Beautiful quilts. The newspaper one is such a fabulous idea. My husband writes for the newspaper, too, and I hay have to preserve some of his articles that way, too. What would you do if an article covered a whole page of the paper. It could be the center of the quilt, but how would you get it scanned and onto cloth? I am open for ideas. This might be for his June birthday if I can figure out how to do it. Thanks

WOW, can I be your friend, there beautiful.

fmhall, you might have to "edit" the bigger article or maybe "continue" it to another block. I rejected a few longer articles because I wanted to include as many as possible. I did learn that crazy quilts aren't as easy as they look. I had originally planned not to construct blocks, but just add the articles every-which-way with strips of red and black in between, but the articles would have had to be much shorter for that to work. Also, you can't see it in the picture, but using red thread I machine embroidered different embroidery stitches along the edges of all the strips in the traditional crazy quilt manner and meander quilted through the articles.

Super Christmas presenrs, lucky friends!

WOW - wonderful quilts. Lucky friends and puppy. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

You're a very thoughtful friend. also you did a very good job loading your pictures. they look perfect on my laptop.

Wow!!! I love these ideas. There is nothing better than a handmade gift! I love the first quilt, that is so creative.

Can you add me to your list of friends? I LOVE the newspaper one. Actually, all of them are gorgeous!

Your friends are very lucky. You did a great job on all of these, well thought out!!!

Your work is wonderful - But Charlie will like his the BEST.