Purple Crazy Nine Patch Finally Finished!

I finally finished quilting my Purple Crazy Nine Patch quilt.  I must admit I like it a bit better since it is quilted, but the pattern will never be one of my favorites.   I decided to follow some of the suggestions offered, and I used a lot of the fancy stitches on my Janome.  Perhaps it would have been better to use the same stitch at least through the four lines through each block rather than changing stitches at each intersection; maybe not.  Anyway, what's done is done!  I do like my stitch choices in the borders and along the sashings very well.

I took advice from Ruth of Country Log Cabins to change my picture settings to Large.  If you click on the pictures twice, you can see the beautiful fabrics and my stitches much better.  (Also you can better see that I probably should do something inside each of the nine sections of each block, but NO---I'M FINISHED!)

 A door knob is behind the "2015" above; that corner really is square. *giggle*  Maybe you can see the stitches better from the back side, or one of the close-up pictures.

I began to think I would never get it finished!  The weather here has been so depressing lately.  We went 12 days with no sunshine and 3 ice/snow storms.   Not bad like many have you have experienced, but my frame of mind (and body!) were sorely affected.  I just couldn't stay focused on anything, and every joint in my body has ached for days!

I took pictures of each ice storm, but the last was the worst (actually the prettiest).  I show that picture, not to show the snow but rather to show the SHADOWS, the first in 12 days!  The sun finally came out! That many cloudy, cold days in a row is just not like Texas!  Saturday was sunny and somewhat warmer; then on Sunday clouds and much needed rain rolled in again.  It rained all day Monday, but today is looking a little better, (brighter, but still overcast, not bright enough to make shadows). The forecast for the next week, up in the high 60's and low 70's maybe, looks much better.  Yea!!!

Our quilting group had to cancel our plans to attend the Waco Shop Hop and Quilt Show because of the ice storm.  I've heard attendance was really down because of the terrible driving conditions all around.  You know, Texans don't know how to drive on ice, and all the Interstate Highways were very dangerous for days at a time, and lots of schools were closed most of last week.  Remember, we don't have that much ice very often, so we don't have the road clearing equipment like other northern States have.  Very dangerous, and even more depressing!

I hope we have seen the last of winter!  It is time for Spring!  No doubt many of you feel the same way.

I'm trying to decide on my next project; I have several whirling in my head.  A couple of them should be fairly simple and quick; another will be more complicated and will require a lot of time that I seem to be short of!  But wouldn't you know, that's the one I really want to start on.   Of course, it will require a trip to the quilt store for background fabric to go with all my Civil War fabric leftovers.  Got to figure out how to use them somehow.  And then again, there's another Texas quilt (sort of) trying to crowd in the open spaces in my brain!  Decisions, decisions!  Maybe I should never go to bed, but just play with my quilts 24/7.

What I really need to do is clean house and closets!  My sewing closet is in a BIG mess!  So are my other closets!.....and the yard......and the garage......and the car!  So much to do; so little time, and all I really want to do is start another project, maybe tomorrow!

First I have to close down all this foolishness!

Have fun quilting, everyone!

---"Love"