My Classroom... and Hand Quilting

As you may or may not know, my classroom is a magical place, at least for me.  I might be the tiniest bit competitive (THAT WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT!), and I like to feel like my class is pretty wonderful.  It may not be the very best, but I love it.  It's pretty uncluttered as preschool classrooms go, and I think our centers are pretty awesome.  It's my own personal Queendom, and I'm totally comfortable there.  I wanted to share with you a picture of the art wall that is on display right now.  We are learning about Great Artists and how they create their art.  We have so far learned about Picasso and Monet and will be learning about Anne Geddes, Andy Warhol, and Henri Matisse.  We will be trying out all their types of art also, but here's what we've done so far. 

This is the art that my little pumpkins (3 YEAR OLDS!!!) did.  They totally get it.  Maybe because nobody has told them that they can't do things yet.   They just do it.  I think they make masterpieces. 

I've been hand quilting in the evenings lately (I probably posted about this last time), but what I'm working on is an old quilt that I bought at a yard sale maybe 16 years ago in Texas.  I got it for $4 and it's kind of twin sized, in solid yellow and muslin.  The woman I bought it from said her grandmother made it "a long time ago" and never finished it.  It's very graphic and I love it.  When she ran out of the yellow she was using, she still had a couple of blocks to go, so she got some other yellow, more gold to finish it up.  Very thrifty.  I smile every time I work on this quilt.  I had started quilting it a long time ago, and put it away, but I sure am enjoying it now. I have about 2 1/2 blocks still to quilt, and a little of the border, and it looks pretty good.  When I take a picture I will post it.