letters

I have a couple of pics to share with you of work done by Judy in Michigan. The first says Delphine's Quilt Shop. I love how Judy came up with her own style on the n and p's and wow, what a fantastic Q.

And this is Quilter's General Store. I love that plaid r.

Didn't she do a great job? I'm so proud of her. I love to see the projects ya'all make using the free-pieced letters. Here's another great one, a valentine quilt made by Julie in the Barn. I just love the crumbs she added.

Brenda got her Words Fail Me top together and it is marvelous. She also posted a pic of all her wordy quilts - she's a quilter after my own heart.

Speaking of letters, I pulled out a bunch that have been sent to me by students. I won't say who sent them for fear I'll leave someone out.

This is going to be such a fun quilt someday and I'd love to have more of your donations to put into it. I have lots of orphan letters I could throw in but I'd prefer to just use student work. So if you have any letters that just didn't work, or you made too many or just want to make some for me, I'd LOVE to have them. I'll take any free-pieced or wonky block actually, cuz I love to play with orphans. Oh, and I'd love to have whole or partial words too, doesn't just have to be letters.

Also, while I'm begging, if you've made quilts using my letters I'd love to have you make a name block for me. These are the ones sent to me by some of the students from my first online class. I also have a Carol block that doesn't appear here and I suspect a Jude block will arrive in my mailbox soonish.

So if you've used my letters and enjoyed them, please consider making a name block for me. It can be your blogger name, not your name name (I don't think anyone has ever actually named their child "Comic Book Lady" - at least Hedgehog would be kind of cute). Make it to express YOU. Your favorite colors etc, not mine.

I know, I'm greedy. Others (have I mentioned Bumble Beans 9-patches?) are out there asking for donation to charity quilts and I just want blocks for me.

I went to bed last night at 8:00pm I was so tired and amazingly I slept through all the way til 7:00am. I've only had one other night here free of interuptions. First the cats all had wonked out body clocks and Bibi in particular felt it necessary to traipse about singing in the middle of the night. Pokey had to get cabinet doors open and Lily finds it necessary to scratch at windows, mirrors, doors.... aagh. And when they're not being demonic, it's the sweetness getting to me as Pokey decides she has to sleep on top of me and Lily right beside me.

And there have been two nights where the smoke detectors have gone off.  Not a nice little beep to let you know that the battery power is running down but a full out ALARM, ALARM which cuts out fairly quickly but will come back within a couple of hours. Why does it always have to be the middle of the night? You'd think I'd be smart and replace all the batteries, but I've got to go buy them first....