2014 Opportunity Quilt

I am almost done with my square for the quilt.  After the workshop I have 6 kits to hand out to ladies who want to help at the Back Country Quilter's meeting on Wednesday.  I thought if we got all the pieces ironed under (freezer paper method with starch) and glued onto the background fabric it would be easier to get people to help sew.  It seems to be working=people took them as we were working on them at the quilt store-nice!

Still need to embroider some swirls, sew down 1 leaf and 6 berries-the squirrel eventually will have a black button eye.

Lastly, I spent a few hours on one side of the border for the Mary Lou Weidman inspired quilt that will be totally my own design-well except for Mary Lou's cow,  My "Your Love is Moosic to my Ears" quilt.

Left or right side border - the 6 square blocks are4.5 square with a 1/2" sashing on both sides-Star is 5.5 square and will be on each corner.

One end-orange is not a color I usually use but this wall hanging will be hung in the fall because our anniversary is in the fall-so orange works!

Left end-will have a star added

My border is much more restrained than Mary Lou's -not sure I can totally cross over-but I am going to try to at least put a toe over the line. This quilt is going to be fun!

Applique Workshop

Spent the day at The Crazy 9 Patch working on prepping blocks to hand out at Back Country Quilters for the 2014 Opportunity quilt.  Only had 2 ladies show up but all the others are working on blocks at home. I got one prepped and glued down-just needs sewing.  Carolyn is finishing hers at home and she got 18 maple leaves handed out and gathered back finished-way to go!  Emily finished a block as well so all in all a very productive day.

Carolyn

Emily-a new member of Back Country Quilters

Carolyn brought back almost all of the Maple Leaves-The house was turned back in finished.  I love the colors in this quilt!

Ready for Sewing!

Martha getting buried in her work-the quilt run is next week

My peacock color wheel

I see wonky beautiful stars in peacock tones on cream.

I am making a block for Julie at Quiltdivajulie.blogspot.com.  She is turning 60 and wants 60 stars to make into a quilt.  She had a peacock for her color choice so I took my IPAD with the peacock enlarged to the Patch today and laid the Pad next to the bolts in the store and found some beautiful fabric for the wonky stars I am going to make on Sunday. The cream is the background.

Long Time No Post

It has taken me awhile to recover from 3 trips to Seattle in 3 months.  Also, My granddaughter was taken to ICU on Tuesday and that has been my focus this week. She is still there with RSV.  One lung is good and one isn't as of this morning-so she is gradually getting better.  I have Tea With Thee coming up on May 4th which is a tea for about 140 ladies that benefits the pregnancy center in Ramona.  The last 2 years we have raised about 5,000.00 for the center, hopefully we will come close this year. I have been focusing on getting my part done for that effort right now, then I can work on my part of the women's retreat that comes up on the 1st of June-then I am taking myself to Julian to rest, sew and write!

I spent the day at The Crazy 9 Patch helping the owner, Martha, choose fabrics for Enchanted Autumn by Verna Mosquera which is our opportunity quilt for 2014. We had fun-she is a crazy lady-the Patch is aptly named. The quilt is going to be beautiful. Verna sent a very nice note with permission to use the pattern for our club.

I volunteered to be the chair of the group that will make the quilt-what was I thinking:)

I have been working on the Beauty and Check quilt and am making progress.

 The Empty Square in the top left will be filled after all the other pieces are completed-it is a complete circle made with 4 identical quarters so I want to see what colors I need to unify the quilt.  It is 5x5 rows and instead of putting a black and white border, I am going to add flying geese to the top and bottom so that it is a rectangle instead of a square.

The background is a black star Laurel Burch fabric and I found a great cat fabric-also Laurel Burch-that has the bright colors of the New York Beauties. We'll see-New York Beauties, Flying Geese and Laurel Burch cats-what is the common denominator?  Can I make it work?  Stay tuned as there is definitely more to come on this subject!  Dear Jane Tomorrow-Yay! I love Jane Days!