A Whole Lotta Stuff

Last week was incredibly busy.  In addition to all the usual stuff I had to do, I helped take down two quilt shows, helped tie the community quilt, attended  the piecing group thing on Thursday (2011 BOM), and drove to Monroe on Friday to be part of a quilt workshop.  Phew...and that was just the quilty stuff.  Consequently, my design wall looks the same today as it did last week except for the addition of the star I didn't finish on Friday.

These are some more of the Lemoyne-based blocks from my February presentation for the 2011 BOM group.

These are the blocks for this month.  Mine is the one with the navy background.  This block is called "Enigma Star."

This is the fabric we used for the sashing and the perle cotton we used to tie the community quilt (you can read more about that here)

Here we are working on the quilt.  That's me behind the camera. :~D

We finished tying the quilt and Susan Young is going to do the binding.  She promised to let me photograph it when it's finished.

And this weekend, spring seems to have sprung (finally) here in Wisconsin.  These are some tulips that came with the house when we bought it.  They're always the first thing to bloom.




And there's a bud in the only hyacinth I could find in the garden.  I did find a lot of dandelions, though.

To see more design walls, click here to go to Judy's blog.

Finished Top for Handmade Meaning Project

I stopped into Stitcher's Crossing last weekend and took a photo of the finished top.  Sorry about cutting off the bottom in my pic.

For more information on this project click here.

Handmade Meaning in Wisconsin

Last week I was delighted to assist in the Community Embroidery Project.  This was an opportunity for people to put their own contemporary spin on traditional redwork.  I didn't make a square, but I helped with the assembly.









Packets were distributed to the community and the resulting embroidered squares were gathered together last week at Stitcher's Crossing for assembly into a quilt which will then be bound and tied.

Under the able direction of Susan Young, we spent the day squaring up the squares and sewing them together with red sashing.  I had to leave before it was finished, but I will post a picture of the completed project when it is available.

We chose this red fabric for sashing because it really made each individual embroidered square sing.

Here are the rows with their sashing.  For more information on this project -- check the blog here.  

For Monday - More Clues!

I know I haven't posted anything in a week, but I have been very busy.  First, here is my design wall for today.  To see more design walls, click here for Judy's blog.

Yes, those are snow dyes done specifically for this project.  And the blocks on the left are the ones I have done so far for my 2011 BOM club. And under the blocks are some scraps from my Palette Challenge -- those bits might have something to do with the snow-dyes.

And a little more of something from last week.  I will say now (clue, clue, clue!) that this is a separate project -- I'll be talking about this some more later this week (I hope).

And something new that might be a clue for the stuff from last week.  This needs its own post -- it's another from the robbing the kitchen/stealing from the pantry series.

This is one of the reasons I have been too busy to post.  I want this to be in a show that is coming up fast.

And another of the reasons I haven't posted.  This is a whole project I got to help with.  I'll post more on this later this week (again -- I hope).

And I should apologize to all of the people to whom I owe emails -- I'll catch up.  I promise.