I cannot quite believe just how beautiful the weather has been these last few days.  It is like Spring!  Wouldn’t it be fantastic if this was the end of our winter?!!  

I’ve started some hand sewing now that my knitting projects are finished.  I have been working on a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt for the last 5 years (gasp!).  I have all the “flowers” done and I’m working on joining them together with a row of green hexagons.  This will be a queen sized quilt.  Each flower has 37 hexagons and I’ve made 90 flowers, so that is a crazy number of hexagons!  Each hexagon is 1″ wide.  I tend not to focus on the amount of work/time that it will take to complete when I start a quilt.  If I like the way it looks, I will make it no matter what!  This quilt top has quite a few fabrics that came from dresses that my mom made for me when I was little, so this project has a lot of memories built into it.

I hope that the osteoarthritis in my hands will not prevent me from hand quilting this so that it will be completely made by hand and then it would truly be a traditional quilt.  It will probably take me another 5 years to do the hand quilting.  Oh well.  There is no rush.

I finished the houndstooth quilt top!!  Yay!!  It was fun to piece…and quick, too. 

Here is the baby beanie that I  knit for my great niece…in order to do the motifs I had to do some research to remind me how to crochet!!!  Isn’t it cute? 

I made a receiving blanket and burp cloth for her, too.  Just have to quickly tuck in the thread ends from the machine quilting.  I really like the white and pink giraffe printed flannelette.  Super cute!