Thursday, October 8, 2009

Common Threads Quilt Show

Each year our club works together to make a quilt to be given as the Grand Door Prize at our yearly show. This year we were given an applique snow cottage pattern to work with along with the fabric for the snow. Here is the result below, I think it turned out beautifully! I have a close up of the two squares my mother and I made before they became part of the quilt. This is the quilt square I made. I painted a gray kitty in my window and deer in my yard along with a few bare trees. I also painted the 'end of the logs' on my cabin fabric.

My mother wanted me to paint snowmen in the yard and a calico cat in her window.
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Here are a few of the quilts in the show, only a few are represented here.


Above is my mothers "Fancy Sue" quilt. She took 3rd place in the Viewers Choice Category.
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Below are two of the Art Quilt winners.

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The next two are my entries in the Wall Hanging category.
They are hand painted and quilted.

Here are a few of the Christmas entries.



Sampler quilts are among my favorite and I took pics of several.



The green and pink quilt below was part of our club Round Robin. My mother and I did the borders around the center design. I painted the hearts and folk art flowers around the center.


Above is another of my mothers quilts, Bear Paw. I think she won second place in this category.



I loved the animal print shoes and hats!


The quilt above is beautiful, it has such lovely colors. My camera didn't do it justice.


Art Bra's

My quilting club, Common Threads, decided to join with our local Brest Cancer Chapter and create "Art Bra's"to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness. Below are a few of the bra's we made. The first two are my contribution.



The bra's were displayed at our quilt show and for a dollar you voted for your favorite. the money raised was matched by our club and donated to our local Breast Cancer Awareness program.

Puss and Boobs was designed and made by my mother.







Last but not least, the bra that brought in the most cash was

He Thinks My Tractor's Sexy!


There was a lot more bra's but I only took a picture of a few. We has some beaded bra's that were very beautiful. I should have taken pictures of them too!

Monday, August 17, 2009

August 6th Class

Petal Prints
In this class I used the retired Stampin' Up set,
Petal Prints with the new "09" In-Colors and ribbons.
Petal Prints is a two-step stampin' set.

Demo Meeting


July 30th Class

Peaceful Wishes
I've always loved this set and I'm very glad
I bought it before it retired this year.


This time every year, I have Christmas in July, my students like to get a jump on their Christmas Card making. I have dilly-dalled the summer away and not kept up with posting each weeks card classes. We make 5 cards or 4 cards and a holder in each class, but some of the cards seem to have vanished into thin air over the summer. Maybe they melted away in the summer heat. I really hope to do better for the rest of the year and post each class promptly. Hopefully I will not lose any that way.

July 23rd Classes

Cold Play
This week we used one of my favorite retired
Christmas sets and last years Designer Papers from
Stampin' Up.