Rally Day

I went to TAQG Rally Day last Saturday.  (Texas Association of Quilt Guilds)  I had never attended before because it usually conflicts with family vacation.

Pat Speth of Nickel Quilt fame was the speaker and she gave two very interesting and informative lectures.  She will be lecturing at Bear Creek Guild in Sept and I am going to take her workshop.

We received a goodie bag with contributions from the different guilds when we arrived.  Below are the  fabrics (fatquarter, fat sixteenths, and nickels)  I received.  There were other items in the goodie bag but I didn't snap a picture.

what a lot of scrappy goodness!

I used these fabrics to add new life to my 1.5 inch strips as I finished up my pineapple blocks.  It is so fun to add a new fabric.  I now have 90 blocks and I have been trying to decide whether to make more or add borders.  I think I have an idea for a border and am anxious to get this to a completed top stage.

It's Reversible

I was home early from work today because of a leak in the kitchen.  After that was dealt with, I put the table runner on the frame and quickly quilted it.  The backing is a shiny piece of brown that I don't remember when or where I acquired.  It was just barely big enough. I used Glide cream thread top and bottom.

It was windy when I took the pictures but I am pleased with both sides.

Full Size Donation Quilt

I finished quilting this today.  I just played with various free motion designs.  Glide thread - cream and 80/20 batting.

WAYWO

WAYWO = what are you working on.

I am quilting a donation top.  It is almost done.  No pictures until I can find my charger and get my camera battery charged.

Color Study top is done.  It kept evolving because I would sew the pieces onto the oposite side off the quilt quite by accident.  It is very much improvisational which would be easier if I had a big design wall.

I turned in the donation quilt I finished at Retreat finally last Tues at guild.  The binding is the machine binding sometimes called magic binding.  I first saw this quilt shop demoing it with their ruler at Houston.  I like it a lot.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sts4TvP8plI

Color Study UFO

I had these star blocks from a color study my bee did years ago.  Then after Hurricane Sandy I was putting them together to make a donation quilt but never finished (though I took home two other tops and quilted them for the guild to give to Sandy victims).

I wanted to finish it up and now the Community Service Chair is collecting twin and full size quilts for a donation so I am trying to make it big enough for a twin.

At this point, I am adding one more row to the bottom and then I think a piano key border in black and white prints......maybe some color in the border in the lower right to balance it out?

An Afternoon Tablerunner

Last summer I won a basket of goodies at a quilt show in Bridgeport TX.  Sorry, but I can't remember the guild's name.  In the basket were lots of fabrics including this group which some or all of are Benartex fabric designed by Mitzi Powers.  Most of the fabrics were smaller than a fat quarter and didn't have selvedge.

I came across these fabrics as I was cleaning and reorganizing my fabrics and I wanted to use them before they were split apart and mixed into my stash by color families. 

I added some brown and one batik blue/purple.  I made a table runner from Craftsy class "Square-agonals", by designer/instructor Sandi Blackwell.  The pattern went together easily and it was fun to fussy cut and position the three birds in the middle.

Well perhaps I went too quickly because I think I should have had more semi-solids in the final product.  I like it but it is a little too busy and I had difficulty figure where duplicate fabrics were going to end up next to each other.

It will go in the to be quilted pile and maybe I can figure out some quilting that will unify it. 

3 little quilts

I found this pattern in Paducah and decided to make three wallhangings before I went for a weekend in Michigan.

I used a striped fabric so I didn't fuse stripes like the pattern for the socks.  I also forgot the pattern had the feet turning out so only one is like that.  I fused and then quilted the pieces down.  I used a fusible I wasn't familiar with and didn't realize it should have been steamed so the red shoes are a little fuzzy.  I did a zigzag type stitch with the long arm.

I had some wide brown rickrack so I pieced that in the seam of the border to look like a skirt.  That wasn't in the pattern but I thought it looked cute.

I ran out of dark floss when I got to this one so I later added to the lettering with a tsukeniko ink pen to make it show up more

 

I was rushing to finish them the night before so two have fused binding and the they may look wavy in the pictures because I just slapped them on the design wall to snap a picture. 

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I quilted swirls in two of the borders but leaves and flowers in the turquoise one and only did one border not two like in the pattern.  Quilted leaves and swirls in the background.

quilting pics.