Friday, August 04, 2006
Need A Little Inspiration?
It has been warm here in Georgia, I am used to it, but still it is pretty warm when you are out trying to do yard work. Well needless to say it is coming along slowly. By the time I get in at night I am whooped.
The 2006 winners of the Sydney Quilt Show is online in case you were like me and just couldn’t make it this year. 
You can view the quilts here.
They have some great looking quilts for inspiration. Best of show is a wonderful Baltimore style quilt.
My favorites are:
Iron Lace - Spring by Eileen Campbell
It Started with Auntie Green by Pam Curtis
Tango in the Wind by Luixin Newman, the quilting on this is wonderful. but then again they don’t call her the Thimble lady for nothing.
At Home byJan Duddle
Genie Out of the Bottle by Wendy Scott reminds me of something Ricky Tims would do.
I think they had a great lot of quilts for their show and I am sure the judging was intense.
The 1st and 2nd place art quilts are very, very nice.
My most favorite quilt though wasn’t even a prize winner. It is the raffle quilt on their homepage.
You can see it here.
Anyone that knows me, knows I love daisies and this quilt is full of wonderful looking daisies.
This guild also has what they call a Friday showcase. it is really nice, they feature a different quilt artists work you can see some of them here
I did get some quilting done this morning on my wallhanging, I am not real satisfied with it, I should have used mettalic thread but oh well. Next time right.
I also have been staring at my quilt studio and already I am ready to move a few things around. Mainly due to lighting. I took out the overhead fixture that was there a few months ago and it is wonderful. I have 3 halogen spotlight type lights and they are wonderful but at night if I am not directly in one of those lights I can’t see very well. I have my sewing table in the middle of the room under those lights, but I want to move the table up against the wall and bring my cutting table and fabric carts to the middle so that I can always have it fully extended with the large mat on top and the ironing on the other side of it. I would then put a 2 or 3 fixture track light on the wall over my sewing table. If I keep adding stuff with that uses power I am going to have to get my own electrical panel for my sewing room.
Well I am calling it a night, my Redsox lost, they are playing Tampa next.
Have a great Friday everyone.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Time for sewing?
Well I haven’t had much time to sew because of work and yard work. I did get a small wallhanging basted and hope to quilt it tonight.
It is blazing hot outside and so I am debating on just staying in and finishing it.
There was a teen that died this morning here in Atlanta from the heat, it kind of makes you afraid to go outside.
My Redsox won again last night so I am happy. Go Redsox and Big Papi. He does a great job.
My favorite players though are Mark Loretta because he is so consistant. My favorite player used to be Bill Miller, for the same reason.
I am praying that the MRI for Jason Veritek is ok.
I found on a site today that quilters who sell quilts (like me), now have another choice other than ebay. Here is the link to read more about it. And here is the link to see the site itself. It looks pretty new but I wish the site much success.
By the way, am I the only person out there that doesn’t like Quilter’s Home Magazine. I bought the first issue and was so unhappy with it. I found it to be a waste of the paper it was printed on. I would love to see some quilting magazines that may be different than the norm, but this one was not my cup of tea.
Also Pat Sloan has the website called Quilters Home for quite a while and even though this magazine deals with the home it could have picked a name that wasn’t already associated with a quilter.
Yes many quilters do decorate homes with quilts in mind I don’t think we need a magazine to help us choose our furniture or paint chips. We already know how to do all that. I did not feel any inspiration from this magazine. Phew! Yuck! Phew! is all I can say.
Primedia just sold off there crafts division and so I hope that this is not what is to come in all our magazines we had from them.
Well I am off to get some work done either in the yard or in the sewing room. Have a wonderful quilty day everyone.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Wonderful Night at Guild
Well last night we had a wonderful time at the Cherokee Rose Quilt Guild.
Barbara Rainwater
was our guest speaker and she brought a wonderful trunk show to go along with her Color Theory talk.
If you would like to see all the pictures I took you can view them in the Gallery.
She was a wonderful speaker with great tips and some wonderful stories, like when she dreamed she was a rap singer and got up from the dream to write the song down.
Her first quilt was made in 1996 from a calendar that is from 1991. I have that calendar so it was nice to see it made, since I never made it into a quilt.
It was a wonderful night with many members showing up, I took in tomatoes by the sack fulls again.
I received one of her Fat Quarters, it was a nice border type print with Reds
I also won one of the door prizes, a cute calendar for 2007. Never have enough Calendars I say. This one doesn’t have patterns but is very cute.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
EQ Round Robin # 82
This was the final result of an Electric Quilts round robin that I participated in last year. See below to download project file.
The theme we decided on as a group for this round was the “4 Seasons”.
We also made other rules up such as the first round had to feature squares, second round circles etc.
I don’t remember the exact order but it made for a challenge that was much more fun.
You can join these round robins if you are a user of Electric Quilt 5 software at the EQ website.
There is no charge to partcipate and they try to match you up with a group that is as experienced or inexperienced with participating in these as you will be.
To the left is a small image of my completed project.
If you click on the here you can download my project file.
You must have Electric Quilt software in order to open the project file and see all the individual blocks that were used as well as the colorings.
If you would like to see the other three projects that were completed in this swap, please click here
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