We had such a great time at Jean’s shop in Dawsonville. Sew Memorable hosted the Pine Needle Quilter’s Guild challenge and had it hung front and center in the shop. Don’t the quilts look much brighter in daylight? They look so much more vibrant.
The Dawsonville quilt guild, Heart & Hand was there also, along with a delicious assortment of handmade goodies. Kathy Humphrie’s chocolate toffee bars were addictive and when she told us the recipe I found out why! I didn’t get the whole thing but it involved two sticks of butter, graham crackers, one cup of brown sugar, Ghirardelli chocolate chips and nuts. What’s not to love?
Kathy was out sick when we had our Guild Challege showing a couple of weeks ago, but her quilt was finished and it’s now at Sew Memorable.
I think Kathy did a great job including hues that weren’t in the original challenge fabrics’ palette, AND she hand-quilted her piece.
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Published at November 27, 2007
in Quilting.
Wow! We’ve arrived when we have a street named after us! This is an actual street in my husband’s hometown. I’ve always chuckled at having a street named after you and finally snapped a photo of this street sign after 20 years of visiting the in-laws.
My students are nestled in their homes working on quilts for their families. I’ll continue to write and design projects for my book, but at a slower pace, as I so enjoy making Christmas gifts for loved ones.
- My niece Emily gets a UGA dorm quilt
- My three-month old nephew Hamilton gets a baby blanket
- My kids and I will make ornaments for the tree
- And I get a new apron!
My favorite apron is one I made from Threads magazine years ago. It’s over twelve years old and I still use it every week. Threads had a great, simple pattern for this Bistro apron that I’ll be making for myself this season. Click on the slide show to see it.
We’ll be putting up our tree this week. Our holiday traditions include attending the Festival of Trees, which this year will be at the Atlanta History Center. David and I appreciate the handcrafted ornaments people lovingly make every year, and we’ve attended even before we had children.
Tonight I’m attending a reception for the Pine Needle Quilters’ Guild at Sew Memorable, where our challenge show is being exhibited. I’ll share photos with you later in the week.
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I’ve recently started attending the Pine Needle Quilters’ Guild as part of cultivating the Top Ten habits I outlined here. A lovely group of about twenty ladies who meet monthly and share what they’ve been doing that’s quilt-related.
They held their first challenge this month and the show was Tuesday night. Most of the ladies make traditional quilts, so what you’re about to see demonstrates how much they flexed their creative muscles for this challenge. Click on the photo below to go to a slide show of the entries, noting those winning Viewer’s Choice and Best Use of Focus Fabric. Can you guess which one is mine? (Hint: it wasn’t an award winner.)
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Here are the promised photos of my Easy Art Quilt class at Sharptop Arts Association in Jasper. I’m so proud of these ladies as none of them used traditional quilting fabrics available in quilt shops, but fabric they already had on hand or purchased at discount stores.
Geri had never done any piecing before and look at her fabulous results:
Doris used upholstery fabrics for a stunning quilt top:
Jaci had a fascinating lame-type fabric that actually changed colors from red to green depending upon how you were looking at it:
We had such a great time and I’ll be doing it again this winter, so look for the schedule on my website soon.
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