Redoing my sewing area - getting ready for a yard sale

Okay, for the past 2 weeks i have been collecting all the excess kid stuff bagging and pricing for a yard sale. The benefit is that now I will have more room in my sewing area. I am hoping to clear floorspace for a Long Arm. (I think) The hardest thing is not parting with the kids old toys and memories but parting with the fabric. Especially now that I know that "only cotton" in a quilt is no so. I have 2 quilts in the making, another in my brain and 2 to bead.

Redoing my sewing area - getting ready for a yard sale

Okay, for the past 2 weeks i have been collecting all the excess kid stuff bagging and pricing for a yard sale. The benefit is that now I will have more room in my sewing area. I am hoping to clear floorspace for a Long Arm. (I think) The hardest thing is not parting with the kids old toys and memories but parting with the fabric. Especially now that I know that "only cotton" in a quilt is no so. I have 2 quilts in the making, another in my brain and 2 to bead.

Aged to Perfection

This quilt was made in 2004 for an art quilt challenge in which grapes were the theme.

Graduation Quilt

This is the quilt I made for my daugthers 2005 graduation from Highschool

Floating and Laying Aside

These quilts were completed in 2005, using reverse applique techniques

Snow Queen

This quilt shows better in person, it is embellished with beads and chrystals.

Emergence

I completed this January 2006

Flowers of my Life

This quilt I finished last spring. I used images of my two daughters. The background was using a Rikki Timms technique.

NYC Feb 2005

Last February I was able to visit NYC, with our Italian exchange student. She was there to visit with her mother who flew over for the weekend. Luckily that was the weekend of the Gates exhibit in Central Park. This was my inspiration. I am currently re-beading this quilt and will have a newer version.

Mobius 1

Mobius was done using reverse applique technique. The circles are inserted.

South of Montery April 8th

We spent a week in California, visiting my son and daughter. Despite all the rain that California has had, we spent a wonderful day on the coast. We went to the Montery Aquarium, visited Ft. Ord where my brother was born (same my parents did not invest in local real estate there in the 50's) and drove down the coast, we hiked to a beach and had a wonderful time.

Belly Dancer

This quilt was inspired after I attended a class taught by Rosalie Dace. Rosalie's class was fun and teaches you to look at things in different ways.

Curve Ball

Curve Ball- this was inspired by a quote from my sons blog -
There's Always a Curve Ball! But thats when the interesting Stuff Happens." by Mark Fletcher of Bloglines.

My Quilts so far

Well I am taking the plunge- this is my first post.
This is my last quilt. "Petunia I'm Pink"

This quilt is dedicated to my grandmother Marion Elizabeth Powers,

December 21, 1903– August 7, 1993.

She told me that every house needs an elephant as it will bring it luck. Over the years she had given me several ceramic lucky elephants that she had made. I recently learned that my cousin, who shared the same initials as her, had no mementos of hers. He grew up with her and felt particularly close to her. So this last Christmas I sent him one of the lucky elephants my grandmother had made. After sharing this story with others I decided to create this quilt. I had already named her Petunia “I’m Pink” for several weeks, but coincidently during a phone call with my cousins daughter, she informed me that her mother calls her Petunia! Petunia is meant to be!