Two blocks from a Block of the Month

These are two blocks from A BOM at Open Gates Blog.  She has 2 different rulers that she strongly suggests you use for the pattern, but I didn't purchase them and am having quite a time now on the third block trying to figure it out.  But I will get it sooner or later.   

I'm sorry, but I can't see buying a ruler for using for only one quilt.  Besides I have lots of rulers and should be able to figure this out!  She does these blocks in such different ways that I have never done before, so this is quite a learning experience!  I do like the way they are turning out though.  You have your choice of doing six blocks or twelve.  Guess which layout I'm doing!!!!!  Maybe I'll change my mind when I get six made!!!!

Having gloomy, wet weather here---good day to sit at the sewing machine------------after I go and get the groceries----not my favorite thing to do!!!  Anybody out there like that job?  Highs only in the 40's and low 50's the next few days.

Tomorrow we will go to a Quilt Show in Tyler.  It is not a very big one, but is a nice one.  We will get to see the azaleas in bloom, too and eat at our favorite barbecue place, Rudy's!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Several things to share

This has been a busy time for me--just have to show you my latest projects. I finished the pink YBR baby quilt for a gift. It's very pink and looks just like something for a dainty little baby girl!!!

Also finished and ready to go are 2 more PL quilts---one is Bob the Builder and all his helper friends and the other is called CARS because it features the cars from the movie "Cars". That was such a fun movie to watch--My granddaughters have watched it many times. I watched it for the first time straight through with no interruptions just a couple of weeks ago!!!!

The last item is a table runner that one of the gals on the Quilting Bee Forum did as a mystery quilt. It was very fun to do. It's for the 4th of July. Still have to quilt and bind that one.

Thursday we fly to Columbus, Ohio to see the grandgirls (and their parents, too!!!). We also are going to get to go to the Columbus Quilt Show this coming week-end. I'm excited about that, too. Last year we had a really good time and I'm sure we will this year, too!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!


Jan

Tyler Azalea Quilt Show

This weekend we had the pleasure of going to the Tyler Quilt Show and were also able to see all the beautiful flowers that were blooming around the town. They put on quite a show!!! We had a lot of fun! The pictures show some of the beautiful things I was able to buy. We looked at all kinds of things and also some wonderful quilts. We also saw four friends from Tuesday Sit and Sew group. What could be a better way to spend the day???!!!

Shown in the pictures are fabric from the Quitman store Stitchin' Heaven which we stopped at for a look around---what a great place --all kinds of fabric and FQs on sale--I love to put them together for Yellow Brick Roads! The second picture shows what I got at the quilt show--lots of FQs again for YBRs for Project Linus--hard to pass up when they are $1.00 apiece!! Maynard picked out the pattern--said he thought it was an interesting one. It says for an intermediate quilter---I hope I can do it! It looks hard, but maybe won't be once I get into it! I also couldn't pass up a "Hill Country" jelly roll. The colors in it are fantastic!!!!! It just looks like spring!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

The Dallas Quilt Show 2009

We came, we saw , we conquered the Dallas Quilt Show 2009!! And had a lot of fun along the way around all those booths! The DFW Gang met first at Denny's for breakfast (we had 2 visitors which was great!) and then went to the quilt show---we HAD to look at everything, sometimes we were all together and sometimes were were split up, we laughed and we bought several things---what fun we had!!!! I think I was the first one to get too tired to go on! We had a wonderful call from Sheryl, our mutual friend in St Louis and spend a great time visiting with her via the cell phone (what a wonderful invention---it was like she was right there with us!)

I bought mostly FQs for Yellow Brick Roads for Project Linus, but a few for a new project that I hope to work on soon. There were a lot of beautiful things there, but nothing really caught my eye, I'm sure you know what I mean!

Debi made us the best bags to haul our loot in--the picture shows them---the saying is "DFW GANG---Where quilting and friendship go hand in hand." A shout out thanks to Val for helping make the logo. Bestest thanks go to Debi for putting them together. She also had a handmade pincushion and Hershey's kisses for each of us. Another gift bag came from Marje which contained more candy (yum) a scissor fob, fat quarter (green for St Pat's day), lovely shaded green candle (smells good!) and green shamrock confetti---what fun! Thanks Marje!!! We are all ready planning our next get together!

It's great to be a part of a loving group such as this one, we have been through all kinds of "life moments" together and our friendships grow stronger each time---I love you guys!!!!!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Houston Quilt Show

Just got back today from the big Internation Quilt Show in Houston! WOW, what a great show! My husband, Maynard went with me and we had a ball! It was like a mini vacation. We spent 2 days there and still didn't see everything. I do think we might have seen all 850+ vendors---at least that's what these old legs and feet say to me! We just took our time and ambled along. Maynard tried out every long machine there was (what better place to do so!) and had fun comparing them all. I don't think he's thinking of buying one, but who knows?!! I really don't know where we would put it, but maybe he has plans I don't know about yet!!!!

I met Eleanor Burns and that was fun! She had on a witch's hat that had orange hair attached to it with 2 braids that stuck out like Pippi Longstocking's (do you remember those books from a long time ago?) She was a delight and seemed to really be enjoying herself as she greeted everyone.

The picture shows some of the things that I bought: some Fat Quarters and a couple of patterns, Claudia Plett and LeAnn Weaver's new book, Loose Change,a book about the Featherweight 221 and how to do your own maintenance on it, a kit for a small wall hanging of schoolhouses, another kit for a very small wall hanging of a flag and school house, plus some other things that I can't show because they are for gifts--tee hee!!!!!

I finished the Polka Dots Girls second block--these are so much fun to do because they all have personalities that come out while you stitch them! Sorry the block is wrinkly, but I don't usually iron embroidery until I'm ready to sew together. Sometimes I feel wrinkly like that, too!!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

NQA Quilt Show Pictures

The NQA (National Quilting Association) Show was great this year. It was held in Columbus Ohio, so I got to go with my daughter and my husband--we spend the entire day on Saturday looking at everything --we saw all of the vendors (we counted 120!) but I don't think we got to see all the quilts! Here are a few pictures of the wonderful quilts that were there. I just picked a few at random!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Vacation at the Quilt Show and Grandkids!

We had such a fun time with the grandgirls this last long week-end--how much they have grown and Ilena (2 years old) is talking up a storm! Such fun to hear that sweet little voice. Isabel (5 years old) has lots of things to tell us about, too! I had made them both a "Craft Jar" by filling plastic sun tea jars with all kinds of craft items----paints, markers, glue stick, crayons, ribbons, googly eyes, stickers, notepads, pom-poms, and everything else crafty I could think of. Boy, were those ever a hit--we had lots of fun with those and made all kinds of things.

While we were in Columbus, we also went to the NQA National Quilt Show--what a great time we had there. The third picture shows some of the things I bought--couldn't show it all because some of it is for gifts! Don't want to give away the surprise! I got some lovely Lakehouse 1/2 yard pieces which I'll turn into a Yellow Brick Road for Ilena for her toddler bed, which she will be going into soon. Some patterns and a book about jelly rolls and my DH got me one of the new flowered Olfa rotary cutters. It was a wonderful show with many, many vendors and all kinds of wonderful quilts to see. We spent the whole day Saturday there and still didn't see everything!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan