Dancing With The Stars

Not the TV show, but Rosemary's latest quilt. We chose feathers, Bountiful Feathers to be exact. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love this pantograph. It was very windy outside this evening, ao I don't have a great photo.



I think it's a great fit for this quilt too. Quilters Dream cotton batting and Permacore Khaki thread.

Spring Break in Vegas Projects

It was a wonderful retreat and I'm ready to do it all over again. My committee members Julie, Marla, Angie, Debbie and Peggy were great and although I hesitated to delegate too much in the beginning, I appreciate all their work.

I did get a couple things finished at the retreat, but not very much.
I made this wall hanging for my stepson and his wife to give to some friends who are moving.



Then I sewed these pieces that were leftover from this quilt together using the Baby Bricks pattern. I have this terrible habit of keeping leftovers thinking I'll make something else when I should be cutting them into strips or nickles, or 2.5" squares or something. I have a basket of ziplock bags full of this kind of thing. Anyway, I'm happy with the results here.




I got a good start on my Starry Eyed with Countdown to Christmas fabrics. I ran out of kona cream because I had put kona white in the tub by mistake. Luckily, I had some cream leftover from the above wall hanging so I could get started. I had another piece at home so I have worked on it a bit more this week.



Sunday afternoon I finished the borders on this one, which I must quilt this weekend after I do 2 quilts for Cherry.

Carla's Baby Quilt

This is just about the sweetest baby quilt I've seen. The center is a panel and I'll bet the cornerstones came from the same panel.



I just quilted a meander in the blocks and around the blocks taking care not to stitch over the printed rick-rack.



The border is wavy crosshatching to mimic the rick-rack

LOVE IT!

Day two at spring Break in Vegas

Day one - Spring Break in Vegas

Having a great time!

Here's a link to all the Day One Photos

All packed and ready to go!

The 40+ goody bags are packed and ready for our retreat tomorrow. My car is FULL!!!
I'm so excited and hope I can sleep tonight. I'm taking the little laptop so I'll be able to post lots of photos.

March 7, 2012

Today is the Big Reveal Day

You may remember that in December I was working on a secret project. Quiltmaker magazine asked me to sew and quilt a quilt for an upcoming issue. I completed it in 3 weeks and very sadly, I shipped it off to them to be photographed. Lucky for me I had almost enough fabric to make one more for myself. I had to order more border fabric from Hancocks of Paducah and it arrived just so I can get the top completed before I leave for camp on Thursday.



The Quilts from Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks magazine hits the newsstands today and you have a chance to win a copy of it on the Quilty Pleasures blog.

Here's my name in print:



Here's a picture of the whole quilt:



And here's my current quilt in progress:



The flowers will be raw edge appliqué, done on the long arm and the vines are bias strips and will be stitched down on the long arm also.