Super Saturday

I have worked at the Chicago International Quilt Show for the last two days in booth 1331, Sew Batiks from Mayville, ND.  Stop in and see Diane the owner if you are at the show, tell her Terry sent you.  I will be on a bus early tomorrow morning headed back to Chicago to enjoy shopping with my friends.  So glad to be sleeping in my own bed, Friday night, before a big day of shopping.

While in Chicago, I did get to sneak a peak at my quilt hanging in the Midwest Marvels Display.

 

 

So here we are, the quilting peeps.  Watch out Windy City, we will be blowing into town.

 

Have a great Saturday.

Yours in quilting,

Terry

 

Friday Finishes - Quilts, Bindings and Labels

Friday the 13th!  Are you superstitious, I'm not but I know it really bothers some.  This morning started off with the hubby leaving for work and then an ambulance came racing down the street.  Two of the dogs were out in the yard as the ambulance went by and they started to howl.   The siren must really hurt their ears.  I don't know what was going on but the ambulance stopped a block away.  Hope it wasn't too serious.

I headed to the basement to make progress on my quilts today.  The local guild, the Covered Bridge Quilt Guild is hold their bi-annual quilt show next weekend March 21 & 22 at the Bureau County Fairgrounds.  The hours will be 9am to 5pm Saturday and 11am to 4pm on Sunday.

This pattern is Pink Patches Doll Quilt by Kathleen Tracy in her book The Civil War Sewing Circle.

It is all custom quilted. 

 

The quilt below is called the Framed Ladies Wreath.  I purchased this kit on the I-80 Shop Hop quite a few years back.  In the shop, this quilt was framed in a beautiful antique-looking frame. Whether or not I will frame it is yet to be seen.  So this UFO is almost finished.  I will be sewing down the binding and adding the label on the back.  

 

Today I made the two bindings on the above quilts, the two bindings shown below and seven labels framed in fabrics to match their designated quilts.  I had to laugh at myself today.  In my flurry of trying to finish many projects today,  I made a binding that didn't match the quilt it was intended for. So maybe, haste makes waste?  So that unused binding will end up in my 2 1/2" strip drawer. 

You can see my tutorial on making labels HERE.

 

Today I am linking up with.....Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Link a Finish Friday, Freedom Fridays, and Crazy Mom Quilts.  

 

Hope you are enjoying great Spring weather this weekend.  It was 65 degrees and sunny here.  The dogs enjoyed laying out on the deck.  I opened up the house to air things out.

 

Yours in quilting,

Terry

Work in Progress Wednesday

So much to do, so little time.  How many of you feel like that?  I am busy trying to finish customer quilts for the Covered Bridge Quilt Guild's Bi-Annual Show on March 21-22.  It will be held at the Bureau County Fairgrounds in Princeton, IL.  I also believe they will be linking up with the Barn Quilt movement and have a tour of all the Barn Quilts that have been hung over the last two years.

This is my friend, Kath O.'s barn quilt hung last Friday before the big snow storm.



 

 

This quilt is loaded and is in the process of being quilted.

 

After this quilt, I have four more customer quilts to quilt.  Then I will move on to my own.  I have set a BHAG(big hairy audacious goal) of 7 quilts.  Only one of seven is already quilted.  I spent Tuesday, taking pictures of the quilts, cutting batting and starting the completion of entry forms.

Now before you get too excited about this goal, most of the quilts are small.  If I don't get them done then I will just pull the entries.

 

Its snowing again.  They are predicting another 1.1" on top of the 15.3" we already have.

 

Today I am linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP-Wednesday. 

 

Yours in quilting, 

Terry

 

 

Sea of Dreams Quilt Show

This past weekend was the Covered Bridge Quilt Guild's Bi-Annual Quilt Show held at the Bureau County Fairgrounds.

Congratulations to all the winners. The top winners of the weekend are as follows:

Marlene Gibson won the Raffle Quilts (queen size bed quilt and quilt for pillow cover.)

                                                   Marlene Gibson for Best In Show.


            Annette Byrne for Judge's Choice.



                                                        
                                                   Wanda Stenzel for Viewer's Choice.


Congratulations to Martha Patelli and her quilt show committee for all the planning and collaboration. The guild put in an all out team effort! Cindy Ganschow and Annette Byrne's registration system kept all quilts accounted for and orderly. Yvonne Mormon's hanging system displayed everyone's quilts for all to see.  Impressive job, Ladies!!!!

Hope everyone took it easy today and got some much needed rest.

Yours in quilting,
Terry

The Rush is On!

We (I mean the members of the Covered Bridge Quilt Guild) have about 6 weeks to finish all our quilts for the our Bi-Annual Quilt Show Saturday, March 16th and Sunday, March 17th, 2013.
Judging will take place on Thursday, March 14th and then on Friday the quilts will be hung for viewing.  First I am finishing customer quilts, as a fell behind at Christmas time because of working 60 days back at my job with the State of Illinois and then three weeks of fighting off that respiratory flu virus.  I was able to do some piecing while sick as long as I could just sit.  It was a nasty virus.

This a 1600 jelly roll quilt I worked on over the weekend.  It has alternating rows of waves and fishies.  The orange border fabric is full of fishies.  It turned out really cute.

Here's a view of the fish.  Its very hard to photograph.  This is the back of the quilt.  It was fun to be creative with the Pro Stitcher. 

Here's the next quilt which has snowmen heads placed over the face of this large strip quilt.  Again, had fun with the Pro Stitcher and free motion quilting.  Placed Snowflakes randomly  on the different strips of fabric.  Some show up nicely as shown above.  Filled in with meandering loops.  Below each Snowman head are a set of mittens. This was a pattern given out at Garden Club at Quilter's Garden Quilt Show.

Have a great Monday!
Yours in quilting,
Terry