To and From

My manners are slipping. I should have posted a big thank you to Sandi. I won her give away and just now got around to taking a picture. Aren't the green fabrics great! And the little bear is so cute. Be sure to visit her blogs at http://teastitches.blogspot.com/ and http://alegacyofstitches.blogspot.com/. I'm sure you'll enjoy both.

I mentioned in my last blog that I was making a small quilt for the guild to auction at the fall quilt show. This is it. It is 17.5"x17.5" The fabrics were all from my stash and the buttons are old. I wanted to make it look scrappy. The idea came from a book, Little Quilts all through the House.

I'm all packed up for the guild meeting tomorrow...fat quarter for the fat quarter raffle, mini quilt to donate, Secret Sister gift, and the basket, dish, and napkin someone left at the last meeting. Guess I'm ready. This is going to be a busy week...guild Monday, new patio construction to begin on Tuesday, meeting here Wednesday morning, work two days ...hope I find time to quilt!

Triangles

I always shied away from doing set in triangles because I hated doing the figuring about measurements. I know it should have been easy since I used to teach math, but I just didn't like taking the time to do it...a little of my ADD sneaking in. Anyway, in June our guild had an auction "Treasures" where members could donate unused or unwanted sewing related items and others could bid on them. The proceeds went to the guild for expenses. I bought some templates for set-in triangles. I used them for the first time this last week and I absolutely love them. It made cutting the triangles a "no brainer."

I am making a fall wallhanging and wanted to share my triangle success. The wallhanging is done except for the borders which I hope to finish today or tomorrow as I am getting company on Wednesday for a week and probably won't get to do much quilting.

Well, off to the guild meeting! I'm on the set up crew for today.

Wizard Done!

I finished it this afternoon. I can't wait until I can give it to my granddaughter in a couple of weeks when she visits. The close up shows the center panel and the longarm quilting that was done by a member of our guild, Sharon Jobin. Sharon just started a longarm quilting business. I was very pleased with her work.

Creative Weekend

I just spent the weekend with about 200 writers from all genres at the Writers at the Beach Annual Conference. The conference benefits mitrochondrial disease research....you should check out the website...just type in "Writers at the Beach" on your search engine. My head is still spinning from all the inspiration.... I ate dinner next to Carolyn Parkhurst, the author of Lost and Found. If you watch reality shows, you may like this book! Her characters are interesting. I aslo met Jacquelyn Minchard, the first author whose book was chosen for an Oprah's Book Club selection...she is as charming as she is talented. I'm reading her latest one now. What made the weekend special was that four friends from PA spent the weekend at our house so they could go to the conference...72 hours of creativity!!!

To top it off, Friday a big package of fabric that I ordered came by FEDEX....I put in an order because I was having trouble getting the new Wizard of Oz fabric locally...but it was backordered anyway. The local quilt shop is small and does have lovely fabric but their selection of solid colors is limited, thus the on-line ordering.

I can't wait to get busy on a new project!

At our next guild meeting we are going to have instruction on the Lonestar pattern. I had been hesitant to try it because of the biases....I am going to take the quilts that I posted here for show and tell....I like that part of the meeting because I get so inspired by the beautiful work some of the members bring to show.

Also, this weekend was special because the first daffodils in my garden bloomed!!! Spring is really coming.