7.4.12

Bonnie's four blocks sewn together--looking good! I was Bonnie's Secret Sister and received a lot of nice little quilting aids and hand gizmos to have in the sewing room. Hers is the first block set of four to get this far. Her colors work very well together. You can not really see from the picture but there is a teeny bit of yellow in the royal blue print.

7.1.12

The Pieceful Mountain Quilters Retreat 2012 was a lot of fun and a lot of intensive sewing. Our teacher, Linda Gorman,  worked on this red, white, and blue quilt to the left to show us the process.

The class model, already completed, was very pretty. Even though they may not look it, both quilts use exactly the same method of construction. The pink lei lets you know we had a BEACH themed retreat.

6.9.12

I will be going to  a quilters retreat in a week or so. One of the projects is a Hunters Star Quilt, like this one. I did not make this one and I think the one we are doing may have more blocks but this is surely eye catching. Here is the fabric I have chosen for mine. In the sample, I chose fabric #3 from the left for the dark fabric. It is Civil War Homefront by Barbara Brackman.

I think the particular design is called Poke Salad. I bought #4 from the left--same design in red--to use as border. I Also bought two other pieces of fabric. I will use a red and cream stripe as a flange and the "white" part of the star is a heavy cream color with tiny star and leaf print, America the Beautiful by Judy Rothermel.

These last two pictures do not really show the deep cream color well enough. I think I have seen it referred to as "honey". The project is W-A-A-A-A-Y outside my comfort zone but it is a good idea to stretch once in a while.