A day well spent ... with friends!

April 20 was a beautiful day!  The quilting group in North Baltimore hosted a workshop at their local library.  The project was a table runner.  Three of us from the Scrappy Stitchers braved sitting inside on a sunshine filled day to share our love of quilting.

Judy made the runner pictured below using Civil War reproduction fabrics

 as they're favorites of hers.  The colors remind me of chocolate covered cherries.  It's just yummy!

Nancy used a layer cake to make hers, going for a scrappy look.  The primitive snowman fabric is absolutely fabulous, and makes for a wonderfully scrappy runner!  Please note that she has one border yet to add.  I do apologize for the whopper jawed picture.

 
I opted to use batiks. hoping that I can finish this to use as an "opportunity quilt" for the Buckeye Desk and Derrick club.  I love the way the fabrics play together!

You'll note that each of them looks slightly different ... Judy followed the pattern, Nancy went scrappy, and I opted to border mine differently.  But each is a wonderful and inspiring look!

It's been awhile ...

I made it safe, sound and in approximately 12 hours to MN Sewing Central.  Once again, I'm not getting quite as much done as I'd like to but I am making progress as I have completed the potholder blocks and have twenty six (yes, really 26) LeMoyne star blocks done.  I need to get started quilting the potholder blocks and get the backs cut out.  And decide how I want to layout the LeMoyne stars.  I'm thinking it will be an on point layout with the stars alternated with hour glass blocks and some type of pieced borders.  Pictures to come soon ...

I spent part of my long Easter weekend putting together quilt tops, backs and batting to put them in to be quilted. I have 4 completely bagged and ready to go and have 7 more to do. I will get the binding made for them while they are being quilted. Then it is on to sewing the binding on and deciding what I am going to do with some of them! I was able to cut out a quilt that is a service project for my quilt guild, which I will start sewing once I have all the quilts in to be quilted. Now on to planning out what fabric I want to use in a quilt we are sewing a the end of April in our guild Saturday sew.

While I am working on these things, I think about my fellow quilters and wonder if they are able to accomplish any of the projects they are working on. I know for me quilting is wonderful stress relieving therapy! I continue to learn as I go and to be truthful I don't ever think you stop learning. I thank God for giving me the ability to be crafty and put that to good use for others. Well for now I close for the day to make supper then on to sewing for the evening. :):)

2nd Fabric Wreath

 

This is the purple and tan fabric wreath that I made and hung in my craft cave. I have one more to do and I think I am going to do it in batiks of orange, green, purple and pink.

Fun Fabrics

 

It felt like Christmas yesterday when this yummy bundle of fat quarters came in the mail! Now I have to decide how I want to use them.