Celebrating the Fruit Lady Challenge.
September 21, 2009
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.
A friendly Challenge.
September 1, 2009
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!
Fetching Water.
August 13, 2009
Here’s what I have been working on this week. This is “Fetching Water” a Kitambaa Design by Pippa Moore. It is a beautiful quilt. I love her designs. We sell all of them in the shop. This is the second one of her designs I have made. I used some batiks and some vegetable dyed fabric from South America. It was fun to do, and sometimes it is nice to make a smaller quilt and get some almost instant gratification.
Gobble Gobble
August 6, 2009
Double Pin Wheels.
July 26, 2009
We cut lots of strips and now I am sewing them back together. This part is going pretty fast. I do love the 1930 reproduction prints.
Here are some of the dog eared clippings, and the “extra” blocks that are left from cutting the pinwheel strips.
Here’s just a few of the double pinwheel blocks. 6 done and 152 to go. They make me smile.
Webb Baby Quilt.
July 23, 2009
One of the fun things about being at the Well is we get to be friends with lots of young families. So, I get to make lots of baby quilts. I almost always make “Yellow Brick Road” I made this one using some of the new beach fabrics and some brights. It was fun to do and I can’t wait until baby boy Webb comes into the world and gets to use it.
Pungkin Peers.
July 23, 2009
Here’s the new Halloween faric that we recently got in. Marie and Sami made a great little wall hanging using the split rail pattern and the panel as a focus fabric. Pumpkin Man is a class that we are having on September 26th. Just in time for a fun decoration for your festivities.
Here’s a close up of the Studio e fabric, “Pungkin Peers.” It is a really adorable, fun and bright line of fabric.
Christmas Mystery Quilt.
June 18, 2009
I got all of the Christmas Mystery Quilt Kits cut out today. I did finish off one bolt of fabric, making up all the kits. There is a sneak peak of some of the fabrics that are in the quilt in the box. I really like the way that the quilt turned out and am looking forward to Christmas in July to get them out.
Ruby Jude Childers.
May 28, 2009
Our friends the Childers had a beautiful baby girl on Tuesday. I had picked the black and white fabric for the quilt as they are a hip contemporary couple. I decided that depending on the gender of the baby, the “sparkle” border would be either hot pink or blue. Well, when I found out the baby was a girl, I decided it really needed a red border. Then I found out her name is Ruby, that made it even more perfect. Anyway, congrats Sarah and Wes, Ruby is perfect. I hope you get lots of snuggle time with Ruby and her quilt.
Here is the Windham’s Gathered Over Time collection. There are 39 bolts of great red, white and blue civil war reproduction prints. I am excited to have some more Civil War prints in the shope. 
