Rosemary's Beautiful Quilts

Here is the second quilt that Rosemary made. I just LOVE her style and I hope that she loves my quilting.
Rosemary and I met on an online quilting message board and have only met in person a few times. She sends me the most beautiful quilts and I never have to fuss with them to get them to lay flat.

On this quilt, I used my circle lord spirals template, and wavy SID (because I didn't want to have to change thread color for the SID), and flat feathers in the border.





And look at the back, It's a two sided quilt for sure.



Hobbs 80/20 batting and Glide tan and PermaCore camel thread for both of them.

And as promised last week, here is a full shot of her Town Square quilt:

Back to my Regularly Scheduled Quilting

Now that Jennifer's quilt is finished, I can get back to the quilts that have been patiently waiting.

The first one is Rosemary's and it is a very striking quilt and her circles are PERFECT! So, I thought they deserved some nearly perfect circle quilting, using my Circle Lord. You remember my Circle Lord, that pricey piece of equipment that I bought for Mabel on her first anniversary and have used very little! Well, now it's getting some use.

Anyway, this is turning out quite nice....



And it really is purple, not blue. I'm not sure what's up with my camera.

Put this one on my list!

This is one that I really want to make. The Winter Wonderland quilts on white with red or blue are pretty, but this primitive one is just beautiful! Only problem is....I don't do redwork!






This one was made by Jennifer and when she first called she thought she might like a pantograph, well, as soon as I saw it, I asked her if she was sure and she changed her mind. I really did have a great time with this one.




Lots more pics here!

Design Wall Monday

Looks pretty much like it did last week with these dresden plate blocks from Mary's dad's shirts. I did start on another center this week.



I also make 80+ nine patches for my JudyL Connect The Dots Mystery Quilt border

Stephanie's Black, White and Red

What a great looking quilt. The red adds just the right burst of color to this one. She made it for her daughter.



Meandering Stars, bu Dave Hudson is the quilting design, white permacore thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting.



And the back, just as stunning as the front:

Rosemary's Town Square

What a pretty quilt! I just love it and she said it went together quickly. There are some oriental fabrics so I decided to use my Clamshell Circle Lord Boards of this one. I used Glide tan thread and prewound bobbins, Hobbs 80/20 batting.

I'll get a shot of the whole quilt tomorrow.

Shipshewana 2011 Good News-Bad News

I've made our reservation for the Shipshewana 2011 retreat and for you, it may be good news, or it may be bad news.

The dates are October 27-30, 2011.

I got lots of replys from the retreaters this year and this date is the one chosen by most. There were a few that could not attend this weekend, and I certainly hope that you can attend in 2012, when the dates will be October 18-21, 2012.

If you did not attend the retreat this year, here are some of the details:

We will be staying at the Farmstead Inn and will be using the conference rooms to sew in. The guest rooms have 2 queen beds and a roll-away bed can be brought in for an $8 charge.
Continental Breakfast is served each morning and you are on your own for lunch and dinner. We all bring snacks for the snack table and I will provide soft drinks and bottled water. The big difference this year is that I will be collecting a Retreat Fee of $20 per person to cover the sewing room, drinks and other necessities.

I have reserved a block of 25 rooms and you will be making your own reservations with the Farmstead Inn. This will make it much easier for you to make a change in roommates, if needed.
Please make your reservations as soon as you can, as when the 25 rooms are books, I don't know if we can get more.

You can get the registration form Here.