Umpqua Valley Guild Quilt Show

 Minimal (none) sewing occurred this past week. I did get quilt backs made (ironed the fabric) for the two sunflower wall hangings. I'm hoping to get both quilted this week.

JoAnne and I went to the Umpqua Valley quilt show in Roseburg on Friday. Small show but lots of vendors and great quilts. Here are some of my favorites.

What the hey? Blogger loaded the pictures in reverse order.

Bought a bag of scraps at the guild sale. This runner was in the bag.

Loved the quilting on this quilt

The quilter put a difference quilt design around each star.

Here's the whole quilt. I talked to her for a bit (can't believe I didn't get her name). The quilt was all paper pieced. It was my favorite at the show.

This was for Angela who loves blue. No, the picture is not blurry. For some reason that quilt hurt my eyes.

Thought the applique was so striking against the black background.

Really liked how the quilter carried the flower design into the snowball blocks.

Love scrappy quilts!

There were lots of cute minis and wall hangings.

Buttons!

I think I have this pattern. Nope, the quilter who made it also designed it.

So cheerful!

Loved the rickrack and button flange.

Whole quilt was very cute.

Another Busy Week

 Lots of appointments, house cleaner, Quilts for Kids meeting and family so not much sewing done.

I did get the binding on the purple quilt.

And while the house cleaner was here I loaded and start this little quilt.

There were some bad words said in the middle of this quilt when my Moxie stopped working. After banging it with a hammer it decided to behave, and I was able to finish it. Both of the above were tops donated to the Q4K group.

At the meeting I picked up four more tops to be quilted.

I think all the tops were donated by the same unknown person. All were a lot of work. There were three others that someone else in the group took to finish.

I did get the borders added to the sunflower wall hanging.

I don't have enough of the background or border fabric to make another full size wall hanging but I think I do have enough to make a mini version. I need to finish up a few things before I even think about starting that.

My niece and her family stayed the weekend with Mom and I. My living room looked like ... I don't have words, all the furniture was moved so two queen sized air bed could to slept on with blankets and pillows everywhere. It was lots of fun having them here.

This is the cake my niece made and the "kids" (ages 16 to 23) decorated.

Busy

 Last week was busy with lots of appointments. This week is going to be just as busy.

Sooooo...not much sewing was done.

I made some progress on the sunflower wall hanging. Best part, no new drama.

I also finished quilting the purple donation quilt, but it's not trimmed yet so no picture.

Some Days...

 ... you're better off staying in bed.

I swear I've screwed up so many times on my Wind Drifter quilt and on the new sunflower wall hanging that I have seriously thought about chucking both into the bin and taking up a new hobby. Thank goodness I have lot of extra fabric as I have cut and sewed both with lots of errors that Jack could not solve. Sigh.

I did make progress on both.

Wind Drifter. My design wall is not big enough to lay it all out. It's enough for me to determine how to sew the next sections together.

The sunflower wall hanging. Took the picture late last night so it's a little dark. I'm not going to make it as long as the original pattern. Part of me thinks I should have made the sunflower scrappier and the other part of me is saying shut up. This is going to be a gift, I'm tempted to make another one for me.

I got a back made, the quilt loaded and partially quilted.

This is another quilt top that was donated to Quilts for Kids. I'm meandering all around it.

Here are some before and after pictures from the building they are do across the street from me.

Before (screen shot from Google maps)...in there is the house that had two trees fall on it.

After... my house is on the left in the middle of the picture.

Before (screen shot from Google maps). From my mail box across to where most of the houses will be built.

After...well not really after, they have a lot more work to do. 

Done and More Squirrels

 MY TAXES ARE DONE!!! Life doesn't get more exciting than that.

At least for me, we had a really bad wind storm yesterday, and we've had record rainfalls...

My neighbor across the street has had a little more excitement. That white tarp is covering their roof where a tree fell over it. Unfortunately, they had another tree fall on the back side of the house. I haven't been able to see how much damage that cause.

I tried to insert a video here, not working. A developer is getting ready to build 32 new home across the street from me. I don't know if their excavations and tree removal contributed to the downed trees or not. The video I tried to include showed one of the six very large pine trees that were taken down this morning. Makes me very sad to see.

On the quilting front I finished quilting the ark panel and attached the binding.

The back is one of the scrap flannel backs I made a few weeks ago.

The new squirrel? A friend asked me a few years ago to make her a sunflower wall hanging. I've shown the finished panel in a past post but I've never quilted it...don't really like it.  While I was going through all my magazine I found this pattern.

And the fabrics in my stash. I really like this and already have ideas on how to quilt it. I'm hoping to get it cut out this week.

Hello Spring

 I know, Spring started last week, but today is the first day that it has felt like Spring here. I saw my first very fat doe for the year today. Tomorrow is supposed to be a record breaking 83 degrees...then rain for the week. Yup, it's Spring.

I finally got my background fabric cut.

And yes, I messed up on the cutting again. Luckily it all worked out.

I loaded and got the ark panel about half quilted.

I stopped because my frankenbat was coming apart. I used some of my basting glue to fix it. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it tomorrow.

A new clue for the Civil War mini was released Friday. This Friday will be the last row and the finishing instructions.

Bella likes to sleep in her cave during the Winter months. That girl can snore!

I was going to silently "forget" about showing the quilted little basket mini. 

Not happy with it. I really need to practice my long arm feathers more. I also got impatience with quilting the background. It probably wouldn't look as haphazard if I had micro stitch under the basket instead of the whatever that is.

I have been going through all of my magazines (I can't believe I moved all of these). I'm almost done.

 

All of these, plus more, are going to the guild free table over the next couple of meeting. If a magazine had three or more patterns that I liked, I kept it. If it only had one or two, I tore the pattern out...don't you hate people that do that. ;o)

Project Quilting 16.6

It's been a busy week; I wasn't sure if I'd be able to participate in the last challenge: Button it up.  I decided to keep it really simple. 

I decided to make a pouch kit I won years ago. I'm trying to remember if I've ever made a pouch before. The pattern is Zippy Strippy by Atkinson Design. The kit didn't have enough of the contrast fabric - only enough for the lining. The fabric shown is from my stash. The kit had two buttons, but I decided the blue one was kinda blah and layered up the yellow button.

Check out Project Quilting Button It Up, there are some wonderful creative submissions.