Appliqués for Colorwash 9-Patch Quilt

 The templates for the appliqués for the Colorwash 9-Patch quilt are cut, pressed onto various fabrics, and trimmed.  Next step will be to starch and press under the edges.  But right now, bedtime has come and gone!

Let the (Quilt) Party Begin (Again)!

Guess what I'm doing?! Second photo was taken in July of 2021. I sure couldn't have taken it today; it's snowing like anything out there! This is what I've been looking forward to, through all those months of photo-scanning (though I did enjoy going through all those old pictures). The poor quilt is all wrinkled, from being folded for so long! The quilt top could be considered 'done', really; but it's not... special, just yet. And it has to be special.  😉  It's for son-in-law and daughter Kurt and Victoria, after all!  😊

Sherri's Holly Hobbie Quilt

My friend's Holly Hobbie quilt is all done.  Her aunt embroidered the center piece as a picture for her when she was a little girl, back in the early 70s.  She made it for her aunt's brand-new very first great-granddaughter.

I think you can hardly see where I stopped for the embroidery, outlined it, and filled in a few areas; I’m pleased about that.  I used 50-weight off-white So Fine thread on top, and 40-weight lavender/pink variegated Rainbows thread in the bobbin. Both threads are by Superior.  The pantograph is 'Nemesh Feather Grande', by Bethanne Nemesh.

The quilt measures 46" x 49".

New Fabric -- Blues and Reds

 A couple of days ago, I made a trip to town -- to one of our local quilt shops, Sew What, which is owned by a friend of mine from high school days. I had a couple of gift certificates to use, plus the check from the Boise Basin Quilters (part of my prize for winning Best of Show on the Atlantic Beach Path quilt), plus some money earned by doing some quilting for a friend. I bought a stack of reds and two big pieces of off-white-on-off-white (that makes perfectly good sense! Really, it does.)... and a few days ago, I received the blue fabrics I ordered from The Quilt Crossing in Boise (purchased with a gift card from Boise Basin Quilters). So I now have two sets of fabrics in my favorite colors. (Well, I'm liable to say brilliant teal greens and blues are my favorite colors, next week. Colors are my favorite colors, I guess! ) Soon, soon, I will finish this big photo-scanning project and be back to making quilts, and not just doing quilting for others now and then.

Sherri's Holly Hobbie Quilt

 Today, after a lengthy hiatus from quilting on account of a gargantuan photo-scanning project (35,000 photos and counting), I vacuumed and dusted my quilting studio, including the rails, quilt table, and quilting machine. Next, I loaded a friend's quilt (one of those dear friends I never say 'no' to), cleaned and oiled my machine, chose the thread, and threaded the machine. The quilt is for her aunt's new granddaughter, making the baby her first cousin once removed -- and the baby is also my great-great-niece. (Did you get all that? There will be a quiz later.)

I chose a pantograph and got it aligned. The center of the quilt is an embroidered piece done for my friend by her aunt, grandmother of the new baby, when she was just a little girl. That makes this quilt pretty special. :) I will stop the pantograph at the embroidery, and do some sort of outline and fill stitching, trying to make the density equal the panto and no more.

Here's the quilt on the frame... and the third picture is an oval handmade rug from son and daughter-in-law Teddy and Amy for my birthday. Amy found it at a craft show somewhere. Isn't it pretty? I've been hoping to make myself one of those for a long time.

And now the first row is done; I'm ready to roll the quilt forward. Yep and yesirree, I remember how to quilt! 😄

I'm using 50-weight off-white So Fine thread on top, and 40-weight lavender/pink variegated Rainbows thread in the bobbin. Both threads are by Superior.

AQS Quilt Show at the Iowa Events Center, Des Moines, Iowa

 

After leaving the quilt show, I went to the Botanical Gardens.  Pictures to be posted soon on my Nature's Splendor blog.

The Grand Building, built in 1991, sports 44 stories, is 630 feet high and has 920,000 of square feet and 1,142 windows.  It's the tallest building in Iowa.