Quilting Bee Show

Faye stitched this; a whole town paper pieced.

All original blocks, and some historic photos. You can see it is on the loom for Quilting Bee to hand finish.

I especially like the tree trunk...

...and the stained glass in this church window. Sew many tiny pieces!

And I love to see all the very different types of quilts that come thru the museum quilting bee

Faye says computer fabric printing packs have too much polyester, so distort historic photo prints. She recommends making your own toner fabric with wax paper and a bottle of something from Singer.

Here are details from a few more treasures at the museum Quilt Show:

 

 

 

 

Quilter Kathy MacCleary

I was sew fortunate to spend Saturday morning at the Museum visiting with Kathy MacCleary and her amazing tiny stitches.

Hand quilting!

 

 Red & white thread for r/w EPP.

 

 Tiny Drunkards Path (nearly - corner to corner pieces) baby quilt.

 

  Kathy's signature continuous Rosette hand-quilting shows well in this baby quilt pic.

 

 

I put Nanette's button ring in the picture so you can see these tiny hexies really are 1".

 

 I think this one is my favorite: Broderie Perse with hexie flower "rain." And rare machine stitching here. [Bad picture, sorry.]

 

Or this one! Kathy says finishing this quilt helped her recover from a stroke.

[If Blogger would let me add a caption, it would say, "Kathy MacCleary w/ homespun masterpiece."]

Kathy matched all the naps in every tiny plaid and gingham!!!  

Hand quilted - oh yes, she did!

 

Even the "T"s are matched!

Kathy says, "When your first quilt is Cathedral Window, everything else seems easy."

And here are some of Kathy's new adventures in fiber arts:

Can you see the doll sized chatelaine with scissors and spool? Cute hairy legs, too:)

[Sorry, Blogger won't let me enlarge pics todays.]

 



Turquoise wrapped with copper wire and beads.

 

Yes, that is the moon you see :)

 

 

 

 Kathy has made sew many amazing quilts!

 

 

Kathy, thank you for sharing!

And thank YOU for reading :)

Corvid Complete

At last! Finished my corvid applique project. I learned wool applique from Darlene at a Gilbert Museum quilt show class. As you recall, I had trouble finding a setting for my very primitive plaid applique blocks.

As you can see, I decided on table runner size with 3 equal blocks and 2.5" border. I set the applique blocks in tilted black frames to give them added wight in the design.

It was the feathered sunflower from the Quilt It! Challenge first project that inspired me to finish my corvid appliques. I just couldn't wait to try a full sized sunflower! It just fit, the perfect sized medallion to dress-up the center block.

 

 

I used a silky Gutterman brown to quilt the sunflower and outline the crows and the in-the-ditch allover. Should I have used black thread?



 

The best part of finishing Corvid Applique was seeing it "come home"- back where it started. You see, when I took new table runner to show the girl's at museum quilting bee - they added to the museum's annual quilt show :)  It sure looks nice hanging with the vintage and exhibit quilts, don't you think?  I will leave you with two more pictures of the Quilt Show, open thru Memorial Day if you are in town:

 

 

T Creation for BVB

Saturday was one of the BEST days of my life! I went to my first rock concert. The 4 bands there put on the most spectacular performance! Even Mom was impressed, and she's been to a lot of concerts in her days. But I knew that it was going to be awesome. In my excitement for the show, I made my own band T-shirt for the Black Veil Brides, the main band at the performance.




To make the T-shirt, I first used a white colored fabric pencil to trace out the logo of BVB on the shirt. Then I used white puffy paint to trace over the pencil marks. The next step Mom did was to paint inside the lines with her good Donna Dewberry craft paint. This was a beginners mistake.

We should have painted the inside of the pencil marks and then use puffy paint to outline the logo. There was less puffy paint on the logo then there had been when we started painting it. Either way it will still be an amazing craft if you want to try it.

This shirt needed some shine. So I decided that it would be the perfect idea to cover the BVB in sparkles! Before the paint would dry, I sprinkled sparkles over the BVB logo on the T-shirts. Needless to say, for the next few days, our whole house will be very sparkly.

After covering the shirt in sparkles, I blow dried the paint with a hairdryer on low so I could wear it sooner. The blow drying did wonders to the time it would have originally taken the paint to be dry as our desert soil.

Of course, what would a concert shirt be without a few rips and tears? I took one of Mom's good scissors (with permission!) and cut some wholes on our shirts and cut a sleeve off. I made the last few touches with rips at the bottom of the tee. Some of the wholes were too big, so Mom closed them with "Zombie" stitches in pink embroidery floss. Now this shirt is ready to be seen!

I was overjoyed to get to wear an original shirt I made to celebrate one of my favorite band's arrival. My bands and their music are special to me and I hope that Black Veil Brides knows this and that everyone of their fans feel the same way.