Lavendar Mountain Stars

When I was a member of Lavendar Mountain Quilters in Rome, Georgia we had a monthly Friendship Stars Swap. Each month a different color was chosen and we made a 6" block for each member.

It has only taken me about fourteen years to decide on this Twist 'N Turn setting, which I learned in a workshop from Sharyn Craig.

As you can see I have only completed 18 blocks and I have 57 to go! This project will probably not be finished this year but I will try :-)

Elliot's Quilt!

Shortly after our youngest son got married his bride asked if I would teach her to quilt. Of course it delighted me!

We did get started but living in different cities made it difficult. Then several moves, birth of babies and home schooling took up so much of her time that quilting was put on the back burner.

Imagine my surprise when a few days ago she posted this picture of a t-shirt quilt on Face Book! The baby is now 3 1/2 and mommy was cleaning out his clothes but could not not bear to give away some t-shirts with special memories.

Elliot cannot wait for her to finish it and lays down on his t-shirt quilt whenever he can get away with it!

I am so happy to pass the quilting bug along to Julie, who is a very special lady!

Scrappy Twist "N Turn

This is the beginning of my newest quilt project. The friendship stars came from a monthly block swap at Lavendar Mountain Quilt Guild in Rome, Georgia. This was back in 1996 - 1997 and I have just never figured out what to do with them.

Recently I gave a demonstration, at my guild Stitch 'N Share, of one of Sharyn Craig's block setting methods called Twist 'N Turn. For the center blocks pulled out my collection of friendship star blocks for the centers. I'm loving the way they are turning out.

For anyone interested in this method, it may be found in the book Twist 'N Turn by Sharyn Craig. The book contains many ideas and other methods for setting. The one I used is the first one in the book and for me is by far the easiest because it does not require cutting triangles, only rectangles.

This will be an ongoing project since I must work on it between other sewing projects such as dresses, shorts, boxers, tooth fairy pillows, etc for my grandchildren.

I will show more pictures as this quilt grows.

Baby Quilt

This is a baby quilt that I just finished making for our pastor's first grandson, who is scheduled to arrive in a few days.

Tim's Quilt

I finally got a picture of my son, Tim and I and the quilt I made for him for Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Saturday Workshop

Our guild had a really interesting and fun workshop today where we worked with patchwork and Celtic bias applique. Amanda, a very talented local quilting teacher taught us using a pattern by Scarlett Rose.

This is Amanda's beautiful sample quilt.

Here is my WIP. No Celtic bias added yet but I will show another picture when mine is further along.

Happy Birthday To Me!

Well not exactly but almost...................
Thursday night at our guild meeting I won the door prize. Just look at all the wonderful prizes! The best of all was the beautiful tote bag made by my friend Teresa.

We were all supposed to wear pink to remind us that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Notice all the pink items in the door prize.

Thank you Cold Sassy Quilters and especially Miss Teresa!

Black/White/Red Disappearing 9-Patch

I have been working on this Disappearing 9-Patch quilt for a Christmas present. As you can see it is still a WIP so I'm not sure for which Christmas it will be completed.

You do not need a pattern.

Start by making a 9-patch block. It can be any size you want it to be. My patches are cut 4."


Split the completed 9-patch down the middle in both directions.


Turn your pieces around and then stitch them back together. Ta! Da!! Here is the finished block.


Here are 15 of my blocks sewn together. It is going to be a wild quilt!

Jingle Bells Quilt

I won the challenge blocks from my guild's Block of the Month this past August. The challenge was to use a strip this piece of Jingle Bells fabric and add our own coordinating fabrics with it to create a 9" block.

Putting this quilt together was quite a challenge as there were many shades of green, red and gold. My daughter, who has many talents none of them artistic, choose this dark green fabric with tiny red stripes as the sashing and gold cornerstones and she was right on the money. Her choices really brought the whole quilt together. Thanks darling daughter!