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Last Saturday, I traveled to the AQS Show in Paducah, KY for their 30th Quilt Show Anniversary.  As always, the quilts were amazing!  I've found I love the smaller pictorial wall quilts and the landscape quilts best.  All the quilts displayed were beautiful and I can't imagine how much time and effort went into each one.  There were over 650 quilts displayed in three different locations.  Since I only took 150 pictures, I barely have a sampling of the quilts that were on display.  In past years, I tried to take pictures of the miniature quilts that were in a glass case, but found the reflection of light made it difficult to see the exquisite quilts inside the case.

It took all day Sunday and most of Monday to recover from the long wonderful day that I had in Paducah.
I was one of several ladies, cutting 5 1/2" squares for our "I Spy" quilts that our weekly sewing group is making for Project Linus Day in mid May.    During the first 2 weeks in May, we will be sandwiching the "blankets" to be ready for tying and labeling on Project Linus Day.

Here's a picture of my "I Spy" quilt on my Design Wall prior to sewing it together.

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"I Spy" pieces ready for sewing

Scrappy Purple for April

So Scrappy Rainbow Challenge color for April is Violet/Purple--
I spotted a quilt pattern in McCall's Quilting May/June 2010 issue that intrigued me.  It was done in black & white with a lime green solid.  I decided to use purple instead of black & white and stick with lime green.  Since I had 2 fat quarters of lime green, I used both fabrics and mixed & matched.  The top turned out rather interesting.  Now, my only problem is, who in my family likes purple?  The quilt worked out to be 51" x 59".

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I Spy 80 Blocks

Last Tuesday, our weekly Sewing Group finished up the 1,600 "Jelly Roll" quilts and began cutting squares for "I Spy" quilts.  In order to have the width of the quilts no bigger than our batting on the roll, we chose to cut all the squares, 5 1/2".  (8) squares across and (10) squares down for a quilt size of 40" x 50".  The other important item we needed to consider was the width of most fabrics that we will be using for the backing.  Very few fabrics measure 45", most are between 42" to 43".

I'm happy with the way the quilt top turned out but it sure is "BUSY".  It should be quite entertaining for the little girl or boy who receives it.  Our group is gearing up for our local Project Linus Day on Sat., May 17th.

I Spy 80 Blocks

International Space Station

Just came back inside after watching the International Space Station go by.  Thankfully, our nightly news channel mentioned it and told us when to watch for it. 

Design Wall Monday

My Purple Quilt top is almost complete.  I would have finished it last night but in my excitement to finish it, I got some of the blocks mixed up and sewn and now the lights and darks are not in the correct order.  I knew a quick picture would be best but I couldn't imagine, I would mix them up.  Now, rows 6 & 7 need to be adjusted.  Here's what I have at this point.

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Last night, I stayed up way past midnight, cutting strips (3 1/2" x 9 1/2") and 3 1/2" squares, so I could make some progress on my Purple Scrappy.  This morning, I cleaned off one surface piled with fabric and continued to cut 2 1/2" strips for our 1,600 quilts.  This afternoon, I sewed the Purple Scrappy blocks.  The blocks at the top show Step 2 completed with each block sewn and the next 2 rows of blocks show Step 1 completed.

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Teal and Purple Scrappy Quilts in Process

Finally finished the top of my scrappy teal beach scene for March.  It still needs to be quilted.

The purple scrappy blocks are the beginning of a quilt pattern I found in the May/June 2010 issue of McCall's Quilting; page 54.  It is called Paradigm Shift.  I have two blocks complete.  Only 40 more to go.
It will be fun to see how many purple scraps I can use.

Landscape Beach scene and Purple scrappy blocks