Whoops! How did that get in here. Above is some of Mother's strawberry shortcake that she made for Chuck and Sue who visited with us last Monday. It's strawberry season in Central Florida, believe it or not.
The quilt below is a smallish square, maybe 60" by 60", that I started probably 15 years ago. The pattern called for a bigger quilt, but I had to quit because it was horrendously time consuming. It's all pieced from these little 6" strips of fabric and meant to be a sort of modern-ish take on your basic log cabin design (yeah, I know).
I think this is about the time that I quit making quilts from book patterns and just starting designing my own, made to the dimensions I wanted, etc.
Also I could never figure out how to quilt the darn thing so after 15 years of pulling it out of the bag, trying something, hating it, throwing it back in the bag, I finally decided to just give it some curved machine quilting and called it a quilt.
Looks nice in my living room draped over the sofa and it's just big enough to keep my legs warm in the mornings when it's only 50 degrees (sorry, Northerners, but really, come visit! It's quite pleasant here). --cds
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