Quilts

This is my beautiful quilt that my mother made and gave to me over the weekend. It is quilted by hand. She let me pick out what colors I wanted and then she chose the fabrics and the design and worked on it all winter. This picture really doesn't do it justice. I would love to make my own quilt someday. I have quilted before after someone gave me the quilt top, but I haven't picked out my own colors, picked the design, pieced the top together and then quilted on my own. I would like to start with a baby quilt and see how that goes. Take the material from the clothes that I made my daughter growing up and make a multi-colored piece.

This is the quilt that I helped with. My great-aunt made the quilt top and my mother-in-law and I quilted it. It will be a nice piece to hand down one day. The craft that I do the most is crocheting. I enjoy making afghans for my friends and family. I just completed a cream color afghan for a upcoming wedding. I'm getting ready to start on embroidering some pillowcases for my bed. I haven't embroidered for awhile, so this should be interesting! If I didn't work outside the home, I would get a lot more fun things like this accomplished.