Fall in Love with Quilting Quilt Show

 If you live near North Carolina there is a great quilt show coming!  The Quilt Show, “Fall in Love with Quilting”, runs Oct. 21 – 23, 2022.  It will be at the “Old Rec” Center, 209 W. Jackson St, Mebane, NC 27302.  The show is open Fri & Sat 9am-5pm and Sun 10am-3pm.  The cost is $7/day, 10 & under FREE, maximum of $20/family/day.  

There are 138 quilts entered, with 87 to be judged and 51 display only.  It’s a wonderful assortment of quilts and techniques to admire and to get you inspired.  We will have 10 vendors on site --  Cary Quilting Company (Julianne Walther, the owner, is a member of our guild!), Rona the Ribbiter, G's Quilt and Craft Retreat, Loving Stitches, Bull Town Fabrics (Leslie Moyer, the owner, is a member of our guild!), Wood Quilt Blocks (Thomas Hannon), Bernina World of Sewing, Empty Pockets Alpaca Farm, Quilts Like Crazy, and Whatever's Quilted.  We have Raffle Baskets, a Raffle Quilt, the Silent Auction, the Boutique, and the Children’s Donation Challenge. 

QOV awarded to a veteran

 I have the honor and privilege of longarming Quilts of Valor for both our local sewing group and for the national foundation.  I was happy to receive photos from the award ceremony of one recent quilt.  This quilt was awarded to Army Veteran Master Sergeant Christopher Pfahl.  His military service began in 1997.  He went into the Army reserves after two enlistments and has been deployed twice to the Middle East, once as recently as last year.  

Thank you for your service Master Sergeant Pfahl!

 

Ode to Sewing Machines #37

Many of you follow my "Ode to the Sewing Machine" posts.  We've all seen the ads on craigslist, ebay and elsewhere.  The clueless sellers give those of us who sew a belly laugh, or two!  Here's installment #37…

He's dreaming of a good offer. Maybe he'll wake up soon.

Another one of my own

 I placed a small wall hanging on my frame this morning and put the binding on it this afternoon!  I made this one in May.  Sometimes you need to just sit down and piece!  And that's what happened with this wall hanging.  I made it all in an afternoon.  I plan to put this in my foyer above the Singer 201 sewing machine table.  I'll go back to client quilts tomorrow morning!

The pattern for this quilt is a free download, click here!

One of my own quilts

I've been stitching quilts for others for so long I forgot I had some of my own to get finished.  Today I put one of those on my frame.  Here it is!  This one was made 6 years ago!  It has 1840s reproduction fabrics used in it, and they are homespun all except for the background fabric.  I hope to get one more of my own on the frame before I start back on client quilts!

It's a boy!

 My daughter is pregnant with our second grandchild and we found out yesterday it's going to be another boy!  We are thrilled to know Joshua will have a buddy to grow up with.  This is the quilt top I made to celebrate.

Celebration!

 

The latest quilt top on my frame

I've taken a week off from stitching because I stretched a ligament on the side of my knee. Not wanting to make it worse I rested my leg for several days to give a chance to heal. Today I'm gingerly walking around my longarm frame to start a quilt for a customer. Here's a photo! You can't see it in the photo but I'm stitching the Linda's Daisies pantograph on it with pink thread.