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Friday, June 26th, 2009

Anita came over for a private class yesterday. She has been working on these wonderful building blocks. I LOVE them. The detail is wonderful. As the blocks were on the design wall I enjoyed more and more of the details as I noticed them. GREAT JOB.

Yesterday we added the frames around each block. Next week we will work on the sashings.

It also amazed me how the different color of frame just seemed to set each block off and make them look even better.

This block was one of the hardest to find the correct color. Nothing seemed to look good with the sky fabric. Then we tried this purple color and it was just right.

Anita did all the work on these blocks by hand!
The frames were added with the sewing machine.

One of the great things about teaching is being able to see the student’s project up close and personal. Thank you Anita for sharing your project with me.

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What have I been up to since we returned from Alaska?

Monday, September 8th, 2008

On the airplane and during Tom and Brian’s hike at Sikta I worked on the embroidery work on setting blocks for the Generations Unite. I completed 2 1/2 blocks. We also went to an outdoor concert with Nana in the Bronx on Thursday evening and I worked in this block.
I pieced the last block for this quilt. I just have this block and the one above to finish the embroidery work on the main blocks. After I have the top all pieced together I will start to work on embroidering the corners to complete the design.

Work on “Back to School” continues. I finished appliqueing the crayons on the border. The top is ready to quilt. Maybe later this week. That is if I can sneak in some time on George – my daughters are coming for 10 days and they think they are going to use George the entire time. We will have to wait and see. George is excited – he has been lonley the past week or so.

Saturday Tropical Storm Hanna came and dumped on New York and the surrounding areas.

This squirrel was hanging out on our porch during the beginning of the storm. He wasn’t to excited to go out in the rain so tolerated us looking at him close and personal. (He looked like a drowned rat!)

Anita came over for a private class on Thursday.

She has her quilt almost completed for her new grandson. I love the colors that she choose. I think her quilt turned out really nice!

Stay tuned for my next post – the big 100. I have a fun give away planned.

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Quilting projects this past week

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Anita has been coming for private quilting classes. She wanted to make a quilt for her new little granddaughter that will be born in October. On Wednesday she came for a class and she completed her quilt. I love the color she choose and how the quilt looks.
NQA has a Little Quilt Auction each year at the annual show. The quilts are autioned to earn money for the grants that they offer. Our guild is trying to get some grant money and so we had a push to make some quilts for the auction. Because of this and that I will be at the auction, I decided that I would make a quilt for the auction. Here is the quilt I made for the auction. I did not want to take the time to make a complete quilt so I used a top that I had made for a class sample.

I used a double needle with variaged thread for the quilting on the outer edges.

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Back Home!!!!!

Monday, March 17th, 2008

On Thursday, March 6th I was out at Mineola, NY at a quilt guild presenting “The Legacy Lives On – Five Generations of Quilters”. The next morning I unpacked my suitcases (not usual, I would have probably waited a few days and just left the suitcases hanging around. But when I was in Utah I liked what Emily did, she unpacked everythng right way so it was not hanging over her head.) I am really glad that I did unpack on Friday morning because I realized that I did not have my piece of the double wedding-ring quilt that my Great-grandmother had made. I was wondering if I was going to have to change my lecture to Four Generations of quilts. Anyway, I called my contact at the guild and she said she would make some calls. She called about 1 week later and said that she had finally tracked down my quilt piece. A member of the guild was collecting items for a sale the guild was having in a couple of months and while this peices was being passed around she got alittle confused and thought it was for the sale and just put it with all the other stuff that had been for the sale. Anyway, the above pieces arrived home last Friday. I was very glad to have it.

(This my remake of that quilt and below is the information on the quilt label)

The original Double Wedding Ring quilt was made by Hannah Maria Jensen Mortensen for her granddaughter Carma Mortensen Ricks as a wedding gift around 1942. Carma stored her precious quilt on the top shelf of a closet. The quilt was accidentally pushed up against a light bulb and was scorched and burned beyond repair. Years later, for a Young Women’s project, Hillary Landon (Carma’s granddaughter) cut pieces of the quilt and framed them for family members.

In 2002, Mary Anne Ricks Ciccotelli (Carma’s daughter) decided that she wanted to make a reproduction of the original quilt as a tribute to her great-grandmother and mother. To make it as authentic as possible, she collected feedsacks on eBay. Because of knee surgery in 2004 and not being able to get to her sewing machine, she opted to hand-piece the quilt top. During a visit to Idaho in August of that same year, Deanna Ricks Wade, Susan Ricks Landon (Mary Anne’s sisters) and Connie Christensen Andersen (Mary Anne’s childhood friend) helped hand-quilt around the rings of the quilt. Mary Anne took the quilt home to New York to complete the hand-quilting.

Color Wheel Magic Worhsop Preparation

On Saturday, March 15th – National Quilting Day I had the opportunity of teach my Color Wheel Magic workshop. In preparation for the workshop I played around with a couple of more colorwheel variations. I decided to try one with a printed background. What do you think?

I was in the process of redoing my handout (and in preparation for publishing the pattern) so I started to make another color wheel so I could take pictures of the different steps.

Here are 11 of the 12 quilters who attended the workshop with their color wheels.

They did a GREAT job!

Here is my sample color wheel.

Disappearing Nine-patch Rainbow

On March 4 I got a touch of the flu and didn’t feel like doing the things that I should so I started a new quilt (big surpirse). Anyway, I loved the rainbow quilt that Jennie just made and I wanted to make my version of a rainbow quilt. I decided to use the disappearing 9-patch block. This quilt has been well received and will probably be a workshop that I am going to offer in the future.

Here is the completed top. I guess this is another project on my UFO list (or maybe it is not a UFO until it has been around for a few months).

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A quilting machine!!!!!

Monday, November 12th, 2007

I missed getting this picture updated there I wanted it – so the description will come later.

This past week-end I quilted four quilts (all were at least twin size). Tom was attending the second week-end of Woodbadge training, so I spent most of the week-end in the basement quilting.

Here are the 30 wheel chair bags that I made. They will be donated to the Village Squares Quilters and will be given to Burke Rehabilation Center.

At the September Village Squares meeting member we were asked to bring a UFO (Unfinished object). At the meeting we would turn in our UFO and take another person’s UFO home. Above is the block that I received. I decided that if my husband can sleep under a pink quilt, then I could use this quilt for the Veteran’s project. I added some borders and turn it into a twin size quilt for the Veteran’s project.

Here is a detail of the quilting. I used a black/gray varigated thread. I like how the the gray shows up occasionally and makes the loops and then disappears.

This is my first Veteran’s quilt. Last Spring I was given a fabric donation. When I recieve fabric this way I try to make a least one donation quilt from the fabric that I have received. The above plaids were pieced together with out any sashings. I cut the squares apart and added the black sashings and borders.
Close-up of the quilting.

On the second quilt I decided that a enough was enough and I just used the plaids the way they were and added the borders.

(This is where the first quilt on this blog is suppose to be, but I can’t figure out how to move pictures around after I get them uploaded. 🙁 )

A few years ago I received the center panel from the Pelham Quilters. I was suppose to quilt it and then something was going to happen with it. Well, I was a slacker and never got it done, so when Village Squres Quilters asked the Pelham Quilters to help with the Veteran’s quilt project it was decided that I would use the panel and add borders and make it large enough for a twin size quilt for the Veteran’s project.

Detail of the quilting.

This quilt top was pieced by Nancy from The Quilt Cottage.
Susan Wolamn spray basted it and I quilted it.

Detail of the quilting. I did alot of loops this past week-end.

This quilt was made by Lorraine Smith of The Pelham Quilters.

I took it and quilted it this week-end.

This quilt was peiced by Tom’s mom. I have had it around for a couple of years waiting to be quilted. I always say that I am going to get it done this Christmas, well this year I DID!