Paula Nadelstern snowflake

Nadelstern snowflake quilt
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I've been having fun creating photosets over on Flickr. The latest is black & bright quilts but I've gradually been assembling a number of them. (After all, what's the use of having this huge collection of quilt pictures if you don't do something with them?) They're all pretty much works in progress, but there is also:
funny quilts,
holiday and winter, spring, summer, autumn
my favorites

Probably more to come. Oh, I did an applique one too, but I'm too tired to go find the link. It's huge, I have lots and lots of applique pictures.

Holiday Poinsettias

Holiday Poinsettias
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Elaine Henry; shown at the 2004 Dallas Quilt Celebration.

Merry Christmas, y'all!!

Santa Bring Me Quilts

Santa Bring Me Quilts
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Holly Potuin. From the Moda Challenge 2004.

Links and an update

Here's a nice Christmas quilt (and tree!), courtesy of Pooks.

Also, Allison Aller has finished a new piece - see here. It's lovely, as usual. (And how on earth did she attach those rocks?)

I have not managed to do any sewing at all, lately. Maybe next week during my week off I will. And I skipped the quilt guild holiday party last night because I was just too tired to drive up there, so I don't even have that to tell you about.

Actually, though, I do have an amazing quilting success story to report: I haven't bought any fabric at all this month. Can you believe that? I certainly don't need any, but that's never stopped me before. I'm sure it's just a Christmas lull and it won't last long, but for now I'm pleased with myself.

Oh, and my Mom is making good progress. We're supposed to get a verdict later today about Christmas, I believe. She is hoping they will discharge her and we can still go to my aunt's as planned, but we will see.

More cats and quilts

Quizzical Lucy on the Quilt
Originally uploaded by Philosopher Queen.

I was in the mood for another quilt-and-cat photo. (I am a cat-person who is currently without a cat, so I have to get a fix someplace once in a while!) Anyway, in addition to the bonus of the adorable cat, this is a really, really nice quilt. There's something in me that wants to make one of these someday.

Quilt of unknown origin

Colorful Cosmos
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Maybe we could call this an UQO - unidentified quilt object. I have no earthly idea where this picture came from. I've been trying to consolidate all my pictures that are scattered out here and yon, and this was just there. It may not even be a picture I took. Anyway, isn't it cute? I like this quilt a lot. (Which is presumably why I saved the picture.)

Later: I got an e-mail telling me where this came from, and I can't believe I completely forgot this so quickly - it was a quilt that was in our quilt guild auction earlier this year. Quilt by Kindred Spirits; donated to Lakeview Quilters Guild 2005 Auction. Photo by Jim Evans. (And I apologize to Jim for posting it without doing more research to see if I could figure out where it came from!)

Let's Go Girls

Let's Go Girls
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Joan Frantz of Florida; entered in the category Art-Whimsical at IQF 2005.

Be sure and look at the details on this one; they're adorable.

Chinese Food

Chinese Food
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Lisabeth Gutierrez of Rhode Island. From the Tactile Architecture exhibit at IQF 2005.

I was noticing that there are some quilts I really liked that I never got around to posting over here, so here's one of them. I might have some more of them in the next few days.

Mom update: she was transferred today to the rehab hospital, and she will probably be there until Christmas. She's ok, just very weak, and it's going to take some work for her to get her strength back.

my Christmas log cabin

Christmas log cabin
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

This is my own log cabin, which I gave to the guild in a fit of altruism. I'm thinking I might make another one similar to this before too long. (I saw some red and green snowflake fabric the other day and that made me think about it.) Maybe I'll do it as a barn raising and make it square this time, though. Or at least a bigger rectangle. This was a very small quilt.

Holiday Ocean Waves

Ocean waves
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I'm going to start putting up some pictures of Christmas quilts here and there. I really like this ocean waves, and it's Christmassy but not TOO Christmassy, if you know what I mean.

Oh, and my mom is in the hospital (nothing too serious, I don't think) so don't expect a quilt report tomorrow. I'll be at the hospital instead of quilting.

Mom's latest batik quilt

Batik scrap quilt
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Mom saw a pattern on TV (on Simply Quilts, I think) for a square-in-a-square variation - it's not the ones in the center, I believe, but the ones around that. She used leftover batik nickel squares to make this.

36 zipper blocks

36 zipper blocks
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Four-and-a-half rows are finished - if I'm going to make nine rows, then I'm exactly halfway done.

auditioning a new row

auditioning a new row
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

So here's what I was trying out for the fifth row. I used the first four blocks on the left as they were - I'm still mulling over that fifth one, though.

Christmas wall hanging

Christmas wall hanging
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I don't know if this is technically a quilt - at least, it doesn't have batting in it, although it does have a couple of layers, as I recall - but my mother had it up when I got there today so I thought I would share! I made this (from a kit) in high school.

Flotsam

Oh my god, this is the most gorgeous crazy quilt I've ever seen. (The best picture is in the flash-based part of her site, but she tells how to get there at the bottom of the entry.) (Found via Arlee at Albedo Design.)


A friend who works in a children's bookstore sent me a link to Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts, which I now really want to buy:



The same author has a previous book: Pieces: A Year in Poems & Quilts. I've never even seen either one of these, have you guys? (Of course I don't have kids, or even nieces or nephews in this age group, so I guess there's no reason why I should. But somehow I feel like I should know about everything quilt-related!!)


And it took me a couple of days to notice, but Quilt Channel had nice things to say about me! (Although they called Quilts Galore a "new blog" - hey, man, this blog is over a year old, that makes it practically ancient, comparatively speaking!)

Cats and quilts

Originally uploaded by 3e.

Have I said that I have a new computer? It's very nice, and I'm very excited - I'd better be, since it's my main Christmas present! - but I've been spending a whole lot of time trying to get organized. Instead of files and pictures on three different computers and dozens of CDs, I'm trying to get to the point where nearly everything is on the hard drive, except for backups. I mean, what's the point of having that huge hard drive if you don't use it?

(I also have a DVD burner, but I don't understand what kind of DVDs to buy for it. I need a tutorial.)

So anyway, I'm trying to do some organizing on Flickr at the same time. (Considering that I now have well over 1000 pictures in my photostream, some extra organization is definitely warranted.) And in the process of messing around with that I found my way to the flickr "clusters" - the quilt, cat, bed cluster is just about the most adorable thing ever (except for possibly the cat noses and the dog noses). Does that design that the cat above is guarding look familiar?

(Hint: look here!)