Hand Stitches Indigo

I got the hand stitching done on my 2 indigo patches. The plan from the beginning is to make a bag for me. So nice to finish the first step. I just love the feel and texture of the hand stitching.

side one

side two

Here is the stitching on the backside. You can see how much texture there is. 

I bought this needle case last June at the Edmonton Quilt Show. One of the members buys beautiful fabrics on line and then has made needle cases and scissor cases. The workmanship is wow! I had to use my needle case and have it with me as I stitched on my Japanese patches.  

The thread I used on my patches is the crochet cord, a good fine one. 

Here is the inside of the needle case. A vinyl pocket in the front and another one in the back were I had scissors and a small ruler. 

I have added this post to the linky page on Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching. 

Happy Easter and Happy April Fools. 

Barn Block

On the weekend, Sunday, the Edmonton and District Quilter's Guild had a workshop on painting barn blocks. It was so much fun. The ladies that ran it did a great job!

 I did an eight point star. We used outdoor house paint. 

There were great pages to show us how to lay out our blocks on the 2 foot plywood boards. This one is for the 8 point star. 

I have used my good frog tape to mask the area for the red paint. There is one extra bit of tape. 

My red paint and the white but it does not show with the base paint. I did do a bit of touch up at the end. Not much as my frog tape was good. 

I am not sure were in the yard I will put this block. It is meant to hang on your barn. My hubby says no way. I would like a larger one for the real barn, then it could be seen from the hwy. I might put it on the horse fence or maybe in the corral on the horse shed. But my horses could nose muck it then. Later this spring/summer I will get it hung up. 

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Selvage Post Cards

The Edmonton and District Quilter's Guild is having the year end banquet tonight. They will be a Fund raiser for the University of Alberta Endowment fund that the guild set up many years ago. I have made this set of 3 post cards to donate to the fund. Mom and I spent a day last week making a set each. 

They are so cute it is hard to let them go. Maybe I should make more. I used Selvages as the background and then fussy cut the maple out of fabric. Land, sky and sea. 

I have added this post to Sew Fresh Quilt, and Let's Bee Social #182.

Edmonton Guild Quilt Show

On the weekend I spent Sunday at the Edmonton and District Quilter's guild bi annual Quilt Show. I took a few photos and thought I better share some of them with you. 

My Mom Betty, got a few ribbons. This is her with her Gypsy Wife Quilt. I did the machine quilting. 

She got one of these pretty hand embellished Ribbons. 

My log cabin plaid quilt with the hearts. I have not gotten a real good photo of this quilt. I had many comment to me about the long arm quilting I did on this quilt. I did feather hearts and I was very pleased with how this quilting up. I got this quilt done in Oct 2015 a few months after the last Edmonton guild show, so it was eligible to be shown here. 

My Christmas Postage Stamp Quilt. I really like this quilt. 

This quilt is also my mom's. I do all her machine quilting. It got a 3rd place. 

She had 2 other quilts that got ribbons but I did not get photos of them. I must have gotten distracted by all the shopping. 

Also at the quilt show they had a Members Mall. This corner was were my quilts and wall hanging were. Wow they had a good sized room and were able to show off my quilts better then I thought. I was told I would get a table and could bring a quilt rack. I did not know some were going to get up on the wall. 

There is a table with my book ( the Yellow paged book is one of the other members). I worked hard on the book as I thought it would help sell a stack of quilts. There was enough to look at I am not sure many really looked at my book. It is nice to have it done now. 

The framed wall quilts are mine. I thought this was a good place for these framed ones to sell. 

Another view of the my art for sale. 

As the quilt show is were we show off the finished quilts, I have added this post to Crazy Mom Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Framed Art Quilts

I am getting ready to take a few arm loads of quilts to the Edmonton and District Quilter's Guild Quilt show. This year they are hosting a Members Market for finished quilts. I am going to take many of my quilts and offer them for sale. 

I have also been updating my page Art Quilts For Sale about Art quilts I have for sale. I also have the Quilts For Sale where I keep the more traditional bed and lap quilts.  

Rolly View - Framed

2008

Size 14” x 18”

Price $170.00

All three of these little beauties are framed by my dad using old barn wood. We do not have any more old barn wood now. The barn is gone. The old barn would have been made of wood from the area. So old barn wood made with trees grown locally.

Canola View

2008

Size 12” x 12”

Price $120.00 Canadian

The Quilt show is June 3rd and 4th at the Central Lions Seniors Centre at 11113-113 Street NW Edmonton. The times are June 3 Saturday 10 am till 5 pm and June 4th Sunday 10 am till 4 pm.  

Twilight View

2008

Size: 12” x 12”

Price: $120.00 Canadian

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Spring Tulips Finished

Spring is in the air! I have my tulip quilt finished and ready to go in the local quilt show next month. We finally have green grass and a little less mud. I think this has been one of the muddiest springs we have had. I have had tulips in my garden but the gophers have gotten to them and most are gone now. The quilt will have to do. 

This quilt pattern is from the book Quilty Fun. I still have many more tulip blocks I can use in another quilt. I made many of the tulip blocks as part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge over the past few years. 

I have added this post to Finish Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts. 

Another photos on a fence rail, this time with the wind behind the quilt. Also behind the quilt is my black lab and the 5 horses in the distance. 

I did some fussy machine quilting on the tulip block. Lot of little spirals and some ditch work and then some flowing lines to follow the leaves and tulip petals. It did mean I changed the thread some 30 times or more. 

My backing and binding show off here. I had some lighter coloured fabrics that I thought looked good with the front of the quilt. 

The wind was a problem for photos today. I took lots and most look like this photo, flapping so badly you can not see the quilt. Yet somehow I like a few of these photos. It makes the quilt come alive. 

The quilt show I plan to put this quilt in is the Edmonton and Districts Quilt Guild show.  The Quilt show is June 3rd and 4th at the Central Lions Seniors Centre at 11113-113 Street NW Edmonton. The times are June 3 Saturday 10 am till 5 pm and June 4th Sunday 10 am till 4 pm.  

Cherry Quilt and quilts for sale

I am slowly making some progress on the little cherry quilt. The little blocks get the triangles added in the corner and then I can work on the sashing between the blocks. I plan to use this as a table runner. 

I have added my post to Let's Bee Social #177 at Sew Fresh Quilts.

Urban Encroachment

Size: 19" x 24" tall

completed 2007

Pieced with hand dyed fabric and embellished with buttons.

Price $250.00 Canadian

I have two pages to sell my quilts. Art quilts are here and more traditional quilts are here. You can also get to the pages at the top bar on the page. I update the pages every few months. Today I added Urban Encroachment to the Art quilt page. This quilt has been a part of the Life Lines show. 

I am planning on taking a large number of these quilts to the Edmonton and District Quilter's Quild Show. The will have a member's market mall where I can offer my quilts for sale. The Quilt show is June 3rd and 4th at the Central Lions Seniors Centre at 11113-113 Street NW Edmonton. The times are June 3 Saturday 10 am till 5 pm and June 4th Sunday 10 am till 4 pm.  

Christmas Postage Stamp Finished

Christmas Postage Stamp Quilt - 79" square

This quilt is all done! I started piecing the top back in the first week of December. As I unpacked our Christmas decorations I thought about how nice it would be to have a Christmas Quilt. I also won some Christmas fabrics at the Leduc guild meeting. It was nice to sew with Christmas print over the holidays.

My oldest son helped with holding this quilt today for the photo. 

It is a very scrappy quilt. I used 2" squares to make blocks that are nine - nine patches. Some of the patches were already cut and in my water colour fabrics. I looked for anything that was kind of Christmas like. I used some Green and Red fabrics that might not have been Christmas but fit in just right. I had Nutcracker, Penguins, Labs with Christmas candy, Snowflakes, lights, candy, birds and so many Christmas prints. 

I have quilted it with a ice blue thread and did snow drifts and spirals of snow all over the quilt. 

I have added this post to Crazy Mom Quilts, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, and  Let's Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts.

It is still so wet and muddy at our place, I have to think of dry places to take my photos. We have a hint of blue sky today. I wish it would dry up a bit and for spring to show up. We don't have much green yet. 

The binding is a peppermint candy cane strip print. I got the backing, with winter foxes, on sale in January when the Christmas prints were on sale. I was able to put a few squares of foxes on the front side before the top was done. 

Also on my mind today is getting ready for a Spring quilt show. The Edmonton and District quilter's guild is having a quilt show June 3 and 4th 2017. This weekend they need to have our entries and we are to have a photo of our each quilt with the entry.  

Dyed Again

I did some more fabric dying this past week. It take a few days before I can show all the fun colour. First is the fabric in the large zip lock bags. I have dyed 16 pieces of 1m Kona cotton. I leave them for about 24 hours to batch. 

The second day, I wash out my fabric. First I hand rinse each fabric. Then I washed about 8 fabrics in the machine together. The fabric gets 2 full longer cycles with the extra rinse. Dry and fold, hoping that I do not have to iron each fabric (I hate to iron). 

I needed to do more dying for some Door Prizes. The Edmonton and District Quilter's Guild has us pay for our ads with prizes. It only makes sense to me to give pretty fabric. I was having trouble making up nice packages. Some of the fabric I did not want to part with. 

Also the Black Gold Quilt Patch also has a quilt show Oct 16 and 17th 2015, and I want to donate a door prize there too. 

These are the last 5 prizes I needed for the Edmonton guild's year end. Next Fall we start over again. 

Silk Dye Painting Class

Last Sunday I joined a few other quilt friends from the Edmonton Quilter's guild in a silk painting class at the U of A . We started with stretching out our silk on the bars. Then we used grout to out line the designs. I used my gold fish in the pond theme again. Here is the photo with some dye on. I have a few leaks in my grout. 

My gold fish was not to bad.

This is a fairy that my friend Yvonne was doing, so far just the grout. 

We also did some blotchy silk scarves too. The long on to the far left is mine. I could see adding some wool fibers to this and making a warm felted scarf. 

Here is Yvonne's fairy again with the painting. 

I few others made in class by other people. 

Here is the final photo of the fish pond one I made. It was a great class. 

I also took a wool felting class. I did not need to but it was fun. I need to get the photos of the finished scarf and slippers.  I have lots of work to still do on the slippers. they are just in the first part of felting. I have dried them and they wait for another day. 

WIP Wednesday

I have been working on my Easy Street mystery quilt this week. I had a UFO sewing day with the Leduc Black Gold Quilt Patch on Monday. I had these blocks done a few months back but I really did not like the Grey four patches and I changed them to pink four patches. Big improvement, I am much happier with the pink.

The wall also has my orange Sprout blocks on the left. On the bottom right is my Around About. Both of these are part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013 that I have been following along. One the bottom left you can see the red and green project, that is a Christmas table runner I have quilted it but need to trim and bind still. I did not get it done for Christmas but maybe I can get it done in time of one of the guild quilt shows and the next Christmas.

Here is my box of patches that still need to be sewn into blocks. I have all the out triangles done but need to complete 21 more blocks. If you want to see more about the Easy Street Mystery go see the pattern on Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville site. The pattern is only going to be there for a few more weeks, as she will take it down and publish the pattern in her next book. 

I have 7 orchid plants flowering now and two more about to pop. This is just one of the plants flowering and it is so perfect today. I hope spring hurries up, it is very much winter here today with blowing snow and drifting. Tonight is the Edmonton guild meeting and I am wondering if I should be out driving in the dark. 

Now back to more machine quilting for my customers. I have a few deadlines for quilts this month. 

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