Brilliant flash of genius coming up! I lined up the rail fence quilt (now finished) on the bed for a photo shoot...and what do I spy????


See those bears in the background? The gold one my older sister made for my father. My father will not have stuffed animals - bears in particular - and never let us have any. Why? Because children grow too attached to them. It should be noted his one and only teddy bear received a proper funeral in the backyard of his farmyard after he was married and had kids! So I'm looking at this bear and wondering if...with a bit of fixing up...it might be something to give Meghan along with the quilt. I dunno...a 22 year old and a teddy bear. Course, Paul bought me my first (and only) teddy bear at 21 years old! It's the one beside the gold bear.

Well...so maybe it's not a flash of genius! We'll see...

Other things I've been working on?...

A creative doll that is part of a book on creativity that I'm working out of that I don't like. It's very New Agey and just plain weird. But some of the exercises are good creativity stretchers. I've never made a doll before...well...unless you count stuffed rabbit draft stoppers for the doors! This is my first attempt at making anything humanoid.


I have to put a face on it and add some hair...then think about clothes.

I've been thinking and working on the star quilt.  It's going to be a table topper.  I tried to get by without buying fabric for it.  I decided to tea dye some cotton for the background.  But it didn't work.  It's far too dark.  Here's the resulting dye job next to the quilt top...