I'm hooked on making quilts...

I know that if there is anyone out there that reads these anymore, you are all probably saying " Oh, not another quilt blog"...

But, I am going to do it anyway! I finished a bedspread for Kari and I have a top pieced and ready to quilt for our back bedroom, and one being quilted at the church on the first Tuesdays of the month, plus.. I have some in the planning, cutting out stage. I just have to say... I wish I could get them done faster, so I could go on to the next one.

My family is probably tired of them too, but I just like the creativity I can use in changing the patterns and making them my own. There is something about the smell and feel of the fabric and the anticipation of how it will look when it is done. It is a wonderful hobby, although I am finding out; not an inexpensive one.

I wanted to do something to make Kari's new room in her apartment her own, so she picked out the fabric and I made the quilt. When I laid it out, it was somewhat blah... too many of the same tones in the quilt. I had some friends that know a lot about quilting, so I took it to them and showed it to them. We discussed some things I could do with it, and I decided to do the Minky flowers on the four corners. I think it made it just right! It isn't at her apartment yet, because I just finished it today, but I hope it makes it more like home to her when she gets it.

The other quilt on here is the one that is not quilted yet. It took a long time to finish it because I did so many other ones in between. I think I got a little tired of it, for some reason..:0) It just was laying around TOO long! So, I finished it up, but I won't have it quilted until after the first of the year. I have others that I need to get finished first!

I know I must be obsessed with this hobby. I really was looking to find something that I could leave to my kids and grandchildren, that would remind them of me when I'm gone... (If they want to be reminded, that is!) I want them to be able to wrap up in their quilts and know that I made it with love for them. I want them to realize that a piece of me is in every quilt I have made. I want them to feel a part of me with them every time they look at them. That goes for anyone that I have made a quilt for. A sense that they are loved and cared for... I hope they will feel that from me, now and after I am no longer here!