these are mine, on the left antique blocks and an old stained feedsack made into a doll quilt with pillowcase; on the right Dow patterns that I digitized and stitched out:
so darling!
12/01/2010
Bulletin Board, Day Job, and Show and Tell, November
Did this bulletin board yesterday for the December Principal's Book of the Month, which is "I Hate English!", an immigrant girl's struggle with learning to speak English. I have no supplies to speak of, except a color printer that still has ink in it (used for book cover), which explains the newspaper border and the girl that is painted on packing paper lol:
11/25/2010
Thanksgiving and Timmy
Timmy is far away doing training (and pretty much out of cellphone reception) and will not be home for Thanksgiving; perhaps they will hand out little cards like this to them at their Thanksgiving Dinner --? not lol!
But I am thinking thankful thoughts about my boy; here he is at a recent formal Marines Ball with his date:
A Happy Thanksgiving Day to all!
11/21/2010
Crazy Doll Quilt
A new design, 12x16", soon to be a pattern and probably will be available as a class in the next quarter. This sample uses some of my favorite things, a little embroidery, a little applique, some French General fabrics, and a Moda Grunge fabric. I hope they continue to make those Grunges for a long time to come.
Okay, I'm trying to squeeze in several projects on this lovely Sunday. See you later!
11/02/2010
10/29/2010
Guild Speaker Trunk Show
Lots of pics to show from Mary Kerr's "Saving Our Treasures" show at the East Cobb Quilter's Guild today. I have been fighting bronchitis this week but realized if I hurried, I could get to the Guild meeting only an hour late. My first E. Cobb Guild meeting, albeit watched in a fog. Of course, beaucoup ladies were missing since they are in....Houston. Apologies now for the photos that came out fuzzy, guess I'm shaking from the bronch.
First a mini-trunk show from a friend in the audience. This woman reeks talent. You have seen her exquisite work before on this blog. Her color sense. I die. Here is what she had with her:
set of blocks. Click to enlarge. Don't they look old and somewhat like barkcloth?? Perfection. She said something about needing to make 66 more and that they would have red sashing. I vote for orange. But this girl knows what she is doing color-wise.
her Guild name tag. She said I didn't need to obliterate her name :-). Barbara is the one who teaches the excellent Big Stitch class (after you hit the link, hit ctrl-f, type in "big" and it will take you right to her class description).
On to the other trunk show:
this one has a cute border, see elsewhere, there's no way I'm going to try to arrange these photos in my deteriorated condition lol
Anybody who haunts antique shops has seen some unfortunate attempts at quilt "restoration" like this one
I think these are examples of old mends
10/27/2010
Friend Looking for 2002 Fabric (5-6 yards)
Hi there! A dear friend of mine is looking for 5-6 yards of this Andover fabric:
Andover offered a free pattern using this fabric called Savery Friendship Star (I don't believe it is in the Archives any more but sounds pretty, doesn't it!). That is what she would like to make with the yardage, preferably in the brown as shown but apparently it comes in red also.
Hope everybody had a great Quilty Day!
10/21/2010
Apron and Graphic Design Activity
I really enjoyed making this All Day Apron from Indygo Junction last week-end out of this cute Hoedown fabric:
I have been Graphic Art-ing away as well, having designed this flyer for Marcie. She will be in Booth 2358 at Houston and has been so busy preparing all kinds of goodies for her booth, so be sure to visit if you are Houston-bound. In the meantime, if you need any graphic design, I'm your gal!
10/17/2010
Cats at Work and Last Les Fleurs Show and Tell
Jack and Rembrandt continue to monitor Stray Cat:
update on the Bernina 930: The Bernina-Fixer made a house call; he worked on the 930 for 2-1/2 hours and I got to watch the whole time. The Bernina never had to leave the house. It was all very interesting. He said that the machine has been used very little over the years but was kept serviced, so it's in dandy shape. He was not able to loosen the handwheel, however. He said at first, it's probably the bearing (uh oh, thought I), but then said, no, it isn't that, it would be making a noise in that case. Otherwise, it is running so beautifully and I am just thrilled.
My long-time email friend Betty's son, Reid, has Hodgkin's. He is in between treatments just now and is in a lot of pain; his cat Ashely, is keeping him company. If you would like to leave a comment on Betty's blog, I know she would appreciate your good thoughts.
10/03/2010
Happy Happy
There has been some happiness around here lately :-). First I finally managed to get, after years of faithful eBay watching, a Bernina 930. My first Bernina! Not only is it working okay (after some cleaning and oiling of the parts I understand), but it has turned out to be the kind that has the precious and elusive needle-down feature! Of course I can take it in for servicing, but if anybody can tell me how to clean/oil the area you see when you take the top off, do please email me. The handwheel is too hard to turn and I would like to see if cleaning that area helps at all. I don't want to fiddle too much for fear of harming that precious needle-down feature. But the handwheel is far too tight:
Next happy thing happened yesterday as I browsed through the latest Quilt Sampler. Oh! Ye Olde Schoolhouse is featured. They have bought my patterns!
I peered at the pictures hoping to catch a glimpse of one of my patterns. And here it is! Homestead Toile along with a shop sample they made up:
See how I cleverly have directed your eye to my little pattern lol?
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