Quilt Exhibit in Indiana

Frugal & Fancy: Indiana Quilts
will be on display at the Indiana State Museum in downtown Indianapolis from through July 17, 2011.
It looks like a cool exhibit.

Till next time....Happy Quilting.

Red and White quilts

Here's a red and white quilt from the Great Lakes Quilt Center. Click here to find out more about this quilt made by Flushing, Michigan quilt maker and 2007 inductee into the Quilter's Hall of Fame, Mary Schafer.


And if you can't make it to New York for the big show, check out this video from the Quilt Show, very cool.



Till next time.....Happy Quilting.

Red and White Quilt Show

Taryn at the blog Repro Quilt Lover has a great idea. In celebration of Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts in NYC, she's organizing an online Red and White show. The idea is to post a red and white quilt from your collection (or maybe borrow a photo from a quilting friend) and post it. Then add the post to her site, Repro Quilt Lover. If you don't have a blog, you can send her a photo and she'll post it on her blog.

My addition to the show is this antique I bought at my guild about 5 years ago. The pattern is Melon Patch or Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.

The online show will end March 30 and Taryn even has prizes. So stop by her site and join the fun.

Till next time.....Happy Quilting.

The Passing of a Quilt Legend.

Jean Ray Laury passed away on March 1. She was a quilting pioneer and a really great lady. The Quilter's Hall of Fame has an excellent post about her. Check it out.
http://thequiltershalloffame.blogspot.com/2011/03/passing-of-jean-ray-laury.html
This is a close-up from her quilt, "Listen to Your Mother."

Till next time.....

Free Square in a Square Quilt Pattern

This is the block I'm using for this year's block exchange at Ruth's. It's very simple and gives a 3-D effect when many blocks are put together. I'm planning on a bed size quilt. You can find a free pattern on my new Free Pattern page or click here.

Now it's time to finish some chicken soup I started this morning, make a sweet potato casserole for tomorrow's block exchange potluck and make some tasty, healthy snacks for watching tonight's Oscars.

Till next time......happy quilting.

New look for the blog

I've been fiddling with my blog all day today. I wanted to add a page for free patterns where you could see the picture of the quilt or block. So far it's turning out pretty good. I had to get a new hard drive and four times more memory first. Now the computer is purring along and I can make these blog changes. Click on the tab above to check out my new page.

I'm also watching the Maltese Falcon and Bogart is sending Mary Astor to the gallows, so time to sign off and make Jambalya.

Till next time.....Happy Quilting

Esther's Blog: Applique by Freezer Paper

Esther's Blog: Applique by Freezer Paper

Check out Esther's Blog for a neat tutorial (scroll down to the little video).

Till next time....Happy Quilting.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

After a blizzard of hyperbole (from the TV news) and 10 hours of snowfall, here's a view of my house. You can see the specks of snow still falling. MSU called off classes yesterday and the MSU Museum closed, too, so a day off for me. I had an appointment for a check up at 9:15am and canceled since the neighborhood isn't plowed. As Tom pointed out, no sense getting into an accident on the way to the doctor (Well Doc, I was fine until about 15 minutes ago when I crashed into the snowbank).

I found another use for my quilting ruler. I went out at about 9am to take these photos and took the snow measurement with one of my rulers. So far 12.5 inches with maybe 4 more to come on my front lawn.

Tom made pancakes for lunch since LCC is closed too.

Last night I stopped for groceries on the way home. Meijer was packed. I haven't seen this many MSU students buying liquor and snacks since the blizzard of 1978. I heard a student on his cell phone making plans to go to a snowball fight with over 2000 in attendance.

So I think I'll work on Katy's chair cushions and mend Colleen's blue jeans today while watching soap operas and Bette Davis in "The Little Foxes."

If we get lots more snow I'll probably re-measure the front lawn.

Till next time.....Happy Quilting.

Rolling Stone Round Robin

Finally, another UFO done! This quilt was started before 1997. That was before I started working full time and I met once a month with the Outlaws. My contribution was the center Rolling Stone mini-blocks (everything before the coral and yellow checkered border). It was added on by Diedre Garlock, Debbi Brunner, Karen Mirras and Rhonda Anderson. I remember Debbi did the circles in Japanese fabrics, but I don't remember who else did what. Last fall pulled it out and practiced my machine, free-motion quilting. It turned out pretty good. I've gotten some more hints from Diane Gaudynski's blog, so the next machine quilting should get even better.

Now I'm working on red, black and white checked chair covers for Katy's Chicago kitchen.

Till next time...... Happy Quilting

Inspirational

Wow here's an inspiring quilter.



Till next time......Happy Quilting.

Arizona tragedy

Just a sad day. One of the victims of the Arizona shootings was Phyllis Schneck. She was a quilter. So sad. Read more about her here:
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_8fa84b49-2e3a-5267-9af8-a5809386e583.html

Brandon's Quilt

I can finally post a picture of the quilt my daughter made for her boyfriend for Christmas. She gave it to him Christmas Day so the cat's out of the bag. DD made nine patches out of 5" charm squares and appliqued cats on the bottom. I machine quilted it in strips, put on borders and bound it. It's a little larger than a twin bed size and I practiced many different machine quilting patterns. It came out pretty good. Now on to making my patterns for Ruth's Block Exchange.

Happy New Year and
Till next time....Happy Quilting.