Better to Be DONE

I've never done a Block of the Month (BOM) of any sort... way too much responsibility and discipline for me. Well, this year I am participating in a BOM with one of my dear quilting friends... the shop that is doing the BOM has several going at the same time. Ours is the "Last Saturday of the Month-BOM". The trick to most of these deals is that you must get the first one done before you can go by the shop to pick up the next installment. Each installment has instructions and the fabric for completing the block. Well, we did a prototype of the block out of stash fabrics before we ventured into the "real" block construction. The thought was that we could get the mistakes over with on the prototype. An after thought was that it would give us enough extra blocks at the end of the year for a nice charity quilt... reasonable, we thought.

Yesterday we finally sat down to work up the real block.....
DONE...
Now I can go in with my head held high and my hand out (for my next block)

name tag pockets

I am a member of the East Cobb Quilt Guild.
We've been doing this activity in the evening group called Buddy Blocks. Since the majority of the group have day jobs and full lives we tend to take projects at a slower pace then the bigger day time guild group does. Every two months or so we are assigned another member of the group, we meet with them and exchange information with the intent of making a quilt block or other requested object for that person. Some folks intend to have enough blocks at the end of the project to make a bed quilt, others are doing wall hangings... the last three folks I've gotten have requested name tag pockets. Here are pictures of the last two that I finished.

Catching UP

Thought that I'd do a little blog "catch up" while I wait for my next activity to begin. I've been involved in the Olympic Challenge with my TreadleOn group for the last couple weeks but before that I was busy with locating finished projects for the Loving Hands Quilt Group (from our church). Like I might have mentioned, my sewing room tends to be a BLACK HOLE, things go in, ever to be seen again.

We got a new furnace, and with it came a new set of air returns, one required that I clean out the sewing room closet...... what a treasure. I found all sorts of objects that had been lost to time...... 17 red, white and blue blocks for a couple of soldier quilts that the group is doing. K

Snow fall in Georgia

We sure do get excited when the mention of snow hits the news here in Georgia. They forecasted that our area of the state would get about 1 inch maybe 1.5 but that the counties south of Atlanta would be the real winners in the snowfall competition.

Here are a few photos taken from the front and back door...even though it was 4:45 pm the photos have come out dark... if you click on them they show up better :)

glad to be back

Good afternoon...
Now you might be thinking that I'm glad to be back home because of family and friends, well that is true but I am so glad to be back so that I can participate in my TreadleOn block exchanges. I missed getting to do the fall exchange so when I realized that I was going to be able to whip up several sets (each set was 12 blocks) for the Winter exchange I went all out. The exchange was sets of star blocks of blue and white fabrics made with any handcrank or treadle sewing machine, So take a look....

Here is the link to see all the blocks... continue to check it for a few days because they are still arriving at Patience's house. As you notice mine have not been added to the list yet.

It is wonderful to be home and to get to play with my sewing machines...
K

Cotton time

I've spent the last three months in rural south Georgia where I believe cotton is King again. Here are some pictures of cotton in various stages of the process... i am thinking of making note cards... all this work just so I can have cotton fabric for quilting, I must buy more :) Thank you cotton growers of America...

Dancing Stars

Remember my telling you a few posts back about not taking pictures of my entry in the ISMACS Halloween Contest... well, here it is. Notice the shiny fax snake skin border.