The Quilt Show begins

Just a glimpse of the quilt show . . .

Packing my bags

This stormy, rainy morning task is packing up my quilt show pieces so they are ready to go tomorrow. This is my big suitcase, and when it is full of quilts that will determine how many large quilts I'm taking. I have a small suitcase for wall hangings and table toppers, etc.  As the quilt show Featured Quilter this year I can bring whatever I want no matter when I made it. Otherwise we generally limited the show pieces to things made since the previous quilt show.

Since I'm on the quilt show committee, packing my own stuff is the least of my worries today.  I have to finish all of my other preparations: printing the rest of the programs and making sure I have gathered the raffle tickets, the meal tickets, extra quilt labels, sign in sheets, cash for the ticket takers, signs for doors, box of pins, tape, scissors, pens - and probably a bunch of things I've forgotten.

Setting up is always stressful, but once it's show time on Friday morning I'll take pictures and post some eye candy from the Heartland Quilters' Guild Quilt Show.

Sunday sewing . . . or NOT

I finally got back onto the golf course on Sundat.  My husband and I had a mid-morning tee time along with one of his buddies.  It was a really nice morning, not too hot and just enough breeze to keep the bugs off.  And I played OK, so it was good.  And after about 5 days of being sick with some summer cold kind of bug it was good to do something fun.

After our 18 holes of exercise - they walked it, and I rode in a cart - we decided to check out the brunch at a new local restaurant. The atmosphere was rustic and fun. There was live music. The staff was nice.  But it took 1 hour 15 minutes to get our food!!  That is crazy and definitely not something that pleased my husband.  The food was great - when it finally arrived.  I had a raspberry mimosa and the Benedict Arnold brunch dish.  It was a very good take on eggs Benedict. My husband had chicken and waffles, which he said was delicious. But I sure hope they get their service time figured out or they won’t survive long.

Once we finally got home I sat down to work on the binding on the Christmas jelly roll quilt, and fell asleep.  My husband left and went to a movie all by himself, and I slept on.  That’s OK because I didn’t want to see the latest Jurassic World movie anyway. 

So to make a long story short, there has been no sewing going on around here Sunday. But it was a pretty good day.  Golf, lunch that I didn’t have to cook, and a nap.  Works for me!!

More Saturday Sampler

Here is the second version of the Saturday Sampler block. I ended up leaving the light pink squares in the same place, along with the white. I just reversed the black and dark pink. I tried a couple of different layout options but liked this the best.



Last month we got the patterns for 2 different alternate blocks.  Here is my first attempt. I've wavered back and forth as to the color placement.  I want to use a lot of the same bright colors as I did in the regular blocks.  But I'm not sure if I should reverse the black and white that are in this one, so the black is the background and the white is in the flying geese sections.  I just can't decide.

Saturday Sampler

This month's Saturday Sampler block was tricky to lay out, but easy to sew.  This is my first version - the "dark" block. My light block will have the black moved into a less prominent position.  I really like the look of this one and keep picturing it in red/white/blue.

Jelly Roll Race II finished

I have this quilt bound with a week to spare before the guild quilt show.  This is a terrible picture that doesn't show the color very well.  But we've had some very grey overcast days and my usual outdoor spots were wet yesterday when I tried to get some good photos.

The lime green turned out to be a really good choice I think. It's a Grunge fabric, with subtle variations in the color, giving it a slightly "worn" look.  Grunge colors make great blenders.  Plus it makes the purple and blue really pop. The jelly roll was a Kaffe - with lots of purples and blues.  It's been sitting around way too long and I'm very happy that I finally used it.

Design Wall Monday - OBW

 

What's on your design wall this morning?  My "design floor" has is filling up with half hexagon One Block Wonder sections. And obviously I need to find a better spot to lay these out to photograph.  

 

One Block Wonder blocks are starting to accumulate, with the hexagon halves pinned together.  The triangles from the first 2 strips of layers are done.  I've gotten 16 sets of triangles (1 hexie block per set) from each strip. The 16 triangle sets from strip #3 are ready to sew. And I'm heading to my sewing room shortly with a cup of coffee and the rest of the morning open for sewing. 

 

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