Shirley Anne’s Heart

Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild and AUGUSTA COLE at our February 2010 Meeting

Posted By drsao on February 14, 2010

Saturday I actually drove in the snow – a beautiful light snowfall in Powhatan, VA. I was BENT on making it to my Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild meeting in Powhatan. I could not face missing one more thing because of the snow and I HAD TO MAKE THIS MEETING BECAUSE THE GREAT AUGUSTA COLE was coming to present a TRUNK SHOW and a CURVED LOG CABIN QUILT WORKSHOP….and I am happy to say I made it and I had a great time! The snow stopped falling by noon and the sun actually came out. It was a beautiful day – beginning with snow and ending with a gorgeous sunset – and there was lots of fun in between the beginning and the end.

We had breakfast goodies to eat and personalized box lunches later…… and it was so much fun to see everyone wearing their pink and red VALENTINE’S DAY apparel…..me? I wore black but what else is new!? I did wear a silver heart necklace. 🙂 Merci wore a brand new ONE DAY EARLY VALENTINE DIAMOND RING. Catherine wore another of her creative original art pieces – both a gorgeous necklace and bracelet too! How does Catherine come up with all of these works of art! She has endless ideas that just pop into her head!!! Sara had on one of my favorite pincushions of all time – a button valentine necklace pincushion…..FANTASTIC! I enjoyed the food, the fashion show, the quilt show – the class – what was there NOT TO LIKE!

We had a wonderful treat – Augusta Cole brought quilts to show – and it was a fantastic quilt show. I had no idea that she did such fine hand quilting. I am inspired, to say the least! I not only enjoyed seeing all of the quilts, but I enjoyed hearing the stories that went with each quilt. Our quilts become our personal history – a parade of events and people are embodied in our stitches. I took lots of pictures!!

After the meeting we had the most wonderful class taught by Augusta Cole. We had the cutest box lunch (with our names on the boxes) and then we learned to make a curved log cabin quilt. I always have fun when Augusta teaches a class because she is so much fun to be with – and I learn so much from her. For one thing, she is teaching me to be careful and precise when I sew…..there goes my GALLOPING HORSE philosophy (if you can’t see a stitch out of place from a galloping horse then it doesn’t matter! I don’t even know WHY I developed this philosophy because I don’t have a horse and I haven’t seen many friends galloping by either! )

Well, I have to say that I love the little log cabin blocks (and I MEAN LITTLE) – the tiny little blocks are made from 1 1/2 inch dark strips and ONE INCH light strips…..they are really cute and I can’t wait to see them all finished!!! I wonderful how many of the 18 people who started this quilt on Saturday will finish. I think I will finish – and Sheddy will because she can already visualize her 30’s curved log cabin quilt as a table runner holding a pot of spring tulips!

Enjoy the pictures!!!