Sat March 15, 2014

Another weeks has come and gone. Where in the world does the time go to? This month is so busy for me. I  don't like wishing my life away, but I will be glad when this month is over. It ends with the quilt guilds retreat.  I have gotten a lot done this week, but have a ton more to do.
I had a great afternoon yesterday. I spent it with my wonderful friend, fellow fiber artist and long arm quilter, Cathie Purdy. She helped me assemble bags we are going to put our goodies in for the Dixie Quilt Guild's retreat. I am in charge of getting donations for the door prizes. I have been amazed at the generosity of the business I have asked for donations. Most have given us something and a lot of them have given us way more than I have expected. I don't have a total list comprised, but when I do I will post it. There have been 3 or so that were extremely generous. I mean to the tune of 80 books from one, 80 patterns from another. Most gave 7-10 gifts each. I just have been really blown away by all of them! I will post a list after our retreat.
The web site for the fiber art group I belong to us up and running. Rosemary Hargrove's (a PHFA member) daughter, Emily King, has been working to get the site all set up. The add is wwwpaintedhillsfiberartists.com. Emily has done a wonderful job and the site will evolve as time goes on. Check our site out!
It's been a very long day and I am tired so I will say good night. But...... check out our web site!

Nancy Blair's Quilt

I finished Nancy Blair's Quilt this afternoon.  It is a small sampler. We used a poly thread in a tan tone and a cotton batting.  She wanted something different in each block. I did piano keys around the outside. I used stencils and rulers to do the quilting. I am pleased with how it turned out. I think she will be happy with it. 

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Sat March 8th, 2014

The weather has been so nice here in St. George. I am loving it. I do wish that so many of our plants and trees were not dead. I don't think any of our plan trees will make it. I don't know about the oleanders either. So far, driving around, I have not seen anyone removing theirs .. so maybe  they will come out.

We had our monthly quilt guild meeting today. We had a heat turn out.  Annie Unrein was our speaker. She is a member of our guild. We are so very blessed with so many talented and truly nice people here in this area. Quilter's are the best! Annie showed us a bunch of her patterns along with the finished products. There were more than one of her pattern I really love and just haven't had time to make any, but plan to. I really love her soft and stable foam lining. It is 100% better than headliner.
She showed us her new zippers, they are pretty cool too.  Her web site is www.byannie.com. If you haven't checked her out do!

The Dixie Quilt Guild's retreat is just around the corner, March 27-29th.  I have gotten a lot of gifts for door prizes from different vendors. I have been amazed at their generosity! Cathie Purdy and I will be making bags for prizes next week.

This has been the first night in a long while that my husband has been able to take one of his telescopes out to view and photo the stars.

Tomorrow is our youngest daughter's Birthday. She was a wonderful child and has grown into a wonderful, smart and beautiful young woman. I am so very proud of her. I just can't believe time has gone by so very quickly!

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Sunday March 2

Today started out nice and sunny. The afternoon became more cloudy as the day progressed and it got chilly.

I finished this t-shirt quilt for a new client,  Bev Nelson. The square spiral pantograph is my favorite design. It looks good on everything where texture is needed. I almost always use it on t-shirt quilts.

Cathie Purdy came over and we decided what we were going to for goodie bags for our quilt guild retreat. They are going to be fun. 

I need to get the list made of business that have made donations for door prizes to be given out at the retreat.

The ladies in our friendship group have worked out hard on this retreat and it is going to be great.

I was brought the guild's opportunity quilt a couple days ago. It is going to be great. The ladies decided to do something not south western this time. I was kind of worried how it was going to come out... some of the blocks did not seem to go together very well. But Lael and the ladies did a wonderful job. It has more of a modern look. 

Sat March 1

I finished this quilt for a client.  It is a top her Mother made. I think she will be happy with it even if I am not. The top was not pieced really well. I usually use a puffy batt when there is a lot of excess fabric. The client wanted warm and natural type batting. I used a 70/30. 

Monday Feb 24, 2014

I got a bit more done on my statue of liberty piece. I have started building a lot of my work on a cadmium red back ground. I try to let a little of the red show through every once in a while.  It seems to make the piece have more vibrance or something. I got the idea to do my pieces this way from watching workshops on the the internet, Mark Mahafee (I am not sure on the spelling of his last name). He paints his canvases cad red and then paint with acrylic paint on top. The red shows through in some places. I figured if he could do it with paint, I could do it with fabric. It has worked pretty good. It is not that easy to cut the fabric pieces and place them close, but not touching each other. I do wish I had not made this one so large though. It is going to take a long time to finish it.

I have been raking leaves and trying to get some of the dead planting cleaned up and removed. This winter was really bad for plants here.....

Merilyn's latest...

I got Marilyn Listen's latest quilt quilted. I now need to get the binding sewn on for her. I thought this was such a cute quilt.

Yesterday was our monthly meeting of the PHFA group.  I need to get myself in gear and get information  sent to Janey so she can work on verbiage for a project we are working on as a group.  One of our members daughter is setting up a web site for us. It will be up and running soon. The address is www.paintedhillfiberarts.com. We are very excited!