A year ago this week I met Sherri from A Quilting Life at the Bryce Canyon retreat. We had been blog buddies for a while. And she took my class making THIS quilt above. I was so flattered to meet her and Dawn and then have them take a class from me - was so fun.
Sherri finished and bound her "All Dressed Up" quilt and put it on her blog. I absolutely love it and I'm gobsmacked just like when I saw Nedra's quilt from my pattern. It
Last November 2009 at our Alpine Quilt Meeting Jina Barney previewed the block of the month sampler quilt we'll be making in 2010. I knew I wanted to participate as soon as I saw the quilt. And I've been determined not to fall behind this time as I tend to do with block of the month.
Here is my quilt so far. January was the snowflake block and February was the chain of hearts. Jina has added little pieced borders and strips here and there to add interest. I
Last week was Amy's retreat at the Provo Marriott. Amy is the owner of American Quilting in Orem, Utah. I was only able to attend some limited events due to my work schedule and other goings on. I will say fabulous women were there and I wish I could have spent more time with them. Unfortunately I was an awful photographer and forgot to get my camera out to record the fun. Several of my wonderful friends were there and you can check out their blogs because I'm
I'm putting fabrics together for my "Going to Market" quilt to take to Bryce Canyon for the retreat next week.As soon as I saw this quilt and knew Ricci was teaching it, I wanted to make this quilt. I love the flowers used in the sample pattern but I felt I should use fabric from my stash instead of buying new Kaffes. Even though I wanted to do that.
I did get a black stripe for the handles. I had this red dot so I decided to use it
My wonderful friend Nedra of Cactus Needle recently finished her "All Dressed Up" quilt. Nedra is such an excellent craftswoman. Her technique and attention to detail is awesome. You've got to go to her post to see close-up photos of her quilt. It is such an amazing feeling for me to see my quilt patterns made into projects by other quilters. Bravo, Nedra. I love it.
-nanette
In trying to keep my New Year's resolution about finishing a UFO for every new quilt I thought I'd better pull a started project to take with me next week. Since applique can be done anywhere I thought starting again on my Parcheesi quilt would be a good choice.
This quilt uses white plain fabric and feedsack prints. Real ones, not repros.
I've shown this quilt before on my blog but every time I get it out something seems to get in the way. I'm really hoping that isn't the
I've spent so much time cutting out and prepping for retreats that I think Shadow is putting his paw down on my overtime at my cutting table. You can see I'm making a right mess while I'm at it.This is just one of the quilts I'm getting ready to make. I wanted to learn machine applique and that is what this quilt is all about. Of course my version will be very scrappy.
I'm using some reproduction quarter cuts I've had for a bit and have been waiting for
I'll start off with a sweet little fabric story just perfect for fabric Friday. Yesterday when I got home from work it was late and dark. I reached in my mailbox and felt something kind of soft and fluffy inside an envelope. When I got into the house I looked at the little pile of mail and there was an envelope with a lovely surprise inside.
On the outside of the envelope it said "From the Fabric Fairy". Inside was this beautiful fat quarter with the most whimsical birdie
In 2 weeks I'll be in Bryce for a retreat. In 1 week I'll be in Provo at Amy's retreat. That's a lot of retreat! I have a lot to do before with classes for prepping and little things at home and work to complete before classes. Lori Holt will be at the Provo retreat with me. She emailed me today and asked me if I'm going as crazy as she is. I answered, "Yes!". Lori is so fun. We're taking a a Thursday night class together. Can't
Value wins over beauty/trend. I looked at several stores for my replacement washer/dryer. I did an extensive search and read quite a bit about pros and cons of washers and dryers.
I am grateful for the input and comments regarding my choices that I received here on my blog.
In the end because so many still use the washer and dryer at my house I thought it would be best to go with traditional top load. We still have 7 1/2 people that live at home right now.
This pic is of my daughter Chelsey holding Allison (her niece). Happy Birthday Chelsey. My daughter Whitney (Allison's mom) is working today. So Chelsey is spending her 22nd birthday babysitting Allison. Sweet, huh.
Now for a few fabrics hanging around my cutting table. I'm trying to pull fabrics to cut for taking classes at my Bryce retreat this month. I'm not sure I'm using any of these but there are some I've pulled today.
This is a deep red. I love how they look together. I'll be using these in
Pat was suggesting/hosting a random picture post on her blog last week. And since I'm so busy with several projects I thought I would do as she suggested and go through my pictures to post some random Red pictures from my photo library that would fit for February.
I love this plate. Love it. I got it several years ago at Target. I picked it up as soon as I saw it and put it in my cart. I am so glad I did because I went back
Nanette I'm a quilter, mother to 8, and Nanny to 3