It all started.............

This crazy busyness seemed to have started way back in April. I belong to North Coast Needlers, which happens to be the largest guild in Northeast Ohio. We held our quilt show the weekend of April 17-18. There were almost 300 quilts hung at the show, 26 of them were quilted by me. Two of them won ribbons. I was in charge of the kitchen. Establishing the menu, buying the food and drink, cooking the food, and pleading for bakery donations. Sixty pounds of sloppy joe's, and lots of shredded chicken sandwiches. I couldn't have done it without the help of my sidekick Judie. The show was a hit. The quilts were beautiful, and if anyone left there hungry it was their own fault.

These are the quilts of mine that were hung in the show:
Last year Frieda Anderson came to our guild to teach a workshop with her patterns and fabric. These are my version of her sunflowers. I machine quilted the flowers, and did some hand stitching in the background with hand-dyed floss. I have since added more stitching.This is the quilt I call summertime. It is NOT one of those cut up nine patches. (Only because at the time I made this quilt, I didn't know about that particular way!)

The inspiration for this quilt came from "You've Got Mail".Kathleen Kelly, (Meg Ryan), had a quilt similar to this on her bed in the movie. I have coveted it since the first time I saw the movie. One day early this spring while I was quilting, (I often put movies in my laptop while I'm working, and just listen), I lifted my head to watch, only to notice the quilt one more time. I immediately went to my stash, picked out a collection from Moda called Chelsea Boutique, and at 1:30am the morning before the show was to be hung, it was finished! I belive it ended up being 108 X 88, or something close.

This quilt is called "Kinetic Energy". I made it spring 2008, but didn't quilt it until the week before the quilt show. I freehand quilted it with feathers, and leaf vines.

After the show was closed on Sunday, I went home, had one day to tie up some loose ends around the house, and pack for my trip to the AQS show in Paducah, Kentucky.

To be continued.........

Happy Mother's Day!!

It feels like I've been gone forever. Time sure does fly when you're busy. I have lots of pictures from the quilt show in Paducah. If you've never been you've got a treat waiting for you when you get there. I've never seen such beautiful works of art. Off to have dinner with the peeps. I'll find you soon.

Linda

ps. thanks for hanging around!

Paducah!!

On a road trip to the AQS Show in Paducah.

to be continued...........

North Coast Needlers

This is where you'll find me all weekend! Stop by if you can!!

North Coast Needlers 11th Biennial Quilt Show
“To the Nines”

Saturday, April 18, 2009 (10 am to 6 pm)
& Sunday, April 19, 2009 (10 am to 5 pm)
Westlake High School 27830 Hilliard Blvd. Westlake, Ohio
Donation: $5 Seniors: $4 Ages 6-12: $4
Handicapped accessible. Rubber soled shoes requested to protect the new gym floor.
FEATURING: 200+ Quilts, Vendors, Raffle Quilt, Challenge Quilts, Hoffman Challenge,
Quilt Side Cafe, Door Prizes
!! Bras for a Cause, An uplifting Auction to Support ! ! Breast Cancer Patients

Quilts of Valor

I received the following letter in my email on Saturday. If anyone is interested in helping I'm sure it would be appreciated!

Hi Linda,
I have recently been contacted by Quilts of Valor and they are in desperate need of 600 - 700 quilts to be donated to the Warrior in Transition Battalion at Ft. Bragg, NC. Quilts of Valor is a volunteer organization which provides quilts to wounded warriors to help in their recovery. This is a wonderful organization and I am honored that they have asked me to help them.Here are the details about the quilt(s) needed for donation:
Finished quilts can be of any piecing pattern.
Red, white and blue fabrics would be their first choice, but any kind of fabrics are fine, but please, no children's fabric.
The recommended size of a donated quilts is 54 x 67 inches.
The quilts can be a maximum of 72 x 87 inches and a minimum of 50 x 60 inches.
Please, no quilts that look like flags. Flag quilts are used to cover coffins.
Because this is a request for quilts to be donated to a specific program, the Warriors in Transition Battalion, the finished quilts need to be mailed directly to Sue Wolf, a point of contact for the Warrior in Transition Battalion. Her group, The North Carolina Stars of Hope Quilters present the quilts to the wounded soldiers in person. Please contact Sue Wolf at swolf@email.unc.edu for information on how to send your quilt to her. If you have some quilts which meet the above requirements and can be used by a wounded service person (including many women) please donate it to this worthwhile cause. The name of each person who donates a quilt from this email will be put into a drawing for a $50 Gift Certificate from Longarm University!Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you know who would like to help.On a personal note, my son-in-law is career soldier stationed at Ft. Brag. He is serving a second tour in Iraq and I pray for his, and every other soldier' s, safety every day. I was also a wife for 31 years to a Vietnam vet. Our service men and women NEED our support. A quilt is a very small price to pay for what our military does everyday to defend this great country.

Cindy Roth Longarm Universitywww.LongarmUniversity.com

Joan's Wildflower Quilt

We have a quilt shop in the area that also sells machines. They are big on all of these embroidered quilts. I've had quite a few of them come through my studio lately. Very pretty! On the last one I did, I chose to match the thread colors to the fabrics. There were lots of thread changes. On this quilt, Joan had chosen an amazing varigated thread that worked beautifully with the multi-colored batiks.

Happy Birthday Anna-baby!!

This is Anna, my "middle child". She is 19 today.

Happy birthday honey, I love you.