Just Returned

It has been a long time since I have posted.  I just returned from East Texas where I attended my first quilting retreat of 2010.  It was snowy but we had a great time sewing. 

Just outside the retreat center there is a magnificent tree and it was picture perfect covered with snow.

While there I finally finished this quilt designed by Blackbird Designs.

At the bottom I will add the year or my initials.  I am still debating – what do you think I should add?

Another highlight of the retreat was the reveal of our round robin quilts that we have been working on for two years.  There were 6 of us doing these and we had not seen them since we passed our centers to the first person.  This is my quilt

 

The others can be seen in this album.  I thought that each one was beautiful and showed the creativity of all of the ladies.

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Some of us are also working on “Border Robins” where we do our own sewing/designing and reveal them at each retreat.  I will show those at a later time.

I guess that is it for today.

Until next time

Pat

Today

Today I sewed.  I haven’t sat down at the machine since Thanksgiving.  For me that is pure torture, as I am in the habit of sewing every day! 

One of my goals for 2010 was to quilt some of the many quilt tops I have hanging in the closet.  So today I dug this little quilt out and finished it up.  It was so much fun.  The 9 patch blocks measure 1-1/2 inches.  I purposely used a different fabric for the binding as I wanted it to look like an antique where the quilt makers used up what they had on hand.  I am very pleased with how it turned out.

Tonight the temperature is to drop way down and here in North Central Texas we are not used to these temperatures.  They say it will feel like zero with the wind chill factor.  It will be good weather to stay in and sew and have a cup of hot tea!

Until next time.

Pat

Happy New Year!

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and I want to wish you all a Happy New Year.

With this new decade starting I have been looking to the past.  It seems just like yesterday that we were frantically preparing for 2000.

Today while looking for something I ran across a box of “trinkets” that my Mother-in-Law left to me.  In it were an assortment of old greeting cards.  I thought it appropriate to share pictures of two New Years cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next year I will need to display them on an easel during the holidays.  They are backed with Christmas greetings.

I do not make resolutions as they always seem to get broken, but I do set goals.  This year one of my goals is to quilt this top.

My Mother appliqued this in the early 1930’s while waiting for the arrival of her first child.  If I am reading Barbara Brackman’s “Encylopedia of Applique” it was a pattern called Pride of the Garden and was published by a Needlecraft Service in the newpaper.  I looks like the leaves were reversed from the original.  My paternal Grandmother was to quilt it, but developed an illness and was bed ridden for the balance of her life.  I would like to pass this along to my Granddaughter someday.

Another of my goals is to finish up some “works in progress.”  I hate to have things “hanging over my head”

Did you make resolutions or set goals for yourself?

Until later.

Pat 

Merry Christmas

Pat