Quilt Show in Oak Glen

There's a small group of ladies who are associated with the Oak Glen School, an old rock building that sits up at Oak Glen and has been turned into a museum. In addition to serving as docents for the museum, they are involved in fund raising to support the museum. They are also quilters. A couple of weeks ago they held a quilt show, and Don and I decided to go check it out.

 I was drawn to the above quilt because of the hand quilting. I have never been able to wrap my brain around hand quilting and the time and patience it takes to do large quilts. This one is exquisite. It's by Alice Garner.

 This one is a sample quilt, called "Grandpa's Friendship Quilt, 1890-1902."

 I liked all the appliqué on this one, which was made by Vicki Hughes.

This sampler quilt was made by Gloria McKeehan.

There were many other quilts on display, but these were the ones that caught my eye.

Boomerang 6.0 Set 3

This is the next set of boomerang blocks sent home to their owners.

Sunlight & Shadows for Donna A

Pieced Star for Jennifer B

Castles in Spain for Judy B

Water Wheel for Donna B

July Fourth for Lisa L

Wheels for Gwen A

Anvil for Lori M

Road to Oklahoma for Mary C

Ruins of Jericho for Sue S

Album Block for Joan B

Modern Monday and Traditional Tuesday, Blocks 4

While my Traditional Tuesday churn dash looks a lot like Jenifer's, the one for Modern Monday has thicker gray sides.  But it still looks nice and wonky, so I'm satisfied.

Log Cabins for Jo's Crumb Along

For this step of the Crumb Along, Jo asked us to make log cabins. I went through my crumbs, sorting for color, and had enough to make one in each of four colors. These will go, as Jo suggested, at the corners of the quilt.

Bloggers' BOM Quilt Along - 1

Jackie at Canton Village Quilt Works is hosting a Bloggers' Block of the Month Quilt Along, where a different blogger shares a block each month.   This month's blogger was Sherri of A Quilting Life.  Her block is a modified Road to Oklahoma - I'm sure there's a name for it, but this was all I could locate that was similar.  The bloggers in the Quilt Along are using Kafe Fassett fabrics - beautiful bright colors - but (as usual) I'm going to do mine with the scraps I have on hand. For this one I just reached into my basket of 3" squares and added some white. Easy peasy. It'll be a long wait 'til the next one comes out - they're released on the 25th of each month. (It's not too late to join in the fun!)

Boomerang 6.0 Set 2

In this round of Boomerang, it seems more swappers sent their fat 8ths out when they were supposed to. I have already finished about 3/4 of the blocks. This time I found myself using the remainders of some people's fabric on other people's blocks - there were several that just seemed to go together. I found a new site to get some block ideas: Delaware Quilts.

Silent Star, AKA Kansas City Star, for Florence M

Prairie Queen for Kathy S

Hayes Corner for Kathy N

Louisiana for Kristin G

Nelson's Victory for Peggy R

Square in a Square in a Square - special request by Kris D. She'll be using these in a Linus Quilt.

Sawtooth for Linda M

Red Cross Variation for Misty C

Ohio Star for Joan L

Hunter Star for Mallorie A

Catching up with Traditional Tuesdays

As with Modern Mondays, Jenifer gives us a different block on Tuesdays. These are traditional. I decided to do mine "scrappy," to continue my efforts to use my scraps.

Block 1: Crossroads

Block 2: Log Cabin

Block 3: Rail Fence

Catching up with Modern Mondays

Jenifer, at Forty-Two Quilts, is doing two quilt-alongs each week.  The first is Modern Mondays. Each Monday she gives us the instructions for a "modern" block.  Since I'm really enjoying my foray into liberated quilting, I decided to do this one. 

The colors Jenifer has chosen are orange, gray, and white, and I have a good collection of fabrics I think will be perfect.  She's already done three weeks (week 4 is tomorrow), so I figured I'd better get caught up.

Block 1: Crossroads

Block 2: Log Cabin

Block 3: Rail Fence

Boomerang 6.0 Set 1

We started a new round of Boomerang on the Quilters' Message Board. For my readers who don't know what this is, I send out a Fat 8th to 35 different quilters, who use it, along with some of their stash, to make a block and send it back to me.  In turn, I receive 35 different Fat 8ths, and make blocks to send back to them.  Below are the first "grownup" blocks that are going back to their owners.

Star of Hope for Sue G

Contrary Wife for Jami P

Practical Orchard for Donna S

Practical Orchard for Lisa T

Swing in the Center for Mindy H

Sunlight & Shadows for Barbara M

Sawtooth Star for Judy B

Formal Garden for Marcia S

Millstone for Sarah L

Sunlight & Shadows for Donna M

Old Windmill for Linda H

Blocks and more blocks

I thought I'd do a post about some of the blocks I've made lately, as I continue to have a good time going through my stash and using as much of it as I can. I joined the Yahoo group Stashbuster, where the focus is on not buying more fabric, but using your stash. I clearly fail at the first part, as I even bought more fabric today, but I think I do a good job of making things out of my stash.  I like to use as much of my fabric as possible - anything larger than 3/4" square gets used.

These are 10.5" blocks made from strings. I started with 5.5" squares of phone book pages, sewed the strings (alternating between light and dark) at a diagonal, trimmed up the squares, and sewed them together in groups of 4 to make the 10.5" blocks. This stack has 57 large blocks in it, from 228 smaller ones.  I keep my strings in photo storage boxes (the ones that are the size of large shoeboxes) - and those boxes are overflowing again. So I need to make more string blocks, wonky log cabins, and crumb blocks!

I wrote about these in a previous post.  I've gone through my scraps, and used the solids or tone-on-tones to make up a bunch of what I call "kits," and then use them for the bases of these stars. I have a basket of 3" squares along with other scraps that make up the star centers and points, and I assemble these while using them as leaders and enders.  The above picture has 40 stars in it already, and I made 3 more just today while working on a couple of blocks for Boomerang.  I've got these planned for two  "mish  mash" quilts - one is for Jo's Crumb Along,  and the other is a medallion quilt I started based on ideas from Bumblebeans 15 Minutes Play.

These are some assorted blocks I've collected using up even more scraps. The Shoo Flys were made using up a bunch of leftover HST squares and some 4- and 9-patches I'm using for the centers.  They, too, are now set up in "kits," so more of them will be on the way as I continue with other projects.

More spare blocks, most likely destined for the two mish mash quilts.

This is a basket of 280 9-patch blocks. For a long time I was using 1.5" squares as leaders and enders, sewing them into 9-patches.  Every time I made 10, I'd pin them together and throw them in the basket. I guess that's enough for a quilt. I haven't decided how to do them - sashing or not, alternating with solid blocks, etc.  I welcome any and all ideas!  Half of them have light corners, and half have dark corners.

Tonight I have a meeting at our local community center - the main purpose is to discuss how to continue using the center and raise money to keep it open. I'm on the agenda to propose a quilting class making all the stuff above.  There are so many classes at the local shops about traditional projects, and some of my guild members have expressed an interest in learning how to use up their stash doing some of the things I do.  I'll report later how that proposal goes.

A heck of a week

I'm so glad this week is over.
1. Sunday night I was awakened by severe pain in my lower right abdomen. It hurt any time I moved. By Tuesday it had migrated to my hip. I was pain free while lying or sitting down, in excruciating pain when I stood up, and then after walking 10-15 steps, the pain would go away. I went to the doctor on Wednesday, had my hip X-rayed, and got a tentative guess that it could be a bone spur. I was told to continue my water aerobics, so I did.
2. I took my daughter to a check-up at UC Irvine, where she learned some scary news. She had to go back the next day to see a different physician, and is now scheduled for two procedures next week, one of which will be under general anesthesia. The fear is that her initial diagnosis (6 years ago) of ulcerative colitis was incorrect and she actually has Crohn's Disease.
3. Don ran over a giant log in Lee Vining 2 weeks ago and ruined the spoiler underneath the front of his truck. He got that replaced this week, and it wasn't cheap.
4. Our daughter's truck needed to have its transmission replaced. We dropped it off on Wednesday, and picked it up Friday afternoon. $3K. Ouch.

I DID have a wonderful quilt guild meeting on Friday, and this afternoon my hip quit hurting. Texas Tech defeated Kansas this morning. So the week has ended with a couple of nice things.

I spent today at the sewing machine, except for a quick trip over to Oak Glen to see a small quilt show. That will be a separate post on Just One More Stitch. Dinner was Pioneer Woman's Cajun Chicken Pasta--and it was wonderful.



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