Quilt Plans

Hey all,

Hope everyone is surviving the heat.  We did get a gully washer yesterday.  Which helped here in Mississippi.  A friend of mine, Donna Burns, and I rode to Tuscaloosa to do some shopping and get some fabric.  It was so heavy coming down, that we had to pull over.  Always thankful for God's protection and a safe trip.

Do you plan your quilts on paper or the computer.  I usually do them on paper.  Which is weird, as I do almost every other thing on the computer if possible.  I don't know...it just feels more fluid to do it on paper.

So while I was in Boulder I made blocks by the method taught by Billie Lauder last summer.

Using 4 charm strips cut them in fourths, and sew them together in different orders so a different block is on the diagonal for each set.  Sounds confusing but was really easy when in the class.

I made these blocks while Celeste was at work.

There are 40 blocks that will finish to about 8 inches.
So my current plan is to put them together with tone on tone creams and dark blues.  If you look at the plan it will be some large creams, some large blues, some half squares blue and cream, and interspersed with the 16 blocks.  We will see.

Another quilt that will be in the works is the MQA sponsored class with Marilyn Doheney.  http://dohenypublications.mybigcommerce.com/retreats/
MQA is sponsoring the class called instant garden, just add fabric.  So we got an extensive list of pre-sewing to do to be ready for the class.  I have not done much, but, I did pick my background and borders.

Interestingly, Marilyn has you assemble your background and borders before putting on your garden elements.  So after I do that I will need to pull about 15 fabrics and do the other pre sewing.

Happy sewing all!

Boulder trip 2012

I know I am late on putting up my post on Boulder...I have a new computer and was struggling with the organization of the photos...but I had a wonderful trip with lots of adventures.  We went white water rafting, horseback riding, bicycle riding and ate at lots of good restaurants.  While Celeste was working I made 40 blocks for a quilt...that will be another post.  But here is our trip in pictures.

Beautiful scenery

my ride Hostess -- I called her cupcake.

vista from near the top of the ride.

Celeste!!

Ate at Snooze on Saturday before I left.

Ran into a coworker of Celeste's and her cutie pie son.

Sweet potato pancakes and a I think Celeste had a BLT

Loved that there are flowers everywhere in Boulder.

Star's Over Columbus

About 3 years ago, I took a class, hosted by Julia Graber, taught by her sister Barbara Cline.   The class was for a pattern she called Star Tricks.   I had picked these colors to make a dramatic quilt to hang in my classroom.  Well, about that same time, I had gotten a mid arm quilting machine and frame.  I was struggling with using it. I loaded the quilt on the frame and then was not happy with the way the quilting was coming out, so there it sat for the last two years.  In the mean time, I was paying Watana Cantrell to do my quilting, but still it sat, nagging at me to do something about it.  In the meantime, I had other projects and school work to do, so it kept being put back on the back burner.  Sometime during that two year period, Mary Anne Abrams who had also taken that class, brought her completed quilt to show.  I looked at her quilting, and quizzed her on what she had done.  She had done it on her home machine.  The more I thought about it, that is what I wanted to do.  So I ripped out the quilting that was on it, and started quilting it on my home machine.  I will post pictures of the quilting, in a few days.  It is hanging at the arts center now, but it is closed for the holiday.  I forgot to take close up pictures of the quilting.

Kaleidoscope challenge

The latest challenge from the Possum Town Quilters was to create a kaleidoscope block that would finish at 12 inches.  Most of the examples I found, were much larger blocks so the challenge for me was to create a block that size that would have the look of a kaleidoscope.  I started by drawing lots of possibilities on freezer paper...since it is large enough to be cut to 12.5 x 12.5.  You had to use a recognizable amount of the challenge fabric and surround it with a tone on tone black.  Everyone's packet looked a little different.  You could add any other fabrics you liked too.

After I came up with a drawing I liked I paper pieced my block....you can tell that others did other techniques, mine is not the first block, but is in the group.  The ones without numbers did not turn in by the deadline, so they will not be voted on as favorite.  These will be shown at the RAC as the Possum Town Quilters are the featured show this month.  Come in and vote on your favorite.

AQS June 22 Blog of the Week!

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This week's Blog of the Week winner is Terry Turnage with Tsquared Quilts. Terry's blog is new; be sure to check out the "Quilt Photos" tab. http://ow.ly/bLkUC

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Art Quilting and Tea Parties

Hey all,

I will try to do better on getting my posts up more timely... I got bit by a spider and dealing with the bite has put a serious strain on my time...went to the WalMart clinic Thurday May 31 and was given an ointment and an antibiotic.  Monday it was no better, so I went to see my normal doctor and he lanced it.
So been soaking it three times a day, and then washing anything that touched it.  Now it just looks like a horrible bruise about the size of a silver dollar.

Gwen did an internship with our teacher and made this art quilt from a photo of a swamp marsh.

on to a happier note...

I went to the Spring Gathering of the MQA (Mississippi Quilter's Association) in Jackson at the Christ United Methodist church.  They sure have a nice facility to host us in and we really appreciate them letting us come and sew in their classrooms.  I took a class on art quilting.  We were to sew a 4 patch together 12 inches square finished and bring it to class.  We were also to bring things to embellish our quilt...anything goes.

The first thing Rhonda Blasingame, our teacher, had us do is cut our block diagonally and pass half to the left.  So now our perfectly coordinated half to someone else.  Then we filled out cards with a number, shape, design element, and color.  We added elements to our piece according to the card.

My original four patch

Notice the big pile of stuff to choose from.

After getting back, Sunday afternoon Hope Hogan invited me and her mother-in-law to join her and her daughter for high tea at the Painted Lady, a B & B in Columbus.  

I think Celeste has a painting of this house...but I am not sure.  

Hope arriving.

It was so delightful...

Anna looked so sweet.

We got to tour the house and then we sat down to some finger sandwiches.  

Post card

Created another postcard last night...

This one for my brother Jeff, who is at war with the beavers on his place.