ACPQG Show

ACPQG Show

    I spent a weekend in the mountains with a sister and helped work at her local quilt guild show in West Jefferson, NC.   I enjoyed the short visit and the show even though it involved work. The guild website has photos from the show and several past shows that you can enjoy. 

 The show was not judged this year and gave 3 viewer’s choice ribbons from the first day of the show voting. I took a few photos because I like the pattern or technique but they were not ribbon winners.

Always love crumbs.

I thought this quilt pieced by Doris Phillips was made of an interesting retangular block.

 

This quilt appears to be a Laundry Basket applique design although the label did not say so.  Maybe someday I will make one.

  

    The local art doll club had a booth with the vendors and my sister sold a couple of her large art dolls as well as smaller ones.  Here are some photos.

 She is my sister but I think she is very talented. 

  

 

Hope you enjoy some sewing or quilting time.  

Comfort Quilt Finish

     The Star Gazing quilt is finished.  

I find this an easy pattern for an adult comfort quilt.  You can find the pattern on Craftsy. 

The trickiest part is also one thing that makes this pattern easy.  It uses the HST technique that creates 8 HST units from 2 large squares.  The tricky part is that the diagonal lines are longer than your 24” rotary ruler. 

     I simply meandered on the neutral areas and I wish I had quilted a more interesting motif. I enjoyed the new motif used for the colored irregular diamonds from Angela Walters’ book, Shape by Shape: Collection 2.  It shows up best on the lightest red and would have shown up better if I had chosen a different color for the others but I did not want to change thread. 

     I have done some quilting on another comfort quilt but have not tackled my next UFO yet.

 

Hope you get to enjoy some sewing or quilting time.  

Weekend Sewing and Quilting

    Recently I was a pattern tester for Ruth at Charly and Ben’s Crafty Corner blog  for her pattern of Kenny Koala.  Here is my panel of her pattern. I enjoyed piecing it. 

 

Then I decided to change the bottom strip and pieced blocks.  I think it looks like he is under a quilt. Now I am searching for the right border fabric. 

     Today I did some free-motion quilting on my 2^nd Star Gazing quilt. I have already meandered on the neutral areas and wanted a focus motif for the colored irregular diamonds.  I like a diamond design from Angela Walters’ book, Shape by Shape: Collection 2. 

I wondered how the motif would work since the shape I am quilting is irregular.  First I practiced on a plastic shape then on plexiglass over my quilt. 

I have many more to quilt, but here is one of the center diamond shape quilted.  I used a burgunday thread so it does not show up very well. 

Update*  Here is a much better photo of the motif on a lighter diamond. 

Hope you get to enjoy some sewing or quilting time.  

Where Does Time Go

     Very little sewing got done for the past week.  I was mostly busy with granddaughters and that was great fun. Older GD pieced a giant crooked log cabin block.

 

Younger GD hand appliqued a dog with a running stitch.

   

    In my down time I managed to add an inner border on a top in progress (no photo).

      My district will host the state meeting of Quilters of SC spring 2018 and they want sets of coasters as favors for the meeting.  Even though I am not currently a member, I feel the guilds in this district should support the state guild meeting. So far I have made 2 sets of coasters for QSC.  They provided the pattern.  

This month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is blue and I did manage to use blue scraps for one set of coasters.  

     When I returned home, my yard needed attention. I spent 2 mornings working in the yard.  After my shower, I needed to rest and relax from the heat so no sewing/quilting got done.      

     Today I hope to get some quilting done.

 Hope you make time to enjoy some sewing or quilting.  J

Finish A-Long

     I need this challenge to push me to finish more.  So far this year I have finished the top 2 quilts on my UFO list.  #1 The blue, green and yellow quilt kit was purchased in 2005.  I did not finish it like the kit suggests but I love it. You can see more about the quilting I did on this post. 

#2 The green made-fabric quilt ended up as 2 quilts- one full size and one adult lap.  I have entered the full size in a guild show and then it will be a wedding present. You can see more about them here.  

     To work on next I have pulled #3

(The top has been waiting 5 years to be quilted when my FMQ skills were better and they are ) and # 5 which needs borders.   

Hope you are making progress on your projects. 

Linking up with She Can Quilt Finish A-Long.