Here I am down to the wire in posting my goal for April in  "A Lovely Year of Finishes".  This first week has been a busy one.

        A great thing happened today.  The temps outside hit 70 degrees!!! and one daffodil bloomed today in our garden which I can see from the kitchen sink window!! Tomorrow there should be more blooms!  I love daffodils and their yellow color.  They make me happy!

        The project I picked for this month is another layering, basting, quilting and binding of a quilt top I did last summer.  I wanted to sew a lasagna quilt (Also know as the 1600 inch quilt or a jelly roll quilt)  I went into my box of strips and found some I thought would 'play' together nicely. 

            Some were the width of the fabric and some were 22" and some were longer.  I collected what I guesstimated as 1600" and started sewing.  ( really think there are more that 1600" inches)

This is a super fast way to make a quilt! 

 I put a border of white and them some extra scraps and white for the outer boarder.   I think, I will bind with the white.   

I enjoy looking at projects everyone posts.  May we all finish our projects with Joy this month.

Marsha

The Joyful Journey of Quilting's 1st Post

Hello! Today is the day to start blogging about my passion, quilting. I have lots of projects in my head and  started in the sewing rooms.  Yes, I said rooms.  One room has my machines, small table, and a very small pressing center and the other room has my ironing board, and a large work surface.  Both of course have my stash.  I have been sewing for years and caught the quilting bug in the late 90's after I found out about the rotary cutter.  Here are two of my earlier quilts.

This one I made for charity from a very easy pattern from Quiltmaker Magazine. The center of the blocks are full of flowers, ladybugs and flowers!

This quilt I came up with on my own after surfing the web for ideas.  I used a scenic big print and a panel print that matched and  put it together with 9-patches and bear paw blocks.  I made it for my brother.

 
A quilt I am working on now is a string pieced one that I found on Bonnie Hunter's Blog 'Quiltville'.  The pattern is called 'String-X'

Here is one block of the 18, I made.  I can't wait to finish the top and get it quilted.  It is so joyful looking with the pinks, yellows, and the' limey' green.  My goal this week is to get it sewn together and the border on and sandwiched so I can quilt on it next week.

Another on going project, I have been working on is sewing together my grandma's grandmother's flower garden hex's she cut out in the 1930s!  She never got around to making any flowers. The funny thing is,  I knew my grandma sewed as she made me clothes and doll clothes, but never knew she had quilted until after she had died and we were cleaning out her home.   I want to make a quilt with her hexes but give it a new twist.  I will keep you posted on this project as it develops.

      Hope you will join me in my quilting joy as a finish these projects, and begin new ones.  

                                   Marsha