Let's work on finishing some projects!

I hosted UFO Saturday last weekend and you can see that there was lots of sewing going on....plus a little chatting and laughter!

Dianne and Jane were working on their Cobblestone Path quilts....lots of vibrant colors for both.

Brenda was working on blocks for a local quilt shop's monthly challenge. She was whipping those out like crazy!

Laura worked on some 4 patch mug rugs for gifts for friends. She got a lot done as well.

Barb worked on her Ruby Shadow quilt pieces. She didn't get anymore blocks finished, but she got all of the hst and hourglass sections made so she is ready to start making blocks again. I can't wait to see this beauty finished.

Jane got all of her Cobblestone Path quilt sewn together. It just sparkles, doesn't it?

Lots of class lovelies!

Part of the fun of teaching classes is when someone brings in a finished top to show. George finished his Carpenter Wheel Spin Sampler and showed me pix of it at the quilt show last weekend. (He also emailed it to me!) I love the richness of the colors and his piecing is wonderful.

I have been meeting with an old friend, Kate, for the past few weeks. She wanted to learn how to make a quilt and was here on vacation, so she started with the Cobblestone Path a few weeks ago.  Last week we met to layer, pin and tie it.....

and Monday night she learned how to make and apply her binding. I love the vibrant colors and she is thrilled to be off on her quilting adventures. She is going to Italy soon for work and is already excited that she knows where to find fabric there.

The Ribbon Quartz Sampler club made a pp Crossed Canoes block during class this week. Paper piecing is usually a learning process for most but they did a great job. Deb's quilt is so sunny!

Marilyn had finished her large setting half square triangles, so we had fun placing them on the design wall with the blocks. Laura had been on vacation, and didn't have her blocks with her so she worked on a different quilt.

Tuesday night's Sunbonnet Sue Sampler club made the Lover's Knot block as well as getting the directions to start cutting and adding the sashings.

Marsha's happy block

This group has a great variety of color in their individual fabic choices. That always makes seeing the final quilts really interesting.

Kathy's rich reds and purples

Shirley's bright and playful florals

Nancy's happy blues and greens

Sunny 30s prints

Debbie's soft pastels

Deb's luscious earth tones

Deb finished her block in time to cut and start attaching her sashings.

It's been a busy week of classes and I have my Bookfair going on at school right now too. So part of each day I have the library open for book checkouts and part of each day I have just the Bookfair open for student purchases. It's been going well and tonight is the Family Bingo Night with the Bookfair open as well.

Voting is still open for viewer's choice at SewCalGal's Red and White Challenge: Show IT a virtual quilt show featuring red and white quilts that quilters designed and made. Go take a look at the eye candy! To vote, you put your curser over the quilt link you like, and click on the gray heart. When it turns red, you have voted!

Tess is really finished!

It wasn't hard to decide what to use as a binding on this quilt. I thought the black and white checks that I used in the center of the blocks would be perfect so I tried it and...I loved it. I made the binding a few weeks ago, but didn't get a chance to put it on until yesterday.

I got the label sewn on too, so it's officially finished!

 If you see any dust bunnies just remember they are part of the process!

I made a bunch of labels awhile back and have been busy putting them on. Here's the one for my niece and her husband's wedding gift. What do you put on your labels? Do you hand print? print from your computer? 

Amber and Matt's Stained Glass quilt

 I just realized that I didn't take a good finish pic of this quilt. Hate when I do that!

 My nephew and his wife's label on their quilt.

 I sewed on two more labels last night. I'm on a roll!

Josh and Julie's Cobblestone Path quilt

Wedding fun!

 My niece Amber got married on Saturday...what a fun day! I've seen many pix of the bride and groom, but this is one of my favorites! I got up there in time to help lace them all into their dresses. They were so beautiful.

 The wedding took place in my hometown of Earling IA. They are in the process of tearing down the elementary school where I went to school. They consolidated the parochial elementaries many years ago and haven't used it as a school for a long time. The decision was made to take it down as they didn't have a use for it and it's too expensive to keep up.

 Back to the wedding! Here was the cutest part of the wedding ceremony....my two great nephews pulling a baby flower girl down the aisle in a wagon. She was seat belted in and fell asleep waiting to go down the aisle.

 They needed a little help keeping it straight, but they made it!

 At one point, this sweet little guy stopped the wagon and reached over and patted the baby on the head. It was so cute!

 She woke up when they got up front and was happy to see her daddy!

 The bride and groom opened their gifts yesterday and sent me these pix with my wedding gift to them. I think they like it!

My nephew Josh got married on Memorial weekend....and I didn't have their quilt finished. As you know, it's been finished for awhile now and I took it along to the wedding to give it to them. They loved it! I am so happy for both of these couples that they have these wonderful people to spend their lives with!

Stepping along the path....

Someone likes polka dots! We had so much fun during Saturday's Cobblestone Path class, pairing up fabrics to make colorful blocks. This easy but fun block makes a very scrappy quilt. Laura has been cutting kits for quilts to work on during her upcoming vacation...she is going away to sew, sew, sew. This is one of the kits she is taking. We will all be looking forward to her return with many lovely finishes!

Kate is a beginner who contacted me a week or so ago about learning to quilt. She is an old friend that I hadn't seen in years, was in town for a month and wanted to get started. I told her about this quilt class coming up, and she was interested. So I met with her last Monday night to teach her the basics of quilting and using a rotary cutter. She chose these graphic prints and had them all precut before class as per instructed. She was getting a bit creative with her block construction by the end of class, feeling more confident about what she was doing. She is making a small lap quilt with the hope that we will get it finished before she goes home.

Dianne dug through her large collection of prints (she loves florals!) to come up with these colorful blocks. It's like a trip through the garden!

Jane and I have an affinity for batiks, so I enjoyed looking at her collection of strips made into blocks. She has some of the same ones I have collected over the years. She found one that was the same as I had used. She said on Sat. that she was going to make a throw, but I heard from her last night and she is addicted now! She had made up all that she had cut and was cutting more to make more blocks. Maybe a queen size after all!

My Cobblestone Path, soon to go to a new home.

I have Sampler clubs tonight and tomorrow night as well as a committee meeting for the CB Quilt Show tomorrow night...it's getting closer! Oct. 11 is right around the corner, so if you live in our area, mark your calendars and plan on stopping in! We will be finalizing our plans and going to the hall to decide how we want to arrange the show at this meeting. I am doing a demo, so I need to work on my demo models sometime soon.

I have been asked to do the Around the World Blog Tour, so look for my post tomorrow.
Happy Monday!

A quilting finish and a start!

 We won't talk about how long this queen size quilt was on the machine, but Cobblestone Path is now quilted! I finished it the other day.

 These pictures don't really do it justice, the colors are so vibrant!

 I made this a few years ago, just had never quilted it.

 I used a variegated gold thread on the top and gold on the back and the Leafage panto. The backing is more green than this, but it's the best picture I have right now. I made the multicolored binding when I made the top using lots of the leftovers from the quilt, so it's ready to go! I hope to get it bound today.

 I got the Ruby Shadow quilt backing prepped and loaded it yesterday. It's twin size and is going a little faster than Cobblestone Path did...it's almost finished. It makes a difference when I'm actually able to spend most of a day quilting.

 The backing is a red floral so I think the white quilting will look awesome.

I'm off to sew with friends today and then start a new Sampler class tonight, so it will be a very quilty day! Happy Tuesday!