Getter Done

On the first Saturday of every month I have the good fortune to have a special group of women gather in my sewing room. There are 12 of us and we range in age from 40 to 96. We bring what ever we are needing to get done (hence the name) we share,laugh,give creative input and enjoy good food.

I wanted to show some of the work being done.

I will be posting more of the finished projects as we go along. One is a beautiful double wedding ring that is just going to the quilter. Stay tuned.

Hope you all have a Happy St. Paddy's Day. This is how we are sporting the green this year.

Happy New Year Everyone

I have been making a list of my sewing and quilting projects for 2011.  Have any of you out there been planning too?  With my move to Rogue River, Or. I have been blessed with a beautiful space to share with my sisters and some new quilting friends I have made.   I am looking forward to a creative filled year and will enjoy following what all the rest of my cyber buddies are doing.

Bless all of you and be safe this New Year's Eve

Candy


 

Still a Blogging Novice

Does anyone else have as hard a time with getting your blog to look the way you would like it to?   I sure do.  For example I just added the header photo but for the life of me I couldnt figure out how to get my blog title in the center of the header.

I also tried to put a pretty divider between each of my past post. I got the first one where I wanted it but the next one went all the way to the bottom of my blog page.  

I would appreciate any help I could get from my fellow bloggers.

A Quilters Nightmare

I had to pack my sewing room for our upcoming move to Oregon.

  How sad is that but I just think of the new space I will have when I get to the new house. 

Remembering Mom

I was just thinking about my mom today and thought I would share some of her hand work with you. Mom liked to knit and do needle point.  When I was a little girl I loved getting these bootie slippers from mom that had a little pom pom on the front top of the slipper. I thought they were like ballet slippers. Mom use to knit little beanies to donate to the hospital for the newborn babies.  She loved babies.

I am fortunate to have two of my mom's needle point pieces one finished and one not.  This is a sample stitch pillow mom did.

The other piece I have mom never did finish and I keep it just the way she left it with her needle still in place.

Mom developed Alzheimer's and little by little lost pieces of herself.  I keep these works of hers in my sewing room where I can see them everyday and feel I still have her with me.

A Sisters Quilting Retreat

I have three sisters and we are all into quilting. Every year for the past three years  we get together, just after Valentines Day, for a week of quilting and reminiscing.  We gather at my sister Eileen's house in Rogue River, Oregon.  It is a perfect retreat place on ten acres in the woods of Southern Oregon.  We take projects to finish and some to start.  We hit every quilt shop from Medford to Grants Pass just to be sure there isnt a fabric we may have missed.  Last year on one of our shopping excursions I found this quilt pattern for tea pots and tea cups. My second favorite thing to collect is exactly - Tea Pots and Tea Cups.

Eileen and I decided to work on these blocks together this year and Cathy wanted to finish a quilt top she had been working on for her granddaughter Liberty.

I used 1930's prints and Eileen pulled from her stash. My sister Maureen kind of came and went working on hand work. She likes to do all her quilts by hand piecing.

Here are a few photos of what we accomplished.

Eileen hard at work .  Last year she was working in the diamond  covers you see on the chairs. They are like a extra long table runner covering the front and back of her dinning room chairs.

Here is Cathy working away on Liberty's quilt top. They just love me to take pics cant you tell.  Maureen never sits still long enough for me to get her.  Cathy's finished quilt top

Here is one of Eileen's  and my tea pots before the spout and handle is appliqued on

I love these visits and I love and cherish the time I get to spend with these women

Finally a pic of Maureen. That is her on the front left and me front right. I had her captive when we went to lunch one day

One Moment in Time

Have you ever had a day that just felt special? The air was different and every fiber of your being told you drink in this day.  Well yesterday was that kind of a day for me.  I went on a small hike with a group of 10 women. We hiked into a small redwood grove. Here surrounded by these majestic trees we had an hour of yoga .  There was a beautiful breeze. You could hear the birds in the tree all around .

This is Kara. She is the yoga instructor and a very good friend of mine. She puts a lot of love and passion into what she does. She is one of Gods special people. I am very grateful to have her friendship.
Below is a photo of the whole group after we had finished our class and were preparing to hike back to our cars. Everyone was in a great  state of mind. Some were going out to dinner that evening, or to a movie. I was headed home to work on the Camp Sloanie assignment from Pat Sloan's blogg.

Check out the Pat Sloan blog.  She has come up with a virtual Quilting Camp weekend called Camp Sloanie.  For the past week when you went to her blog she gave you assignments to get ready for the Quilt Camp weekend coming up Feb 5,6,&7.

The project is to use up your stash and/or pre cuts you have on hand. No buying for this project necessary. The challenge is to use what you have on hand. Here are my color choices so far.

The assignment for this week is to start cutting the fabric into 2.5" strips and contrasting fabric into 10.5" squares.  I decided to use the greens for my strips and the reds as the squares.  I as I went along other fabrics kept calling me to use them in the project. I ended up cutting three colors for the squares, two different reds,some blues and a really fun green.

I really think the green with the houses is going to be cute.


These squares will be cut on the diagonal.

I cut all my green 2.5" strips. I used 9 different prints to give me plenty of creative choices.

Still have some blues and reds to cut up this week.
Then I'll be ready to go this weekend. Stay tuned and I will post my results from the weekend.

Well this is the end of a great weekend filled with friends, the peace of nature and the creativity of my favorite thing to do.  QUILTING.