Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

It's official, I got the zoo completed.  I call it animals in the City, with a yellow border of city buildings and boxy quilting, I'm  proud of how it turned out. The lion was the hardest (as stated in the instructions), but it does look so good!! See the quilting?  Wandering in the blue and squares to match the buildings (they're very faint) in the yellow. This block was my favorite.  Which one is your's? My second goal was my Quilt Doodle "These are a Few of my Favorite Things" . Will write more on it later showing the complete progress but here is a picture to show it's completeness.  There is embroidery, beads, applique, everything...  It's quite large - 104 inches by 80 (I added another border to the edging to make it bigger).  But it's great for an overlap for the pillow, and hanging down around a twin bed. December's block was anything we wanted.  I wanted to add a  quote of some sort.  One quote that

Well the animals are completed last week, and I'm calling it "Animals in the city" because the yellow has skyscrapers on it.  The paper piecing pattern is by QuietPlay, a terrific site for a number of great patterns.  This pattern was a block of the month, one animal a month.  But there are many different types of animal patterns on the site.  Check them out.  This is the quilt hanging on my wall.  All the animals were made out of leftover scraps.  The yellow material is called "City Skyscrapers". Here are the animals I made: This animal was the hardest: I also didn't like the monkey block  because there is no mouth.  I'm thinking of stitching one on. But I do like my quilting stitch.   The next one was my favourite... Finally, I did do one more smaller quilt this weekend...  From Aurifill and Pat Sloan's interview last month.  The last of her miniquilts for the 2015 season.  Now she's doing blocks from cele

I'm still so sad about "A Lovely Year of Finishes" being over.   Shanna  and Melissa   did a great job and I had so much fun.  That's why I'll miss it.  But now, much to my happiness someone else has taken over, and I now can join Hiedi at Red Letter Quilts for the "One Monthly Goal".  She's going to keep it up, so the rest of you, come join the fun!! I'm looking this month to finish a couple of quilts.  I know it's a big goal but I made a list of all the quilts that I have a pattern and material for, and I just have too much!!!  I even made a New Years Resolution to not buy any more material until I finish two quilts (and I'm in withdrawal right now).  So that's my goal.  The two quilts are the following: Follow on Bloglovin OR, follow by Email! Email address... Submit To finish my paper piecing project of  "Quiet Time at the Zoo" , I have two more blocks to complete, then put it together, and quilt