Oh how very lovely, Sandy. The work is exquisite. I love the pebbling filler. Isn't Philippa Naylor a fabulous teacher! You've done her proud. . In message , Sandy writes
I've been sort of slow in finishing anything lately -- I just have too
>many things going at the same time. I'm sure no one else has that >problem, right?
>
>At any rate, I recently attended a retreat in Arizona, where I took two
>classes. The second one, from Melinda Bula, was disappointing, but at
>least the project is probably going to work out at some point. The first
>one, though, from Susan Cleveland, was *really* good. You may or may not
>know that I really like putting narrow corded piping into the binding of
>many of my quilts, and now I've learned how to put it into the body of
>the quilt, too. Of course, all of the information is available in her
>book, but it's so much more fun to learn from a good teacher in a class.
>:) Yesterday I finished the top to the little quilt I'm making from that
>class, though of course it still needs to be quilted and bound.
>
>Even better, though, is that I've also completely finished another small
>quilt. This one resulted from a class in Houston last fall and is done
>with machine trapunto. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. :) >
>I have pics of both of these on my web site
> and also
>on my blog (URL below).
>