A New Year's Day Finish

This (as best I can recollect) was started in the fall of 2006. I worked on it last year some, but it was a bit discouraging as I felt I was botching it with my poor machine quilting skills. It was put aside, and I fully thought I might pick out lots of stitches before completing. I have done a lot since then to improve my quilting; too bad that is not reflected here.

Yesterday, my oldest saw what I am making for my black & white challenge and was so delighted (he thought it was his/the guitar quilt). I thought, what better way to bring in the new year than to actually finish it. It needed a couple hours of quilting and the binding.

The machine quilting has places that I'd never keep if it were for anything other than his joy and amusement. It feels good to have it out of the "incomplete quilts pile". Hayden is pleased too. His sister felt she was being left out by not having her picture taken with the quilt too. Silly girl!

Don't zoom too closely at the sewing, please!! The design is great, but I failed the effort with my quilting.

Classical or Rock-n-Roll?

I started this last year, and dug it out a month ago to actually sew the appliques. I have played guitar as a child and as an adult, as has my husband. Unfortunately, I ditched it back in grade school for the flute, which I played regularly until a few years ago. We both have acoustic guitars. In fact, he bought me one for Christmas our first Christmas together (I was taking lessons then). I don't play often anymore, and even when I was taking lessons, I was nowhere as good as I was when I was 10. The mind of a child is so absorptive! Last year we bought our oldest (almost 6) a kid's acoustic guitar, as he was really into guitars then (making them from blocks, sticks, etc - anything). If he continues his love of guitars, this may be his one day.