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:

Quilts for kids...in a way

I'm trying to organize my pictures - which I think we can all agree is a lifetime job that will never ever get "done" - but I'm prompted to show some more old quilts.

I made this for Charlotte...now a big girl waiting (anxiously I hope) for a new little sister:

I made this for Elaine's first granddaughter - I won some of the blocks at a retreat in July 2011 I think (?) and added some.

I made small blocks using the fabric from Michael's boxers and framed them for Adriane and Steve and for us.  I think they turned out really well.  Personally, I think it's a sweet little remembrance.

Mike's initials for us:

A little log cabin for Adriane:

And a strippy block for Steve:

We miss you, sweet pea

HI!

First blog post....for years it seems I'd finish a quilt and think 'gee, I should post that on my blog' only I didn't actually HAVE a blog.  Or I'd see something wonderful at a quilt show or wherever and want to talk about it - and let's be real here, while our DHs are lovely, supportive partners, their eyes do kind of glass over after about 2 minutes of quilty ramblings.  So - if I post it on a blog then I don't have to watch those eyes roll back up into his head and I'm blissfully unaware that no one really cares about what I'm going on about except me!  WIN-WIN!

Random:

My favorite place to be - floating at Deep Creek Lake with wine in hand...

Batik New York Beauty made for Ron's office:

 

Poppies (Debra Gabel Zebra pattern):

Easy Peasy cover for my Bernina:

Well, I figured out how to post pictures and talk....not bad for a newbie, huh?

see you later....