My dress form ....I chose this project for the retreat at Newkirk House in Newark, Ohio, a couple of weeks ago. I added some of my favorite Disney prints as well as Tula and Kaffe. I really enjoyed putting it together. Choosing fabrics though, believe it or not was a challenge and arranging them was a bit stressful!
I muddled my way through with the help of friends and a couple of margaritas!! I'm very please with the end result ....now just the handwork on the binding to do! (pattern by Laura Heine)
Teri, Kaye, Janet, Val, Helen! Cheers!
Getting everything ready to hit the road... Fredericksburg, Virginia with The Original Sewing & Quilt Expo! This will be my first time there. I hear it's an exceptionally big show with hundreds of classes to choose from and shopping opportunities galore! I'm very pleased and excited to be teaching Miniature Log Cabins, Small Scale Churndash, English Paper Piecing and the favorite of many, Tee Shirt Quilts.
Fall is by far my favorite time of year and this adventure is going to be SEW fun!
Like so many of you, I belong to a sewing group where we meet once a month to get together and SEW! We call ourselves Twisted Stitchers and been meeting for about ten years now. In the beginning (we actually started off as a miniature quilt making group) we all hauled our sewing machines and necessary supplies to work on projects. Ahhh, life was good.
Then it happened. One by one we started not bringing a sewing project, but a shiny new quilt magazine to peruse.Then it was new quilting books we'd acquired. Then we showed up with nothing but money in our pockets for lunch and shopping! It was all fun and games as they say.....until I felt as though I wasn't
getting anything accomplished and my time was wasted..... just a little....The company was ALWAYS good! Oh I love that group of women! So, I now take something every month to work on. Currently I'm on a binge to get my big basket of PhDs completed! This is the result of the first. It is a kit I purchased in Paducah
in 2013. It is from Modern Quilts (formerly known as Fun Quilts) by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. This particular pattern is called "Follow the Leader". For any of
you that know me, that title has never been a good fit. I have to do things my own way....I did make it a little bigger than the pattern and am anxious to get it quilted as soon as I choose the backing fabric. This was certainly a mindless project. Just what I needed before teaching at the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo at the end of the week in Cleveland! Check them out! http://www.sewingexpo.com/
Found the top... one final press and I'll hang it in line for quilting.
The backing is tiny colored dots on yellow. Very happy quilt...!not quite twin, not quite full size. I'll call it "napping size" even though I've not been known to take naps! Geez, I might miss somethng!LOL
