Parables at the Shore

 Dear Readers,

I finished a quilt that I have had planned for a while.  It is for my first cousin's first grandchild.  His parents love to go sailing so when I saw the pattern at Missouri Stars Friday tutorial about a year ago, I thought that if Peter and Emily had a baby I would make it for them.  Well they had a baby in July, Waylon Lee Hammond.  So I go started on the quilt.   It took some time, because I wanted each house to be different and I wanted to put a different character in each home.. 

Here are some close ups of who is in the houses.

Here is the back and label.  

Sew on,

Terry

Window Shopping

 Hey readers, 

This past year the Mississippi Quilt Association (MQA)  president Susan Rademacher issued a challenge to make a quilt in honor of our 35th Anniversary.   The challenge was to make a quilt 35 x 35 or smaller out of jade and coral colors.  Jade and coral are the traditional colors of a 35th anniversary.   Also this year, I got to check a big one off of my bucket list - to go to Sisters, OR to go to the outdoor quilt show.  I also took a couple of classes there.  I took a class by Sijata Shah and before I went I decided to use the challenge colors for the class.  Her class was called architecture.  She did her sample quilt in solid moody colors.  she was hoping to evoke a city street.  So I bought a range of solids in the two colors before I left for Oregon.

This is Sujata's sample

So I attempted to do something similar for my challenge quilt.  Once I got it close, I realized it was not to size so I added some random blocks on one side.  I told my friend Cynthia that I didn't think I would finish it as I was so unhappy with how it was turning out.  She encouraged me to finish it so it would not become another UFO.  

 When I finished it, I didn't like that look, so I turned it 90 degrees.  Then that would give me horizontal lines I could quilt in words about MQA.  So I put it on the quilter and started on it.  So here is my finished project.  

If you zoom in on it you can see that I quilted a lot of different objects and words in the quilt.  

The back and the label. 

Sew on, 

Terry