2010: My Year of Quilting Feverishly

I have been so bad at quilting or blogging in the last couple of months!  I am on now only because my friend Ann told me that she sent me a comment - or I would have probably put it off longer.  I even forgot my password.  Pretty bad, huh?

So ...

Where have I been?  Not blogging, obviously.  I have learned that blogging takes a whole lot of time away from quilting.  Also, there was one week in February that I just could not look at a quilt.  I never thought that would happen! 

Then, I got on the ball finally ...

This quilt was so much fun.  Relatively easy because it was a panel I purchased from Bernina's www.nuttallbernina.com.  Then, I sewed a couple strips of fabric that matched the panel to make a little bigger, and I set out quilt.  

The quilt was for an auction held ...

I know, I know, it's February 5th, and I'm writing about the last quilt of January.  And, it's not a completed quilt.  But, in my defense, I had it pieced earlier in January, but it is important to me to do lots of quilting on it.  You ...

I am listing here all the links I use throughout my posts:

Michelle Langston Bancroft's Memorial Fund:  http://bancroftfund.blogspot.com/

Adopt a Native Elder Program:  www.anelder.org/index.php?ID=911&XID=911:0:0:0:0

Pioneer Craft House:  www.pioneercrafthouse.com

Elaine's Quilts: www ...

On Fri 1/29, I picked up Adele in Sugarhouse and drove to American Fork to meet Justin for lunch.  My first time at an In and Out Burger, it was soooo good!  I love a good cheeseburger, and those fried onions were amazing. 

Anyway, Justin gave us Lori and ...

So, it is the end of this first month of 2010, and I have not really blogged much, but I am happy to report that I have been quilting feverishly. 

So much has happened since I blogged last. My friend Adele gave us quite a scare.  Starting about January 1st ...

Not very well, I discovered.  The night of my last post, Sunday 1/11, I started sneezing and couldn't stop.  The cold followed me all week, and by Thursday, I had my usual problem of sinus pain on the right side of my head.  Thank goodness we State employees ...

I was not really sure when I would finish Michelle's memorial quilts.  Like other quilters, I have several unfinished projects floating around this house.  I started right away on Michelle's quilts, but got side tracked by several events: my grandfather became ill and I flew back and forth ...

I think my sweet young friend Michelle Bancroft brought me down this road.  Michelle suffered from a rare form of skin cancer, desmoplastic melanoma; she passed away on May 18, 2009.  Michelle fought very hard to be with her family, trying every treatment possible and undergoing many surgeries.  When the ...