Origami Bag & simple pin cushion

At Quilt camp we made these cute Origami Bags, if you put the pockets on the inside you get one like the touquoise bag, the patten calls for the pockets on the outside.  the cosmetic bag pattern can be found on Moda site and look for Sweek Treat Bag.

New Red Work Baby Quilts

These are both Jack Dempsey embroidery kits, I used 498 DMC Red floss.  These will be for my great grandchildren ----way into the future!!!!! So I will keep them safe until that day comes.  pb

New Baskets

I made these two baskets yesterday, cleaned out a big tote box of 1/2 inch strips and remaining clothes line rope now i will crochet the rest of the strips into a rug.  This is a good feeling to have completed a project that has been going on for a couple years. 

Post Often my friend says

My friend in Ireland told me to post often that so i can get more quilters to be bloggers with me, so here i am today, blogging!  It's a beautiful day in Wisconsin, my project today is to just get some paper work done and then i want to finish wrapping a piece of cotton clothes line rope to make my last rope basket for awhile, i've already made a bunch of them.  I will then use the left over fabric strips to crochet into a rug like the one i'm standing on in the top picture.  GOAL--use up the stash!  hope you are all having a wonderful day.  pb

Olivia is gone home

25 minutes ago I put my quilting friend Olivia on the shuttle bus to go back to Ireland, I'm missing her already---what a great quilting friend.  Follow Olivia on her blog, see her picture and click on it and see what Swedish house has posted.  PB

Here is my Irish Friend Olivia

After visiting Olivia in Ireland in June she came to Wisconsin to visit me for 2 weeks and while she was here we went to a quilt convention, many quilt shops, a quilt show, garage sales and thrift shops all adventures.  What a great friend. She made this vest--her first vest ever it was perfect--cute! She went home with two suitcases full of fabric, one case weighed 48 lbs and the other 23lbs---almost all fabric--what a quilter.  pb

30's Quilt

My Friend Olivia from Cobh Ireland has been spending 2 weeks with me, we have quilted everyday or gone to something to do with quilting, shops, shows, classes, what a great time.

Olivia thinks I should put up my 30's quilt that I did several years ago Hope you like it.