It's been a while since I updated my blog. I've been busy piecing a nine-patch quilt made of
1 1/2 in. squares. Well, I've got to use up lots and lots of little scraps. I am Carol Scrapquilter after all, and I have to live up to my name!

I did finish a project! Yay for me! The red and white square-in-a-square quilt has been machine quilted and already given away as a gift to my son and his new wife! I hope they snuggle under this quilt for many, many years!

I'm lucky to have fabric donors in my life! Thanks SO MUCH to my friend Mona, who thinks of me when she cleans out her fabric stash! And my son-in-law's grandmother, MawMaw Hicks, who knows I hate to see the tiniest piece of fabric wasted...she sends me ziplock bags packed with tiny scraps. I'm putting them to good use, MawMaw!

I cleaned and organized by sewing room. I took "before" pictures but forgot to take "after" pictures. By the time I thought about it, my sewing room was a disorganized mess again! I guess I will just have to get used to working surrounded by untidy piles of fabric and miscellaneous items scattered about. At least I'm working! Wait...making quilts isn't work...it's pure pleasure!

Greatgrandma's Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Please scroll down to read my quilt's story!

Photos of Some UFO's

This is a Lattice Quilt...one of my favorites. Wait until I finish the piano key border with scallops!



This is a close-up of "Turning Twenty." I love florals and enjoyed dipping into my stash for this quilt. It just needs to be quilted.

TOO MANY UFO'S

I tend to work on several quilts at a time! Here are some projects I am working on:

• Lattice quilt (working on piano key border with scallops)
• Scrappy Trips Around the World (having lots of fun on this one)
• Log Cabin with applique flowers (blocks are pieced but applique has not been started)
• Red and White Checkerboard Log Cabin (just needs to be quilted)
• Block of the Month using Thangles (one more block to finish, assemble rows, add borders, and handquilt for a special baby girl)
• Patience Quilters Block of the Month Folkart Applique Quilt (just started)
• Scrappy Stars (two rows of blocks with pieced sashing have been completed)
• Beth's Photo Memory Quilt (quite an undertaking this one)
  
• Americana Quilt (almost done handquilting this one!) FINISHED!!!!!
• Monkey Maze Kid's Quilt (needs to be machine quilted)
• Red and White Square in a Square (needs to be quilted--would LOVE to get someone to quilt this in n overall floral pattern on a longarm machine) FINISHED!!!!!!
• Michael's 25-Patch Batik Quilt (hope to finish this one for his birthday or Christmas)
• Lindsay's Asian Square in a Square (hope to finish this one for her birthday or Christmas)
• Eli's John Deere Quilt (PawPaw chose fabric and has been bugging me to get going on this for months)
• Baby Lattice Quilt in 1930's Reproduction Fabrics pieced in diagonal setting (almost done piecing)
• "I Spy" Quilt
• Plus more....
  

Eli's Zoo Quilt

One of My UFO's

I started this BEFORE Eli was born and still haven't finished. I want to embroider his birthday, weight and height at birth, and place where he was born in the open space under "ELI" with my embroidery machine. I just haven't quite figured out how to use it!

Eli and His Sock Monkey