The back of Val's quilt

- small and cute - 

inchie swap quilts special exhibit 

-It's almost here - 

Quilt Show 2012

March 24/25

10-4

Blackstone Valley Regional Voc-Tech HS

65 Pleasant St.

Upton, MA

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flip flop frenzy

One of the special exhibits in Quilt Show 2012 

is a 

Flip Flop Exhibit

 Members have decorated and donated flip flops which will be exhibited and sold during the show. 

  Funds will be donated to Ovarian Cancer research.

Our exhibit is in honor of Guild member Betty Lou, who we lost to ovarian cancer last year.

Below is a quilt Betty Lou gave to me a few years ago for our Secret Valentine swap.

Quilt Show 2012

March 24/25

Blackstone Valley Regional Voc-Tech High School

Upton MA

10a-4p

special exhibits

This is another round robin quilt. It's a row robin.  

Members worked together as a group and a row was added at each turn. 

Louise's quilt is a tea party theme. It's sweet.

  See the blue thread sitting on Louise's pretty quilt?

This year for our quilt show, we have a dedicated person who will walk the show once everything is hung.  She will look at the quilts and remove any unwanteds.  

Isn't it so disappointing when you attend a show and looking at the beautiful works you notice loose threads or lint?!

It happens, though. 

 Everyone is scrambling at the end right before the show is hung.  

This year with our newly dedicated quilt police nothing shall be overlooked.  

Below is Val's quilt. It's a riot of color and thread . . . 

-bad pictures today.... not that I'm scrambling to get things done or anything....  ;o)

but if you want to see the real deal -

Please join us

Thimble Pleasures Quilt Show 2012

March 24/25

Blackstone Valley Regional Voc-Tech High School

65 Pleasant St.

Upton, MA

the home stretch - - -

- - -  we are coming down to the wire for our upcoming quilt show - - -

This quilt went home with Kathleen.

It's huge and she is left with the huger task of binding it.

(. . .  i'll quilt any day over binding . . .)

Thimble Pleasures Quilt Show

March 24/25th 2012

Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Tech HS

65 Pleasant St (off 140)

Upton, MA 

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fruit

special exhibits

This is Deb's quilt. 

It's part of a Round Robin Special Exhibit in the 

Thimble Pleasures Quild Guild Show

March 24 and 25

 A Round Robin is a project started by one artist and is then passed to others in a group.

Each member adds an element.  Deb made the center block and other members added the outside borders.

The guild show will display several Round Robin works along with traditional and art quilts.

Thimble Pleasures Quilt Guild Show 2012

March 24 and 25

Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Tech High School

Upton, MA.

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flame

Yesterday was leap day.  

Because it's sort of like an extra day I took it off and spent it with a friend. 

It was good. 

We did errands and puttered.

Ate leftovers for lunch.

 Had tea

and watched the snow start to fall.

Today is back to the business of quilting.

This is Gina's pretty quilt.  

I've enjoyed this quilt. 

Today I'll add the colored threads, tie off loose threads, de-lint and it should be finished!

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To jump back into blogging and picture taking I'm going to start a 

Focus Friday Feature. 

. . . every Friday I'll post a Photo of something . . .

it's Thursday not Friday yet - but this is what was out my sewing room window this morning.

-thanks for visiting-

with good intentions

This is my sketchbook for the sketchbook project . . .

*true confessions*

. . . it didn't make the deadline . . . 

. . . midway through working on it  

I realized I had made the cover too large to meet the requirements . . . 

. . . my plan was to recover it once the pages were finished . . .

 . . . I hadn't realized how fat the book was getting. . . 

. . .  pages would have to be removed for it to qualify. . .

. . . I wasn't going to like taking pages out . . .

. . . so I didn't . . . 

. . . It will stay as is . . .

 I'm keeping it.

. . . 

And yes, I've been very busy with quilt work

. . .

Thanks for stopping by.

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After having a computer malfunction and loosing loads of pictures... I vowed to be better organized
in the picture housekeeping department.  

Well, okay, so it's only 6 months later and I'm just getting started
(again).

But isn't it hard to organize photos?  you tend to want to look at all of them. . .  time passes, nothing is sorted and you are right back where you started.

-anyway, in doing just that-

I found some photos of great quilts. . . .

This is Deb's quilt.

She made it for her son, 

I quilted it,

  she gifted at

 Christmastime.

It's all hexagons and she used only one print fabric.
You can see the main fabric in the mini border.

The cubes are batik fabrics.
Her color choices are perfect.
It's so cool how the cubes are so dimensional looking.

Deb wanted circles in the center and lines in the border, so that is what we designed.

I'm not exactly sure how many hexagons are in this quilt,
 but I do know, no two are alike, that's pretty amazing
-and a lot of work!-

Deb's son, who she gifted this quilt to, is an artist.
He is showing his art in Boston for the month of February, 2012.
He goes by the street artist's name Nanook and you can find info on the gallery show by clicking
 here.

(having trouble getting my link to work try this
http://fourthwallproject.com/)