Making

It's been a really long time since I made anything other than my heart to heart valentines.

I am trying to ease myself back into being creative.
I've been working on Eggs for Shara's swap.

I think this might be a purple year for me after all.
And I finally made Jack a new place mat. He had a plastic one that was doing the job of protecting those wood countertops, but I threw it in the dishwasher and warped it. He said it was making him spill his milk so I tossed it.

After he got paint ALL over said countertops yesterday I kicked it into gear and made him a new placemat.

I had forgotten a few things. 1 - quilting takes a long freaking time! Even on a placemat. (There is quite a lot of quilting, but it's hard to see in my crappy photo). 2 - Playing with print and pattern in fabric is fun! And 3 - the shhhhhhhhh shhhhhh of the needle passing through fabric is cathartic.

Last, but not least, Jack choose a name for the heart to heart giveaway. Congratulations to WENDY!