Quilts!

Totally unrelated to everything else in the universe... Christopher bought me quilting software for my birthday and I've been entertaining myself in rare spare moments by designing quilts. I've got lots, but some are better than others.

I thought y'all might get a kick out of seeing them. As ever, you can click on the smallish pictures below and load up a bigger and better copy of the photo.

It's the fall raspberry season and I designed this one while thinking of Nikki and her affection for raspberries and chocolate:



My friend Mary is very much a blue person. Not blue, depressed all the time blue, but sea and sky and the color of sapphires blue. I was thinking of her -- and the sea and the sky and stars -- when I designed this one:


Everyone who knows Wendy knows she's a purple person:



My mother likes these colors:



Finally, a sunburst for summer:



I've found the name of a decent beginner's sewing machine made by Viking for a reasonable amount of money and I'm going to buy it with my birthday money and maybe actually make some of these. Probably not the Sky and Sea one right away, though. That looks complicated.