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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

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Busy Appliqueing and Pulling Weeds

Wow these weeds in the garden just never go away. I have been pulling since spring and they are multiplying faster than I can pull them. I like working outside though because I just love warm weather. Of course that is easy for me to say, we here in sunny Atlanta which is usually quite warm seems to be much colder than most of the USA is right now. Even places that are usually cool in California are baking. I remember in Monterey we ran the heat most of the summer. I thought it was cold.

Oh by the way Go Redsox!!! They lost today but they still rule.

I have been working on a few things this month and thought I would post a couple of the images. I have posted them in the Gallery I have about 5 other things to post but they can wait until later when I have a bit more time. I have appliqued so much this month that tomorrow I plan on working on a Christmas piece all by machine. Need to give my finger some rest for some more weed pulling. If I like how it turns out I may make two. One for the bank and one for me.

On the topic of applique, I found an applique needle last month that I really love, I found it at the Hancocks that is next to the Ashby sewing center on Canton Rd. Marc is an excellent Pfaff dealer and I take mine there for tune-ups. Anyway, this needle is called Mary Arden of England. Well they are the best. Nice tips, easy to thread, thought I still use a threader because I am used to using one. That age thing you know. Well I went back up there and I was excited, I was going to buy every package left. Well guess what, they were gone and the ones that were left i.e betweens were discounted. They aren’t going to carry them any more. Talk about your BOO HOO moments. I had praised these needles, gave out samples to my quilting buddies now I need to figure out how to get those back : ) .

Right now I am listening to Annie’s Podcast and it is great as usual. She said that some folks were leaving bad comments on her site. Why do people go out of their way to be mean. Really folks if you don’t like her, don’t visit here site. Pretty easy I say. If I ever move back to California, I would have to look her up before I even unpacked.

My daughter is coming back here from Colorado to go back to college this weekend and I hope to spend some time with her before she gets busy with classes. Maybe we can take a trip up to see my other daughter in North Carolina and of course the grandkids. I miss them all. I will try to get those pictures posted this month as well.

I have guild tomorrow night and the speaker is Barbara Rainwater, I just recently saw one of her quilts and it was awesome. I would love to take a class with her. Right now though I have the choice of gas or class. Of course gas wins though just barely. 

Well I am off to some popcorn and a movie. Have fun and I will post my Christmas project tomorrow before I leave for guild.

 

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Quiet Quilt World

Well the Quilt world here in Northwest Georgia has been quiet today. No shows, no exciting classes, no updates on the quilting podcasts, just a blah day to be out. Well I took care of that and stayed in and appliqued. I finished 2 projects and as soon as I get a camera I will post some photos. My DH took the digital. I was going to go out and get a cheap throw away one to take photos but then I remembered I still have the old Sony Mavica. I just need to dig it out of a box. So look for some photos tomorrow.

I really like this applique top I finished, it has many pieces and it went together layer by layer so well. It is by a new designer and so I will post a link to her site when I post the photo.

I may work on piecing a top tomorrow (Weaver Fever by Jackie Robertson) or getting some tops quilted and ready to sell. I have a couple finished and will post those this week as well

I have found another quilt podcast. A friend of mine emailed the link to this gals site and I listened to all her podcasts yesterday. The gal that owns the site is someone that I knew when I lived in Germany. I have been watching her quilting career over the last 8 years because she has been published in a couple of books and has entered a couple of shows. She even has a quilt on the site that I watched her work on and it was exciting to see it on her site. Her podcasts are a joy to listen too and I know you will like them as well. Here is the link to her main site and her podcast site. Her quilts are so wonderful.

Dreamweavers Quilts
Driven to Quilt

Well my dogs are calling and of course they do rule the house here, so I must be off.