Dog Year

The vault of unfinished projects (a.k.a. my stash closet) continues to yield premiums. While searching for a project to take to an in-town Bee retreat this past weekend look what rose to the surface! These pictorial dog blocks were the result of an on-line block of the month offered by Ami Simms as a "Dog Yeared Calendar" back in 2003. I completed all of the blocks in a timely fashion and then let them "steep" for the past five and a half years in a project box. I dug them out last week, embroidered the names that I had assigned each canine friend, and drafted the lettering for the borders in EQ6. I had exactly enough sashing and border fabric set aside in the box, with the blocks, right down to the last inch. After this one is quilted it will receive button embellishments for eyes, to dot the "i", and to complete the exclamation point. As for me and this house, every year is, indeed, the year of the dog! As you know I am a huge Ami Simms fan, having made oodles of her "Picture Play" quilts. You can pop over to her website and order her Picture Play book at 50% off (between now and noon on Thursday), the first 50 customers will be rewarded with a chunk of her very own novelty fabrics to get you started; now that's a deal you can't pass up.

Life is Good!

"EVERY year is the year of the dog!" 48" X 60"