OK, I'm still here...

and have been very busy... not just with sewing/quilting, but with assembling and with this and that... like visiting my aunt at one local hospital and then a cousin at another one.  Aunt was able to go home about half an hour after I left - good for her :).  Cousin may be there for awhile ( she fell and broke a hip)

These are gnomes that I've made as Christmas gifts - most will go to neighbors.  The colors in the top photo are more accurate (same gnomes in both photos, just took the second photo after I added the gold capped gnomes.  There are three more gnomes somewhere... maybe I hadn't made them yet.  I may send one to each of my daughters, too, if there are any left.

These ( there are two) dresser scarves are something that I embroidered several years ago and just recently 'refound'.  I decided to quilt them... what I'll do with them now, I don't know, but they'll go to someone.

If you look close in the photo above, you can see blue 'runs' around the butterflies.  The fabric was stamped with the pattern you were to embroider.  I had used a purple pen to try and draw out a design that I ended up not liking.  When I spritzed it with water, I accidentally hit the butterflies, too...   the second scarf went into the washer with cold water and left to hang dry instead of going through the dryer - just in case.

This one that bled, I left it as it was until I finished the quilting and added the binding... then I took a leap of faith and put it in the washer along with some retayne and a fabric detergent and let it soak for a bit.  Once I was sure that the bleeding was gone, I tossed it in the dryer.  You'd never know that I had had the accident :).

The photo above and the two below are of the second scarf... I like the stitching on this one a lot better than what I did on the first.

Ok, Happy Thanksgiving everyone...

take care....
ttyl