Star Log Cabin Wallhanging

This is a wallhanging from Eleanor Burns’ Star Log Cabin in a Day book. It’s machine pieced and handquilted (mostly SID and some in the middle of the stars). I completed it on 31 December 2003, I think. It depends on when we actually celebrated Mom’s and oldest DS Nathan’s birthdays that year. (Yes, they share a birthday!) It may have been New Year’s Day 2004. Anyway, this hangs in our dining room in between 6 racks of my Mom’s cup and saucer collection–a place of honor.

This was basically my second quilting project and actually my first one completed. I decided on the spur of the moment to do something quilty for my Mom for Christmas even though I’d just learned to quilt a few months earlier. My goal was to get it done before Christmas. The problem is that I am well known in my family for either being up all night Christmas Eve completing gifts for Christmas Day, or for wrapping up a half completed gift and giving it and then *never* finishing the project! I tried, I *really* tried to get this all done for my Mom before Christmas. . . I managed to get the top done. [sigh] Fortunately, because Mom’s birthday is a week later, I told her I’d have it all quilted for her by her birthday. True to form, I think I was still hand sewing the binding to the back *on* her birthday, but I did get it done!

Oh, and I almost forgot. . . I won a second place ribbon on my wallhanging at the Pahrump Arts Council Fiber Arts Show in 2006.

I’m in the middle of revamping several of my websites–this one included–so I haven’t gotten a lot of piecing done in the last month. The need to have a little more income is forcing me to work on “work” related things. I thought I’d make some posts as I update and rearrange things here and at my other quilting website. My next post is about the first-ever finished quilting project.