Wednesday, December 19, 2007

A Quilty Birthday Card


My friend Major's birthday is coming up on December 24th. We've been friends for nearly 20 years which is nearly half my life and a bit more than half of hers. This year I'm doing something a little different for her birthday this year - a quilted and embellished birthday card. Thank you Ricky Tims for demonstrating this on The Quilt Show This is the first quilted birthday card I've made and I enjoyed the process - a little quilting, a little clipping a little sewing and a little embellishing and voila a card! and I will do this again.

Now off to the sewing room to finish my dmils Christmas gift and a few other things.

Happy Quilting!
Teri

Friday, December 14, 2007

Quilts and more quilts

Baby Crackers

Here's a photo of Baby Crackers being quilted. While I was in Lancaster last year I learned how to use typing or freezer paper to draw out the design I want on the paper, pin it to the quilt and then like paper piecing tear the paper away. It's a bit more work, but the design then is a lot more consistent. Tearing the paper away can be a pain you know where.


Veterans Quilts


These are some of quilts from the Veterans Quilt Project. As a guild we donated 62 quilts. I quilted four of them. In the photo on the left I quilted the quilt on the left. Thankfully someone else took it home to bind it.


The room was just full of quilts everywhere. I have a ton more photos I'll share more another day.

This is one of the quilts I quilted. My co-chair and I decided to make one together. She pieced the top and I quilted it. Four of the purple blocks have writing on it, thanking the vets for their service to our country. I have a feeling from conversations with the two ladies who came to receive the quilts that this will end up on the wall. That's fine with me.

Monday, December 10, 2007

would ya believe what's in my garden

The little bunny belongs to dmil. Our neighbor who lives just to the right duded him out for Christmas. Isn't he sweet? For Easter he'll get a new bow and through the year there are costume changes. The only time of year he spends indoors is halloween.

Sitting in front of the bunny is the gazinnia flowers. My husband gets these for me every year. They are almost as cool as pansies. Gazinnias are like sunflowers in that they are heliotropes, they follow the sun through out the day. Bright and fun too.
Then my pansies are still blooming even though we've had a couple of good freezes in the last few weeks. Can you imagine my surprise when I went out side and saw this little guy peeking out? I had to get the camera out!!!



We've had rain on & off today and I like how the rain plays on the rose bush and the dogwood. It's not quite as clear as I would like, however I think you can see the drips on the stems.

You might be able to tell I'm enjoying my new camera. Learning how to use it is half the fun. I do have some pictures of basting the "Baby Crackers" Quilt. I'll post those tomorrow.

Happy Quilting!
Teri



Whoops! I forgot that the begonia is here as well. My dh has taken care of this begonia for over 15 years. There are cuttings all over the place. The plant has to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years old, maybe more, we're not quite sure. The original stem was woody when we inherited it. Dh put something around the spot near where it starts curving to try and prevent it from snapping. We actually thought it did until dh looked at it closely and realized the plant started growing this way, adapting to the changes! It loves this window and the light it gets.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

fabric contest

Pat Sloan is having a contest. When there are 1000 comments on her blog post today :http://patsloan.typepad.com/
she will draw a name and someone will win (me!me!) fat quarters from her new Nicki line (yet to be released!)


Happy quilting!
Teri

Ps I used to live just to the left of the towers below. This is Elizabethport where many of our Singer Sewing Machines were made..


coming soon - a photo of the singer factory - when I am able to get back to E-port and take it!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Whimsical Baby Crackers


Done, four borders on. Now for the quilting. Keep it simple and enjoy the process.
Happy quilting!
Teri

One more border to go

Whew! The top is actually done. I finished it after downloading the images from the camera. I'm going to call my friend & show co-chair to get the quilt basted, later this week (bonus is we can have a quilty meeting after or before basting the quilt).




I never knew that having a digital camera could be so much fun. Snap this, snap that. No more wasted film. If I don't like the image I can delete it (or better yet save it to play with on the soft ware.) Oh what fun we can have!

Happy Quilting!
Teri

Saturday, December 1, 2007

On the Design Wall

Here's a photo of Baby Crackers on the design wall.
Happy Quilting!
Teri