I Love to Quilt!

I don't know if I have mentioned that fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the brightly colored leaves. One of my favorite ways of taking pictures is looking up through the leaves at the sky.

I love how the sky makes the the leaves sparkle.

This is how I feel about my Autumn Splendor wall hanging. The 1st picture is before washing it and the 2nd after it was washed.

Next I have been playing with some more shadow trapunto. I am very grateful to Geta for her tutorials. This one on how to make wreaths.

http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.com/2009/01/electric-quilt-tutorial-how-to-make.html

Here is my mini Shadow Trapunto where I have played with making wreaths and more practice. Front and back.

Today

Today I picked blueberries.
I freeze them. Some of my favorite ways to eat them.

In my oatmeal
With half and half and splenda
In my pancakes
By themselves

Today I quilted on my maple leaf wall hanging. It is almost finished.

And today I made another Post Card. Still working with the Shadow Trapunto. The rose turned out more like how I want it to look. The batik that the post cards are on was used under the organza with both post cards. The zinna has a cotton/poylester organza and the rose is polyester organza.

Next is a baby rag quilt I completed earlier this week both front and back.

Last I want to share a quilt that my Grandma Tate made. It is a double wedding ring. Lots of little bitty pieces.

Who can find a virtuous woman? .... She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. Proverbs 31: 10...13

Time goes on

It has been almost a month since I last wrote. I have been busy but it really has been that to write a blog takes me soooo looonnnggg to write and it isn't on my top to do list. However since I have family that checks on me here. I figured I better write some tonight.

For Mother's day my youngest son gave me 2 beautiful rose bushes. These are some of the first blossoms.

The Lord gave us this beautiful Sunflower. My husband and I have never had a sunflower plant before.

One of the roses from my garden.

I took the photo and tweaked it and printed it on clothe and made a post card.

Another post card I made using 2 new techniques. Machine quilting pebbles...I need more practice and Shadow Trapunto.

I learned about shadow trapunto from Geta's blog http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.com/ while checking out Sew Mama Sew May giveaways. Geta has many beautiful quilts. I am waiting to purchase some of her patterns when they come out, but wanted to try go ahead and try this method.

Next I have always loved the maple leaf block pattern. Except it is usually is a 12" block....way too big. So when my TBLOVERS2 group had a table runner swap and my quilting partner loved fall and reds and greens, it dawned upon me I could reduce the maple leaf. I designed and made this table runner.

And when the ladies of my local quilting group saw it a few wondered how it would look in brights. Well not one to make the exact same pattern. I designed this wall hanging.

I am still finishing it up.

Next is my June lottery block for TBLOVERS2.

My June purple and brown challenge block for my TB/Moda bee.

The last block for my pink and teal Nancy Rink BOM and top completed.

And my last project to share tonight is this little pincushion. The little penguin is silk felted and is a new technique for me. I had fun making him.

I found the kit on Etsy.

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I Thessalonians 5: 16-23

Back yard birds

These are a few of the birds that have visited our back yard and the feeders.

May swooping through

The last few weeks I have been enjoying watching the birds in the backyard. We have 2 bird feeders. We had buntings, doves, brown headed cowbirds, grosbeaks, cardinals, thrashers and other birds visiting. It has been fun. For a couple of days now we have had a daddy cardinal teaching his 2 chicks to fly and eat. The first day the chicks were sitting on the peach tree limbs and daddy would grab some feed from the feeder and fly to the chicks and feed them. Last night he had the chicks eating on the feeders. They are still a bit clumsy.

My seven sisters rose bush bloomed. It was very pretty.

Seven sisters rose bush 2009 and
china berry tree stump and brown shop building


It still doesn't compare to pre-Ivan. Seven sisters growing up China berry tree. May 11, 2004

My 1st quilty post card

Pink and Teal BOM

Mike and I at Big Lagoon State Park for my birthday.

A few days later, we celebrated our 33rd anniversary by visiting Fairhope AL.

We went to the rose garden by Mobile Bay.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

II Corinthians 9:8

Favorite Quilt

Amy is having a Bloggers' Quilt Festival
There are over 400 quilts shown and the story behind the quilt. Go on over and check it out and join the fun!

The quilt I have chosen as my favorite is called

"Winters aren't Blue".

(Blue as in sad)

This quilt had many firsts. One was that I had joined a Quilt Bee. I didn't even know that any bees existed anymore. The fellowship of quilters was great. One of the projects of the group was that a quilt pattern was given out each month and members were to make the block. Wow this made me try new techniques. I also wanted to make a mostly blue and white quilt. I had learned a new technique in a quilt class my 1st ever quilt class, on invisible machine applique.

I had bought a quilt book by Margaret Rolfe and fell in love with this duck pattern

I used antique linens for the 1st time

and fussy cut and sharp star points

And pieced back.

And close stitching

The result:

Thank you Amy for hosting this online quilt show.