Newly Completed!

An update on some newly completed quilts!

You may have seen them partially completed in earlier posts as I often cannot wait to share them with you in their incomplete status.

But here are the completed ones!

Rain Stick - still can't figure out why the name, but here it is.

Next up is "Fireworks", another pattern from a Fons and Porter publication.

And on we go with sewing and quilting.  

Louise from the island, recapping newly completed projects!

Monday at the Classroom

Just a short post to show student projects from Monday night's Open Sew.

Roxanne has worked on her "Starburst" quilt, a pattern she saw on a Missouri Star Quilt Company tutorial.

It will be a nice size to gift a lucky family member!

Marie participated in a table runner making workshop I held this past Saturday at the classroom.  

She finished her border on Monday and then sandwiched her Tablerunner.  

Her plan is to quilt this during one of our next Open Sew sessions.

Today was a lovely day (sorry, no pictures) with clear skies and temperatures hovering around seventy.

Tomorrow is forecasted to be slightly warmer.  We hold on to these pleasant days of October and tuck their memories away to be re-examined and remembered next year in January. Can you believe that in three months from today it will be January and I will be packing for the Post Holiday Quilter's Retreat?!

Puts a slightly different perspective on things doesn't it?!!!

Louise, from the island waxing "nostalgic" and enjoying the weather!

Of All Things September

The month is almost ending and the posts have been non-existent.  

This is an attempt to correct that!

Marie's "Bourbon Street Bricks Quilt" from Jelly Roll Jambalaya Quilts by Jeane Ann Wright.

The colors are lovely and don't really show in the picture.  Sorry about that Marie!

Hexies!

I finally finished these pieced hexies.  Originally I began this project at a weekend in North Carolina with Bonnie Hunter and Mickey Dupre, called Collaboration Celebration.

The pieced blocks are also finished (a long time ago!).  Now only the border remains.  The book and pattern seem to be out of print, so I will skip that information.  Maybe the ladies will find another publisher and release it, but for now, it is a collector's item!

Dottie's wall hanging is now complete! We used M'Liss Rae Hawley's book, "Fat Quarter Quilts, Fabric Choices, Easy Piecing and Quilting Ideas", and her "Embroidered Windows" quilt as inspiration for this attic windows type of quilt.

Finally, I attended a retreat last week and sewed a top a day.  The blocks have been completed over the past few months and have been sitting and waiting for the right time to be assembled into tops.

These two still need borders.

But these two are complete!

This is called "Fireworks" and comes from a book that I cannot find right now! How terrible of me!

This is called "Rainstick" and is from one of the Fons and Porter publications.

Both use jelly rolls.  

Now they go to the long arm quilter!

Well, tomorrow sees the end of September. The weather has turned colder these past few days, but Hurricane Matthew is in the Caribbean being fed by warm breezes.

Autumn has officially begun and the summer of 2016 has departed. Not to be melancholy, but time does fly if you don't watch it and appreciate it. I hope you enjoy your day tomorrow, the last day of September 2016, even if it is cool and rainy!  It will be a great time to quilt!

Louise, on the island, wondering where September 2016 went! 

Ahhhh, Tablerunners!

I have been working on ideas for three hour workshops. Since most of my quilts tend to be rather large , it has been a struggle to think of projects that can be completed in a shorter class time frame. But, recently, it occurred to me - table runners! 

So off I went into the finished stash.

Here are the two projects that will be offered.

Charm pack squares table runner is on the right and the Seminole table runner is on the left.

The picture is of the two prior to bindings being attached and completed.

Below are the finished projects.

The original charm square table runner

A student's Seminole table runner on the design wall.

Check the workshops and lectures tab on the blog for more details. 

Contact me by email for more information and contracts.

Louise, on the island thinking about and planning workshops

Classroom Happenings

Even though I have been out of commission, the students in the Open Sew at the classroom have been working hard.

Here are some pictures of what they have been up to recently.

Nancy's HAND PIECED grandmother's Flower Garden.  Designed by Nancy, she is now up to hand quilting this wonderful masterpiece.

Cindy is working on a Bruins quilt for her husband. Blocks are finished and she is sewing them into rows.  Maybe we will see the completed top next week.

Dottie has finished her nine attic window blocks and is now working on the setting and borders.

She hasn't decided on those fabrics yet.  I think she has to go shopping!

Marie has her center done on this stars and light houses quilt.  Borders are her next step.

This top is available as a quilt kit from Piecing with Poppers Quilting Center in West Greenwich, RI.

Lisa's table runner is almost complete.

From what I can see in the directions, it looks like she is ready to sandwich and quilt her creation.

I stopped in Monday night ready to sew up a storm.

Look what I got done between the talking and visiting!

It's tough when you have been away so long!

Okay, I got three blocks done and ten flying geese for another project that I forgot to take a picture of.

But it was still nice to visit and see everyone.

I think I am mended enough now to return to Open Sew.

More pictures will come in the future, since these girls really sew up a storm!

Louise, on the island, happy to be sewing and going to Open Sew again!