Quilting the Quilt of Valor went off the rails this week. When we left off, I had the quilt loaded on the longarm. The backing is a blue background print with a patriotic theme provided by the QOV chapter, along with the batting of 100% polyester. The batting is not my favorite, but it was …
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Quilts of Valor – Ceremony and Another Quilt
This past weekend, our car club sponsored a Quilts of Valor event. We honored seven veterans, all with Vietnam service. It was the ceremony where this quilt I made with donated stars was awarded to a friend. You may also recognize this quilt top, sent to me by Mary Ellen. I quilted it for the …
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Art Bears, Embroidery and a Denim Jacket with Lace
In our town of Hendersonville, we have a yearly art walk exhibit of bears decorated by local artists. The bears are on the street downtown for the summer, then auctioned off to benefits local charities in the fall. This year, several of the bears feature quilt patterns. This one had quilt blocks in mostly blues …
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Butterfly Quick Quilt
After making the Butterfly Garden quilt, I had several butterfly panels left over. I had already put frames on all of them, not certain how many or which ones I would use for the other quilt. If I had five, I would have made them into a nine block square for a lullaby quilt. But …
Butterfly Garden Quilt
I've had this quilt in progress since last August. The jelly roll I found went nicely with a butterfly panel plucked from the rehome table at guild that I planned to cut apart. I thought it would be the perfect pairing for a Spotlight Pattern quilt. This quilt is available for purchase, skip to the …
Into Nature Challenge
I've been reading the magazines I got at the bookshop at the show, and many of them are Quilting Arts. I signed up for their emails, and recently they had a reader challenge. It was called Into Nature. Here is the challenge "Create a small art quilt (6” x 9”, vertical orientation) that reflects your …
Memorial Weekend Gift Sale and More
The gift gallery at the show was really spectacular with well over 1000 items to choose from. Isn't shopping fun! But, I put in way too much, with over 100 items. Granted, 40 of them were fabric stars that were displayed on one mug rack and 30 were handmade cards in a basket, but I …
Quilting Inspiration
This past weekend was our Western North Carolina Quilters Guild's biannual Garden of Quilts show, and what a show it was! The amount of work and volunteers it takes to put it on is staggering, but the inspiration is worth the effort. I don't know how many quilts were on display, but it had to …
Sew Pretty Tote Finishing
When we left off last time, the front and back of the tote were complete and ready for assembly. If you missed the first part with the cutting directions and initial construction, click on Sew Pretty Tote. Because I want to work on this while it is flat as long as possible, the first thing …
Sew Pretty Tote
I got around to the embroidery tote this past week, and made good progress. I had embroidered several things on a cream color tone on tone print including this sentiment, along with a couple of sewing machines. The Japanese print I loved only had a small amount. So I cut it into four equal pieces. …
