Square for Church Quilt

An ambitious lady from our church, not me, decided that we needed a quilt to hang in our fellowship hall.    She found a beautiful pattern with different blocks that are based on Bible verses.  Being a quilter, I was roped in, I mean I volunteered to do a square.  I tried to get an easy one, but it was gently wrestled from my fingers and I ended up with the trumpet square instead.  After all, I am supposed to be am experienced quilter - which is a matter of opinion.  Here are my directions:

33 pieces in all

 Here are the pieces (they were already cut), but I had to sort and figure out the colors.  Luckily they gave us a fabric color chart - very helpful!

Trumpets emerge out of chaos and confusion

"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.  For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed."  1 Corinthians 15:51 NIV

Columbus Quilt Show

Where have I been?  My sister actually called me up to tell me that my blog needed updated!  That shows someone is reading it.  Well, my wireless was down for a couple of days, but before that I was finishing up grades in the classroom - done!  Then I headed south to Barbie's house and we went on a bus trip to the 43rd Annual NQA Quilt show at the Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.  My first time for this show and it was quite impressive.  The theme of the show was the Mariner's Compass as you will see by the pictures.

"To be considered a "Compass" pattern, a Mariner's Compass star should contain 16 to 32 points.

Little Barb

Gladys

Mama Barb

We enjoyed the vendors, but have to say the quilts were all pretty exceptional.  Our highlight of the day was meeting one of the grand prize winners and learning more about her and her quilt.
Sherry Reynolds made this Mariner's quilt called America, Let it Shine.  It is a tribute to America's foundations and values.  It includes part of the Gettysburg Address, Preamble to the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.  It is an original design as you will see Sherry holding up the blue print pattern that she created to make her quilt.  I cannot even imagine starting a quilt of this magnitude!  Little Barb liked all the sparkly dots on the quilt.  Sherry said the number of sparklies was equal to the number of words in our Constitution (If I remember that correctly).

Sherry Reynolds and her quilt America, let it Shine

the original design for the quilt!

Here are a few more quilts for you to see and enjoy:

Is this the Snake River Quilt?

It looks like it was done in batiks

This quilt caught my attention because I like barns.

Nick's Quilt

Getting my grading finished for the end of the school year is seriously cutting into my blogging time.  Soon summer will be here and I'll have more time to quilt and blog, or get more into the famous dilly-dally lifestyle. I'm looking forward to that.  I finally sewed the label on Nick's Walk in the Woods quilt.  It's the first picture/picture label I ever did for a quilt and I'm very pleased with the results.  The picture is of Nick and me at Grandparent's Day in Nick's school.  He has been on the honor roll all year and earned straight A's on his last grade card.  The quilt is going to be his present for all his hard work in fourth grade.  

So pleased with the polka dot binding.   This was a fun quilt to make.

True story - I wrote Nick's name onto the quilt when I quilted it on the long arm machine, but now I can't find it.  I found it once, lost it and can't find it again.  I'll keep looking.

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

~ Leo Buscaglia

Peace!

Design Wall and Baseball

Barbie made me a 20-minute table runner for my birthday.  I love the spring colors.  They brighten up my little kitchen and make me happy!  

As the days get sunnier, I get more anxious for summer break.  As you know, I work as an online teacher and am really ready for June to arrive so I can get off the computer and on to the sewing machine - or the front porch.  My office is in the basement and recently I moved some furniture around and created space for a cutting table and my first design wall - Woo Hoo!  Now half the room is for quilting and half for work.  I can sit at my computer and view the latest quilt.  In this case it is the prayer quilt that  I'm hoping to get finished soon!  I used the heat and bond for the hearts and then did a machine zigzag around them.  I'm not fond of hand applique, so this worked well for me.

The basement does not have good overhead lighting, so I depend on directional lamps for now.  In the future, I hope to get that fixed.  There are a couple of small windows, but they do not provide enough light for quilting.

Don't mind the mess - it's a work in progress!

Looking ahead, my summer quilt projects will be an I-Spy quilt for my granddaughter Zoe, a quilt for my other granddaughter, Toria and a Zippy Zippy ZigZag class with Miss Carol of Sweet Peas and Possum in June.

Speaking of Zoe, here she is ready for a baseball game.  Usually she is all girl, but last Sunday at her cousin Jordan's birthday party, she dressed for sport - in pink of course . . . Hey, batter, batter . . .

The weather was warm, so the boys were doing the water thing.  Zoe was the only girl that day, but she still had fun playing baseball with her dad and grandma, until grandma fell in a hole and twisted her ankle, ouch!!  Don't run in sandals! (no picture needed for that incident!)

As you see, Zoe was out numbered eight to one - six of the boys are my grandsons.  Water balloons were flying everywhere.

Double T Quilt Club

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending a lovely, little quilt show that was at the Cuyahoga Falls Library put on by the Double T Quilt Club.  The ladies in charge of show were so friendly and helpful that I was ready to join the club before I left.

Arrye Rosser                         Patricia Cook

The quilts were displayed so nicely!

Their flyer gave information about the club:
The Double T Quilt Club was founded in 1979 by a small group of friends who wanted to meet for a social evening to quilt and talk.  Since then the club has grown in size but the goal has remained the same: sharing needlework and fellowship in a relaxed atmosphere 
Our name, Double T, is represented by a quilt block with four T's.  They stand for Thread, Thimble, and Third Thursday.  We have planned programs each month at our meeting, challenges each year, and several workshops taught by local instructors.  We also participate in service projects to help those in need.  Every other year, we hold a quilt show at Taylor Memorial Library, where our members display items they have completed in the past two years.


(Doesn't this sound like a great club to join?!!)  If anyone in the Cuyahoga Falls area is interested in contact information, please let me know.

Click on any picture to enlarge and see quilt detail!

The ladies from the Double T have been busy sewing.  Enjoy the Quilt Show! 

 


What a great way to spend a Saturday, meeting new quilting friends and looking at gorgeous quilts.