Finished Quilt Top

Well, I made the decision and got the inner and outer borders on my pineapple quilt!  Here it is:

Yes, I'm loving it!  Now to the Gammill for an all over meander - I don't want to over quilt it or take too much away from the pineapple design.  Hope it looks good when I'm done.

A New Quilt Trail Blcok

Brother has finished another block for the 3 Rivers Quilt Trail in Humphreys County.  It's a combination of a twist on a traditional quilt block and the Lakeview School Logo/Mascot.  He created the logo as an applique - made it out of very thin exterior airplane grade plywood, painted it, and then attached it to the background block.

We're just trying to figure out who/how it's going to get installed at Lakeview School in New Johnsonville.  I'll keep you posted!

Work in Progress

I'm struggling to complete this pineapple quilt that our paper piecing group finished earlier this year.  Except me.  I just can't figure out how I want to end it.  I'd like for it to be bigger than it is so I'm thinking, Add borders!  Right?  Why is it so difficult?

Is this the way to go with this quilt?  I'm not sure.  I'm going to have to call in reinforcements.  This quilt needs to be finished, quilted and bound by October for the local quilt shows.  I can't let it hang around any longer.  I'm phoning a friend.

More on Challenge Quilt

I finally finished the top and decided how I want to quilt the "I Must Be Off My Bobbin" quilt.  Here are some pics of it in the frame with the quilting started.  I spent most of the day yesterday quilting this one but I have about 18" left to do this morning.

The decision on what to quilt in the grey areas took me forever.  I knew I wanted to do feathers in the orange, since it will stand out the most, and the grey..... I didn't know.  Finally decided to quilt all over stippling in the grey area and the swap blocks.  Good decision.  It unifies the swap blocks and the grey "sashings".  The feathers aren't great, but it's a good practice piece for me.  I'd like to do better at the bottom of the feather stem - too many lines of thread coming together.  Need to get better at stitching over previous lines of quilting.

Overall, I'm happier with this quilt than I thought I'd be!

Completed doorpize quilt

Finished the doorprize quilt for the WOWE quilt show in November.  It's 80" x 80".  Lots of overall quilting on this one.  I sure do like it.  I hope the folks coming to the quilt show like it too!  Watch for it on the WOWE FB page.

QP Challenge Quilt

I finally started putting my "I Must Be Off My Bobbin!" Quilt Challenge together.  I decided to use orange.  A lot of orange.  The name of this quilt might be "Orange you glad you like orange?"  I'm liking that I have wide open spaces for quilting - I like that a lot!  But I'm thinking that a little diamond in the middle of the orange area would be kinda classy.  What do you think?  My final choices for the diamond are the black and the gray.  I'm leaning towards the gray.

 Black, purple and teal diamonds.  Like the black (upper left) the best of these 3.

 No diamonds.  Like this version too.

Black diamond and gray diamonds.  Liking the gray, but also like the black.  Although the black really draws attention to itself. Arrrgh.  Decisions, decisions.

TVQA Spring Seminar

I spent 3 lovely days in Murfreesboro, TN, at the TVQA Spring Seminar last week.  We were at the Old Fort Hwy DoubleTree Hotel for 2 1/2 days of classes and 2 evenings of speakers/trunk shows - fun, fun, fun!  I took 2 classes from Nancy Mahoney - someone who's quilts I have always admired, and learned alot about applique!  Here are a couple of pics from the first class:

 This is me and Nancy standing in front of her quilt, "Blue Bayou", from her book "Simple Circles and Quick Curves."  A real beauty!

 Here's the class with our finished blocks.  Teresa, from the blog "A Quilt and a Prayer", is standing down front on the left.  We first met last year at Assembly Day.  And standing towards the back on the right in the white sweater is my friend (and roommate for Spring Seminar) Cindy.  Everyone made pretty blocks!

 Here's a closeup of one of the blocks in Blue Bayou.

A Photo of the back of Blue Bayou that shows Nancy's quilting.

Seminar was great and I highly recommend that everyone that loves quilting should try and attend!  I was lucky enough to win a scholarship this year, which really helped, and look forward to sharing what I learned with my guild, Courthouse Quilters.