The music director at church asked me to do a 5 minute project and create a curtain to cover the back side of the alter table to cover up the stuff that gets tossed back there.  I just can't do a 5 minute project.  So I made a banner.  Love God and Love people.  I call it "preaching to the choir" since they are the only ones who will see it.  I intentionally made the people all different shapes and sizes.  There is one who stands out in a crowd, one who fades away in the corner, the short and tall, round and skinny.  We are all in need of love.  Jesus said that the greatest commandment was to love God and the second like it involved loving others.  Pretty simple but powerful message.

Shawn's quilt top is finished! yay!

 I started this quilt, oh... hmmm... thinking *** oh yeah, this past summer.  With the goal of finishing it, yes even having it quilted and bound and on the bed, before the summer was out.  And then what happened?  Life.  I got a full time job and I had this quilting job on the side for the Alabama fan so it got a little delayed.  

I like how it turned out.  The small checkered border (which is something I like to add to all my stuff) is very subtle as it is two mediums of a similar tone so they blend at a distance to look like one strip of fabric but they are not.

To give you a perspective on the size of this quilt, I am laying on it in the picture below.  I hadn't measured the quilt but I think that showing me on it is more fun than giving you a measurement.  It is for a twin extra long but the bedframe is a cheap ugly metal one so I made it long enough to go to the floor.

Now I need to get this other project off of my long arm machine so I can quilt it.  But the exciting part is that until that is done I get to start Brian's rooms quilt which are some totally different colors that are brights.  Also the pattern is a new one for me and a little more challenging than this which is a simple log cabin.  Classic of course but way easy.  Next installment will be a showing of Brian's colors.