hello everyone!

No, I haven’t disappeared completely from the face of the blogosphere. I’ve just been busy on my book, and that project is a real diva! As far as creative in-progress projects go for me, there can be only one diva on the stage at a time. She won’t share the spotlight (aka my time and attention in the studio) with anything else like say the 3 tenors do, and that includes my blog! I have been working on random small stuff the past month and a half though, so I’m going to get my digital camera out and share them with you here in the next several weeks, and get out there and visit you at your blogs as well, find out what you’ve been up to.

The first thing I have to show you is the final block that’s going into my basket sampler. I made this one only 2 days ago and will probably assemble the center panel this weekend. If you’ve been following along, I used this block in a wall hanging in February (see it here).

I can’t wait to share my book with you! I’ve had a fantastic time playing with my beads and making all the different samples and projects, so it hasn’t been all that bad abandoning my quilting and blogging for awhile. It feels strange, sitting at my sewing machine again and here on the Blogger dashboard as well. It is good to be back though. I’m finally going to participate in the Fast Friday Fabric Challenge next week, which I have not done since February 2007. Wow! Has it really been that long?

happy summer quilting! ^_^