Wednesday, November 15, 2017
First place - Viewer's Choice
At the recent North Shore Quilter's Guild Show, My Neighborhoods received 1st place in Viewer's Choice. This quilt was accepted in the juried AQS show in Paducah 2018.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Welcome to my blog!
I want to share some of my work with others and thought a blog would be a great place to start. I am new to this so please be patient as I learn the ropes. I don't know if anyone will read this, but I thought I would share some of the techniques and progress of my quilts as I work on them. I usually spend 4-6 hours a day quilting. I have a wonderful new studio that is my perfect place to create. My goal is to add a post every week detailing what I am working on. I will attempt to keep things organized by posting under the page titles for the different genre's as I create.
I don't limit myself to any one type of quilt, although I do not consider myself a traditionalist. I did make one Dear Jane quilt. Here's how that happened. We were in the process of moving and I had to convert the 3 bedrooms I was using as a quilting studio back into bedrooms. That meant all of my quilting stuff was going to be boxed up and I would be without it for at least 6 months. I decided to keep one sewing machine available and I joined a 24 month Block of the Month program for a traditional Dear Jane quilt. I don't particularly like Civil War fabric, but decided if I was going to do a Dear Jane quilt, it was going to be authentic to the original. I should also mention that I do not care for Block of the Month programs because I like to get quilts done in a more timely manner so waiting for each month drives me crazy. Well my blocks starting arriving and I was very diligent for the first 3 months. Then I just started finding excuses for not working on the quilt. I really did not enjoy all of the piecing. I stopped working on it once my new studio was finished and we had moved into our new house. In January 2017, I decided I was going to finish it so I made myself work on it every afternoon until it was done. I took another month to finish the last 10 rows and the triangles on the outside It took me about a week to do the quilting. I am calling it Never Again - My Dear Jane!
I will admit I took a break in the middle of Dear Jane to make a good friend of mine a quilt for her birthday. We had just reconnected after not seeing each other for almost 40 years. She has created a quilt barn trail in Fulton Montgomery counties in upstate New York and I found this McKenna Ryan pattern that fit her perfectly. She and her husband also own a sheep farm and there's sheep in the quilt along with barn quilts on the barns!
I don't limit myself to any one type of quilt, although I do not consider myself a traditionalist. I did make one Dear Jane quilt. Here's how that happened. We were in the process of moving and I had to convert the 3 bedrooms I was using as a quilting studio back into bedrooms. That meant all of my quilting stuff was going to be boxed up and I would be without it for at least 6 months. I decided to keep one sewing machine available and I joined a 24 month Block of the Month program for a traditional Dear Jane quilt. I don't particularly like Civil War fabric, but decided if I was going to do a Dear Jane quilt, it was going to be authentic to the original. I should also mention that I do not care for Block of the Month programs because I like to get quilts done in a more timely manner so waiting for each month drives me crazy. Well my blocks starting arriving and I was very diligent for the first 3 months. Then I just started finding excuses for not working on the quilt. I really did not enjoy all of the piecing. I stopped working on it once my new studio was finished and we had moved into our new house. In January 2017, I decided I was going to finish it so I made myself work on it every afternoon until it was done. I took another month to finish the last 10 rows and the triangles on the outside It took me about a week to do the quilting. I am calling it Never Again - My Dear Jane!
I will admit I took a break in the middle of Dear Jane to make a good friend of mine a quilt for her birthday. We had just reconnected after not seeing each other for almost 40 years. She has created a quilt barn trail in Fulton Montgomery counties in upstate New York and I found this McKenna Ryan pattern that fit her perfectly. She and her husband also own a sheep farm and there's sheep in the quilt along with barn quilts on the barns!
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