The fabric is all cut for the new quilt project and hopefully I can get it into a layout while the sun shines today – its hard to see some of the colors in the evenings.

Friend Cheryl emailed me last night that she finished quilting Twitterpated. Oh my gosh! I can start putting prairie points on the thing. I went over this morning to pick the quilt up so here are a few pics of it right off the quilting frame. Cool.











Have a great day!

Last night friend Cheryl stopped by to give me back the scrap utility quilt I made for our friend and catsitter that I finished a while back. She did such a great job quilting it. She used a wool batting that feels soft as silk and I can’t wait to nestle under it and sew the binding down – always my favourite part. Yes, even though I don’t really like the color combo I have to admit that it turned out beautiful. Cheryl even centered the quilt design! The log cabin blocks have a ever increasing/spiraling square on them and in the end it looks like circles on squares. Note: this is a really good use of a panto folks. And yes, I no sooner had the quilt on top of the bed so I could take pictures but there were cats on it as you can see.







Here's that crazy busy center square showing the centered quilting design.


I came down this morning and realized I had not seem Ms. Trouble so I looked all over the house for her. Much later I finally found where she had been. In the cat basket under the cat quilt.

I went to deliver the cat blankets to the shelter and they had closed early. I will just have to run them up today. I didn’t take pics of the fleece squares or the duplicates of the blue ones.

Our local shelter put out a call for blankets. It seems that our hurricane put a strain on their resources. Not the most exacting piecing but they are purely for utility. The cats and dogs at the shelter each get their own fresh blanket every day. I think the washer and dryer up there must go constantly. So there are 3 fleece, 1 pink and 4 versions of the blue. I managed to get the batting and backing cut before going to sleep so I just need to do some minimal pinning and quilting.

The quilt top is finished! A scrap quilt that I promised to make for our cat sitter ages ago.



Now, I have to design something for our nieces wedding gift.

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there.

I didn’t spend any time out in the back garden today since I have a few blisters from what I did the other day. Instead I used old quilting scraps to make two small cat quilts that are almost done – need to put on the bindings. The first one is finished and the second is ready to receive its binding. As you can see Ms. Trouble seems to like the new quilt and the new cat basket that Dearest got when he won all those vedgies.









I also took the scrap crazy quilt pieces out of their box and pinned them up – cats like to knock them off if I don’t pin them. Looks pretty funky and there are not enough done to do anything with so they will go back in the box and more will slowly get added to the pile.

Still working on the Blueberry socks. Just two more inches and I can do the toe decreases.

Things are blooming in the garden. The peonies, rhododendrons, pyracantha, irises, wild roses and there are buds on all four of my other roses that are about to burst open.

The garden was left untouched yesterday since I went to the quilt show. Here are some of the quilts I saw at the show. I was pleased as punch to realized that friend Cheryl has quilted the Best in Show three years running now. Instead of loading individual pics I created a Smilebox for you.

Another digital slideshow by Smilebox

Have a wonderful day!

Were for my new grandson, born in November 2010.

I went and picked up the two small quilts from friend Cheryl yesterday - she does such wonderful quilting on her long arm. For scrap quilts they turned out absolutely wonderful. I just took left over blocks from another project and sliced them up and put them all back together again.

Can't wait to see what they will look like after I wash them. Just love how quilts get all crinkly.

The Small Quilt and its quilting



The larger quilt and its quilting



The backing for both

The winners of the Paducah Quilt show have been put up. Go take a look there are some real beauties in the bunch.
http://www.americanquilter.com/shows_contests/paducah/2010/quilt_contest/quilt_winners.php?utm_source=delivra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AQS%20On%20Point%20-%20Issue%2024


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