest project has been this block for the Crazy Quilting International Group. It will be a quilt made out of blocks in the colors of the flag for each country we have members in.I was lucky to sign up and got my German Flag. We did not have to make the block as a flag but use the colors of each flag as the background. So there is a lot of things we can put on our blocks and I have started with some seam treatments .For the black part of my flag the seams are embroidered in red & yellow, the red part is embroidered in yellow & black and for the gold part of the flag I used black & red only. Now that my background is ready to be worked on I decided on the placement of the Autobahn. Oh yes, I miss the Autobahn! Roses frame the first Castle and thinking of my brother who actually is working in One. His job for the German Government is in the wonderful New Castle in Stuttgart and it will be a must for me to put it on this block later.With my love for dogs you know that a German Shepard will protect my block and I wonder if I have enough room to show of all the things I love about my German Hometown.

A new Round Robin

Here are the Naked blocks for the next DYB . The theme is Tone on Tone and I decided to make mine cream on cream.

Crazy Quilting finished Blocks

It is a cold and foggy morning and at least I have some colorful photo`s to show.This is my work on Wendy`s Jewels on Black DYB Block. I wanted to bring colors from  block 1 and 3 together. Hand dyed lace with a beaded Dragon fly and some Turkish Oyas.

This is my completed Block.

These are all the completed blocks from this group together .

My new Lace knitting project

My first attempt to knit a lace shawl.

Fine lace yarn is like a size 12 pearl thread.

I went to see my boy`s yesterday . After cleaning up a little and doing some laundry my Husband and I had lunch. We went home and I took a nap. I know I should have finished Wendy`s jewels on black block but instead I checked out some German knitting blogs.Here I found a pattern for my first try to knit lace.It is called Birch  bottom Up.Took me a little to get started using the lace yarn I had bought last year. My needles are smaller then I`m used to and it just takes for ever to see a result.But I think I will like it when it is done.

New 22 foot hallway runner

This is 22 foot of color,but it is very light and easy on the eye.

Just delivered ,my 22 foot hallway runner.Not bad for ordering on line,it will do the job .Now I have to decide if I like it enough to get the same as a rug  for the dinning room.

Autumn Block

This is a Autumn Block for the CQInternational Group I belong too.

I was just finishing up this wonderful little Autumn Themed Block for Deloris. Since she wanted to see what seam treatments we could come up with I spend more time on them. Seam treatments are not my strong point and so this was a challenge for me. Here I used velvet ribbon ,beads and a satin leaf trimm. Then embroidered my Berry`s with this wonderful varigated pearl floss from Evening Star Design added a few velvet leafs and this block is done! I do hope that the owner will enjoy it, I sure had fun working on it.

New Pillow cases

My bright pillow cases cheer me up.

It has been a rather nasty outside,just cold and everything looked gray and dark. It is to start snowing again tonight or tomorrow. I was so happy to have lunch with my two son`s in Abilene,Kansas,at La Fiesta. This is a really good restaurant for our area. So after lunch we got home and my Husband made a fire in the fireplace , it got all warm,nice and cozy. I took a nap till my DH brought my coffee and I decided to make some colorful pillow cases.I do love the way the different fabric lines work together.