Monday Making - Quilt Show One

Since I am working on a project that can't be shown until next month, it is a good time to share one of the quilt  shows that I went to on Saturday.  Fellow guild member, Emily, went with me and we hit the Cairo Piecemakers, Cairo, NY first.  A pleasantly much cooler day, but as we drove into the Catskill Mountains we were greeted by a huge formation of Canadian Geese.  Come on - it's early August!

I just adored this little free form wool piece that was set into an old license plate frame.  Of course I got the scoop on how this was made and fastened - just love!!

This was the mother ship of creation.  I would have bought this - if for sale.  Free form piecing and hand quilted with a large stitch.  The light brown was actually a much darker, warmer color - cameras and indoor lighting.  I wish I could have shown the back (I knew it was two sided) - log cabins, rails, stars, mock ladders, random blocks - oh my!  All wool, but I could see using my plaids and homespuns.

Heres another small piece using this method.  Wouldn't this be a fun new technique' for a guild class?  You can tell I was really drawn to this.

This was all chenille, satins, and velors - also, two sided.  Can you say HEAVY!  A 'please do not touch' sign was right next to it, but oh so hard to resist running a hand over all this rich tecture.

I loved this modern piece - the gray was more of a dark slate (again indoor lights).  The member took a class at Amelia's Garden Shop.  They were the speakers/trunk show at our Hall of Fame Picnic.

Emily liked this one.  Fun little frogs and love the extra touch of the large applique' in the corner.

This was another new technique's this guild learned - mosaic collage fuseable piecing an object.  This one is actually a kit (we discovered that when we went to the fabric shop up the road).

But there were a lot of small pieces done that members had taken a picture or silhouette as their quide to collage.  They are having another class later this month and I got invited.

This was a small show of about 14 large quilts and a number of small items scattered about.  Its's an annual show so it showcases the new work and technique's that the members accomplish for the year.  They had a raffle quilt, raffle baskets, and guild boutique.  I hit up the raffles, but refrained from the boutique.

I'll share the second show tomorrow - and things I bought.

Now I need to go quilt,
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Whooping Friday

I wasn't able to attend our local Guild's class on One-Block Wonders back in May, but I had the book and the fabrics .  Sometimes after playing in so many scraps, you have to play with new.  It was time to tackle this.

These are my fabrics -  'Cascade Meadow' by Connecting Threads with a pile of cuttings.  I asked a guild member who had attended the class to come teach me.  Yes I could have just watched U-Tubes or found tutorials on-line, but I wanted to use a better resource.  Thank You Emily for helping out and getting me on to a good start with this project.

Here are some of the blocks so far - you only make them in 'halves' to aid in the arranging/design and the final stitching process.

I have most of the blocks ready, just that small pile to zip thru the machine.  Then the design arranging begins!  I would like to make a good attempt on a flimsy today as I am off to two quilt shows tomorrow.  Yup, two!!  With a stop at a local quilt shop inbetween.  I'll be sure to have my camera charged and share the lovely day.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Scrappy Wednesday

Because I finished up my plaid projects, I think today will be a good day to play in this newly gifted tote of fabric.  I have several new totes and bags that I picked up last week and yet to look  thru.  This one intriqued me because I spotted MARCUS!  Judy Rothermel and  Howard Marcus - favs.  Some Shelborn Museum collection pieces.  Debbie Beaves and Jinny Beyer for RJR fabrics.  Oh I'm giddy!

I see some Sawtooth Stars and once worked down into smaller pieces, some floating stars.

I forgot to show some pictures from the Button Boats class I taught.

The Cairo Piecemakers guild have a lovely room to use at their local library in Cairo, NY.

I loved Deb's little lamp.  There is very little machine stitching to these cute boats.

Because the Bosal product now comes with two-sided fuseable, you can elliminate two steps (and products needed) in this project, making them much easier and faster to make.

You only need two 10" squares of coordinating fabrics - a scrap project.  You could easily make these in 15 minutes, but we spent a little over an hour.  You can only work as fast as the slowest person in the class.  We also had a couple of machine problems to resolve along the way (see the machine manual out).  And some discussion time was spent over the pressing station as a number of the ladies had never used a fuseable product before.

Some completed the entire project and others decided to do the end finishes at home after we discussed several options for that step.   A nice little project with a super sweet quild.  I enjoyed the evening very much - and I got gifted a bag of scraps by one lovely participant.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Monday Making

I've worked thru that large pile of plaids that was dumped on the table Wednesday.  These are left and will be worked into the final row.

The pinks and reds are getting packed into this larger tote for a quilt later.

I have a pattern already in mind that will work up quickly and use most of this up.

Today the goal is to stitch all those rows (and sashing strips) into a quilt top.  I have three large pieces off the shelf that will get put together for the back and it's ready for quilting.  This is my project for the 'Favorite Quilt Block' Hop in September.

My prayers are with all the victims and families of the latest rash of gun violence.  My heart is heavy for our country at this time.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon