The Loud and the Colorful(and an alert)

After an incident with my original swap blocks, I had to start re-making them. Oh NO!

When I went to get more muslin, I decided that I had a 40% off coupon, so I looked at the Pigma Micron pens. Hmm.... look at those! A set of six pens with glorious COLOR. Now if you know me at all, you know I LOVE LOVE LOVE color. More than I intended to spend, but sometimes you have to splurge, right? Oh, did I mention a 40% off coupon??? I went for it. I believe that the new signature strips are BETTER than the first ones. Well, maybe it is the COLOR.


The Loud: There are only two things about me that are loud. My use of color and my singing voice. My speaking voice tends to be softer, but when I sing, well I let it rip. I support the tone as best I can and I blast! People who know me but haven't heard me sing are usually very surprised.

Now you know about the loud AND the colorful, so without further ado - Here are some of the signature strips!




Oh swappers, not to worry, the folds at the center are my way of marking the centers before I did the drawing to keep it somewhat centered. It will iron right out.


Oh yes. today is the last day to enter at PS I Quilt

Half the way

I did some work on my blocks for Linda's Birthday Swap yesterday. I am happy to report that I am half the way to the finish of making the dozen blocks. I am showing three of them. I didn't take such good pictures, the blocks are more square than they look here. But for the sake of sharing, I am posting them here for you to see.

I was surprised at the comments on my doodling on these. Someone said I set the bar too high. Ha! My sewing may lower that bar a bit. I don't claim to make a perfect block, but if I can manage to make them work in a quilt I am sure the other 11 in the swap can too.

After the pictures I will share a little secret.


-------*******-------*******-------*******-------*******-------

-------*******-------*******-------*******-------*******-------

Ready for that secret?

As I was laying these out to make the photos, I thought, I would love to make a quilt out of these. I mean, just keep all the ones I made and make a quilt out of them. Shame on me!
Ha, Do Not FEAR Linda, I will send them in. I won't make a quilt out of them. But I don't promise that I won't use the block design to make some more blocks. Hey, I will need more anyway when I get my friend blocks from the swap. I see this requires some more thought.