Progress!

Wow, look at Kim go with her knitted chenille scarf - this is the yarn we all had so much fun with last month! Good thing she's so far along since her friend that's making the matching gloves already has one done and is over halfway through the other.

And Lori's well into the constructive destruction necessary to replace her absolute favorite bathrobe.

Rose Parade floats

Here are a few photos that show parts of the beautiful floats


I don't have photos of my fabric purchases in L.A. Alyssa has already done "her part" of the quilt for her brother, so I expect to get her squares in the mail next week.

Fabric shopping in Los Angeles garment district

The place to go shopping is Michael Levine on Maple! The regular price for the quilting cottons was about $8.50/yd. They had several Kaffe Fassetts for $5/yd, so I picked up a FEW yards, really, only a few, I hope you believe me.

On Friday, Dec 31, Alyssa took me to the Patchwork Penguin in Tujunga, not too far from my sister's house in La Canada, where they had an excellent selection of Asian prints. They had bought the remaining stock from another store that went out of business. We had fun picking out fabrics to make a quilt for my nephew, Ken.

The Rose Parade floats were just beautiful. I will post a few photos later.
Happy New Year everyone! See you at TRB.

Need advice on borders for UFO

My Ballard group has an "ugly fabric" exchange at our Christmas party. This is what I have made with the abandoned blocks and some new blocks with the fabric. I think it is quite beautiful. Now I need help on borders. Do you think I should use either the green or gold, or should I try to find the lavander (very weird color), or something else for the inner border, and what do you think about the black outer border? The "true" colors are more like the top photo (with flash).

A Good Time was had by All!

Here we are at Lori's house. What a fun day we had. Look at the blocks on the floor behind Jenny.






Look at this mess that Kim made!!







Jenny didn't seem to mind.

Believe it or not, she did get it untangled.

Talk about perseverance!!




ttfn :) Yuki

Leslie's baby shower contest

These onesies were created during Leslie's baby shower as a contest. I made 'Jungle Gym' on the lower right with my Aunt Corrine and 'Goin' Buggy' (just to the right of 'African Safari') after seeing what fun my cousin Vienna had using glitter fabric paints. Her creation is the van Gogh-like night scene with 'Baby' spelled in gold glitter stars (upper right). Tracy, Vienna's mom, came up with the idea and provided the fabric paints, stencils, embroidery floss, etc.

In case you ever need an idea for a baby shower, this really was a lot of fun.

Elaine's latest project

These are the blocks I helped Elaine make during my visit after Thanksgiving. Elaine had the red butterflies and we found the others at Pacific Fabrics. Elaine discovered the dragonflies which complement the butterflies and pull the other colors together so well. The quilt is based on a pattern Clara had and that Elaine and I adapted 2 or 3 years ago.