Sew In Day

Hello Everyone,

Happy Valentine's Day to all!  May you be surrounded by love today!

On Saturday, the Modern Connecticut Quilt Guild had a sew in day!  It was fun to sit with the girls and chat and get some work done!  Although, I must confess, I just tore papers off the back of my Glacier Star quilt, no sewing for me.

But I did want to share some of what the girls were working on...

Heather was working on a Christmas Quilt.  Really cute and really ahead of time!

Here is Heather with one of her show and tells.  This is a sampler quilt that she had created.  The colors are very fall like.

This quilt, Heather designed for her father, who is currently in the hospital.  Our best wishes for her Dad.  Heather, I know he will just love this quilt.

She also showed these bright block that she had been working on, I believe it was as part of an online bee.

Sarah was working on some cute little bibs for her 11 month old daughter.  They were so cute and backed with a very soft terry cloth, great for wiping away the baby food on the chin.  

Here is Elisa showing her Total eclipse blocks from the class I taught a few weeks back.  She has made some terrific progress!!  Elisa also has a blog post up about the sew in day.  You can read hers by clicking here.

She was also working on these, which will be turned into a pouch for a swap partner.  I am totally in love with this color palette!

Maddie made this fabulous pillow.

Susan was making these wonderful placemats.  I just love the black, white, and red, but the curves really make them sing.

Michele had made one of these cute little bags for the holidays.  She was working on some blocks as well, but I forgot to get some photos.  My camera batteries were malfunctioning.

Sue was having fun with some bass fabric and piecing them into circular blocks.

Here are the sets of our pieced and non pieced blocks that we bring to meetings. We are hoping to get them all pieced and quilted, possibly give them to a charity... maybe?  Any way here are the orange and teal blocks.

Purple and green blocks.

Blue and apple green.

and red blocks.

So that is a wrap up of our day!  It was fun and relaxing all at once.

I also wanted to point out that I have put a new Page or Tab at the top of my blog called "My Schedule".  This will be continually updated as new lectures/trunk shows/and workshops are scheduled.  If you would like to take a class with me or just come to one of my lectures, you can check here for the information.

If you know of a guild, shop, or quilt club that would like me to come to teach or lecture, just send me an e-mail!

Until Next Time...

Sew In Day

Mod Conn Quilt Guild Show and Tell

Hello Everyone,

Today was a fun day for me!  We had our Modern Connecticut Quilt Guild meeting.  Some newcomers today and lots of wonderful inspiration.  

Our group quilt tops are coming along.  Some you will remember from previous posts.

These are our green pieced blocks from our second meeting with the purple setting blocks.  We need just a few more purple.

Our orange pieced blocks from our third meeting with the teal setting blocks.  A few more teal blocks needed.

Our newest pieced blocks are blue!

A late comer today.

Another late comer.  We have decided to set the blocks with an apple green.  So you will see these in a couple of months paired with apple green.  

All the above will be piece together in to separate quilts and be given to charity.

 Now onto the show and tell.

Sue's own quilt! She kept this one to herself.  Often times we as quilters give many away.

Michele made this oil cloth bag.

And this twist quilt.  Just beautiful!

Michele also made this Zig Zag quilt.  Love the purples.

Next up Heide completed this very pretty quilt.  Heide is hiding behind it!

Heide also did her own rendition of a quilt from the book on the table.  She once again is hiding.

This book has given her tons of inspiration.  There is Heide and see the painting in the book, didn't she do a great job replicating it in a quilt?

Lidia was a newbie to the group and she brought a Mola along to share. 

Cheree is creating this wonky star quilt for her daughter.

This quilt was really pretty similar to our green and purple blocks.

Sue created this coin type quilt with some cool fish fabric!

Look at her reindeer.  She had to enlarge them 500% from the original pattern.

Julia showed off her Kaffe Targets skirt, super cute.  But you can also see her cute selvage skirt she is wearing.

Julia's mom Tina (Seaside Stitches) brought along the following little pouch.  It was made for her from a swap partner.

There is Tina!! Her swap partner designed and made this fabulous quilt.

This is the back.  Just wonderful!

She also had this little pouch, that she made, and it held raffle tickets for her quilt guild's show in two weeks.  Click here for information on the show.

This little piece will be up for auction at the show.

Elisa brought along with her this wonderful Aunt Grace Quilt.

And this Asian panel.  

Tina just sent me this photo of one of the quilts that I showed.  This is my "I Am Not Afraid of Color Quilt".  It is Judy Niemeyer's pattern Summer Solstice, and it is one of the patterns up for the giveaway (see below).   

Whew....   a fabulous show and tell!  I hope you all enjoyed.

Before you leave, don't forget to enter the BIG GIVEAWAY going on here.

Until Next Time...

Mod Conn Quilt Guild Show and Tell

Quilters Take Manhattan Part 1

Hello Everyone,

As you know, I spent the weekend in NYC at the Quilters Take Manhattan event. All I can say is that I had a blast. I also promised to share this with you.

So let's get to it...

I stayed with my friend Victoria and as convenient as it would be the first event was at her home. We didn't have to go far. The first night The Alliance for American Quilts interviewed Victoria for the Quilter's SOS.

She had to pick a quilt, called her touchstone quilt, a quilt of significance. It was her Kitchen Sink Quilt. Then they did her "mug shot" in front of it as her interview will be entered into the Library of Congress.

You will be able to find the transcript of her interview by clicking here. Let me tell you that the interview was nothing less than fantastic!

A great picture of several of the Modern Connecticut Quilters with Victoria and friends.

Victoria and Jay McCarroll! For those of you who aren't familiar with him, he is the first winner of Project Runway and is a designer of clothing and quilting fabric with Free Spirit. You can find some of his fabric in my shop by clicking here.

Loved seeing my NYC Metro Mod Quilt Guild buddies!!

And guess who else was there the entire weekend.... Yes, Mark Lipinski! He can make any event just way too fun. Thanks Mark for brightening my weekend.

Here I am with our lovely panel of Modern Quilters, John Adams, Jennifer Paganelli, Kim H., Melanie Testa, and Nancy Soriano. All fabulous and all very diverse.

And how about this... Amy Milne, Executive Director of the Alliance and Mark Dunn, Owner of Moda Fabrics handing out door prizes! Just fabulous people and I was so happy to have met them!

More to come next post, so stayed tuned for some fun!

PS. There is a BIG sale going on in my shop right now... All Australian fabrics are marked down to $7.95 per yard through 8/12/11. Just click here to get started.

Until Next Time...

Quilters Take Manhattan Part 1