Design Wall Monday & Other Things

I have been working on these 2 projects recently. The quilt on the left is a fresh modern quilt for charity and the quilt on the right is the beginning of an “Instant Garden” from the class I took with Marilyn Doheny.

I can see an eagle soaring above the garden with a snail, 2 butterflies sitting and one butterfly with it’s wings spread. But, what is that torch like thing sticking up from the bottom? Really, I have no idea. I just had the strips and needed to make something with them.

Tina Sue occupies the blue chair.

Remember a couple posts back where Gabriel had a box with a hole in it trying to make something that would blow a puff of air? Well, Craig found a store bought version (vortex cannon) and couldn’t pass it up. Now they are blowing a puff of air at what? A wasp’s nest? Yes, a wasp’s nest. Then they started throwing rocks at it. And soon they all took off running!

"God is great and God is good ..." Can't you just hear us singing our prayer song before our picnic?

Saturday evening rides with Gramma. We are missing Georgi & Talya.

Marilyn Doheny Quilting Class

I was priviledged to take a quilting class with Marilyn Doheny that was hosted by MQA. Marilyn's work involves sewing strips of fabric into stratas and then cutting the stratas in a lot of different ways.

Here's Marilyn and me with a quilt she made.

This quilt was made with all plaid fabric.

This quilt is so bright and playful, Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

Here you can see the stratas that produced all the different shapes.

This was a 2 day class in Starkville. These three ladies, Sharon, Barbara, & Gail drove down from Iuka, MS and spent the night here with us so they could take in the class too. They were a lot of fun and I enjoyed learning to know them better.

Here is a picture of my fabric and some of the pieces that I made.

Another lady had these beautiful fabrics to work with.

And this fan is just gorgous to me.

To see more inspiration from our class visit Terry Turnage's blog.

The Blue Chair

This week's photo challenge theme is "chair."

I first put Ashton's plastic adirondack chair in the shrub bed in front of the house and took a picture of it.

Then I printed the picture in sepia onto fabric that was ironed to freezer paper. The blue chair was cut out and fused to the sepia printed fabric.

I also sent the backing fabric through the printer, layered the three layers and then quilted and bound it.

Detail

Emily is here again and we are working on a charity quilt for SLM Ministeries.

The inspiration for this quilt came from Lotta Charm by Film in the Fridge.

Weekly Photo Challenge

This week's challenge is "On the Floor."

I'll try and explain how I did it.

I first took last week's "Fun" quilt and put it on the floor and took a picture of it.

I enlarged the picture and printed it out in black and white and used it for my pattern.

From that pattern I cut out the small squares of "Fun" and fused them on to the corresponding fabric. I also drew lines on the background "floor" fabric with a pencil to mark where to sew the lines for the tile floor.

Here is the small "Fun" quilt fused together and ready to be ironed to the background "floor."

I sewed (quilted) the gray tile lines and then fused the "Fun" quilt in place. Then the quilting began in ernest with lots of pebbles.

Detail

Here are the two quilts, "On the Floor" and "Fun" on the floor!

And now, I need to start thinking about next weeks challenge, "Chair."

Family Times

When I realized that our whole family would be together for our normal routine of Saturday night pizza, and Paul's folks were here too, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to have a quick, spur of the moment picture taken. Gabriel was our photographer.

This is so "Gabriel." He loves to figure out how things work.

Now he is making adjustments. I forget what they were trying to prove, but ...

They determined the box was too small and the hole too big! Yes! ... it worked!

Guests: Paul's niece Amanda and husband Phil

It was great having Gina here for a few days. She and Dustin made lots of wedding plans.

How can a little telephone be so captivating?

Legos! Ashton loves it when you make a vehicle to add to his fleet.

Dustin & Gina model Paul's wedding suit and my wedding dress!

My, my! Time has changed us a lot.

Quinten & Evie

Tina Sue is growing so fast. She already has her first tooth!