Explorers - Updated!

 Hey Readers,

I went to the MQA Fall Gathering in Biloxi, and MQA hosted a shop hop in conjunction with the Gathering.  At one of the shops I found a National Park panel that had the emblem in the center and 63 of the national park posters on it.  I have always loved those posters so I picked one up and some fabric for a border.  

So all I did was put a border on the panel.  The back took just about as long, figuring it out and piecing it.  I used a bit of national park fabric I had left from Sue and Bill's quilt for the center stripe.  

The binding was also left over from Sue and Bill's quilt.  I was sewing it on and did NOT have enough, and that fabric was about 3 years old.  I was only about 30 inches short.   So I knew it was too old to go to quilt shops to find it, so I went to ETSY and found it there.  What a relief.  It came in the mail yesterday so I was able to put it on this morning.  

Here is the label.  Big thanks to Will, my son, for always being willing to get on the phone with me and discuss different names and verses.  

Sew on,

UPDATE: Sue and Bill sent me cute videos. Made me tear up...

Terry

The Kitchen Sink

 Dear Readers,

I recently completed a quilt, just before the MQA Fall gathering in Biloxi, MS.  I did not have time to blog about it at that time, so I wanted to tell you about it now.  If I have made you a quilt there is probably some of your fabric in this quilt.  Also every SEC school is represented including Texas and Oklahoma.  

Around the first of this year, I saw a video series on you tube by Terry Rowland.  She was telling her steps to make a color wash quilt.  

Video 1:  https://youtu.be/2UQE5SlOLqg?si=_l8GE0COHLWgPnaF

Video 2:  https://youtu.be/ozxEs1B_Ih0?si=TYoRcEZs0plFCWDV

Video 3:  https://youtu.be/4R9hAE7zXss?si=-kwfyLD-w2_bq04g

So I mentioned this to a few of my Quilty friends to see if anyone was interested in doing it too, it helps to have a friend to hold you accountable!  Well I was on my own.  None seemed interested.  While I was the librarian I was working on Winston Ways so I decided to use my scraps to start making some of the blocks and see how it goes.  So I made about a few dozen or so blocks while there, but I really liked the improve process and the instant satisfaction of getting a block done so fast.  So about once a week I would dig in my scraps and kit up a stack of blocks.  Then I used two cookie sheets to put my blocks by color.  

I worked on it in between other projects and at both of the retreats I went to this year.  

My color wash blocks over on the right, next to Rita or Patti's blocks at Quiltville Inn

On the design board at February Hill Quilting Retreat House in Jonesborough, TN

While I was at one of the retreats, my friend Lauren saw this back and thought it would be perfect, so I had her pick it up for me.... I was sewing while a bunch had gone shopping. 

I used a lot more neutrals than Terry Rowland did, I may do another that is more saturated with color.  

While we were in Biloxi, Lauren helped me stage my quilts for a different view.

This is a super satisfying quilt to make...

Sew on,

Terry