New Quilts....New Beginnings

I have been working...and the above crazy quilt is one of the finished quilt tops I have folded up and put away, awaiting the machine quilting I will soon learn to do. Not quilting done on my Bernina...but on a large machine quilting machine that will require lessons to learn to use. I have been also been cutting out quilt pieces from my stacks of fabrics that have been resting in bins for years. These have now been sorted by color, cut out into various size pieces, including squares, and stacked according to size of square. They will eventually all be assembled later to make more quilt tops. Now they are just piles of colored fabrics, resembling nothing, waiting to be assembled. Sometimes I wonder if that's not the way the Lord looks at us. He cuts out the pieces of our lives, sorts them by shape and color and plans what he wants to make with them. Eventually, in His time, he will piece it all together and it will make something useful and beautiful. Our job is to remain patient and faithful while He does his sorting, cutting, planning and assembling.

There are several other finished quilts that I will post in the next few days or weeks. They are nothing to ooh and ahh over...but they are finished and done. A few steps closer to finishing my assigned project of "getting to the end of my basket".

I want to make baby quilts on a regular basis once all the other projects are done. I already have a name for what I will call them. Blessing Blankets.

I guess my quilts have taken the place of my painting for now.