The Quilt Without a Name

Hello Everyone,

 

Hope you all had a good weekend.  What I wanted to do, and what I needed to do were two different things.  I wanted to work on the new blocks with the Rachel Remembered fabrics.

 

I wanted to play with color and borders.

I wanted to roll around in this fabric.

 

Instead I worked on this quilt.  Remember this quilt?  Prairie Flower?  It has been gone for three months to be photographed.  Three months!  I mailed it March 10th and just got it back last week.  It has been to New Hampshire, Spring Quilt Market, New York, and now back to me.  Oh how I've missed you!

 



 

I've been working on the pattern directions.  Almost done!  I really needed to have the quilt to finalize and verify all of my measurements.  I should be able to roll it out next week.

 



Thursday, I'm speaking at Pieced Together Quilters in Castro Valley.  It isn't really a guild, it's a large group of quilters who gathered together every month to quilt and have fun.  Sometimes they have speakers, and that would be me this week.

I'm off to work at the shop today to see all of my quilting buddies.  I'm off to Sew'n Wild Oaks class tomorrow to see all of my quilting buddies.  Looks like Mr. Joe is going to be cooking the next two days.

Soon,
Lynn

 

Wine Coutry Quilt Show

Hello Everyone,

 

There were many quilts at the Wine County Quilt Show in Santa Rosa last weekend.  Here are just a few of them.

 

Our twin granddaughters graduated from 8th grade last night.  From their first day of school......

.....to their last day of middle school.......still carrying a pink bag!  Love you to the moon and back.

 

Soon,

Lynn

 

Edwina Scissorhands

Hello Everyone,

 

Sometimes I just can't help myself when I see a new fabric line that jumps out at me and says buy me.  Buy me now!

 

This fabric line, called Rachel Remembered by Betsy Chutchian for Moda, is fabric that needed to come and live at my house.

So here's the story behind the block.  After I got tired of putting everything away from the quilt show, I sat down with my sketch pad.  The sketch pad was only a ploy so Mr. Joe would think I was working instead of snoozing. (I had every intention of taking a snooze!) 

Who could sleep while looking and fondling this fabric?  I started to draw different quilting components and this 10" block was born.  I can just picture the machine quilting around the center star.  I ran upstairs to my sewing room and starting cutting into the fabric just like Edward Scissorhands.  If you've seen the movie you can just picture little pieces of fabric flying around the room. Now I have to clean that room again!

Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands

Throughout my day, I may just happen to drift upstairs to my quilting room and become Edwina Scissorhands. 

8th grade graduation party tomorrow here at the house.  I'd better get my act together today to be better prepared for tomorrow.  It seems like the girls just started Kindergarten, and now they will be going to High School.....before you know it, they will be going off to college. YIKES!

Soon,
Lynn