More Progress

I worked on the Home Sweet Home quilt this weekend. So far, so good. Tonya was right, those Ms and Ws look fine now that they are sewn into the top. I added some hearts to it, I got the 'center' together. Now it is measuring almost square, so I think I need to add more to it as I am not a huge fan of square quilts and I think I want this a bit bigger. Not a lot, but a little. I'm thinking a row of something along either the top of the bottom then a zig zag border around the whole thing. I'm not going to have a chance to work on it again until this weekend, but I'm thinking about what to add and would love to hear suggestions.

Home Sweet Home

Well I did it...this weekend I sat down and actually started sewing this project! I made the words HOME SWEET HOME, and a block with a house and tree. Its not that impressive compared to what some of you have done, but I am very pleased. My little m's and the w are a little strange. I might fix them or maybe not. We'll see. I need to play around with placement and figure out what else to add to them. I'm thinking maybe some hearts and some sort of triangles. I don't want to complicate things too much right now, or I'll get overwhelmed and this will never get finished.

Introducing Myself

Hi All!
Time to introduce myself, I suppose. I'm Tracey, and I live in CT. My blog is Quilting In CT I am a homeschooling Mom of two kids, Thing One will be 12 this month, and Thing Two is 5. I've been quilting for about 15 years and like to make bright, fun quilts. Usually I do traditional, but I really want to do wonky and liberated. I've been watching along on Tonya's classes and haven't participated as much as I would have liked, but I hope that this time will be the one where I jump in and actually DO something.

Last year at this time I did make this quilt


The House/Home/Pantry theme seems like fun. I think maybe I'll just make a simple little wallhanging that has a house or two, some hearts and says "Home is Where the Heart Is". I think the key for me will be to keep it simple. I tend to overcomplicate everything and then get overwhelmed, so please remember to remind me to keep it simple!