Happy Halloween!

Here's my latest kitty photo:

My beautiful Nightmare!  He turned 17 last week.  He's doing well on the special kidney diet.  We took him for another blood test on Saturday and his numbers have definitely improved.  He's still recovering from the stroke he had 2 months ago though.  He was doing really good with that until we took him to the vet on Sat.  I think taking him out of the house was a little bit of a setback for him.  But he is a beauty isn't he?  He's been with me since he was 3 weeks old.

In other news, here's my latest stitching project:

My mom gave me that green bee awhile back and I thought he would be cute on a purse.  I think this is really cheery looking!

Have a Happy Halloween everyone!  Don't eat too much candy....unless it's chocolate!

Crazy Quilt Dolls

I finished up the dress for my 3rd little Crazy Quilt Doll:

Now to assemble these!  I'll be doing that this week.

In the meantime, I'm working on Lesson 1 of my Color & Composition Classes starting in January. 

Also, for anyone who has and uses my Elegant Crazy Quilt Seam Treatments books, there's a Flickr group for sharing photos of your stitched borders.  This is just for photos of blocks that have my borders on them but it is open to the public.

Crazy Quilt Christmas Ornaments

Well, these Crazy Quilt Ornaments would be for a large Christmas tree or a door knob:

I think these will be the last of my Christmas things for this year.  I don't know if mom will be doing anything or not.  Next on my stitching list is to finish up my little Crazy Quilt Dolls.  These ornaments are in my Etsy shop.

More Crazy Quilt Doll Dresses

I finished stitching up the blue doll dress that I was working on the other day:

Again, it looks a little bulky but it's just pinned to the doll at the moment.  The bulk is from the excess fabric.  Some of that will be cut away when I assemble these.

I started on this green dress this morning:

All of the seam treatments are from Volume 3 of my Elegant Crazy Quilt Seam Treatments book.  I hope to have some time to work on this later.  I have some computer work to do for now.

I'll leave you with my latest kitty photo:

Nightmare & Lucy sharing a chair and looking outside.  Most of the time, Nightmare is biting her.  He's such a bully!  And he'll be 17 years old on Saturday!

Crazy Quilt Doll Dresses

I've had some porcelain doll heads in my stash for quite some time now.  I pulled them out the other day and thought I'd try dressing them.  This isn't sewn together yet.  It's just pinned to the doll:

I sewed up 3 dresses so I'll stitch all of them first and then do the finishing.  Here's the one I'm stitching on now:

I'm eager to get the assembly part.  In my younger years, I made Barbie clothes so I have a good idea of how to put the dresses together.  The dress looks a little bulky on the doll at the moment but that's just the excess fabric that I'll have to trim.