Beginner Link - great information

I received permission from Gloria Massard to post a link to her site for quilting for beginners. She has great information there, for supplies, making a quilt and picking/matching colors.

I recommend it, not just for beginners, but for those of us who have been quilting for awhile and still have our quandries.

Her information is to the point, clear and her instructions were great. Check it out!
http://www.sewaquilt.com/index.html

Musing on the quilt guild meeting

Is it Autumn or Christmas??????

Monday was quilt guild meeting. Our family was well represented, me, 2 daughters, granddaughter and a nephew in attendance. Also have another daughter and a grandson who quilt, but were not there.

I am proud of my 'quilting family'! They are very talented and creative.

Our new BOM is one we all really liked and the colors are "autumn". We bought fabric after the meeting and cut out block "kits" for 6 blocks, all alike! After we got started, we thought maybe the colors were more Christmas-y than autumn, but the apple theme is autumnal, so we will use them anyway.

I liked it so well that I already made more blocks with the same pattern and colors - just in case I don't win the blocks at the meeting LOL! I wonder what the reaction will be when they get 6 identically patterend blocks in the mix?? Oh well, it's what we wanted to do, and we did it. I may make a couple more in more traditional autumn fabrics, just for fun, and to add to the drawing. Someone may as well get a lot of blocks!

We were supposed to also make one block in patriotic colors for our Quilts of Valor project, so I made one of them using only 3 fabrics instead of 4. I was pretty impressed with the result of that too. I am going to share what I used for the focus fabric in the patriotic block with those in the family who want to make a patriotic block too.

At the guild meeting I was invited by one of our guests to her hand quilting group. I am excited about that, and hope to be able to attend.

Now hanging on the 'Design Curtain'

This is my 'storm at sea' wall hanging.

I found that paper piecing the blocks worked better than trying to cut and sew the pieces.

It is another venture in hand quilting. My stitches are getting more uniform and smaller, so improving.

This pattern intrigues me, with its feeling of motion, and the optical illusion of curves in the block.

The colors are still another attempt to use up the trash bag of scraps that I have collected.

The problem is: now I want a larger quilt in this pattern and these colors. One of these days I will get around to it!