Fun Day and Fun News!

Sandi and I made a trip to the Forsyth Quilter's Guild Show this past Friday. It was wonderful to see all the quilts and meet up with some blog friends. Carrie P., Cathi and myself; Sandi was our photographer. (Thanks Sandi!) We are all standing in Cathi's booth of gorgeous wool! I wanted it all but was good and just bought some black for now. Cathi does mail order too.

I'm sure Carrie will be blogging many of the tops so I will leave that task to her. However this was too funny for me not to share!

See that little block there in the middle? That's me!! I swapped blocks quite some time ago and hadn't done a thing with mine. I was walking through looking at quilts and even told Sandi, "Hey...I did a swap similiar to this one."

This swapper finished her quilt....and it was quite fun to see my name in it!

Cheryl Wall's new book is in production and will be released in June! Woo Hoo! I'm so excited because I was the lucky one who quilted many of the quilts in her book! You can take a sneak peek of the quilts at this link. Be sure to click on the little arrows below the book. Which is your favorite?

Ohio Star Quilt

Here's a few photos of a quilt I just took off the frame today. I thought you would really enjoy seeing this one. It seems all my photos turned when loading them onto the blog.

This Ohio Star quilt is only 30" x 30" finished.

Feeling The Warmth of Spring Time!!

I finally took the last stitch on the binding of my walking rabbit quilt top that Karen gifted me. I hope you can see that I also added rick rack trim under the binding along with some ladybug buttons in the grass, a bead on the eye and also button on his collar. My son said I should add an elbow patch. Karen had stitched all the wool work and I already had it quilted before my son's suggestion. I guess I could add the elbow patch now and it wouldn't matter on the back since it is a wall hanging. But done is done!

Our trees are in full bloom, the warmth in the air devine and I feel great! Woo Hoo!!

Already Friday? Where Have I Been?

I quilted this little top weeks ago in with a bunch of other small ones and finally got it bound. I missed Darlene and Cheryl's Christmas Through The Year for February and will submit this for March with (hopefully) some other finishes for gift giving.

I missed the date because I've been busy quilting others and then somewhat ill again. For those who follow me and remember my episode last July...something similiar again. I've been nursing myself and drinking ALOT of water.

I wanted to show the back of this little quilt and a very simple and inexpensive way to hang it. You can place a slim dowel rod under those corner flaps and then hang on one single hook or nail.

Gift or not, I had to model the latest finish around my home for fun. It is now safely tucked away in the gift giving box that Darlene and Cheryl suggested.

This is another sweet finish. Carol gifted me this tiny top ages ago. I finished the binding on it this week too. This little quilt is only 12" x 13" if that. I love chestnut quilting all over for fun texture.

I hate when photos turn but there it is. I wanted to share a photo of the tiny iron shoe that I've had for years. I don't know a thing about it besides its discovery when my parent's home was built way back and it was found in the dirt.

A nice surprise showed up in the mail this week. These are Marcie's latest patterns fresh from the printer! Aren't they wonderful? You can see more of her designs at Patchalot Patterns.

I spy a sweet giveaway at Carol's blog too so I'm spreading word. If you are interested in winning the book called, "Sonoma Rose" get on over there and tell her I sent ya!

Pinterest Thoughts

First I want to share some quilting I did for Carol awhile back. The backing has umbrellas. I mentioned to Carol that I had an umbrella edge-to-edge design and she said go for it. Carol has posted her quilt so I feel comfortable posting it now. The umbrellas are just darling.

I enjoy looking at quilt blogger's Pinterest pages. What a great way to "collect" and save images we all love! I especially enjoy Paulette's Pinterest because our interest are very similiar and she has done all the work of pinning. LOL

Personally I don't mind photos being snagged from my blog for other's Pinterest pages. This simply means they really like what they see. I'm tickled. Are you curious at what is being taken from your blog and published on Pinterest? You can find out by going to http://pinterest.com/source/yourblogname.blogspot.com (after the last slash simply add your own blog name.

What about copyright? Scary thought right? I won't start a Pinterest of my own so I can stay out of trouble. I wouldn't have a clue if I were breaking copyright laws. Honestly, I'm just confused.

Go here to learn more: http://pinterest.com/about/copyright/

Now what if you don't want items taken from your blog and pinned? This is a link to check out:

http://makingamark.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/pinterest-how-to-prevent-your-blogger.html

Feel free to snag away anything you see that you like at my blog. All I ask is a link back to your source. (and hopefully I didn't break any copyright laws when I put it on my blog!)