Great Big Thank-Yous!

I am so indebted to Deb H , Judy , Linda J , and Jeanne for their help and patience in showing me the ropes on blogging!!! Their directions were so much easier to follow than the Blogger help. Oh, and I do have more questions but won't bug them for awhile!!!

Just A Little More Folk Art...

Just a couple more folk art pix......Oak Leaf, pattern from Pat Sloan's Brambleberry book (love her patterns and her online group) and block 4 from Birds of a Feather (KC Star BOM from the Blackbird gals). Still need to stitch in some bird legs---maybe tomorrow.
Today I WILL practice linking!!! I WILL practice linking. I WILL practice linking. My brain is still a little fried from the last two days LOL.

Whew!!

Two days of quilt show volunteering have left me pooped LOL! I love our guild's show but am always glad it comes but once a year. Our attendance was down. We really need to find a better location, someplace in the midst of other activities. We are definitely looking for a better spot for next year. My class with Deana Hartman, area professional art quilter, was wonderful. She is a delight, well-prepared, a great "pacer", and so-o-o incredibly talented. I have decided not to post photos of her work because I didn't think to ask her permission to put it on the internet. She does have a website that can be googled. Photos are three quilts that I put in the show this year Sweet Land of Liberty (a Blackbird KC Star BOM from couple of years ago entitled Women of Grace and Charm) , Sweet Potato Pie (a Turning Twenty quickie) and Savannah (a result of a pink and brown 9-patch swap with my online group). Today I will work on learning how to link to other blogsites, using the wonderful info sent to me by some generous fellow-bloggers. I will , once this skill is learned, link to them!!!

Yo Yo Diet

Inspired by Jeanne's photo of her yo-yos on her blog (sorry, I STILL don't know how to do links!!), I am posting a photo of a vintage yo yo coverlet from my collection. Most likely from the 30s, it is another "cheery" quilt. I love to make yo yos as they are fairly mindless work to do in front of the TV, but can't imagine making enough--then handwhipping them together--to make anything large enough for a bed!!! Yo yos and hexies are some of my favorite handwork.

New computer arrived yesterday late afternoon--hurray! I will not be able to get it all setup till Friday evening. Today is quilt show setup day, plus a bit of shopping at the mall to search for khakis that actually FIT! I think something is shrinking my clothes while they are hanging in the closet!!!! Tomorrow is the first day of the quilt show so I'll spend several hours working/shopping the vendors there tomorrow. Then Saturday I'm taking a 4 hour class from our featured quilter, Deana Hartmann, who makes beautiful art quilts--can't wait. I am also responsible for counting Peoples Choice ballots so will be there most of the day.

I am hoping that the new computer will help me to post better photos. It will have some media stuff that I don't have now. Wish me luck on the pants search!

Hexies From the Past

So many beautiful hexagon patterns have been posted on various blogs lately that I decided to post a couple of photos of two quilts from my collection. The bottom one dates to the late 19th century and is a mosaic style. I purchased it from an antique dealer many years ago and never tire of it. The fabrics are so great and I love how the maker made almost a concentric ring of hexagons. It currently hangs folded on a rod in my living room.

The top one is one of my all-time favorite quilts. It, too, came from an antique dealer several years ago. It is one of the cheeriest quilts I own. It is a Grandmother's Flower Garden. I often wonder about the maker and how she developed such a keen sense of color. The antique dealer thought the fabrics dated to the 1930s. Perhaps these bright colors brought smiles during the Depression. I have it on my dining room table for a while--just so I can look at it every day.

I recently bought a package of teflon hexagons to make some new hexies in contemporary colors. You run a basting stitch around the fabric which is cut 1/4" larger than the template, pull the thread tight, then press with a hot dry iron. You remove the template before using the hexagon. I like that idea of not having paper to remove later.

Today is one of those "hurry up and wait" kind of days. The TV repairman is due any minute and my new computer is scheduled to arrive sometime today. Think I'll ready some of those hexagons for a hand project....better than twiddling my thumbs!