Thanksgiving

As we begin this week of celebration of family, I hope we all find time to realize how lucky we are. We live in a country where we are free to explore our imaginations and speak our minds. We are free to worship any religion we desire. Our rights are intact.

I am thankful for God and Jesus, my family, my friends, my country, my job, my home, and - of course - my fabric! Okay the fabric was a bit tongue in cheek but I am fortunate to have the stash I do.

My prayer for the week is that no one is alone or goes hungry on the day that we celebrate with the bounty of our harvest - whether literal or just the harvest of the paycheck allow us to buy what we don't grow.

I hope there is time in this busy week for you all to sew a few seams or at least to pet some fabric.

God bless you all and here's to straight seams and beautiful quilts!

Jo's Lil Women Group at Jo Jo's Quilt Shop

We had a great group yesterday at our Jo's Lil Women group at Jo Jo's Quilt Shop in Chesterfield, VA. Many creative things flying around. I hope you enjoy this slide show!

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Finish It - 11-09

This is my one week quilt. I started this last Friday night to demo a technique at the Scrap Therapy group. It captivated me so I worked on it during the Wayward Girls and finished the top on Sunday. Layered it Monday but didn't quilt it until Wednesday. Cut and bound on Thursday and just finished whipping the binding to the back! It is from a Fons and Porter 2000 magazine. The pattern is Buzz Saw. I really like this quilt! All of the fabrics with the exception of the background are Jo Morton and all leftovers from other projects. The background is from a 2006 Thimbleberries line. I hope you enjoy it!

And poor Maggie! She leads such a tough life! I don't think she could be any further spoiled!

If you note the quilt on the back of the love seat - yes, it is Nov 9th but my Halloween quilt is still out - and you look at my posting for Scrap Therapy and see Judi's table runner, you will see they are the same pattern but couldn't look different! I really like her prairie points on her version. The pattern came from Missouri Star Quilt Company.

Wayward Girls -1

The Wayward Girls met as well - except for one of us. We missed Carol but she was on a quilt retreat. Can't wait to see what she completed there.
Mary - the wondrous leader of the group - finished her General's Wives top. It is absolutely gorgeous!

I'm so grateful that she hosts us in her beautiful home. I thought you might like to see the decoration in her quilting space. This woman is amazing!

As I sit here catching up on my posts, I was thinking that I should be able to produce better work with all of the quilters around me who do such gorgeous work. Then I was thinking - someone has to make their work look better! Might as well be me! Don't get me wrong, I love my quilts - warts and all!

Scrap Therapy - Nov 3

We had such a good time at Scrap Therapy at Jo Jo's Quilt Shop. The meeting was a week early because of retreats and other wonderful interrupts. This is one talented group of ladies!
Our fearless leader is Judi and she is such an inspiration! This is her wool work - and I had to give you a close up of Santa with his bunny slippers!

Such fun! Then she made a table runner.

Then Barbara showed off! Another very talented woman! Her work, like Judi's, is impeccable. Absolutely amazing!

Isn't their work spectacular!?!

Finish It Up Friday

It's been a productive week! One of these quilts was finished last week but I didn't post it so I get to do that this week. This is Somerset - started sometime before this year but I don't remember when. It was part of a Jo Morton group.

Then I finished quilting my third Merry Mayhem #134. I really like this pattern and love this quilt!

This is another pre-2012 quilt. It's from a Strip Club at Jo Jo's Quilt Shop in Chesterfield, VA. I didn't do machine quilting and just never did get this to a long-arm person. Now that I'm quilting myself, I have a lot of tops to finish!

This is not quilted but I get to claim finished for the top! It is a Debbie Caffrey pattern. We selected this for a group project in our Scrap Therapy group at Jo Jo's Quilt Shop!

Sewing with Friends

I think the best part of quilting for me is sewing with friends. One group I sew with is the Happy Quilters of Chesterfield. I really enjoy the ladies and they are so inspiring! We met last Saturday but I didn't get many pictures. Here is a half-square triangle quilt by Anne

And here is a center from Barbara.

Tomorrow - the Wayward Girls get together -minus Carol. Carol is on retreat having a good time!