The Mountain Regional State Fair turn-in day for the competitions is Monday, and I am entering 23 contests this year in a bunch of divisions. I actually started early enough in August this year pulling it all together, getting my online entries done, and completing projects. I have 5 quilt entries, 5 photography entries, several …
Month: August 2018
Apple Festival Tablescape
Coming up in just a few days, the annual Apple Festival will run four days over Labor Day weekend in downtown Hendersonville, starting on Friday. This is really a fun event, such a small town thing. I've posted about it in the past, showing the wide range of apple varieties and yummy things made with …
Starting to Quilt Orizuru Paper Cranes
Quilting the Orizuru wall hanging turned into more of a task than my normal quilting. For this one, I wanted to do a really good custom quilting job on it instead of the usual pantograph. I need more practice with freehand quilting anyway, and a small project is a good place to start. Since I …
Mountain Living – Panthers, Cars and Fiber Art
August has had lots of fun things to do, so much that I can't get to it all to talk about on the blog. Settle in for a long and picture heavy post! The highlight of the month so far was a trip down to Spartanburg for a day to see the Panther's at their …
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Orizuru – An Origami Crane Mini Quilt
Talking with my friends recently at lunch at my house, I was showing them my Sakura Tsuki Art Quilt saying I made it during my 'Japanese phase'. I did a whole month of Japanese Inspired posts last February, including quilting, gardening, tablescapes and recipes with a Japanese inspired theme. Carin started laughing and said "aren't …
Bird Nest Art Project
One of the categories in the Mountain Regional State Fair is Natural Materials. This one is always a challenge to use items found on our property, created by nature, in a project. This summer, a Carolina Wren built a nest in a little bucket on the veranda and then abandoned it when DH was painting …
Colors of August Tablescape
Now that I have placemats and a table topper, it was time to take a look at the tablescaping stuff and see what I could pull together in a different way. I wanted to shop my own closet this time. Amazingly, I didn't buy one single thing, all of this came from my stash. I …
Colors of August Improv Table Topper
Finishing up the placemats in the Colors of August, I realized I needed a pad for the center of the table, so out came all the scraps left over. Once again, a bit of improv was needed. I had two extra squares sets made, and one large piece of the focal floral, so I cut …
Finishing the Colors of August Placemats
Quilting my Colors of August placemats began as always with a thread audition. I had a couple of good choices here because of all the colors in the prints. If you missed the construction of the placemats, click on Colors of August. I rarely get to use the gold-green variegated thread, so I went with …
The Colors of August
What are the colors of August? It is the only month that doesn't really have an identity, aside from being hot, or having the dog days to endure. There are no holidays in August, nothing to take inspiration from like Mardi Gras, Christmas, or Halloween. So, when Bernie at Needle and Foot asked me to …
From My Carolina Home 