March Meeting

What a fun class!  Mary Reyes has proven herself to be a great teacher.  Everyone came to class excited to make this wonderful wallhanging.  What a nice variety of colors and ideas!  Good luck sorting through this blog entry!

There was a lot of great sew 'n tell to inspire us, too!  Mary had two great bird wallhangings and a nice bage to carry her things to quilt classes.
Linda had a beautiful purse, Sara shared some rag quilts, Wendy had a super nice felted knit purse, and I shared a springy flower pillow.

  Darn it!  I give up trying to figure out how to manipulate these pictures and text!  You get the idea ;-D
 
 

   Every time I add a picture, one of the others moves to the bottom!  Help!  Even the captions aren't where they started, and no, I have not been hitting the wine bottle!

 
 This was easier than it looked!
I think everyone went home with their project well on its way.

Happy New Year!!! And almost the end of January - yikes!!

From the news & pictures I've been getting - Wisconsin has had a winter to remember!!!  I'm sure you're ready for a break from the snow & cold - I am only hoping that this has given you some extra quilting time!


Have you planned your projects for the new year yet?  We have 3 weddings coming up this summer, so I have plenty of gifts to work on.  Speaking of weddings, we attended a wedding in Chicago on Dec. 21 & one of the highlights there was a gorgeous quilt!  The ceremony had some Jewish traditions included, one of them was this quilt that was the backdrop for the bride & groom as they exchanged vows, from the bride's family.  It gets passed on to the next couple that gets married, & each pair gets to pick out a flower which is then appliqued onto the quilt.  This couple picked out the California poppy because they had met in California. A pretty neat tradition!!




 

I listened to an American Patchwork & Quilting radio broadcast that featured Karen Nyberg - the first astronaut to quilt in space!! I'm hoping this video will work ok - if not, it's available on YouTube & Pinterest. I guess there are some benefits to gravity - it was pretty tough for her to try & stitch up there at the space station!!  She has set up a challenge with this - to make a 9 & 1/2" star block (any pattern) to send in that will be part of a large quilt to be displayed at the 40th Anniversary of the  Houston International Quilt Festival next fall. Anyone want to join in?



Thinking of you all - have fun at your mini retreat this weekend!!!

 

Just thought I would share a few pictures of the beautiful handmade snowflakes that I got from Barb K at our Christmas get together.  Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes in the New Year from the line dancing chickens...

Wisconsin-Fall-Quilts-Friends - Does it get any better?!?

It sure was a treat to see so many of you last Saturday at the quilt get-together!!

It was fun seeing the variety of wearables -

Like my socks?!

   Knit sweater
 A fun apron or wearable sewing caddy....

 

Beautiful knit vest & sweater

                      

An apron with a story to tell!

Does this purse look good on me?! (:

Love this jacket - so fun!!

     Beautiful scarves.......

Ah..... such talent!

Trick or Treat?

Sorry, couldn't help myself :-D

  Blame the Harvest Moon!

T-Shirt Quilt - Ready to Go!

Not a really good picture, I realize.  None the less, the quilt is quilted, bound, and in a gift bag.  Jacob's birthday is this week, but he won't actually get the quilt until they come home for Thanksgiving.  I thought about sending it, but I really want to watch him open it. 

 

The next picture is the back label.  It is really so Jacob!

 

I have to admit that a t-shirt quilt isn't a favorite of mine, as far as putting it together, but I'm quite certain that whoever receives a t-shirt quilt really appreciates it for all those memories involved.