Great Give-Away

Vickie over at Spun Sugar Quilts is having a giveaway on her blog -- go check it out and be sure to enter to win!

A new Welcome sign in time

I was able to finish machine quilting and bind a new Welcome hanging just in time before guests arrived today for drinks and dinner. I started working on this project last month with embroidering the fall-letters on the yellow fabric and last weekend I pieced everything together. It's about 70 inches in lenght and 12 inches in width. I just did some free-hand machine quilting with varigated brown/tone thread.

Home is Where the Heart Is - Update

The other day I was able to get my log cabin blocks stitched together and added to my quilt. I have to cut and attach the borders yet but I will make the December 15th deadline to complete this top! Yeah! Now, If I can also get the mini version of this quilt finished too then I'll be able to have two entries into the Bernina machine drawing - not sure what machine will be given away yet but any of them will do just fine! Another prize is to have your quilt machine quilted for free! That's a great prize too!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Home is Where the Heart Is BOM progress

OK so I actually do make quilts! I joined a BOM program at my local quilt shop earlier this year and although this should have been a 12-month program, it got condensed down to about 9 months so this is as close to giving birth as I'll ever get - LOL -- OK that was probably bad comedy but oh well -- So we are just about finished with the quilt tops - we have until December 15th to complete them the tops so we can have a chance at winning a Bernina sewing machine! I have my center done - that was a monthly progress you see on the bed. I have to add the log cabin blocks and the border this week and I'll be done with the top. YEAH!!! I bought my background fabric and some extra fabric from the line to make a couple pillow cases or shams, not sure which i'll make. This is a bit more country than I usually would like but it was a great exercise for a beginning quilter like me!

2009 Houston Quilt Festival Slideshow

I put this slideshow together from the Quilt Festival - they are not coming up in the correct order so you can just click on it to see the whole gallery of images in order with the credits for each quilt I photographed.

2009 Houston Quilt Festival

I have been remiss on posting updates to my blog latey so I will be catching up a little! Last month Mom came in for a visit and we headed westward to Houston for the 2009 International Quilt Festival - we had a blast! We took a class with Roberta Horton on scrappy quilts that was a real great class for us both - we both learned a lot about color value and combination to create some funny fabric combinations for a scrapy quilt.

Our trip was not complete of course without a few runs through the show floor for some shopping. We bumped into Elanor Burns and had a quick photo op - -- Mom's expression was not the best in this image but we only took one photo but it works.

The quilt exhibit was incredible! I think it was better than 2008 from my experience. We saw an amazing embroidered quilt created by Susan Stewart and her mother, Gloria Meyer - it's called "Gloria's Garden" and its just incredible to see up close. Free Standing Lace border- the entire quilt - three dimensional free stand lace throughout and not to mention the beautiful embroidery stitching - all by machine.

We had a great chat with Susan and her mom Gloria who were standing nearby behind Mom and I while we admired and were awe struck by the beauty and workmanship of this quilt -- we wondered about the time invested in this quilt - I think she said 5 or 6 months was involved in the contruction of this quilt which has over 7,000,000 stitches in it! Holy Smokin Embroidery Machine! Susan used Zundt Designs embroidery designs in her quilt - click here to see more about that on Zundt's website.

Here is Susan and her mom, Gloria. It was great meeting them and speaking with them. What great inspiration!