June 2015

Finished String Table runner from LLQA class. 15" x 30"

More Stars in a Time Warp blocks.

Retreat!!

Had a great time last week at the LLQA retreat at Pilgrim Park near Princeton, Il - a nice facility in a wooded valley near the Illinois River. We sewed, shopped at Quilter's Garden Quilt Shop in town, ate, napped, chatted; but mostly sewed. I made good progress on three of my UFO's.

This isn't a good photo, but its the layout for the top center of my Edyta Sitar Spool quilt. I did get it sewn together. Now to do the border applique. Our local guild did a swap for the "thread" parts of the spools. For three months we each signed up for a different color and made enough of that color for the others on the list. I was fired up to do the applique as soon as I got home, but first I need to get my churn dash and 30's bowtie blocks done for the LLQA swaps for the June 14 meeting. Hope to finish those by tomorrow.

LLQA Meeting

Saturday I went to the LLQA meeting in Heyworth.
I so enjoyed the quilts shown by the featured quilter, at Show and Tell and by the afternoon speakers. There was a finished Farmer's Wife, Orca Bay( a mystery by Bonnie Hunter, Spools (designed by Edyta Sitar), and some neat "modern" quilts-among others. Nothing like a day full of wonderful quilts!

 

 

I bought the book "When the Cold Wind Blows" by Barb Adams and Alma Allen from a vendor at the meeting. In it is the pattern Trick or Treat with lots of cute applique baskets in autumn colors. I must make it!! Here is a test block-I am forcing myself to finish some projects already started first.

 

 

 



Happy Halloween!

Finished this wallhanging last week. Appliqued with fusible and machine quilted. Designed by Letitia Hutchings of Mt. Redoubt Designs.

Had a wonderful time at LLQA retreat in Pilgrim Park from Friday to today. Great weather, lots of quilting, some shopping, and great quilty friends. I got the "secret project" top almost finished and did some hand quilting on Sunbonnet Sue Alphabet. Walked out to the car there this morning and heard a hawk calling.  

LLQA Meeting

Yesterday, I went to the Land of Lincoln Quilter's Association in Lincoln, Il  The program was given by the author of Hobo  Quilts, by Debra Henninger. She showed the quilts that were designed for the book, using blocks made from the symbols the hobos used to communicate with other hobos in the 1930's. She talked about the history of the that era, and I learned some things I hadn't been aware of before.