Icicle Days Top Finish & Other New Stuff

I finished the quilt top of my version of Anne Sutton's pattern Icicle Days, which is sold through her website Bunny Hill.

I did not make the wonderful pieced sashing on the original pattern. Because I used a fat quarter group which I won from AQS on Facebook there was not enough fabric to make the sashing as designed. I tried a scrappy version but did not like it. So I decided to just set the blocks side by side and add a scrappy inner border.

I also finished a quilt top made from vintage sheets. When I saw quilts like this some years ago I set out to collect sheets. The striped sheets were like what I had as shower gifts in 1972!

My Tuesday quilt group often brings in goodies to share. Recently I found these two 20th c designer handkerchiefs up for grabs!

 I don't recall seeing many handkerchiefs by Shelly, but I would guess it is from the 1960s.

I have seen this design from Monique, also from the 1960s.

I have won a number of books from Goodreads! I love 'real books' for late night reading, when my eyes are pretty burned out from reading on my iPad.

About 15-20 years ago I read Augustine's Confessions and look forward to reading a new translation.

I have read a few books by Nelson DeMille--not as many as my hubby, though. It should be a nice Summer read, plus my hubby and son will want to read it, too.

It's been a while since I read DeQuincy's Diary of an Opium Eater. Now I've won his biography I'll have to reread it!

I Won two books to arrive from LibraryThing, including The End of Men by Karen Rinaldi and Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo. Urbane Publications sent me the ebook Belief by Marcus Kline.

I'll try to have a post on quilting every Wednesday and on Saturdays I will continue to share memories.

A Little Sewing Going On

I have been working on Icicle Days from Bunny Hill Designs.  Embroidery will be added later. I am using the fabric I won from Quilter's Newsletter, Fontaine.

I have two of three February 1857 Album blocks finished.

I have not been hand quilting very much on my Austen Family Album... Too busy with doggies at night, and I have been working on the applique at my weekly quilt group.

But I did share my Album quilt with the weekly group, and shared it on Facebook quilt groups to much acclaim.

Album quilt by Nancy A. Bekofske

I finished it several years back. I used patterns from magazines and books and created several original patterns, including the Shiba Inu Princess Feather at the center top.

Four Shibas block by Nancy A. Bekofske

This is for our Shiba Inu pets Kili, Suki, Kara, and Kamikaze.

Kamikaze, a puppy mill breeder rescue

Suki, a puppy mill breeder rescue

Kara, a puppy mill breeder rescue. Our foster dog

of nine months. Died of kidney failure.

Kili, our first Shiba, lived 16 years.

My husband came up with the idea of the Dachshund bookends for our dogs Pippin and P.J.

in process block for Album Quilt

Pippin

A Facebook quilt friend, whom I have yet to meet, quilts with the group I quilted with almost 30 years ago. She sent me this photo of Claire Booth, applique' and quilt artist extraordinaire, showing a wool quilt she made while I knew her.

Claire Booth

This is the wall hanging she designed and created for us when we moved in the late 1990s.

quilt by Claire Booth

I have been invited to go back and visit these ladies who taught me so much when I began quilting in 1991. I hope to arrange something this spring.