Shirley Anne’s Heart

Posted By drsao on May 22, 2011

Friday night we met at Quilter’s Corner for our second meeting of the Richmond Modern Quilt Guild!  We had lots of fun – lots of inspiration – lots of instruction – and fabulous show and tells!  It is amazing that 82% of the people who attended our first meeting last month JOINED and are now official Charter Members!

Our President, Catherine, is truly a MODERN QUILTER – well, she is a MODERN EVERYTHING, really.  Every time I see her she is wearing jewelry that she has designed and created!

Our PRES was sporting NEW MODERN jewelry that SHE MADE!

AND LOOK AT CATHERINE'S NAME TAG!

If we bring in our name tags during the July meeting our names  will be put into a drawing for a prize!  Next month we get our membership cards and they will be business card size…..so if we WANT, we can design our name tags so that our cards will fit into them.  Catherine made her name tag – very cute (and on the back there are 3 slots to hold credit cards!)

We also got a bit of encouragement and instruction on how to make our postcards for the JUNE SWAP challenge.  We can bring in six (or the number of our choice) cards to swap.  Catherine brought in some of hers to share!  I am inspired – how about you!?

Catherine's Post Cards

More of Catherine's Post Cards

The program – lead by Cheryl – was fun.  We learned how to do English Paper Pieced hexagons……and OH MY – look at these itty-bitty wonderful hexagon quilts in progress!

Cheryl's cute little hexagons

It was really a lot of fun!  AND we got introduced to the new owner of Quilter’s Corner – TIFFANY.  YEAH TIFFANY!

Tiffany is standing up right behind Bonnie

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Posted By drsao on May 22, 2011

There were so many wonderful SHOW AND TELLS at our Richmond Modern Quilt Guild Meeting last night.

We even had some interesting discussion about the pros and cons of using  FRICTION PENS (write on fabric – apply an iron – and VOILA, the INK MAGICALLY DISAPPEARS!)   However, if you use the pen to mark a quilting design on your quilt – and then the quilt gets cold –  the ink might REAPPEAR.

SO – we actually did an experiment – and put a piece of fabric (that had been marked on with the friction pens)  in the FREEZER.  Yes, the ink did reappear.  SO the conclusion is DO NOT PUT YOUR QUILTS IN THE FREEZER if you have used a friction pen to mark on it !  🙂  Now, no one can say we quilters don’t have fun!  I am glad Emily brought in these pens to show us how they work!

I hope you enjoy the show and tells!  (I just had to include a picture of Vonnie and her SPECIAL MICHE BAG too!  Love it!  WANT ONE!  I just might have to have a MICHE PARTY!)

I hope you enjoy the SHOW AND TELLS!

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Posted By drsao on May 18, 2011

While at Kohl’s on Mother’s Day, while we were waiting for my DD to spend her gift card from her husband, two of my grandangels (5th grader, Sarah and Freshman, Leanna) decided to entertain themselves – AND ME!

When I said GO – they both scattered and picked out ONE OUTFIT for the OTHER ONE to try on.  I think they did a fantastic job.

Leanna picked out Sarah's outfit

Sarah picked out Leanna's outfit

Isn’t this a great way to PLAY DRESS UP! AND…..TA DA…..here they are!

Grandangels posing with their outfits!

It was a pretty good “MARKETING STRATEGY” too because Leanna ending up purchasing her pants and hat!!!

I don’t know if I have SPECIFICALLY SAID THIS BEFORE…..but grandangels are on my LIST OF FAVORITE THINGS!

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Posted By drsao on May 16, 2011

The title of this post is misleading, because I don’t have a design wall – but I do have a design floor!!!

TODAY my DESIGN FLOOR features Judy Laquidara’s latest quilt  design – THE ROAD TO BROWNWOOD.  I am working on the pieced border now!      I am really loving this quilt.

I still can’t believe that Judy designed this quilt AND posted the instructions for it on her blog (www.patchworktimes.com) WHILE SHE WAS in the middle of packing to move, getting a house ready to sell, and looking for a new house in another state!    This isn’t just ANY MOVE either – Judy had to find a home for her chickens too!

I have 24  (YES 24 – and don’t ask……)   5 1/2″ square ORPHAN HOURGLASS blocks using the same gold and raspberry fabric….as you see in this quilt top ……HM….. I wonder how I could incorporate those 24 blocks into the border……

If I can’t think of something, I will put those blocks into a scrappy back!

If you want to see what is on the design walls of quilters across the country – check out Judy Laquidara’s blog at www.patchworktimes.com

sao's Road To Brownwood in progress

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Posted By drsao on May 16, 2011

The Virginia Consortium of Quilters met in Midlothian, VA in May.   I joined and thoroughly enjoyed my first meeting.  We had great food and wonderful favors  from our host guild – the Country Piecemakers in Powhatan, VA!

I was excited to FINALLY MEET Bonnie Stapleton – my goodness, I have communicated with her in online groups for ages but this was our first REAL LIFE MEETING!!!

Bonnie and Barbara - our Country Piecemaker Greeters

I was in Catherine’s class and it was fabulous (and I am not just saying that because we happen to be friends!)  If she teaches at another meeting, BE SURE TO SIGN UP – you will learn a lot (and more.)

Embellishing and Dimensionalizing Art Quilts

Catherine (yes, she made her jewelry!)

Catherine designed and made her art bracelet

I said you would learn a lot and MORE – and I am serious.  Catherine is a mixed media artist, and she knows a lot about multiple art forms.  In addition, she is FUNNY!

It is amazing what all we did in one day:  we bleached, we spritzed, we ironed, we stamped, we painted, we glittered, we tore, we cut, we sanded, we crumpled, we glued, we sewed – – – and we ate candy (I had my first ever in my whole life MARY JANE)   all in one worshop!

In fact, I felt a bit like Picasso – he once said that it took his whole life for him to learn to draw like a child….and in case you read in French – voila….

“J’ai mis toute ma vie a savior dessiner comme un enfant.”  Picasso

We played, we manipulated, we laughed, we made mistakes, we turned our mistakes into INTENDED art forms…..that was my favorite part – REDEFINING – a wonky stamp job becomes a quirky art form….don’t you love it!  🙂  It was fun because there were NO MISTAKES – just serendipity!

Here are some RANDOM photos from our workshop on Saturday!

ENJOY!

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