Wheat Harvest and Wishful Quilting

Life …

I picked up Kirby and Stacy at 3025 and brought them home to play with Ashton.

… behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. –John 4:35

Cutting the first swath around the field.

Following Grampa.

Grampa showing our grandsons how it is done!

… as a Quilter

I received my “Spring Storm” quilt back from the SAQA exhibit Southern Voices, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

My design wall has been like this for weeks. I’m hoping I can work on it today.

March Wrap Up

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“Indecision–The Storm Within” on Exhibit in Little Rock

Did you know …? I hope you can stop by.

My quilt “Indecision – The Storm Within”

is on exhibit at

Butler Center Galleries

Little Rock, Arkansas

Gallery Hours:
Monday-Saturday: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Southern Voices

Southern Voices features contemporary textile works related to the folk art quilt tradition. This show is the regional exhibition of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt through education, exhibition, professional development, documentation, and publications. SAQA defines an art quilt as "a creative visual work that is layered or stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure." SAQA was founded in 1989 by a group of 50 artists and now has over 3,000 members.

Butler Center -- West Gallery
March 14 - May 24, 2014

Indecision–The Storm Within

Based on Tennessee Williams play “Spring Storm.” Choosing between two is sometimes a hard choice. This or that. Good or bad. Life or death. Blessing or cursing. (Deut. 30:19)  “…choose you this day whom ye will serve … but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” –Joshua 24:15

After quilting, the bolt of lighting wanted to buckle and the background didn’t want to lay flat.

So I cut down through the lightning and cut out a portion and …

…added a piece of black to the underside.

Then using a zig-zag stitch I  quilted around the lightning to make it sizzle.

When I was all done, the quilt still wanted to buckle and ripple.

I’m all for blocking a quilt to make it lay flat. Just pour a gallon of water over it to soak the fibers, square it up and blow it dry.

I am delighted that I met the March 23 deadline and …

met my goal for March with

1600 Quilt, Giveaway Winner, Picnic

Since Mother finished the FourSquare String Quilt, she started another one with the left over strings of my "Spring Storm."

She just sewed the ends of the strips together  for a 1600 quilt only…

I think it’s more like a 3072 quilt.

I think she was both surprised and pleased at how fast it went together.

 

I need to cut some borders for her, and then I think it will almost be a twin size.

 

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And the winner for my fabric giveaway is #111.

 

111. Linda said...

HI! IT'S THE ROSEBUD PINEAPPLE!

THANKS FOR A LOVELY GIVEAWAY!

HAPPY STITCHING

 

Congratulations, Linda!

 

I found it interesting to see my readers favorites of my NQOF quilts. I'm guessing that "A Plate of Pineapples" and "Pharoah's Tombs" were chosen the most.  Thank you everyone for your comments and participation. A Plate of Pineapples won a blue ribbon last week at QuiltFest in Pigeon Forge.

 

And "Pharoah's Tombs" and "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" were both on exhibit at the AQS Show in Lancaster, but no ribbons there!

 

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Saturday I took Kirby, Stacy, and Ashton for a picnic…

 

…out at the implement shed.

 

Later I took a walk while the boys rode their bikes.  First Kirby’s pant leg got caught in the chain.

Then his chain came off. And later the riding got too hard for Stacy & Ashton. I was glad to get back to the house where the boys could play quietly in the living room and I could get back to my quilting!

Mother’s Quilt, Spring Storm, Guests

Mother has stuck with her string quilt and sewed and sewed. And now she already has it finished. We thought she was making this for charity; but yesterday I got to thinking that here she made this quilt when she is 87 years old, and I think it needs to stay in the family as an heirloom. So she said I could have it. How about that? Maybe we can do something else for charity!

We are trying to think of a good name for it. Maybe someone out there in blog land has a good idea of a name.

I have been working on “Spring Storm” as much as I can. Here is the background for a big bolt of lightning coming down out of the sky.

I’ve machine appliqued the lightning to the background and now I’m quilting it with organic lines about 1/8” apart. I’m loving the texture the quilting is giving it.

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Don't forget to enter my fabric giveaway here. You have until March 17 to enter.

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Last Sunday we had a table full of company.

Darren & Becky with Corina

Wes & Heidi with Jackie and William

Jed & Vicki

Paul’s folks, Mom & Daddy

Melanie

and my mother, Margaret.