I've Caught the Bug

 It's not the exercise bug,

It's not the eating healthier bug,

It's not the let's get quilting bug....

It's the flu bug!

I haven't been sick for years

I mean years.

But I have it now.

Strictly

 tea and toast

or ginger ale and saltines.

And, of course, 

a warm quilt to help lessen the chills.

Home Sweet Home

64" x 74"

Scrappy Flannel

2000

This is one of my favorite flannel quilts.

It was an ideal pattern to use odd pieces of

flannel fabrics I had in my stash.

Really, anything went together.

It's a pattern designed by Connie Huddleson

of Starry Pines Pattern Co.

just down the road from where I live.

She calls it Carrie's Flannel Scrap Quilt,

if you're interested.

It's easily constructed with 

scrappy rails, 

 

half square triangles,

postage stamp squares,

 fusible applique,

buttonhole stitching,

 and a scrappy binding to end it all

It's easy to quilt it in the ditch

and then do some stippling.

It's the makings of a 

favorite quilt.

 

Now the funny thing was that

as I have laid under it for the last few days,

I noticed a thread,

 

 not a short thread,

but a very long thread 

that had been long overlooked.

For how many years?

It's like when you look in the mirror 

one morning and suddenly realize

you need the tweezers.

Like, where the heck did that come from!#!

I'll snip it later

when I can find my scissors

or if not,

I'll find it again another time.

Until Next Time-