Design wall Monday

This quilt has taken so many turns along the way.  I started it about a year ago with the intentions of a totally different quilt.  Since that time it has evolved and become something totally different than what I had planned.  My original post about this quilt can be found  HERE , even though I posted in September the quilt was started much earlier in the year.  The weekend was spent making all these little applique pieces.  My own design, but not my own idea.  Often I will see a picture of a quilt and try to reproduce or use certain aspects of that quilt to make my own pattern.  So this quilt is 100% my pattern but the ideas for this quilt came from several different places. 

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Not a good picture

What are the chances of this little guy coming up by the house?  Go figure!  Not a good picture but it was the best I could do, they aren't real friendly birds.  I scared him away twice and had to wait for him to come back and take the picture from inside the house.  To be honest I thought it was a wild turkey because he's HUGE.

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How long does it take?

I'm often asked how long it takes to make a quilt.  Well that answer isn't straight forward. If I really want it done usually less than a month.  Most quilts take 2-4 months and some longer.  So it depends.  Most days around here are spent sewing something.  Rarely do I work on the same thing start to finish.  Currently I've 18 different projects going, all at different stages.  Some are blocks of the month, waiting to be quilted, waiting for fabric to arrive, lost interest.  Anyway my whole point to this is just how long does it take a Woodpecker to do this!?  I was shocked I've never seen anything like this!

my hand next to one of the holes!

inside one of the holes, they are all like this! 

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I'm up and running again!

Finally!  Its not that I've been neglecting my blog its that I couldn't post anything.  So here's what I've been up to.  Fighting my Dolly has been the main thing these last few days.  I've had a quilting gremlin loose in the sewing room.  I named him "Shandy Shredder".  He's the second cousin of "Birdsnest Bobby" and "Stitch length Lou".   After many not so lady like words and days upon days of threatening to take a hammer to her if she didn't straighten up and sew right, I found the problem.  All's well in Podunk again!  The sun is shining and the birds are chirpin!  I'll get some pictures soon! 





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