Here’s our booth at the pieceful hearts quilt show. It is our first time to do a show. I’m excited and a little overwhelmed with all the work, it took to get ready. Maybe it is because I’m still a little tired from the Houston Quilt Market. I think the booth looks great though and am excited to see what the weekend brings.

Here’s a different shot. We look like a real booth at a quilt show. Woot!

And, this is what the bad dogs did while we were away all day. I guess they were a little angry that they didn’t get there noon walk!

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Jennifer’s Aunts have written a new quilt book, “Get Your Stitch on Route 66: Quilts from the Mother Road” by Christina DeArmond, Eula Lang, and Kaye Spitzli. I haven’t done any hand work in long time, probably 5 or 6 years anyway. But, this book made me want to pick it up again. I think part of my reasoning for not doing it is because my Mom did such beautiful work, and I want for mine to be as beautiful. This book is fun and I would like to make a quilt for my Father-in-law because he loves Route 66. I have one of the stitching blocks done and can hardly stand it that I have worked on a block since the plane ride home from Houston. *sigh*

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So, we really didn’t make it much past the pictoral quilts……Here’s a few of them.
Fire and Ice. In the Beginning. The great crate escape. Morning Has Broken. Autumn’s Palette

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This quilt is from the “trees up lights on” class we had at the shop. Mary Bordeaux finished piecing her top, and I got it quilted yesterday. It is a fun quilt with some fun quilting,
Great job Mary, the quilt is wonderful!

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This is a buck a block that Beth and I signed up for in 2007. We actually signed up for both versions. The batik and the floral one. We did finish getting the top pieced in early 2008. Beth got hers quilted a couple of months ago and I just got mine done this week, so that I could get it into the quilt show, which is the 16th and 17th of October. Nothing like coming in just under the wire.
Here’s a close up of the suns. I love the suns they turned out wonderfully. I’m not sure I love the swirl echos in the sashing, but I really couldn’t think of what else to do. I do love the lime green thread.Margaret wold be proud of me for quilting my name into the quilt.

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We got some new fabrics in, at the shop and so we did a little quilt shop turnover. I had been wanting to move the cases that were up against the windows out, we were finally able to do that. Yea!
We now have 1,000 bolts of fabric and I think that we look like a grown up quilt shop. Woot

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Here is a close up of my quilting, swirls with a glittery thread.

Here’s my fruilt lady challenge quilt. I have been wanting to try some wonky piecing, and this gave me the oportunity to give it a whirl.

Here is the close up of Debbie’s quilting. I love it.

Here’s a close of Debbie’s fruit ladies, she wanted to make hers look like a beach towel, in keeping with the beach towels on the fruit ladies.

Debbie and I met half way between Woodstock and Augusta, in Madison. And showed each other our challenge quilts. They were very different and very fun.

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My friend Pam has a friend named Mary whose birthday is September 9th. She has been looking forward to her 9-9-9 birthday. Pam made Mary the ultimate nine patch quilt. A Sudoko quilt done in GEORGIA colors. I quilted it for her about a month ago, but she asked me to wait to post the quilt until today. Here it is Happy Birthday Mary!
I quilted it with red thread with UGA and “go dawgs” in the stippling.

Today is also my friend Linda’s birthday, Happy Birthday to you too Linda!

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The last time Debbie was up for a visit she brought some Fruit Lady fabric from a project she did for a customer. So, in the spirit of the fun fruit ladies we decided to make a challenge of using the fabric and making it into a quilt.
The rules, the size of the quilt is not to be bigger than 18×25. We then picked these fat quarters to use in the quilt. Don’t they look delicious?
Last week as part of my fabric therapy (when I had bronchitis) I sat at my machine and “worked” on it. It has been fun. The reveal is on Sept. 21st which is close to the last day of summer. I can’t wait to see Debbie’s and celebrate the end of summer!

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This is Mary’s “choo choo train” baby quilt. I quilted it with swirls

Mary bought this quilt at a garage sale and wanted it quilted. I quilted it with leaves and flowers and ribbons.

This is another quilt that Dell brought in for us to finish, I have had it for a while trying to decide if I really wanted to try to quilt it or if it was too fragile. Dell really wanted it quilted, so I decided to go for it. I did not quilt in the stars, just in the muslin sections. I think Dell will be thrilled, that it is done.

This is a sweet quilt that Sharron made. There are actually clothes for the dolls that “stick” on with fusible fleece. I quilted the border with leaves and ribbons, stipple in the borders and an oval around the dolls. Fun quilt.

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