Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

It's December already and it's always a busy time of year, and with me going away from the 19th to the 30, I don't want to make too big of promises.  So I'm keeping this nice and lite. I have started a Craftsy class months ago with Camille Roskelley called Playful Piecing Techniques that uses precuts, so it make it very easy.  The one that I'm looking at completing is my Spool quilt from her lesson.  This would be the second quilt out of 4 quilts that you can make while doing this course.  She's very good as a teacher, and I've learned a lot.  My water quilt is from this course as well.  Here's what I'm trying to make, a combination of the one on the table and the wall that is larger.  I'm doing the spools seperated by white.  I have the roll cut up, and the white background all cut up, ready to go.  The colors are old fashion, with dark tones.  There is a promise that I made to myself as well, that I would do at least 2 rows this mont

Well, it's hard to miss when I posted my November's entry for what I wanted to complete in the November's "Lovely Year of Finishes (it was my last entry), but I did it, I did complete one of my goals.  I am not making excuses but it's been a very bad month for me this month, and very trying.  I won't go into it with details but I'm sure many of you out there have gone through bad times and needed quilting to get through it.  In all honesty, I only had two weekends to complete my goals and I'm very happy that I was able to do one of them.    I started from this (all the material saved up). To this...... Who doesn't love a Christmas quilt. The quilting was spiral with fillers in between and I love the final results.   The pattern was free from Jolly Jabber.   It's called Little Joys  and all the patterns are free here.  It was a block of the month (short one), but absolutely beautiful, simple, and easy to do.  For t