Remember when I
talked about Mary Kerr's book,
Vintage Revisited? On Wednesday, our minigroup met and shared the quilts we had made. If you recall, we started with this bow tie block, circa 1900:
It was wonderful to see my friends again (I've been so busy with my mother's health issues) and share our creative processes:
Pam is a gardener and she used buttons to make these funky flowers. Some of them are buttons on buttons! What a great idea! She loves black and white and red quilts and this one will go with a bed sized quilt she has been making. I love the border print she used as well which ties it all together:
Both Kim and Pam used some reproduction fabrics in their quilts and I love the result Kim got with her bowtie quilt. Her quilt has a really crisp feel to it! I think the plaid fabric in the border adds a really fantastic dimension to the quilt. She worked on hers while recovering from illness. Look at the cool fabrics she used:
Julie went a different route using embroidery to embellish hers. The strawberry fabric makes it sing! She is going to hang hers in a room in her house. I love the greens and the gingham she used. She still needs to bind hers (and she has an awesome binding too!) and will have done it by our December guild meeting:
Close up of one of the embrodiery sections:
Then there is mine, I went through various ideas before I settled on "Peter's Merry Little Christmas" celebrating the special relationship my son had with my Dad and the various Christmas traditions we have in our family--like Danish Ribbons, St. Nicholas Day, my Dad's tradition of nerf guns or sword for the boys (and Dad which made Christmas particularly raucous) and the annual gifts of slinkys and yo-yos:
PS--the black and white plaid fabric is the train rails and the reindeer antlers.
I emailed Mary Kerr today and hope she will check out our blocks...and if she did one, we will post her photos too!
Next challenge? A dresden plate block that Pam supplied us. Our new challenge quilts are due in March and we are all probably going to start ours in January, but the ideas are coming already!!!!!
Dogs all over the place and the yule log video on (:D)
The traditional nerf gun war that went on between the boys--er--men. At one point, Helena picked up someone's nerf gun and shot Peter. It hit him in the eye, which he said was his Ralphy moment.
Laughter :)
And a new photographer in the bunch (say cheese!):
After many years of prodding, my husband finally replaced the fabric on our old dining room chairs--and he FINISHED the job. I love the new fabric and think it really makes the chairs look so sweet! I've had this fabric for YEARS!
I joined a new Yahoo Christmas group and they had a link to a "10 minute tablerunner" they shared. It took me more than 10 minutes but I made 3 different ones. These were unfinished when I photographed them; they are done now! This one is for Jess and Peter:
I love this fabric and hope they will too!
Two other presents :
Oh how my dogs make me smile! Every year we take Helena to see Santa and we haven't this year because of snow storms and our Santa's schedule. Hopefully we can arrange to do that after school one day. I was getting concerned that we wouldn't get our annual picture.
below: two insulted old gals
Seamus the elf. He really looks pathetic, doesn't he?
You didn't think it was possible to be even more humiliated? Think again. My Mother has a WHOLE box marked "dog costumes". She may only have two dogs but true to her regular shopoholic habits, she has tons of costumes for the pets.
Is this anyway to treat an old broad?
Greta tells mom to stop laughing!
"What the heck is going on here?"
Teddy was actually content. He was getting biscuits and could wear his hat cocked like Dean Martin :)
Merry Christmas!
