Hello my Name is Karen and I'm a Hoarder

Last Wednesday, it occurred to me to get a booth at the upcoming doll show at the Cobb County Civic Center on Saturday. Was there a problem with getting together enough inventory? My dears, no, when you are a Hoarder it is easy:

And was there a problem getting this much stuff into a Honda Fit? Again, no problem for one who knows how to pack and stack. Luckily, the show went very well and was not done in vain.

Meanwhile, a Les Fleurs class Show and Tell:

Les Fleurs #6

Zowee, got Les Fleurs #6 block done for next class:

I Spy a Rembrandt:

Show and Tell - Repro Divas

Our Repro Divas leader kindly emailed me her photo of my heart swap from last month:

Last Sunday, my dear friend C. let me come over to longarm quilt the Inca Gold:

As C. said, what a miracle to walk up to a longarm, and walk away from it four hours later with a quilt completely quilted. Thank you, C., you are incredible! Monday morning before work, I put on the binding. This quilt busted 7 yards from the stash, yay.

Repro Divas met last night! Here is M.'s George Washington quilt. Amazing, eh? Martha (and what a darling Martha) is holding a letter from George, who is (again) away:

B. is making this as a gift. Couldn't bear to give it away myself:

Our extra project was to make a galloping pony-like collage, so there were several mini dresdens rolling around the classroom (will show the morning group's later). Here is mine:

K. did keep BB's gp collages from Morning Group, so we Evening folks got to see them in person:

Aren't they adorable??

T. gave us each a present: a wonderful template to make mini dresdens with! Thank you, T., I was visualizing as I made my one dresden how nice it would be to have a stronger template:

A few of us actually made the main assignment, which was a quilt from Lori Smith's Fat Quarter Quilting:

Marcie's Inca Gold and Brenda (Dear Jane) Papadakis

Two good Saturdays. Today, I finished a large quilt top that I have been working on since last Sunday using Marcie's Inca Gold pattern. Sorry, Marcie, couldn't get the bottom off the ground there:

Marcie's directions are wonderful. I didn't want this to get put aside until it was completely done, so I just kept at it.

And last Saturday, Brenda Papadakis was at Little Quilts! Here she is posing with my Dear Jane center section:

I really enjoyed having a word now and then with Brenda as I worked that day. Brenda is passionate about fabrics and mentioned several quilts of all types that she is very interested in making just in the little bit that we talked. I'm glad I got to meet you, Brenda!

Stickle Squares, Ils Sont Fini

That's it for the DJ square blocks, all done and assembled:

Even the Multi-Melon:

Well, it feels nice to have the center section done. Twenty-six triangles to go, oh, and the four corners.

Still More Stickles

Twelve rows completely done, if it weren't for that pesky Multi Melon block; have six of the sixteen beeny things appliqued on though.

Stickle Shindig

There has been a lot of Stickle block activity around here lately. I had used virtually every gray, cinnamon, and pink I could possibly scrounge up weeks and weeks ago, but Marcie and Becky came to my rescue. Becky gave me some pinks (not the first one below, that was one of mine and and it is rather too bright) and Marcie gave me grays and cinnamons, thank goodness, so I could forge on with DJs:

And to my astonishment, there are now nine assembled DJ rows:

There is only one more block to make in the next row, but for one who is a DJ Melon Hater, it is a nightmare come to life:

Sixteen. Yish. Would anybody notice if I just drew them on :-) ?

Or, here is its base. I think it looks lovely just like this, don't you? Sort of a beautiful, spare Shaker sensibility. Eh? Eh?

In the meantime, Marcie (have you seen her gorgeous Inca Gold??) and I are swapping 12 Spool Blocks:

Covet the Clogs

You know those cute clogs that are on Renee Plains' blog?

I coveted them every time I read her blog. As I strolled through the secondhand shop yesterday, with such treasures as a pair of black Ralph Lauren jeans for $1.50 and two perfect tops already in my cart, what should my unbelieving eyes see but those same clogs, in perfect condition, and were they in my size? Yes, they were!

Are these Renee's cast-off clogs? What size does she wear?? Ah well, they are mine now, and talk about luck :-).

Absolutely fell in love with Ann Champion's cheddar doll quilt this morning and knew I must make one, too:

I was planning to slavishly copy it in every way, but now am wondering if I might put something else around it next instead of the round of flying geese. A third color? More stars? Not sure.

Rembrandt Raids...

As Rembrandt gets out the Valentine's Day chocolates so we can have a tasty snack (I assume I am included in this raid), Rembrandt and I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day:

Show and Tell - Repro Divas

The snow began in Atlanta:

and continues:

Show and Tell from Repro Divas last Tuesday:

And our Heart Swap (first photo taken by our leader K., morning group):

This is what I got! Reverse has pockets and needle felts:

I forgot to take a picture of mine! It is a heart with cross stitched sampler on it that I digitized in PatternMaker.

Latest Stickle:

There's more Show and Tell from Morning Group, but I'll save that for next time phewie.