Just a few photos of a finished baby quilt. This one was inspired by Crazy Mom Quilt's zigzag quilt.

I gave it to a friend for her baby shower on Sunday night and I'm happy to say she loved it.

I am working on several projects right now including the Twiddletails Pinwheel quiltalong, slip covering sofas, and a couple of commissioned baby quilts.

Yay!! I just bought all the fabrics for the pinwheel quilt at Hancock Fabrics. I really do hate our local Hancock's...messy, dirty, under-staffed with unfriendly staff who usually don't know how to sew. But nevertheless.... it's done.

Just joined a Quilt Along over at Twiddletails.

First Words

Look at me...I'm a blogger!! After being stuck in the house for the past week with my 2 lovely sons I needed an outlet..and a martini or two. The Nation's Capital is snow bound! The grocery store shelves are bare. The roads are barely passable. I needed to vent somewhere. We really were lucky. We had heat and power, cable and internet, and enough food so I really can't complain although I won't let that stop me.

I have been busily sewing window treatments for our new digs in Virginia. The hubs is already living there during the week and coming back to DC on weekends. I also have several quilts in various stages of construction. Several of them are from quilting classes I have taken this year. That was one of my New Years resolutions...to take at least 1 quilt class per month. A fairly easy resolution to keep although sometimes it's so much easier to just stay home and quilt alone. That really is the beauty of quilting; it can be either social or solitary and I am just as happy with either scenario.

I am a mostly self taught quilter and taking these classes has really made me aware of how much there is to know about this art form. I am really enjoying them. I took a paper piecing Mariner's Compass class at Ginny Beyer's studio in Great Falls Virginia a couple of weeks ago and used an "Add A Quarter" ruler for the first time. A revelation I must say.

The quilt above was paper pieced using a pattern from Jennifer Rogers Ofenstein. Visit her awesome blog sewhooked.org.