A Fish out of Water

While in Juneau Alaska I went into a quilt shop

and saw this wallhanging made up and I really liked it.

So I bought the pattern and this is the result............

This is one of those patterns where you START with

your quilt sandwich and lay the pattern pieces

(which you have made from freezer paper)

onto the quilt sandwich and sew them down

with a STRAIGHT stitch leaving the edges raw.

I decided to just put it on the longarm and sew

the pieces using it instead of the DSM.

Now, you may remember in an earlier post

I mentioned that I DID NOT like that this salmon

was jumping out of the water and I intended to

re-arrange these fish and put him IN the water!

How silly!

Fish don't jump out of the water!

Well..........they do!

I just looked and looked at all of my Ketchiken pictures

and I can't find a single one of the fish fully jumping out

of the water............But that doesn't mean that they didn't

jump.........it just means that my photography was quite

good enough to catch them!

So on my wallhangings the salmon

jump out of the water as well!

This little quiltlet will be sent off soon for

the Good Ol' Summertime swap.

WOW!

Wow!

Would you look at this:

I got my

Good Ole' Summertime Mini Quilt swap

in the mail today!

It came all the way from Kodiak Island in Alaska

from Deb Christensen!

In the note I received she told me about how they

had an excellent run on red salmon and now the halibut

are hitting. The biggest catch so far has been 315 pounds

and 5' 6" from head to tail. They call them "barn doors".

I can't even imagine a FISH that big!

You can visit Deb's website here:

http://dyingtobeyours.blogspot.com/

She has posted some really wonderful photos of

the island she lives on and has pictures of some

of the other critters that live on the land near her house.

I love reading about the different places!

I've been busy down in the studio..........

I made this journal cover for a friend of mine

who is working really hard to overcome an addiction.

She's been journaling and I thought she might like

this journal cover.

I"ve also finished up this humungeous cross-stitched quilt

for Mary.

There are 36 large squares that make up this old-fashioned

looking quilt. Mary has worked quite hard making up all of

those HAND cross-stitched squares.

I've got the quilt folded in the picture above..........

Here is a picture of the back.

It really is not a pink backing.

The flash just made the burgandy backing look pink!

I'm in the process of embroidering some shirts and I hear

the machine calling me back to change a thread color,

so OFF I go!