Design Wall Monday

As I wait for the storm to arrive, I decided to sort through some piles in my sewing room and finish the binding on one more quilt.  I found some beautiful golden binding (already made).  However, as I laid it around the quilt, it is 24" short.  So after searching through many bins, I discovered a strip of the same fabric which was too narrow and too short.  It wasn't meant to be!  I found another piece that is similar in color, just not as striking since it has no "gold" in it.  I am trying to downsize my fabric stash and use what I have.
This afternoon, I'll cut the binding and hopefully get it sewn on, so I can do my hand stitching this evening.

Of course, while I was searching, I found two more finished quilt tops, one with backing and the binding already made.   What am I going to do with all these quilts?         

Went to see "The Big Frog"

This morning, I got up early and drove down to see "The Big Frog".  It's a small shop that does photo transfers on T-shirts, etc.  Bonnie told me about the shop last Spring and it has taken me this long to get my information together for my quilt labels.  While I was about it, I decided to make some photo transfers.  Since the price of photo transfer paper went up so high, I haven't bought any in over a year, so I thought I'd give this option a try.

I'm having them print my information for 12 quilt labels.  I'll be busy for the next week, sewing on labels. 

Researching history for my quilt labels

Researching the history for my quilt labels has been a great challenge for me.  I hope to keep better records in the future.  It has been quite difficult to piece together when I started a quilt, was it a guild class and who was the teacher, when did I finish, who quilted it and the finish date and choosing a name for the quilt.  This Blog has been an amazing help with many of the details.  As a founding member of our Quilt Guild, I have saved over 240 monthly Guild newsletters, which have many details of all our events.  

12 more days to finish

My post title is "12 more days to finish" but it is not possible to finish everything on the list.  However, I can make an attempt, so that I can start with a fresh New Year of 2016.  I am most excited about making a couple of Photo Transfer wall hangings and getting labels made for all my quilts.  I'm taking my fabric and thumb drive down to the "Big Frogg"  after Christmas for them to transfer the info. & photos to my fabric.
Today, I plan to finish the binding on the quilt for a little baby boy and then type up all the labels for my quilts.  I'm sure I will be amazed at how many do not have labels.

Merry Christmas and a New Year with many blessings.

Design Wall Monday

Good Morning--I stayed up last night until about 3:00 this morning, waiting and waiting for the storm to pass through our area.  It was very windy yesterday but who could complain, we had sunshine and over 75 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday.  All the leaves that had been placed in the street for pick-up have now flown back into everyone's yard.
However, yesterday morning, I discovered this beautiful sky.....it wasn't there long.

Sunday Morning Sky

This morning, I can finally reveal a couple of projects that I had been working in late November and up until last Friday afternoon.

Gift for a special little boy

The hand prints are from this special little boy's classmates and teachers.  Several of the teachers had designed the layout of the quilt top and had all of the hand prints on the white fabric panels.  All I had to do was sew the panels together and machine quilt it.  I was surprised that I was able to stitch through the paint in a few places where the paint overlapped the seam allowances.  I hope you noticed how the hand prints in the center created hearts.

 Next up...

Gift for Guild member

In early November, it was brought to my attention that one of our Guild members was turning 90 years young in December.  Several years ago, one of our Guild members turned 90 and she was given a Signature quilt.  Each member made a block from her favorite color (purple) and signed the block.

Well, how many guilds have members who are turning 90 and can still attend the monthly meetings.  I was just going to have everyone sign a 5" square of white muslin.  But, when I took the blocks to my weekly Sewing Group, Denni suggested sewing 2 squares on the diagonal to opposite corners and then when the squares were sewn together, it created a scrappy little 4-patch.

My Design Wall Monday dated Nov. 16th, 2015, showed piles of leftover scraps of HST that were cut from the original 2" squares which created the little 4-patch blocks between the signatures.  I used these leftover scraps to create the pinwheel blocks in the borders.  The border and the pinwheels finished at 2".

Needless to say, our guild member, Edith and her daughter, Pam were quite surprised as were most of our guild members.  I had passed the blocks around at the November meeting, which just happened to be my birthday, so I gave everyone the impression that they were signing the blocks for me, since I love Signature Quilts.  I had to do it that way because Edith was at the Nov. meeting and she signed one of the blocks for her own quilt, which I placed near the top of the cake.

I have two more surprises to complete before the reveal for those quilts.  Before I fall asleep at the computer, I'm linking up with Judy at:    Patchwork Times.com 

Design Wall Monday

Oh, what to put on my Design Wall this sunny Monday morning?  Presently, everything I'm working on this month is a "secret".  I discovered this sampler wall hanging waiting to be machine quilted and decided to bring it up to the fore front today.  I also noticed I had a picture of  it for DWM in Dec.2013.  Well, here it is again.  It measures 30 inches square.

Sampler of Scraps

Today, I'm off to purchase more fabric.  I need a special color for one of the "secret quilts", so I can make the binding.  This secret quilt needs to be finished by Friday.

I had wanted to be involved in the new Bonnie Hunter Mystery this year but I believe I need to get caught up on what I've started.  I'm beginning to feel I bit overwhelmed with all these many UFO's.

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The Sharing Bowl

This evening, as I was looking through some emails, I came across an email about the "Sharing Bowl".  My mother and her sister shared this bowl every other year over a span of 35-45 years.  There were no markings on the bottom of the bowl.

Sharing Bowl

Bowl turned upside down-side of Sharing Bowl

In 1976, I asked my mother, Sally, where she got this bowl.  She was still living on First Avenue at the time.  She said that it was a “sharing bowl” between her and her sister, Eddie.  She wasn’t sure what year the “Tradition” began.  My guess, is sometime during 1930-1940.

One Christmas, Sally would fill the bowl with English Walnuts that she and Donald had grown on First Avenue or something special they had made.  The bowl was given as a Christmas gift to Eddie & John (my Aunt & Uncle).

The next Christmas, Eddie and John would fill the bowl with something special that they had made or grown on their Apple Ranch.  The bowl was given as a Christmas gift back to Sally and Donald.

Every other Christmas, the bowl would travel back & forth.  Every other year, the recipient could enjoy the bowl for an entire year.

In hopes of keeping this tradition going, I gave the bowl to my cousin, Karen to start the tradition again and keep it going between her and her twin sister, Karolyn.

There is still time, to start the tradition in your family too.......

Reverse Birthday Surprise

Cute little chicken for Fall

Tuesdays are always a day to gather with 15-20 ladies and sew for those in need.  We have a great time cutting, sewing, chatting and sewing some more.  Elaine was the first to tell us about "Reverse Birthdays".  I had never heard of this new way to celebrate a birthday.  Instead of having everyone give you a gift, you present gifts to everyone in the group.  Since the gifts are from your heart and hands, you do need to plan ahead.
Elaine made drawstring bags to hold our sewing machine cords and foot pedal.
Judy made 2 1/2" crocheted hearts with a pretty little ribbon attached.  It will be a darling ornament.
Nancy V. made scented candles wrapped in a little bag.  Another bag held yummy cookies for us to share.

I was next--so my surprise was a "Chicken Parade".  "22" little Chicken pin cushions took over an entire
round table.  I guess I should have taken a picture of all of them at the table.  I did take some pictures at home that I will share with you today.  On Oct. 19th and Oct. 26th, I posted pictures of tiny log cabin blocks and mentioned that some of the blocks were not the same size but it did not matter.  I know that would have made me wonder how that would work in a quilt.

First 11 Chickens on Parade

   

Close up for 3 center chickens from above photo

Close up of same 3 chickens from back 

Close up of chickens from side and tail feathers 

Close up of more chickens

I went to a Quilting Retreat back in 1999 and Sylvia Ballard taught me how to make the little chickens.
The last time I made a batch of chickens was in January 2013 and posted on this Blog with pictures at that time.  

Look who was at the window

I had a little visitor this afternoon.  She was sitting on the brick ledge outside the window of my sewing room.  The blinds were open but it still made it difficult to get a good picture.  The whole time I took pictures, she sat frozen in one spot, crying.  Actually, I thought she was calling her babies, but after I took over 5 pictures, I realized she was scared because the moment I moved away from the window, up the brick she ran.  This was one of the better pictures.

My little squirrel visitor

Design Wall Monday-Surprise

Everything I have been working on the past month, has been a surprise for several different people.  Recently, I discovered some people I know have been reading my Blog, which means I need to be careful what I post, until after the presentation.

This is the only picture I can show today.  It is all the leftovers that were trimmed off the 5" blocks.  One lady told me not to worry about saving all those trimmings but there were just too many nicely trimmed triangles and why not?  I'm plan to find a neat use for them--maybe even in the quilt where the 5" blocks are.  The squares on the right just need to be trimmed.  The pile in front has been sewn and the 2 piles to the left and back, still need to be sewn.  When all is said and done, I should have about 160 HST.  Each square should finish one inch. 

160 HST units

Now, I had better get busy on all the unfinished items that I hope to finish prior to the end of 2015.
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Collecting Items for Fabric Journal

Looking forward to making a Fabric Journal.....
I would like to include items from the past.  The first item was found on Laguna Beach in California. My Great Grandfather, Judson Sanders included a note, stating:  "Picked up by J. Sanders on the Laguna beach in 1873".  Rolled up inside the bottle was a note.
First, I found a little history on the web, about the company that made the bottle.

History

The company was founded by Dr Thomas Cantrell who opened a shop in Belfast selling soft drinks in 1852; he went into partnership with Alderman Henry Cochrane, thereafter trading as Cantrell & Cochrane Limited.

Old Bottle from 1870's

Around the outside of the bottle, it reads:  MEDICATED
                                                                  AERATED
                                                                   WATERS
                                                  CANTRELL & COCHRANE
                                                       BELFAST & DUBLIN

The next picture is of the note rolled up in the bottle.  As best as I can interpret the writing, it says:
                                                              Montenn
                                                    Just been to Breakfast
                                                              All well
                                                        J.G. Devercaft
                                                        May 11, 1870

Note rolled up in bottle

Smaller note in bottle-cannot be unrolled without damage

If anyone can read the writing on the note shown above, please let me know what it might say.

Design Wall Monday

DWM  May 2014

As I was looking through my numerous piles of papers and fabric, I came upon these 6 blocks.  From a distance, they may looked pieced but the design is printed on the fabric.  They looked a little familiar and as I looked through my pictures,
I discovered that I had added sashing and borders to another
6 blocks back in May of 2014.  Now, to just find a nice fabric for sashing and borders for the top shown below.

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DWM  11-09-2015

Mug Rugs and Flannel & Fleece Quilt are done

Flannel Quilt Top done

Top finished with binding

Color of Backing Fleece

Yesterday afternoon, I finished the Mug Rugs and hope to have them mailed out tomorrow.  This afternoon, I finished sewing the binding on a Flannel & Fleece Quilt.  I used a beautiful blue fleece for the back of the flannel quilt I designed from 42 squares for a man or teenage boy in need of a warm covering.  Since the flannel and fleece made for a rather thick edge, I chose to cut the backing fleece 1/2" wider than the quilt and just fold over to the front and sew it down by machine.  I'm not terribly excited about how it looks but it was very easy to complete the quilt using this method.  Before I began, I read on-line that when one folds over the cut edge, you do not need to worry about the fleece unraveling.  It just doesn't have a fine finish look that I'm used to seeing when I use a standard binding.

Promised Projects

This week I have been working on "Promised Projects".  In June of this year, I flew out to Northern California to visit family and friends.  I made quite a few Mug Rugs as little gifts but soon discovered I was short just a few gifts, so that is how the promised projects came to be.  I have just one more to make but thought I'd take pictures of what has been completed.  Most but not all have a selvage message just for fun.
These all need to be mailed.   

Mug Rugs 1

Mug Rugs 2

Close-up of Mug Rug with selvage quote

Design Wall Monday

An entire week has gone by and I only have (6) more blocks to show for it.  The last two blocks with the yellow and blue should be the same size but they are not, which means I may not be able to use them in this project.  I cut the inner strips narrower on one block and wider on the next one.  Obviously, I have not been paying attention to what I'm doing.  My deadline is looming.....

Design Wall Monday

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Design Wall Monday

Whoa....I just realized it is Monday today.  It is an absolutely beautiful day this Monday morning.  The sky is a brilliant blue with not a cloud in the sky.  I should be out walking with my little dog rather than sewing but I will show you what I've been working on the last few days.

DWM Surprise  Oct. 19, 2015

I have many more to make to complete the surprise, so I need to get busy.  I am finding that it is not a good scrap buster, because each strip is cut at one inch wide and the blocks are only 4" or 4.25" or 4.5" square.
The different size blocks do not matter.  That's all I'm saying for now.  Stay tuned for next week to see more in progress.
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Bear Paw Blocks

So far, I have completed (2) Bear Paw blocks for someone in need.  Each block measures 14 1/2".  With 12 blocks, the quilt will measure 42" x 56" without sashing.  Looking forward to seeing how the quilt turns out.

14 1/2" Bear Paw Blocks

Design Wall Monday

Saturday's Guild Meeting was fantastic.  We had a small Quilt Show of (4) quilt tops.  In August, everyone brought in Orphan Blocks that would probably never be included in a finished quilt.  Our members worked on designing several quilts at the August Guild meeting and several took the designs home to complete.  Judging in October was based on Viewers Choice of our members.  All participants received a package of fat quarters.  The finished tops will be completed by our local Sewing Group and donated to local charities.

Winner of the Orphan Block Quilt Challenge

My cousin, Karen just happened to be traveling back through Tennessee on her way back home to California.  Since she was in town, she came to visit our Guild and had a wonderful time visiting and has plans to find a local guild to join where she lives.

Karen is just finishing up a 6 month adventure in her RV and has already logged 18,000 miles.  She's been
stopping along the way to see all the sites she has read about through the years.

Cousin, Karen (L) Guild Banner (C) Nancie (R)

Wanda from  Old South Fabrics just happened to be scheduled for a Trunk Show, so we were able to see
many new Moda Fabrics and designs.   Since her website has so many wonderful pictures of quilts and fabrics,  I will just let you take a look.

Here is what's on my design wall for this week.  With all my growing fabric stash, I decided I'd better make better use of my AccuQuilt Dies and cut some fabric for a Bear's Paw Quilt.  I'm making it a controlled scrappy quilt.  Stayed tuned until next week......

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1st Block of Bear's Paw Quilt

Missed Sewing today

Tuesdays are always set aside for my weekly sewing group.  We meet at a local church fellowship hall with wonderful lighting and a massive amount of space with tables and chairs.  I love the location and all of the delightful ladies that come each week for cutting, sewing, and of course, fellowship.

My cousin is coming this week for a couple days visit before she heads back home.  She's been on a six-month adventure in her motor home traveling all over the United States and into Canada.

I have been complaining about my sewing room for months.  Too many piles of fabric, paper, and knick-knacks that have no place to belong.  My cousin has gotten me in gear and I'm hoping to have some order in the next couple of days.

Stopping by our local Jo-Ann's was on my list of places to stop.  I found some cool fabrics to put on the back of my flannel Lake & Cabins quilt top.  When I found them on-line, I did not write down the item numbers. So when I arrived at Jo-Ann's this morning, I could not find them.  Instead, I purchased over 4 yards of blue mottled fleece that should work just fine for the Lake & Cabins quilt and I should have enough  for another quilt back.

When I went to my Dental Hygienist last month for a cleaning, she was telling me about how she wanted to learn to quilt.  Bells went off in my head and when I got home, I made up a little kit of 5 inch charm squares in blue and white (enough for a small quilt).  I thought a 4-Patch block, would be a good pattern to use and included a sample block for her to see how to begin.  Included in her tote bag, was a stack of different quilt magazines for her to read and enjoy, along with the names & addresses of a few local quilt shops.  I'm always inspired to encourage others to hop on the Band Wagon of Quilting.   

Design Wall Monday

It's been almost a month since I last posted.  In my never ending attempt to clean up my sewing room, I decided to sort through my bin of donated fabric to see what kind of dent I could make in the endless supply. I chose some flannels and in order to make the best use of the pieces I had, I cut squares measuring 8.25" each.  I was able to cut 42 squares for the quilt.  I found some neat fleece fabrics on-line at JoAnn's, which had Fish and Campsites, so I hope to go buy a backing piece sometime this week.  Here's what I designed...

Design Wall Monday  Flannel Top

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Design Wall Monday

This morning, I finished sewing the binding on my 4th purple tumbler quilt.  I love how easy it is to complete a quilt using this method.  One of the ladies in our Quilt Guild taught us how to do the machine binding.  What a delight.

Of course, I still have way too many tumblers pre-cut (with my Accu-Quilt Die Cutter) that need to be used.
So, I found a pattern on-line that placed the tumblers across the quilt end to end, which gave a different look so, here is the beginning of my design.  I still have more tumblers to use, which I need to put away for now, so I can go on to another project (s). 

1)  Quilt of Valor, half-done, that needs to be completed prior to the end of the year.
2)  Mug Rugs promised to over 10 people when I was in California in June.
3)  An "I Spy" quilt for a friend's new baby.
4) and many more items too numerous to note at the moment..... 
 

Another Tumbler Design

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New Ironing Board has been ordered

For over 20 years, I had an ironing board attached to the wall in my sewing room.  It always creaked a little as I ironed but I didn't think much about it.  Well, today the ironing board broke.  My husband was in gear within 15 minutes, on the web and ordering a new ironing board for me.  Can I make it 5-10 days without ironing my fabric and my quilt blocks??  We shall see.....

I'm looking at the situation as an opportunity to clean up and organize my sewing room before the ironing board arrives!!

Design Wall Monday

Yesterday, I was able to die cut 20 light lavender tumblers that were needed for one more Tumbler Quilt.  Several months ago, I had purchased (4) purple/lavender fleece backs for these quilts that I chose to make.
Here is the lay-out for the final quilt top.  I still have more pre-cut tumblers, which hopefully I can use to create a scrappy quilt down the road.

I spent many hours last week, trying to make friends with my EQ7 Quilt program.  My friend, Denni wrote step by step instructions which led me to the section where I could find the Tumbler pattern, which helped me on my way.  Then my husband helped me scan (7) fabrics into the computer for using in my tumbler quilt but the scanned fabrics did not want to move from the fabric section to my tumbler quilt layout.  Frustration was setting in.... We (the computer and I) are barely on speaking terms at the moment. I see so many beautiful quilts that have been designed with this program but my patience level.....Enough said.

Here is what I designed on my design wall, the old fashioned way......

Tumbler Quilt 08312015

 Even after making all these tumbler quilts, I still have tumblers left over.  What I have left over needs to be put together into a kit for a scrappy quilt.  I'm now ready to move on to another pattern.
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Design Wall Monday

Hooray!!   I am actually posting on Monday.  I love this Tumbler pattern.  I had enough white to create some good contrast with the lavender, purples and few pinks.  It was fun to make the flower pot with another tumbler.  All the tumblers and the flower blossoms were cut with the AccuQuilt Studio Die Cutter.  I'm sure I have enough tumblers left over to make another top.  My goal was to sandwich the top with a purple fleece back, machine quilt it and machine sew the binding on before tomorrow.  Something is telling me that is not going to happen--so I will be extending the goal until next Tuesday's sewing group meets.  In the meantime,
I can work on cleaning up my sewing room.

Design Wall Monday  08242015

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Design Wall Monday

I'm almost done with last week's "Island Star Quilt".  It has been sandwiched with purple fleece on the back and no batting.  I found some acrylic thread for sewing with the fleece which worked well until I was sewing around the final corner and I happened to look on the back and the thread had massive loops all the way around the corner.  So after removing the loose thread and hand stitching the opening closed, I chose to quit for the night.  With a fresh start this morning, I switched to a purple polyester thread, which is probably the only polyester thread I have and it just happened to be purple.  The quilt is now ready for some limited machine quilting via the walking foot.

This week's quilt uses the same die cut pattern pieces but I found a different setting, so I thought I'd give it a try.  I found a picture in "The Quilter" magazine dated July 2003 on page 45.  The pattern can be found in the book, Dresden Flower Garden by Blanche Young (C & T Publishing).  Blanche named it; Strip Heaven in 2001.

I have just one row to add to the right but here is what I have so far.

DWM08032015

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Design Wall Monday

Hey!!  I am actually posting on Monday.  This morning, I've been working on (3) different ideas/projects.
My fabric scraps are taking over my sewing room.  It doesn't appear that I have even made a dent in all the scraps but I've been enjoying seeing all the different fabrics that I have used through the years.

Project #1:
The two squares on the left side are two mug rugs that I promised to make for my friends in California.  When I left for California in early June, I was only able to complete 19 Mug Rugs but I discovered that I needed many more for family and friends.  I just need about 10 more.

Project #2:
The two rectangles on the bottom left measure 4.5" x 6".  They are the beginning of a scrappy quilt of spools of thread.  I still need to make the actual spools out of dark brown or grey fabric.

Project #3:
The five squares on the right were made from panels of fabric strips sewn together and then sent through my Die Cutter using the triangle die and matching them with a neutral solid.  These are my favorite.  I'm excited to see how the finished quilt will look.  I discovered this unique technique from Katy Quilts Design Wall Monday from last week.

Design Wall Monday  Scraps

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Island Star Quilt

This morning, I decided the Island Star Quilt needed to be a bit larger, so I added another row of blocks at the bottom of the quilt.  As I was adding the row, I discovered a much easier way to sew the triangles, so the ends didn't need set in seams.  The top is now 46" x 51", which will make a nice lap quilt for someone who needs a hug.

Island Star top with one more row

Island Star Quilt

Our Tuesday Sewing Group was busy last week cutting kits with their "GO Accuquilt Die Cutter".  The group found a pattern called Island Star Quilt, which uses hexagons and Equilateral Triangles.  I used 33 hexagons to make a top 46" x 43.5".  With a little better planning, I could have had more star points matching and standing out.  As it is, I found only one hexagon with matching star points.  I'm still happy with how it turned out.

Island Star Quilt

Design Wall Monday

Our weekly Sewing Group has been die cutting numerous yards of donated fabric for our use in making quilts for those in need throughout our community.  The fabrics I chose were squares and strips.  The center squares of each block were cut 5 1/2".  The strips surrounding 2 sides of each square were cut at 2 1/2" wide.  I couldn't stand having the dogs upside down, so some of the squares with the hats had to be sideways or upside down.  The more I look at the top, the more I'm thinking it needs one more row to make the top 42" across and 52.5" down.  If I get busy, I can get the top done before tomorrow's sewing.

Dogs and Cowboy Hats  DWM 07202015

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Arrived home safely from visiting friends and family

It's wonderful to be back home in Tennessee but I do miss my beautiful home state of California.  Three weeks of gorgeous sunshine, cool in the mornings, much warmer in the afternoon and then cooler in the evenings.  California needs a gentle rain but it rarely rains in the summertime.

I took Mug Rugs to share with friends and family.  Here is a sampling of the (19) Mug Rugs that I took.

I should have made more because not everyone I saw, received one, so I have more to make and mail.
Most people enjoyed the the scrappy 4-patch Mug Rugs with a Selvage label attached.  I only made a few
with the pieced mugs.  Most were made from (4) foundation pieced blocks.

Design Wall Monday

Since I have been working towards getting my UFO's finished, I have decided to treat myself to starting a new "Modern Quilt".  Recently, I purchased a couple of yards of this colorful fabric, which reminded me of a dress that I made in high school.  The only item I might wear now with all those colors, would be a scarf.  I still need to cut a few strips of plain white and the black needs to be cut into narrow strips.

Design Wall Monday  June 1, 2015

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Design Wall Monday

Another UFO is complete except the label.  I bought the pattern, "Here Comes Santa" as a kit from the Quilt Connection in Murfreesboro over 5 yrs ago.  I added the green & gold borders, which I cut at 4" wide.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.  The long arm quilting was done by Susan Shea with gold thread.  This last week-end I added the machine embroidery with a gold fagoting stitch, which shows up beautifully against the red.  My husband brought it to my attention that Rudolph still needs a red nose, which should show up well against the white square.

Here Comes Santa

Rudolph needs a red nose!

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Design Wall Monday

The pattern name is Honeycomb Waffle.

Blogs are wonderful for being able to look back several years to determine the name of the quilt, when I took the class, who taught the class, etc.  I found the info. I needed on a post in October 2012.  This quilt was UFO#6.  I finished the top in October 2012.  In 2015, I had Susan Shea, my favorite long arm quilter, quilt it for me and this morning I finished hand sewing the binding.  Now I just need to make the label.
The class for this quilt was given by Libby Smith of Nashville at our Guild in June 2008.  The info. was listed in our Guild Newsletter, Issue 137.  A Clearview 60 degree ruler was needed.
(I used Sara Nephew's Triangle Ruler dated 1986).
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Design Wall Monday

Here it is--Wednesday evening and I haven't even posted anything for Monday's Design Wall.  Probably, because the Design Wall is presently empty.  We did errands on Monday and I did binding for one of my UFO's.  It still needs to be sewn on the quilt and hand stitched down.

Yesterday, was my weekly group's sewing day.  We are getting ready for Project Linus Day on Saturday, May 16th.  One of our group's leader, RJ, sent me home with enough flannel to die cut over "75" flannel squares, each 12.5 inches.  One of the ladies on Saturday will be surging around each square.  I didn't catch what they making.  I was focusing on what I was suppose to do and the size to make them.  I lost count at about 35 squares. 

Since my Design Wall is totally empty, I thought I would just post a picture of some flowers.  This picture was taken last year when our iris were beautiful and happy.

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Happy Mother's Day

"Tennessee Iris" taken in May 2014

Photo taken in May 2014

Photo from Iris in neighbor's yard  May 2014

Close-up of Iris shown above