Paper Piecing

Hi,

I wanted to share about the paper piecing class I took earlier this week. It was great! LOL, Oh you want more?

Well I bought a little kit a week ago at this shop in Manchester Iowa called The Quiltmaker's Shoppe. The kit was by Remember Me Pattern Co. and was a long and scrappy wall hanging called "Christmas Ornament". If you bought one of these the shop offered a free 2 hour paper piecing class so I did it. Thank you Mary for your patience and wonderful teaching.

Here is the completed project:




It went together really fast and thanks to Mary's teaching I feel pretty confident to take on another project so I purchased another little one and if that one comes together okay I have a quilt I want to attack/attempt. :)

Moving right along, Here is my Quilt for Kids quilt, all pieced and quilted. YAY!! I think it turned out super cute. The quilting is okay but it was great practice for me. I quilted the four patch blocks in the ditch and the other blocks I free motioned a little loopy thing in them. Now I have to get that in the mail and back to QFK's so I can get another one. :)





Thanks for stopping by. Have a terrfic day.

Quilt For Kids

Quilt for Kids, What a wonderful organization! Many of the ladies I have met in our new guild and the online quilt group are making quilts for this organization.
You can go to their website Quilt for Kids and sign up. They will send you a quilt kit, all cut out with enough fabric for backing and binding. You supply the batting and do all the piecing.
I have completed my first top and am machine quilting it as I post this blog. The quilts go to children in hospitals all around the United States. You can also start a QFK's chapter in your area  and all the quilts made will be donated to the local hospitals. You can also donate fabric and finance if you don't want to piece a quilt. More than one kit can be ordered if you have a small group that would like to work together on them also.
Anyways, check it out. I hope you have a wonderful day. :)
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Central Iowa Quilt SEW-ciety Guild in Marshalltown

We had our first official meeting last night under our new name and it was exciting. There were 41 ladies including me and one gentleman there . WOW! They are all soo excited and have so many wonderful ideas. I don't think Marshalltown really knows what hit it yet.
We have 52 names on our email list and last night there were 3 ladies that hadn't been there before, I have also talked to several (about 5) that are really interested but had conflicts with last nights time.
The really great thing in all of this is that I have made some new quilty friends and all of these ladies are very inspiring to me.
I have to get back to sewing :), I have 3 projects going, so I hope you have a great day.

Quilt tops to date

Good Mornin blog readers,
It looks like it is going to be a sunny day here in M-town.
I counted up my completed pieced tops today and have 4 completed tops.

Here is True Blue with borders on. I started this one last spring.

It is ready to be quilted now.

This next one is called American Beauty.

I started this one in January 2010. It went together pretty fast.

This next one is from crazy mom's blog site. She did it in orange.


And finally my denim throw. This pattern came from an old Country woman magazine.


Now if I get these completed I will have 8 completed quilts towards my 40 completed quilts.

I have one WIP up on my design wall at this time and several packed away. to work on at retreats.
Thats my update on my 40 quilts progress.
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April 6th Quilt meeting.

What a fantastic turn out we had last night at quilt group. 30 ladies came as well as our speakers from the Altoona Quilt Guild. The AQG ladies shared a lot of information on how to get our Marshalltown Guild up and running.
What a thrill it is to be at the beginning of a new group starting, And with so much talent now and to come.
This is definately not a one-man (woman) job though and I am praying that many will step forward to help really get this group established.
So my friends in blog-land, Pray for us. I appreciate all your prayers.
I better get to sewing/quilting, we are only going to show finished projects and most of mine are only half done. :) That is good incentive to get going.
Thanks for stopping by.

Now I am working with Amazon.

Today I signed on with Amazon.com. YAY!!! Now when I want to recommend a book or tool I can post an image and you can order if from Amazon right off my page. That is sooo awesome.

So here is a book that I highly recommend by Harriet Hargrave. It is an excellant resource to keep in your library because you will find yourself referring back to it often.
And now you can order it right off this website. I order a lot of books off of Amazon.com so I think this will make it easy for you and me too. I will make something off of everything you purchase from my blog site. YAY!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

First day of Spring.

Today is the first day of spring and we have a layer of snow covering the ground here in Marshalltown. We got about an inch of snow last night. The sun is shining and warm on our front door though and the bulbs I planted last fall are peeking up through the snow. I can't wait until they bloom. I love spring. :)

Yesterday I worked on my denim throw. I have 6 big blocks done and 6 more to finish. Each big block has 4 smaller blocks in it. I posted a picture in a previous post of some finished blocks. I should get the top finished today. That is the plan. I'll post pictures of the completed top later.

I hope you have a wonderful first day of spring. Thanks for stopping by.