Knee Surgery?

I called yesterday to see about getting an earlier appointment with my knee Dr. I got a call back today. I have an appointment for Monday. My knee is totally well so I'm hoping and praying that my Dr. will schedule my knee surgery for very soon. I'm so ready to start getting back to my regular life. I 'm going to go to exercise classes and do everything to get my tone back. I want to be better than I was actually.
I have a letter ready to go out to a publisher about a quilt book I want to see about publishing.
I'm almost afraid to talk about it yet. Wish me luck!

This is another one of my applique quilts that I did when I couldn't walk. I just finished piecing it this week. I want to get to the quilting on my Bernina. I designed all of the blocks because I wanted something that would be easy to handle back then. If you design it yourself you can't make a mistake. Right! I have always wanted a basket quilt like this one. Everything was done with my fat quarters and scaps of fabric. In fact that is what I call it "Fat Quarter amd Scrap Baskets"

To wash or not

I just about always wash my fabric when I bring it in the house I make a pit stop in the Laundry room and wash it first. Over the last few months I took it on in my sewing room.
This morning I collected it all and washed it all . Before I got confused about what was wash or not. Yesterday Heather took me over to Joanne Fabrics and bought me some more. Now all my fabric is washed and ready for my next qult of the year. I had decided that I'm going to use from my stash and not buy any more for a while. I'm even going to try some pieced backs.
Heather loves Moms quilts and she wants to make sure they keep coming.

I got my new quiltings added. The 1st is my pink Baby Quilt. The blue is a quilt I started back in April- May. I did four quilts back then in hand Applique. This one is the smallest. I knew I could quilt it on my Bernina. This weekend I want to start piecing one of the biggest it is a 12 block quilt. The block are all baskets that I desgned myself. It is kinda Folk art looking.

German Stollen Bread

I found my new Family Tradition, after Christmas I was thinking about my husbands tree. I thought I about my husband heritage. Alot of German so I thought I would try make a German
treat so I went on the internet and found Stollen bread. So it took me all afternoon. But at the end of the afternoon I had two golden loaves of a really good what I would call breakfast bread and the family just loved it. So I guess they are part Geman.
I've also been working on a little baby quilt. It is pink, yellow and some black background with daisies. Because it is small I can get it quilted and all right now. Just love doing my free motion quilting with my Bernina, Arora 440. I could advertize for them I just love it that much.
I went to my plastic surgeon yerterday he reased me. He is the Dr. that did all the really bad stuff to my knee, Not his falt so he says. But if my knee Dr. wants his help he'll be there for him. Oh! Boy!

This is my string quilt that I got pieced together this week end. I probably won't get it quilted until after my next knee surgery in March. But right now I'm on a roll getting them pieced.

I also got my Backporch quilt pieced together. I started piecing it back in March when I had my 1 st knee surgery. I did all the curves by hand. Just because back then I wanted any kind of hand sewing to keep me busy. So yesterday I pieced all the block together by machine. I love the way it turned out I want to put a couple of borders on it but I'm still thinking about what I want right now.