My quilt guild won an honorable mention ribbon at the State Fair in Perry! This is a second version of the Loosey Goosey quilt we are raffling off. I would LOVE to win it! We made an extra set of circles and made up a second one for our president. She entered it into the state fair, and voila! A ribbon!
Looks like they had it hanging from the rafters.
What does that have to do with 'At Last'? Nothing. But this next thing does... have you heard? Jennifer over at Ellison Lane Quilts has come up with an East Coast sewing retreat! It will be March 21-24, 2013 in Charlotte, NC and tickets go on sale today at noon! What's the downside? Only 50 people are going to get to go, so you've got to decide quickly. It's only 4 1/2 hours from me so I could drive. I do have to figure out getting the kids to school and such if I get to go.
Yesterday was my mother-in-law's birthday and she had expressed a lot of interest in my Bottled Rainbows quilt, so......
Yup. It's going to live at her house. No longer on my bed which means I need to get in my sewing room and finish sewing up my Carpenter Wheels quilt for my bed. The Bottled Rainbows was 90x90 and ended up being too short in the width once it was washed so I've got to make sure the Carpenter Wheel quilt is wider. I was making 24" squares on that one so I've got some calculations to do to make sure it's plenty wide enough for my queen. The biggest issue with my bed is that it's a sleigh bed so there isn't really any drop at the footboard but I need it on the sides to hide the mattress. I'm thinking of doing 4 blocks across with 3" sashing which should put it around 108". That would give me approximately 18 extra inches which should surely be enough to make up for any shrinkage. We shall see! Hopefully I can get back in the sewing room tomorrow. I did make it today but it was only to sew up the places that came loose on the BR quilt before giving it to the MIL. Then, silly me, I took the quilt back so I could send it with a quilt guild member for show and tell Monday night! I can't even go because I have play practice but I wanted to send it because it's the night everyone who did a BR quilt will be bringing them to show!
So Memorial Day is right around the corner and you don't have anything to put up in honor of the occasion? Here are a few pins from some of my Pinterest boards.
Yup, you heard right. I have a secret project going on. I cannot BEGIN to tell you how hard that is for me. I post everything as I do it. This project is very near and dear to my heart though. All will be revealed (hopefully) Friday for the Bloggers' Quilt Festival though. This project has to be done by Thursday and I only just started it Monday. Yikes! I have to say this is the fastest I have ever made a quilt in my life and hopefully I will never have to make one this fast again. Quilt? Who said quilt? I don't know what you're talking about...(whistles nonchalantly and looks away...!).
So what have I been doing this week? Well, I finished an iPad case for my sister that can be seen here.
I also got to play jelly roll races with some members of my quilting guild with the results seen here.
I have done some more Granny Squares and only need 4 to finish up the baby quilt top. I have got to get this one done but I got distracted by a different project. Here are the Granny Squares.
As for the project that distracted me? Well, it would be the secret one. I know, I'm dying to tell you! I'm really not good with secrets. So I'll show you a little hint.
Okay, that's all I can show you, sorry! It's pinned and ready to be quilted so I'm headed to my sewing room as soon as I have breakfast!
A while back one of the kids pulled out one of the quilts hubby's great grandmother made. I had never seen it before. I kid you not. So I got curious and decided to pull out all of the quilts we have that she made to see what they looked like. No one in my family quilted to my knowledge so these are the only heirlooms we have of their type. These were all handsewn and hubby said she was losing her sight for some of them so they are not holding up that well, which is all the more reason I thought it would be a good idea for me to take pictures of them. Sorry for the sidewalk pics. We've had a lot of rain so I couldn't put them on the grass.
We have two of these quilts that are exactly the same. These are my favorites because like the block and they appear to be the best made of the bunch. I do not know the block name so any help would be appreciated!
I took a close-up of the block to show you, not realizing I chose one with a stain. Sorry! Hubby has used these for moving; the horror!
The second is applique. I have no idea if this is right side up or upside down. Sort of a strange flower design.
Here's a close-up of the flower design.
The third (actually fourth since we have two of the pink ones up top!) is basically a strip quilt in solids.
The last two are in the worst shape. This one appears to have been a "quilt as you go" version where she quilted each block, then stitched them together afterward. It's aso the one I had never seen.
It kind of makes me think of the Flying geese block where they are in a circle.
There are several places where this one needs some work.
Our last quilt is hubby's favorite, Sunbonnet Sue.
It definitely has a few holes that need help. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do that.
Well, that's all of them! And to go along with the old fashioned feel of this post, a song. Little Man has homework each week on different letters of the alphabet and this week was Z. He comes home with a poem to learn that is usually set to a tune. This one said it was set to "Little Liza Jane" which I'd never heard before so I looked it up. Elizabeth Mitchell does a sweet version of it below. Enjoy!
