Life as a Quilter -- Julia Graber

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Sunset and Another “Fiesta Fireworks”

Life …

We had another pretty sunset the other day.

And then I saw the reflection in the sewing room window.

I ran the Acadia through the car wash.

… as a Quilter

I’m starting another “Fiesta Fireworks” quilt. This time it will be small, only 12” X 12.”

Linking with

WIP at Freshly Pieced

Sunday, March 09, 2014

Possum Town Quilters

We had lots of inspiration at our recent meeting of our local quilt guild.

Judy and Lauren pieced this quilt top to be hand quilted in this next year for the Columbus Welcome Center.

Judy showed us her Bonnie Hunter’s “Easy Street” from last year’s mystery quilt.

Some of the ladies finished their “Silos” (and a dead tree) from the class I taught several weeks ago.

Barb’s “Airplanes” will make a great quilt for a flying enthusiast grandchild.

Tonya, our ‘over achiever’ finished her 2013 Block of the Month quilt.

Terri is about to finish this quilt for her nephew.

Patti made a small quilt to improve her hand quilting.

Friday, March 07, 2014

Fiesta Fireworks Quilt – All Finished

I think now I can officially call this quilt finished! After starting it at Pigeon Forge and working on it some more when I got home and thinking it was finished, … I decided to cut off the binding, trim the quilt and bind it again. Now I really am finished.

I originally made this quilt for a challenge with the theme CELEBRATION.

It measures 39”X41.” (Oh dear. English teachers, does the period come after the inches symbol or before the inches symbol?)

It’s made from cotton fabric and overlaid with black tulle with glitter.

Detail

Kirby and Stacy came today and played with Ashton. They helped me with the photo shoot.

“Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord and joyfully celebrate His mighty acts, for great is the glory of the Lord.” –Psalm 138:5 (Amplified Bible)

Monday, March 03, 2014

Fixing Fiesta Fireworks

I did some snipping and ripping today.

Linking to:
WIP at Freshly Pieced.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Life and Fiesta Fireworks Quilt

Life …

I was glad for the farm boys to come down to the house and pluck up some ornamental purple plum trees that needed replacing.

Mr. Busy Bee man is to come out now and trim back the shrubs, replant, and add mulch.

The chute where the hogs are loaded onto the trucks. Do you see a rainbow around the sun?

The grain bin with the lagoon.

Irrigation system. Why is it so hard not to take too many sunset pictures? And there's that rainbow again. Is it my camera or was there really a rainbow there?

… as a Quilter

I’d love to do another art quilt of these silos with the barn. This is on the farm just south of us where Paul grew up.

I just disqualified myself from the CELEBRATION Challenge at A Mountain Quiltfest in Pigeon Forge,TN. You see, the rules stated that the perimeter of the quilt could not exceed 160.” Well, after quilting it I cropped it back to as big as I thought looked good, bound it, and added a sleeve. It measured 170.” Then I read the rules again and ran out of time. Aaarg!

I’m still toying with the thought of cropping off 2” from each side and 1” from the top so the fireworks don’t look incomplete. What do you think? And then the binding maybe should be all black instead of using the leftover scraps. Maybe I can enter it into a different show if I read and remember the fine print.

Fiesta Fireworks