It's been a long, long time!

My last post was in August 2015, YIKES!

I post a photo of nearly every customer quilt I have the pleasure of quilting on my Facebook page and haven't been taking the time to make a bog post. Let's see if I can do a better job.. How many times have I said that? Several at least!!

Today was National Quilt of Valor Sewing Day, so, as Charity Chairperson for the Common Threads Quilt Guild I organized a local sewing day. What a wonderful time we had. 12 sewers and 3 members that came to visit made for a terrific day of friendship, laughter, good food and lots of fabric under our needles for such a great cause.

Just in case you don't know about Quilts of Valor, you can find out more here.

Common Threads Auction

One of my guilds had an auction tonight and boy was there a lot of stuff there. I donated quite a bit when cleaning my sewing room and didn't plan on buying much. When this Bunny Hill Snowman Country kit went up, I couldn't resist. I paid $17.50 for it and looked it up online and it sold for $75, so I got quite a deal. I think there may be a few of the fat quarters missing, but at that price, who cares!



I left after about an hour and a half because I really wanted to make some progress on Barb's depression blocks quilt. I have finished the center and have the bottom border to do and then I will take it off, turn it and re-load it to do the side borders. It seems like this one has taken me a long time. I loaded it Sunday morning and would like it to be finished tomorrow evening.



My plan was to come home at lunch again today to get in some stitching time, but I really needed a haircut, so I did that and I'm feeling a bit behind. I have 3 quilts (2 are king size) that must be finished in the next 10 days, so Mabel will be one busy machine.

BIG, BIG, REALLY BIG NEWS!

Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.........I got the big envelope from AQS today saying that our guild's birthday quilt has been accepted in the Des Moines show.

The story behind the quilt:
To celebrate Common Threads Quilt Guild's 10th anniversary we had a block challenge. 5 different celebration fabrics were purchased and members could choose one to use to make their block. At a guild meeting a couple months later, all the blocks were hung and we voted on a winner for each fabric. All except the winning blocks were used to make charity quilts. The winning blocks, made by Gloria Klutzke, Mary Bunte, Cathy Campbell, Lisa Geisler and myself were used to make this celebration clown quilt.
I didn't help much with the assembly of the quilt, that was done by Sue Goecker, Sue Blake and Joan Fulton. But, I did make the spirals and offered some design advice! Joan did the quilting on her Gammill and it is just as cute as can be.

Driving back from Paducah this year, Joan and I decided that we would enter the quilt in the AQS show in Des Moines. So, when I got my new photography stand, we met at Joan's house to take some photos and have a glass of wine to celebrate. I sent in the photos along with the entry form and we waited.

Now we need to get together to plan our trip to Des Moines in October, and have another glass of wine, I'm sure.