November 18th Baby and Quilt Celebrations!

Wow!  What an evening!

First we celebrated the arrival of Jericho Konrad Peterson, who was born on September 23 to Kersten and David Peterson. The group of us contributed blocks for a string quilt in '30's reproduction fabrics.  We presented it to Kersten last night, and got to meet Jericho, too!  Thanks for bringing him, Kersten and David!

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Marylu brought a quilt for which she bought the top.  She has wanted a Snail's Trail quilt and thought this was a good way to get one!

Isn't the back amazing, too?

Beautiful, Marylu!

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Joyce has been really busy!  Not only has she worked on the three quilts for her sons-in-law, she has made this amazing airplane quilt for one grandson and is doing a second one for another grandson!

Isn't it wonderful?

What a fun one, Joyce!

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Then Breigh, Joan's granddaughter, shared her very first four-patch!

Great job, Breigh!

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Theresa brought her 50th birthday quilt to show.  Isn't is just amazing?  She told us about the challenges of getting multiple-sized blocks to work in one quilt top.  She has done a fabulous job!

What a treasure, Theresa!

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Barb brought two really fun ones.  First, her pumpkin quilt.  The colors are so good.

Isn't it wonderful?

And she brought her "tiny" nine-patch.  Each tiny square is 1/2", and each block is 1 1/2".  Such splendid detail.

Beautiful, Barb!

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Then Jessie shared two of her recently finished quilts.  The first is the fourth and last quilt made for Edna Fund's grandchildren.  Made with a combination of batiks and quilter's cottons, she found it challenging using different weight cloth.  I think the result is rather nice though!  The dolphin is wonderful and the quilting Barb did is splendid again!

The second is a baby quilt for her cousin's 2nd baby, and sports a lamb in the middle.

Lovely job on both, Jessie!

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Happy Quilting!!

November 4th Quilt Celebrations!

We had some treats last night.  And I don't mean the cookies and eclairs!

Jessie brought two of the four quilts she is making for Edna Fund's grandchildren.  When Edna was at our quilt show, she asked Jessie if she would be willing to make them for this Christmas, and Jessie has been steadily working on them.

The first is for the youngest, Jaymin.  He has Downs, and this is a letters and numbers quilt to help him is those areas.  The front was a panel that Jessie cut apart and shadow framed each block.  The back is made of blocks from previous ideas for the quilt.  Barb did a wonderful job of quilting it with hand prints, waves and stars.

The second is for the oldest, Amanda.  Her favorite color is teal and her favorite animal an owl.  Jessie used the "Whirl-a-Jig" pattern idea from Connecting Threads.  Barb did the quilting and did a fantastic job of getting the motion Jessie wanted for the pinwheels.  AND the detail she used for the owl is amazing.  Feathers, a branch and leaves!

Both look wonderful, Jessie!

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Geralyn brought her basket quilt and, oh my, what a beauty.

She said it is a compilation of 3 patterns and uses some really cool techniques, some challenging and time consuming.  But look at the results!

Absolutely beautiful, Geralyn!

Happy Quilting!

October 21st Quilt Celebrations!

Okay, I think I'm officially as behind as I've ever been on posting a celebration!  I'm sorry for that.

On the 21st, we had two wonderful quilts to celebrate, one of which we've kind of done before.  But it's a good one to re-celebrate!

So, first off, Annie and Connie brought the Double Irish chain they've been making for a woman who loved Connie's own blue and white Irish Chain so much at Connie's bed-turning at our quilt show, that she wanted to buy it.  "Well, no," says Connie, "it's my Honey's."  So the gal paid them to make one for her instead.  And this is it.

Isn't it fabulous?!?  And Barb quilted it and isn't that fabulous?!?

I like it so well, I think I'll be making something similar!

Beautiful work, ladies. All of you!

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Then Virginia's quilt made a reappearance.  Geralyn brought it in to show us the completed project, replete with labels and pockets on the back for all the documentation of who worked on it.  And they are positioned upside down (from normal) so that when Charlie shows people the back, he doesn't have to twist it around, just turn it up!

Thanks for bringing it in, Geralyn.

It is such a beauty.  The detail is amazing.

Happy Quilting!