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| Lots of blocks left to make but all the parts are done! |
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Celtic Solstice, so far
My last post, dated today, was actually written on Thursday or Friday but I forgot to hit "publish"! I am still learning. Here is a picture of what I have so far. Hope to finish the quilt top this week and get it quilted soon. Also hope to figure out how to link to Bonnie's mystery. Link to Bonnie's link up is http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/01/mystery-monday-link-up-part-6.html
Celtic Solstice pictures
I wish I had taken pics of all the steps along the way but I didn't...
Now I just need to make the other blocks. Pinwheels and half square triangles are done. Had to wait for my Easy Angle ruler to come in the mail to do part five! Seeing I didn't start this until 12/30/2013, I am happy!
Now I just need to make the other blocks. Pinwheels and half square triangles are done. Had to wait for my Easy Angle ruler to come in the mail to do part five! Seeing I didn't start this until 12/30/2013, I am happy!
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| Fabrics selected...what a mess! |
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| Chevrons done! |
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| Star blocks are completed! |
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| Close up of completed star blocks |
Thursday, January 9, 2014
New Year's vows
My first is to become a real blogger... I am always so impressed reading other's blogs about their quilting endeavors; especially, my newest favorite, Bonnie Hunter! I truly wanted to start her Celtic Solstice Mystery when she first published Part One but the holidays got the better of me. My son and his wife came home for a week at Christmas and seeing they are expecting their first baby in March, I thought it was fitting to throw them a surprise baby shower on December 28th. Needless to say, my Celtic Solstice was put on the back burner.
On December 30th, I drove the kids to Boston to catch their flight home and while driving back, I decided that was the day I would start! I got home and pulled out oranges, yellows, greens, and blues. I spent the entire day and evening, and the next one, too, cutting and sewing and ironing. I got most of parts one through three completed! I wish I had taken pictures of my steps along the way.
Back to my New Year's vows (note that I do not refer to them as resolutions. I vow to make this list happen!
2. Complete one unfinished product every month.
3. Enter into a fall or Christmas Craft Fair this year.
4. Work on my inventory as if it's my job...at least four hours per day Monday thru Thursday and on weekends when I can. Fridays are always my days at the Meeting House!
5. More later!
Back to becoming a real blogger. I saw on Bonnie Hunter's blog that they have "Mystery Monday Link-ups to show pictures on your blog of your progress on the mystery. I also saw that you can only post new links until Sunday, January 12th so I'd better get going!
On December 30th, I drove the kids to Boston to catch their flight home and while driving back, I decided that was the day I would start! I got home and pulled out oranges, yellows, greens, and blues. I spent the entire day and evening, and the next one, too, cutting and sewing and ironing. I got most of parts one through three completed! I wish I had taken pictures of my steps along the way.
Back to my New Year's vows (note that I do not refer to them as resolutions. I vow to make this list happen!
2. Complete one unfinished product every month.
3. Enter into a fall or Christmas Craft Fair this year.
4. Work on my inventory as if it's my job...at least four hours per day Monday thru Thursday and on weekends when I can. Fridays are always my days at the Meeting House!
5. More later!
Back to becoming a real blogger. I saw on Bonnie Hunter's blog that they have "Mystery Monday Link-ups to show pictures on your blog of your progress on the mystery. I also saw that you can only post new links until Sunday, January 12th so I'd better get going!
Thursday, October 24, 2013
First blog ever
This is my very first blog. Not sure exactly what people would want to read. I am an avid quilt maker who loves to be near the water and, I'll bet you guessed, loves loons! We recently bought a lovely little house on a lake in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, there are no loons here.
I recently organized and ran a quilt retreat for 28 women at Cape Cod! It was 3 days and 4 nights of great fun. This was my second annual retreat for our local quilt shop, Meeting House Quilts. We are looking to change the location for next year and I'm having a tough time coming up with a venue with prices like we had at the Cape. I have contacted many places all over New England and am hoping to have an affordable place for our 2014 retreat soon.
We had lots going on at this year's retreat - a pin cushion exchange ice breaker, Left Right Center game where you needed 3 pretty strips of fabric (6 inches by WOF) to play, an ice cream social, an ugly fat quarter exchange, Show and Tell (of course!), thread raffle, Halloween/Autumn Fat Quarter raffle, Batik Fat Quarter Raffle, a Friendship Quilt fabric exchange, demonstrations given by retreat participants, prizes for things made from last year's retreat winnings, door prizes, ballot prizes - neatest sewing space, slept latest, happiest quilter, etc., lovely gifts from the Meeting House for all 28 women, and much more!
I had so much fun organizing the retreat! I made a monogrammed notebook and pen holder for all 28 of us. Each person received a welcome bag which included a Meeting House Quilt Retreat Mug filled with - band-aids, a lint roller, nail file, measuring tape, hand sanitizer, and hand cream. Also in the gift bag were a bag of chocolates, Kleenex, a lapel pin, and the notebook holder.
Next year, I'm planning to have a Christmas theme for our retreat!
I recently organized and ran a quilt retreat for 28 women at Cape Cod! It was 3 days and 4 nights of great fun. This was my second annual retreat for our local quilt shop, Meeting House Quilts. We are looking to change the location for next year and I'm having a tough time coming up with a venue with prices like we had at the Cape. I have contacted many places all over New England and am hoping to have an affordable place for our 2014 retreat soon.
We had lots going on at this year's retreat - a pin cushion exchange ice breaker, Left Right Center game where you needed 3 pretty strips of fabric (6 inches by WOF) to play, an ice cream social, an ugly fat quarter exchange, Show and Tell (of course!), thread raffle, Halloween/Autumn Fat Quarter raffle, Batik Fat Quarter Raffle, a Friendship Quilt fabric exchange, demonstrations given by retreat participants, prizes for things made from last year's retreat winnings, door prizes, ballot prizes - neatest sewing space, slept latest, happiest quilter, etc., lovely gifts from the Meeting House for all 28 women, and much more!
I had so much fun organizing the retreat! I made a monogrammed notebook and pen holder for all 28 of us. Each person received a welcome bag which included a Meeting House Quilt Retreat Mug filled with - band-aids, a lint roller, nail file, measuring tape, hand sanitizer, and hand cream. Also in the gift bag were a bag of chocolates, Kleenex, a lapel pin, and the notebook holder.
Next year, I'm planning to have a Christmas theme for our retreat!
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