Flying Chirpers Quilt

I went over to my wonderful friend Karen's house Sunday night to quilt.  Pulled out a quilt that I had been working on maybe a year ago and put away because I had sewed a bunch of sqares incorrectly.  Well, I pulled out all the sewing that I needed to and worked on it again.  I finished setting up the first row of my flying geese....

As you can tell by looking at them....these geese are brown nosers  : )    The points of some of them (ok ok....most of them) are not there.  It's too late to correct this problem on this quilt, but I need to try this again and see if I can get the beautiful points that I should have. 

Once I complete trimming my squares, I will be able to finish the rows of geese....but I have lots of trimming left to do. 

I made this quilt for an auction at my children's school. It's on my daughter's bed just to show the size. Each child in Olaina's class drew a self-portrait. I think it came out beautiful. I am going to make a pillow sham for the auction winner since I have left over material.

It was my first experience playing around with Photoshop. This project was my justification for buying it!!! It took me a couple of days to figure it out. Granted I didn't read instructions that came with it!! : ) But I used it to brighten up the drawings and remove an stray lines.

I think I am going to make something similar to this for each of the grandparents for Christmas...have the grandkids make self-potraits and other drawings and make each of them a lapquilt.

It's Friday!!

It's finally Friday!! After being sick all day yesterday, I am playing catch up with getting the house clean. It's winning. I started a new quilt Wednesday evening and all I want to do is work on it. Here is a picture of the first block.....

Hmmm....housework or quilting??? Which will win out??? And I won't mention that tonight is quilt night with the girls.....