Pictures from a couple of classes.
August 15, 2009
I didn’t get a picture of the ladies, but the postcard class was a lot of fun. There were two ladies in the class and Margaret was the teacher and they spread out on EVERY table. It cracked me up. Shawntel said that when she was leaving the house her husband asked if she was going on a three day retreat and she said “nope a three hour class”! That cracked us all up.
The ladies working away in the “one block wonder” class. They were a little quiter than the postcard class, but still lots of fun and they got lots of block finished. It was fun to see how the different fabrics took on such a different and beautiful design.
One of the fun things about owning a quilt shop.
August 14, 2009
Working in and owning a quilt shop we occasionally have people come in carrying a quilt in their hands and wanting to try to find out some history about the pattern or the fabrics. Anyway, the other day an older gentleman and his wife came in carrying this quilt. His mother made the quilt and he was going to send it to his son, but he was wanting the name of the pattern to send with it. I did not know, but thought it might be a variation of the dunkard’s path. The good news is I know a quilt history buff. Siobhan came into the shop and I showed her the picture. And here is her response:
Hi Kathy!
I went home and immediately dug into my geek-y pile of quilt history books….I was half right on the name – “Mohawk Trail” is the name most often used though it also goes under several other names like “Chinese Fans.” It was a very popular pattern in the 1930 with several posted in the Quilt Alliance Quilt index (lists most major museum collections.) The pattern was in several magazines and newspapers during the 1930’s. The pattern in the Kansas City Star has the fans piece then pieced in to the curve background like drunkards path.
Looks like his quilt is in nice condition. It would be great if he could put a label on it with his grandmother’s name, where she lived, and the type of quilt so the history doesn’t get lost…
BTW…At this year’s NQA show in the Scrap Quilt category a Modern Mohawk Trail Quilt took third place (nothing to sneeze at!)
Siobhan
The quilt was lovely and when I called the him to tell him what Siobhan had said he was THRILLED. He said he remembered his mother talking about Mohawk Trail and so excited to have this information.
Cool huh?
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.
Four quilts down twelve to go.
August 10, 2009
A sweet baby quilt, quilted with a floral echo.
One of the many quilts Dell has brought me to finish for her. This one is one of her favorite ones. It was fun to quilt. I can’t wait until she picks it up I want to see her face. I think she will love it. 
This quilt was made by Linda as a donation quilt. It is a beautiful romantic quilt. I think it will appeal to lots of people.
The fourth one you will have to wait and see at a later date, it is a surprise.
Finished Christmas Mystery.
August 3, 2009
Here’s a look at the Christmas Mystery. Several of the ladies have their tops together. They are looking great!!!!
The Double Pinwheel that started it all.
July 31, 2009
This is the first quilt that Debbie and I quilted on the HQ. We really had no idea what we were doing, but knew that we needed to quilt a quilt. This was Debbie’s and it was just going to be h on her bed. So, we quilted it. We were white knuckled while we were quilting, and we quilted the snot out of it. I think that we used 10 bobbins….anyway, Debbie brought it down so I could look at it, because I really like it and wanted to check out the pattern she used because I knew it was different than the one in the book that I have. Well, it is lovely and several people offered to take it off her hands…but, she managed to make it back to Woodstock with it. It inspired me to keep going making lots of double pinwheel blocks….16 down hundreds to go.
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.
Serenity.
July 22, 2009
Jennifer made this beautiful hand appliqued wall hanging called serenity. She creatively chose Asian fabrics for this quilt. I tried to copy the beautiful swirls with the quilting.
The Quilts I quilted last Monday.
July 21, 2009
Linda made this quilt as a donation quilt for her to help raise money for her church.
Kind of hard to see, but here is a close up of the swirls on Linda’s quilt.
I got to quilt this lovely wall hanging that Denny made. It was fun to quilt in an all over floral echo.
Here’s the close up of the floral echo on Denny’s quilt,
