WHOLE FOODS and SIT AND STITCH – Quilter’s Corner – January 21, 2011
Posted By drsao on January 21, 2011
It was a wonderful day today……Catherine, John and I went to WHOLE FOODS for breakfast prior to our Sit and Stitch Day at Quilters Corner.
AGAIN – WHOLE FOODS was just wonderful! I took a picture of the sign that listed the 30 top super healthy foods and I got 17 of these foods in my salad/lunch box that I got to go! I sure do feel healthy tonight too! How many of these food did you eat today?
SUPER FOODS
I noticed that my fork was a bit deformed and it gave me a chuckle…..I thought about selling it on EBAY – you know people are always buying potato chips in the shape of something – but I decided to just USE THE FORK to eat my tofu (which I highly recommend – it was the best tofu that I have ever eaten!)
Deformed Fork
John claimed he had a deformed fork too *see John holding up his spoon?
John's Deformed Fork
*see Catherine suggesting that John should be nice…..
BE NICE!
That was only the beginning of our fun.
We had every table and chair occupied at Quilter’s Corner and everyone had GREAT SHOW AND TELLS TODAY…… just look.
The antique quilts were wonderful and I think they all belonged to Dawn.
I wonder if one day – maybe 100 years from now – some quilters will find some of OUR QUILTS and swoon over them!!!!
I got my Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt out and Catherine showed me how to bind it………OH AM I EVER GOING TO HAVE FUN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AT THE QC RETREAT!
Here is my FUTURE ANTIQUE QUILT….. I just love the way Sara Parrish quilted it for me! MAYBE – just MAYBE I will have a lot of the binding finished by Sunday!
My Grandmother's Flower Garden
And I don’t think this will ever be an antique; however today I finished my New Year’s Eve Mystery 2010 designed by Ann Smith – it was our fabricaholics group mystery. I really like it and was pleased with the Moda HOLLY JOLLY fabrics that I used in it…..they had been just waiting in my stash for something special!!!
I finished my NYE MYSTERY
I thought this Scotty Fabric in Catherine’s Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt was so cute….isn’t it unique?
Catherine worked on her Disappearing Nine Patch
Catherine ALWAYS has CREATIVE UNIQUE things to share. Today she began burning the spiders off the embroidered backing for her SPIDERWEB QUILT. I had never seen anything like this – it was like magic…..the backing just melted away and left those spider legs in tact!
Catherine is BURNING her spiders
I think Cathy’s Thirties Something Quilt is beautiful. After seeing hers (and previously having admired Marla’s) I think this just MIGHT be the next quilt of mine that I finish!
Love Cathy's Thirties Something Quilt
OK – so all day I rehearsed the names of some new friends….. Cindy and Kelly…… they are sisters and I think I had a good way to keep it all figured out . Kelly I associated with GREEN for Kelly Green and she was wearing a pink shirt…..so I thought about a colorful shirt which made me think of GREEN which made me think of Kelly – this made perfect sense to me! And, by the way it worked.
……..but alas now I am confused…..is this quilt the FIRST ONE EVER MADE by Cindy or is it Kelly’s first quilt? One thing that I am sure of is that I LIKE IT!!!
FIRST QUILT
And now for the quilt that made me gasp – can you see the hand quilting on this? The stitches are perfect!!! Pat taught me to HAND QUILT – maybe some day my quilting will look like this…..I just have to keep practicing!
Here is another one of Pat’s Quilt……. I think it is so pretty!
Dawn is going to hand quilt this one……oh my – this is just SO INSPIRING! I just love this one – the rich butternut fabrics just give me the chills…
Dawn's Quilt
….and her WHEN PIGS FLY mini tote just makes me smile! I SURE SMILED A LOT TODAY…….:)
Simply faboo day with friends and fumes, still need to burn me some spiders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Preview to the first official day of retreat and to start with the three of us at Whole Foods for breakfast, well, the games began early as you can well see……………… Grrrrreeeeaaaat show and tell and oodles o’ stuff got underway and whata’ wonderful dinner break, thanks soooooooooo much Mike, fab fuel for the soul and spirit. Wonderful and blessed day, whata’ lucky, lucky, lucky girl I am, and I am simply in LUV with Cathy’s thirties reproduction quilt, gotta’ get out my templates and get mine done, whata’ inspiration, WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!