Monday, March 31, 2025

Trunk Show to Guild Members

 

(I have no idea why these photos were difficult to post  few days ago.  I tried again, and voila! )

Thank You, Peg who posted these photos from my recent Trunk show.  After displaying my quilts, I left then out on the dais for closer inspection for an hour or so.  The subject of most comments and questions was the deer outline quilted in the borde. Perhaps the viewer has not been looking closely in previous shows as I've always put various critters, handprints, silliness, etc., in the quilting.  (Hope you can see it.)

Here is larger photo of the above Star in the Forest, thinking about a much-loved bicycle trail in the Smoky Mountains where I pedaled years ago.




 
The previous quilts have all been shown on my blog.   And  YES, that Jacob's Ladder is made up of 6 inch blocks, and is hand-quilted (by me) .  Again, the re-engineered log cabin second on right is my best of all, and where I learned to machine quilt because it was professionally quilted by the astonishing quilter Judy Woodworth, who was a guild member long ago.  I saw her amazing work on this quilt and I wanted to DO THAT MYSELF and now use her creativity for my own inspiration altho my quilting is more free-motion style on my DSM.   I call this my Water Logged Log Cabin, and what you cannot see, is a "million" tiny, hand-sewn blue beads on the corners, suggesting under sea bubbles.  Again, the ladies never noticed the bead bubbles until they saw them close-up.  

I'll again show this Quarter Log Cabin  treasure, held by friends Jody and Tina.   Most of these blue scraps came from the Free Table.   Inspired by their beauty, I had the quilt finished with 2 months.      

The pattern just WORKS doesn't it?  I've made this design 5 or 6 times recently.  The Logs are sometimes too wide, or too narrow - I didn't worry.  I believe it WORKS, every time, because of the contrast of lights and darks.  

It was a good day! 


Sunday, March 23, 2025

A Trunk Show

 Last week I presented a Trunk Show to my Guild, followed by giving a class on the Kaleidoscope block.  It turned out well, and I' had planned on thanking Peg  for her photos.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to translate them into Blogger, but then, I've posted them over the years so ... you've seen them all.  In the meantime I have to learn something new ... again.  And I AM working on "trying new things".

Lesson 48624:

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you already have.