Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

E-bay Mania

I pieced this top (and back) in 2002 from a BUNCH of squares that I purchased on e-bay. I thought the squares would be large enough to use for the Double Wedding Quilt that I wanted to reproduce. As it turned out (if I would have measured the template prior to purchasing this box of squares) the squares were too small. So, I found this pattern and proceeded to make this quilt top. I wanted to use every square. After completing the top I had some squares left-over, so I used them while piceing the back for this quilt.

Now I am working on quilting this quilt.

Here is a picture of the back.

I finished making (alot more than I need) flowers for the appliqued border of the Gift Bag Swap.

While trying to decide the layout of the applique I was getting way to stressed because it was taking to long – I needed to get working on the projects that I plan on completing this month. So, I put this project away until next month.
This is the Village Squares Quilter’s raffle quilt. This week I sewed the binding down by hand. At least I got the chance to do something on it. When they were doing most of the hand quitling I had that terrible cough and I didn’t want to sit around the quilting frame when I was coughing so badly.