I love seeing quilts made using my instructions and Sandy in AL shared this photo of her version of my Solid Stars and Strings.

I’ve received a few emails from some of you that have seen my quilt in the new magazine Quilty. Look for it in stores now!

So which quilt? Remember my Diamonds and Rails?

I’m heading to MQS today to meet up with my sister Deb. If you’re attending look for us to say hi. We’ll be there until Friday.

This is an allover fern meander from the Pajama Quilter DVD –I find this one a little tricky but like all of the freehand designs on Dawn’s DVD’s it’s pretty forgiving. Quilted here on a Strips and Strings Log Cabin pieced by Jackie.

I really like how this one looks close up.

I hope everyone had a wonderful day. Mine was nice but quiet … I feel like I made a mistake this year not planning to be at Mom’s on Mother’s Day, usually I try to be there. Now my trip later this month is canceled. Disappointing.

Here’s a recent photo of my Mom with the “youngest” half of her 6 kids. I always describe my position in the family as the oldest of the youngest girls.

It’s amazing how much my respect and admiration for her has grown as I get older. She’s such a strong, caring person.

Love this pink and brown HeartStrings top from Tish — it’s just gorgeous although this isn’t the best shot of it. Just wait until it’s bound and I’ll take an outside photo. Quilted with the pantograph Hearts in Bloom.

In addition to sending tops in, Tish also has supplied me with many, many backings over the last several years for HeartStrings quilts. I am so appreciative of her support.

We weren’t able to attend his birthday party last weekend but we did FaceTime with him and Adam today on his 2nd birthday.

I’ve got a stack of tops waiting for quilting but I’ve been stuck – not wanting to come downstairs to quilt so instead of doing the next quilt in line — I chose a HeartStrings top pieced by Kitty and quilted some swirly Dwirling on it from the Pajama Quilter DVD. It was just what I needed – quick, easy, forgiving, and done!

This is one of 11 or 12 HeartStrings tops that I have here and want to get quilted by the end of June. I’ll do them in between one I’ve promised to Mom by the end of May and a couple of my UFO’s.

The Pineapple blocks are done and the top is ready for assembly which will probably take me longer than the blocks did as I tend to procrastinate on this part.

But at least I finished the quilting tonight. I finally made myself go down and finish this up – now it just needs binding which it will get after I finish up the Pineapple blocks — I’ll be late finishing it but it will be done by the end of the month along with May’s UFO.

It’s kind of hard to see but I just did a swirl in the border that is similar to the swirls in the leaves.

I still don’t particularly care for it but it’s almost done!