Faithful Circle Quilters Annual Show

This coming weekend is my guild's biannual quilt show - This year's theme is Birds of a Feather.  Here is our raffle quilt:

I had absolutely nothing to do with so take no credit!

I'm out of town this weekend so the only quilt I entered is part of a guild challenge for Project Linus - Dots for Tots since I won't be here to pick it up after the show:

For a bazillion years, my sister comes East in the Fall for our mother's birthday and in the Spring for Mothers Day.  We take her to Ocean City MD for a weekend - she loves her little beers and her crabs and even at 91, still walks the Boardwalk and walks along the beach.

Jo Morton Club

A friend has opened a new quilt shop (http://www.springwaterdesigns.com/) and has started Jo Morton Clubs...one of which is on Friday mornings...and since I don't work on Fridays I thought 'what the heck!'  I've never done it before and my usual quilts are kind of bright and scrappy, but I've always liked the look of old fashioned miniatures.

The first month, I simply could NOT deal with 3/4" and 1 1/4" pieces tho - so when I did the math, I ended up cutting wrong so my miniature became a very nice table runner which I gave to my mother:

In April, I was really proud of myself - cut right - pieced right - and couldn't wait for Show & Tell....only I had a conflict and couldn't go.  Damn.

Scientific evidence that knitting quilting really does make us happy!

This is your brain on knitting

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/25/health/brain-crafting-benefits/index.html?hpt=hp_bn13

I finished the quilt for Charlotte's Big.Girl.Bed.  Adriane designed it, picked the fabric, and wanted minimal quilting, which means the little quilting there was had to actually look good....which kind of leaves me out of that part of the equation since I usually just do meandering all over the place.  So...thank you Maria O'Haver for the absolutely delightful quilting!

Hard to tell in this picture, but she duplicated the owls when quilting in the plain blocks...

And this is how to sew the binding down on a bed sized quilt: