Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

My oldest son is an oncologist  and he has been challenged to participate in the "LLS Man of the Year" campaign.   Which really means you can become "man of the year" IF you get the most contributions.  To help him with his fundraising, I have donated one of my personal quilts, Desert Sky.  As part of his Benefit Concert to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) next week, he will be hosting a silent auction for this quilt.   You can bid for it on his facebook page.   I'm not sure the link will work, but if you want to bid, contact me and we will make sure you can do this!  Larry Anderson Jr. on Facebook.  Bidding ends 8pm central on 5/21/15.     I'll have to get busy and make another one for me.   I'm happy I had something on hand that people would have an interest in!   My longarm is still several weeks from delivery so no way I could make up something just...

You all know this one, it's on the banner of my blog.   Kricket is so cute playing with her feather while I spread it on the floor to photo.  Then stretches out over the quilt (wool batting - she LOVES wool batting) and both match the colors in the quilt so well. There were only 2 quilts in this category... so it wasn't over lots of other quilts but I'll take it LOL!  My first blue ribbon.  

I did not get to work on as many of my UFO's as I had planned nor did I finish by Bali Wedding Star but it is on the long arm table, design board, sewing machine... just all over the place right now.   Maybe by the end of next week it will be a flimsy!  I did take several classes (maybe too many) this year offered through the 3 guilds that I belong to and NONE of them are finished.  I really need to stop juggling so many projects, it makes me nuts!  But when incredibly talented, nationally acclaimed teachers are scheduled for our guild meetings, I just have to participate.   Being in the Houston area, our guilds get some of the best.  Also, some of my most fun work is in custom quilting YOUR finished tops.   But this post reflects on my  finishes , some that had been UFO's for years that I am especially happy to have gotten quilted and bound this year. January I pieced and quilted Fracture, compl...

I had to snap a few pictures.   The detail is hard to see unless you hold it in the light just right but maybe you can get an idea.   Hopefully this will be bound this week  and hung in my dining room soon!     Kricket loves it too!      

Gosh it's hard to catch up sometimes when you take a few days off.   October finished with a birthday party for Mickey, Halloween preparations, Houston International Quilt Festival, my birthday plus the countless day to day events that occur.   I've been quilting, I just have not had a chance to post.   Also I lost some of my photos somehow.  Here's my attempt to catch up:   One of the classes I took at Quilt Festival.   Silk fabric, silk batting and silk thread stitched on longarm.   Then we "painted" with dye.   We can now use this fabric to make something like a notebook cover.   One of my favorite classes there this year.   Mickey's 14th! Did I even post the #2 Parasol Ladies as finished?   I don't think so.   Some of my Desert Sky blocks.   One of the prettier T-Shirt Quilts.  Very colorful!   A lot of people just make up their T-...