Quiltmaker Magazine

 This is what I got in the mail today.

 Look what is inside.

Here is the original design I made.  I did a fussy
 cut in the middle of the center of the star. Quiltmaker
 made it into the color way they chose.

My sister Polly teaching Mother how to make a 
"Grandmothers Flower Garden" quilt.

Dona (a friend from Roanoke), Polly and I were privileged to a take a class with Jenny Doan from the Missour Star Quilt Company.

 Autumn's dilemma.
"Wow, this is massive."

She decided to turn her one quilt into two quilts.  The floor is my  design wall and it is filled up with my daughter's quilt.

 I had a book signing at the Virginia Quilt Museum.

This quilt is a sampler quilt Linda Tice, a good friend and coworker,  pieced this quilt in a Saturday Sampler class at Patchwork Plus and the Dayton Mennonite Sewing Circle quilted it.  It will be sold at the Mennonite Relief Sale.

I am donating Star Chain table runner which will also be sold at the Mennonite Relief Sale. Sorry about the blurry picture.  It is hanging up at Sew Classic Fabrics in the Shenandoah Heritage Famers Market until the relief sale.

American Patchwork & Quilting Podcast

 
 
Come join in on the fun at American Patchwork & Quilting.  I wanted  to let you know that next Monday, September 16, I will be a guest on the American Patchwork & Quilting radio show with Pat Sloan. I am thrilled that Pat asked me to be on the show. The show will air live at 4pm eastern but the podcast will be available after that on the website. If you have not listened to the show before come over and check out all you have been missing. There are many past shows on the site- the perfect thing to listen to while you stitch. You can get to the page HERE 

 Here is the finished "Russian Quilt" I was in the
 process of making in my last post. 

I placed the stars on different color backgrounds

 to see which background I liked 
the best and the red background won.

My three girls doing what they like to do.

Parla decorating a cake for her sister-in laws wedding.

 She made three different cakes.  It was an outdoor

 wedding and the cakes fit the occasion so well.

Click to see the other two cakes.

 

Rebecca making a breakfast skillet in her new dutch oven.

Autumn making a quilt she designed.

Since Parla was home from Canada
 I wanted  a family picture.

Mummsy just could not get enough of this little gal.

Food over the fire is always the best.

Making Corn Hole Boards and Shenahdoah Valley Quilt Guild Challenge.

Rebecca and Grandaddy made a set of corn hole boards together for Abe's (Rebecca's boyfriend) birthday present. 

 

When it came to putting the decals on it was a three person job.

 The Shenandoah Quilt Guild has challenged its members to make a small Russian quilt.  My mind went to the stacking Russian dolls.

This is the design I will try to make.

I am to use this Russian fabric some where in the quilt.   

 

 A new sewing project in progress.

Chain stitching the triangles and ice-cream cone shapes together.

 The triangle unit.

 

I am deciding what border to use.  I sewed on this border and it looked to busy.  So I got out my seam ripper and put it to work taking off all four borders.

 I did leave the gray border on.  I like this much better. The binding will be blue instead of green.

 Went to the Dayton Farmers Market to eat with my friend Donna, her daughter Betsy, Mother and Autumn.  We had a delightful time together.  It was so good to be with you again Donna and to meet Betsy.

 Mother and Melissa came and worked corn with me one day.  It was fun to hear mother tell stories of when she was a young girl.

Mother sharpened my knives while she was here.

Mother also came another day and helped me with corn and one day to work peaches.  At 88 she was just pretty zippy .

Quilts for the Home

Here is a new quilt pattern I am working on.

Another new quilt pattern in the making.

 Dazzling Daisey Table Runner is a new class I am offering.  The techniques taught are piecing with triangle layouts, working with overlays and machine applique.

 Rebecca made a cast-iron skillet coffee cake for

 a mid-morning coffee break. 

 Barbara - Autumn - Rebecca

  It was so yummy.

 A day out with hubby at the Berryville Gas and Steam. This was a  fun day going to flee markets and looking at old steam engines.

 This ole rooster was carved with a chain saw.  Notice the bear and raccoon in the right bottom part of the picture.

My bargain of the day was two omnigrid rulers,

 one mat and an olfa cutter for a small fee.