SPC PIECEMAKERS 8th Annual Show

Ruth Elizabeth at 89 was ACCEPTED for the WV Cultural Center Quilt Exhibit.   ALLELUIA!

In the meantime I was busy busy busy completing several projects for the ST. Peter Claver 8th Annual Quilt Exhibit.   Here are my entries for this year:

Crazy Patch placemats and coasters were made for doorprizes for annual show.

"JOE ARTIST"  another finally finished quilt that has languished  on and off my machine for past two years.  It was originally for my grandson Jordan 's graduation from HS.   He'll be graduating from college in another year.

"Scrappy Lap" Quilt

"NASSAU NICE"  was what I named the mystery quilt we did at retreat this year because of the island colors.

DIVERSE DIVA was submitted for our BW Challenge this year.

Piecemakers' 2013 Challenge

Three fabrics drawn from a paper sack,
and a stack of 20 signed friendship blocks

An idea of a tree, some leftover L_O_V_E blocks, and burlap coffee bags

 This past fall we selected three fat quarters from a bag with instructions to make a 40” x40” quilt. Two of my pieces were ( a turquoise print and a deep pink piece) nicely coordinated, but the third piece I pulled was somewhere between a mustard green or decaying lemon color. I was saved though by the fact that we had made name blocks for a friendship quilt last summer. The outer strips of the name blocks were scrappy so that made it easy to incorporate at least one strip of the yukky fabric into the quilt. I decided to make a friendship block quilt and use my three fabrics in it.

The finished project:

When I think of butterflies, I think of LOVE *, or vice versa

*associated with the Novel One Hundred years of Solitude

Fall Arrives in Huntington

     I feel Fall in the air in these cool mornings.  Days are already getting shorter.
I will miss the sunshine in the ripe red tomatoes of summer, but I look forward to longer evenings in my studio.

I submitted a quilted wall hanging to the challenge "Pearls of Wisdom" held by Creative Quilters.

It is part of a triptych of scenes, with a theme of AT-Oneness.  For the challenge though, I used the words from the song,  "I hope you Dance"  The photo doesn't capture the sparklies and the gems attached, but the moonlit waters shows up well. Thinking now, I'm going to have to invest in a new camera with stronger resolution so I can show quilting and finer embellishments in thread and ornamentation.