I recently checked the website and discovered that a good number of our quilts were sold in Houston, including mine (it raised $40). The quilts made by my fellow guild members are in the 3870 and up numbers.
...however, they're both the Disappearing Nine-Patch pattern, just with different placement of the fabrics. In the first one, the solids were left as squares and the print fabric was cut into rectangles and vice versa in the second one. In the first, your eye is drawn to the squares, while in the second one, your eye sees the pinwheel. Cool, huh?
These will be Christmas presents for two of my step-grandchildren...I'll show the other two in a later post...
Several of my quilting friends and I recently made this throw for another friend who was in need of a hug or two. It's shown here before the pretty green binding was added.
I quilted it on my HQ16 in a meandering pattern using variegated thread.
Today is my annual visit to the local elementary school to give a quilting talk/show-and-tell to the second graders for their Colonial Days celebrations. These are the quilts that I've packed up in my van to show. What's scary is that I have almost as many still in my house that are not going with me and I'm sure I've also given away a pile just as big!
Here is the PIF gift that I made for Sara...I put it in the mail early Thursday afternoon, and by late Friday afternoon I had an email from Sara telling me that it had already arrived. Can't complain about the post office with this delivery!
The picture below shows what it looked like the last time I blogged about my progress...late August sometime...
My plan is to sew the bottom half and the top half in sections and then I'll attach both halves to the center row...only 18 more center blocks to go...
This is "J-8, Anna's Anchor", an intermediate-level block that I chose to paper piece and again used the raw-edge machine buttonhole-stitch applique method for the pumpkin seeds... I now have enough blocks finished to put together another 3x3 block section of the quilt. Hopefully, I'll finish that up by the time I come home from today's mini-retreat at the lake house.
This is what I will be doing today...
There are a couple of things I do a bit differently than shown in this video...
1) I use a 2-inch piece of fabric for the accent rather than the 3-inch used in the video (that's just personal preference);
2) For the French seam, I sew a scant 1/4-inch seam, trim it a bit, and then sew the final seam as 1/4-inch rather than the 1/2 inch shown in the video. I just prefer less bulk in the seam.
Today's pillowcases will be going to ConKerr Cancer.
...this is "J-9, Maury High School", a beginner-level block that I chose to paper piece and then used the raw-edge machine buttonhole-stitch applique method for the small melons (they look more like pumpkin seeds to me). Not perfect, but it gets me to 150 blocks completed!
I've already used the first layout in another similar top that I blogged about here. I was kind of hoping to use a different layout, so I came up with the second one. I kind of like it except for a couple of things...1) I'll need to make one more green block -- that's not a big deal; 2) I have 8 leftover white blocks that I suppose could be used on the back; 3) I'll need to make setting triangles; 4) it's square and I don't like square throws -- although I could move some of the green blocks from one side to the bottom. But that makes for a throw that is a bit too narrow for my taste. Which means I'd have to add a border.
I made this postcard for Janice from the UK using selvages from the fabric I won in her giveaway.
A number of months ago, I won a giveaway from a fellow blogger at Yarn Hungry. She sent me some luscious hand-dyed yarn that I blogged about in this post.
My son Nick has been a voracious reader since first grade. All through elementary and middle school he read everything he could get his hands on. He's cut back a bit on the pleasure reading in high school due to the large amount of assigned reading that he's had to do, but he still finds time to get lost in an exciting tome once in a while. He has probably read every single Star Wars novel ever published and owns more than 100 (!) of them (he's always used his spending money mostly on books, computer software too). I bet you didn't realize there were that many Star Wars novels in existence...P.S. I guess I need to work on a math-themed quilt for him as well...last week he found out that his score on the SAT math subject test (a separate test from the "normal" SAT math section) that he took last month was also 800!
We will be visiting my stepson and his family over Thanksgiving, so I made these for their four cute kids (ages 9, 7, and 3 1/2 year-old twins). Before the twins were born, the two oldest had a year's worth of holiday pillowcases for their travel pillows, but lately they've been asking for full-size ones. How could I refuse?
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