top 100 sites to see

I just stumbed on this great web site, which lists the top 100 sites to see before you die
http://www.hillmanwonders.com/


I've done:
6 Grand Canyon
11 Amazon Rain Forest
22 Acropolis
24 Jerusalem
32 Fjords of Norway
37 Hong Kong
40 Louvre Museum
42 Versailles
52 Prague Old Town
78 Stonehenge
80 Yellowstone NP
81 Santorini
83 Matterhorn
84 New York Skyline
86 Eiffel Tower
88 Niagra Falls
89 British Museum
94 Hermitage Museum
98 Banff NP
99 San Francisco

Places that I would like to go next:
9 Iguazu Falls
59 Dubrovnik

Shopping Bags

I made some shopping bags for my friends as gifts. I used 5 fat quarters per bag. 2 fat quarters for the outside, 2 for the lining, and half of one for the handles. Here are some pictures of them.

Shopping bags from fat quarters

I've been making shopping bags with my fat quarters and giving them as gifts. I use 5 fat quarters in total: 2 for the outside, 2 for the lining, and part of one for the handles. I just sew the outside fat quarters together, make handles and attach them to the outside, sew the lining fat quarters together, then sew the outside to the inside by the top.

New projects

Here's a skirt that I made. It was done with the book Sew What! Skirts: 16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics by Francesca DenHartog. Fabulous book if you want to sew skirts, and it helped me get over my fear of zippers.

Just finished a quilt for my cats

I just finished a quilt for my cats. It's using a technique from 90 minute quilts. I like the cute cat fabric I used on it. Here's Sushi enjoying the quilt.

Wrote a new blog

Hi. I just wrote a new blog for my Mentor Graphics forum blog posting, and it's at:

http://communities.mentor.com/mgcx/blogs/icnanometer/2008/07/15/process-variation-the-use-of-indie-variation

New blog for work

Well, this is totally unrelated to quilting, but I just started a new blog for work. It's related to software used for computer chip design, and the link is:
http://communities.mentor.com/mgcx/blogs
This is a blog for Mentor Graphics, and I work with the Calibre product line, for a product called Calibre xRC. Hopefully you'll enjoy reading my blog.

Karen.

New citrus purse

Hey, I haven't finished a project in a long time. Here's a new purse that I just made, using fabrics from Moda's Sandy Gervais Fresh Squeezed.

New ecology series

I'm doing a new series called ecology. It's going to feature endangered plants. Here's the first one, a sago lily.

Heart quilt with prarie points

Hey, I made a Valentine's day quilt for my husband, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The top of the heart was made using prarie points.

Here's a close-up shot.

Pinwheel quilt

I just finished a lap size quilt for my parents. It's a pinwheel design, with pink, blue and brown. I've been working on it since March, and I was able to give it to them for Christmas this year.