Here are the two big projects I've been working on this past year, both completed just before New Year's Eve! The plum tree quilt is about 40"x60"; the Red Quilt is 48" by 65". At the moment, the red quilt is not entirely willing to lie flat so either it needs more quilting or even more steaming. But the problem, really, is in the way I constructed it (quilt as you go), which was less a decision than the result of my uncertainties as to whether this would work at all. So, I made a piece, then quilted it, then thought maybe it would work but I needed to see more, so I made another piece and reevaluated. And pretty soon, I'd gone too far to do anything but either start over or risk the lack of flatness. In any case, it makes a gorgeous lap quilt and I found myself starting with a new one to do as a wall hanging. There are still plenty of red fabrics in my collection.
I'm about to order up a bunch of 5x7" postcards of the plumtree quilt to send out as New Year's cards (or Presidents' Day or MartinLutherKing day or, at the rate i'm going, as Valentine's Day). I will have it for the 'in the forest show' in any case. Whenever that is. --Judy
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