By lee | February 6, 2010
Wednesday night I went up to Scappoose, Oregon to speak at the Columbia River Piecemakers Quilt Guild. They are a really nice group and it was a lot of fun. I was very impressed by the community outreach at their guild. The members had been challenged in September to bring donation quilts to the February meeting and here is the pile of quilts they brought.
This is a small guild and the members brought 32 quilts for donation. And they weren’t just any old thing thrown together, these were nice quilts. There are going to be some very happy recipients out there. Here are just a few of them.
One of the members, Carrie Shields, had taken my Cascade class at Quilt Camp back in October and brought her finished quilt to show at the meeting. I always feel like a proud parent when I see finished quilts from classes. I love teaching this class and Carrie did a great job.
By lee | February 3, 2010
I was going to say that I’ve been diligently working on finishing those UFO’s but that really wouldn’t be truthful. My most important project of late is coming up with a fabulous outfit for the Groundhog’s Day Party. This is a BIG deal and the theme this year is “Green Eggs and Hog.” So I’ve been channeling Dr. Seuss and having lots of fun with that. I’ll be sure to post pictures.
That being said, I have been working on this UFO and have managed to finish the top and piece the backing. So now it can officially get crossed off the UFO list and move over to the unquilted list. I do love my lists.
This pattern is called Building Blocks and I made it up when I made this baby quilt for Adrienne and Paul when Ingrid was born. I cut this all out so I would have blocks to make when I taught the class. Since I probably won’t be teaching this anymore, I decided to go ahead and finish it. I think I’ll just hang on to it until it’s needed. There are always babies coming along.
By lee | January 31, 2010
Jasper didn’t come to craft day with me but he’s just so handsome I had to put his picture here. Like many other people, I take way too many pictures of my pet. How can I resist?
But I digress. Every so often I get together with my good friends Meara and Therese. They are super crafty and do completely different kinds of crafts than what I usually do. We get together at Meara’s house, throw a lot of stuff on the table and just have at it. There is also wine to help get one’s juices flowing. Here’s the table. It’s hard not to be inspired by all the antique papers, stamps, inks, transparencies, different size slides, it’s just amazing.
Yesterday, we made pendants using glass slides. We created a collage the size of the slide, put a slide on the top and bottom, and then soldered around the edges. The little collages were fun to make, mine is three layers with paper, transparency and some stamping. We added a ring to the top to put the chain through. I really enjoyed the soldering and am ready to rush right out and buy all the tools. Somebody please restrain me!
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By lee | January 25, 2010
My friend Anne decided to count up all her unfinished projects and start finishing them. She had 13 projects in various stages. I thought that was excessive so I decided to count up my own. What a mistake! I have no room to talk that’s for sure. I had 14 unfinished projects as well as 7 tops that just need to be quilted. Boy did I feel like a heel for giving her grief.
I’ve decided to finish them one by one. Some of these “projects” are really just demo blocks from classes I teach. In two cases I just finished the blocks that were started and put them in the “parts department” where they might fit into a later project. This little quilt only needed it’s border sewn on so I finished that up this weekend. I started it so I could see how the border would work out. Don’t love the quilt, but the border is fun. I have no idea what I’ll do with it but now it can move over to the just needs to be quilted list. Yeah. I’m down to 11 UFO’s.
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I’ve got another top that just needs it’s borders and I hope to get that one done this week. Maybe I’ll finish piecing two and then quilt one. We shall see how long I can persevere without starting something new. I do need to start at least one new quilt for a show I’m supposed to be a part of that is in April.
By lee | January 20, 2010
When we moved to Portland almost ten years ago, we were fortunate to move in across the street from Tim and Jewel. They are some of the most wonderful people I know and have done so much for us since we’ve lived here. They have become part of our extended family.
This year I finally got around to making them a quilt. I wanted it to be one of my patterns and I wanted it in blues. I decided to go with Round Division since it’s a wonderful pattern to play around with fabrics. And I had a great time collecting the blue prints that are in here. I also decided to go with solids to compliment the prints just because it makes more of a statement. A little dash of gold for an accent and voila.
I’m very happy with how it turned out and it looks beautiful in their home.
