Got Quilt, Need Dolls!!& a nice sunset

 

This is the kind of sunset we are having most every evening. I snapped this as we were heading down our hillside road yesterday.

We had meeting for the Alaska Fiber Festival last night. Below is a preview of a wearable art piece that will be in the show in March. It came from an artist in Ketchikan. Sorry I didn’t get the name. There was an interesting Raven head-piece with it.

My job in the AFF is to get some dolls for the show, & if the doll makers would like to sell them they can. Entry fee is $20.00 per doll plus shipping to (& from the show , if they don’t sell).  There is a $250.00 viewer’s choice award that will be given to the doll with the most votes. If a doll sells the AFF retains 20% of the sale price ( not a bad commission considering most venues here take 50 to 60% now!)

  If any of you would like to come to Anchorage for the festivities the downtown Sheraton is renting rooms for AFF attendees at $79.00/ night for a nice room with 2 queen beds. Classes are going to be in the Sheraton. Quilt Walk will be Fri. March 5th. Classes are all the next week. There is a fashion show, which will have pieces included from Fantasia. The Fiber Show will be the next weekend,  March 13 & 14 at the Conoco-Phillips ATRIUM downtown at 7th & G St.

OK, enough plugging, here’s what I’ve been busy at this week.

I finished Shirley Fraser’s quilt. I started by quilting all of the strip-pieced areas with black thread, &  stitching in the ditch around every triangle, & black sashing strips. Then I did the feathers in the center with yellow. Next I did pink flowers in all the triangles touching the center. Followed by purple circles (I was thinking nickels, dimes & quarters for those). The Next row I did stars, Then the 3 triangles in each corner I did sort of a feathery leaf hybrid. In other words I just had fun!

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It’s all about the food!

 

Believe it or not, but we are on Weight Watchers right now. Thursday evening we went out to dinner with my old pal Judy, (RN from the recovery room),

& our new friend Tina

who is here on a traveling assignment for the Respiratory department. We went to Suite 100, & had a lovely time.

I think I hurt myself with the brownie/ice cream sundae.

Warren & Judy both had the Croissant bread pudding.

Friday we stayed home (if I remember correctly).

Saturday morning we braved the cold & went to our friends the Meyn’s for their Saturday brunch get-together.

Mindy made lovely fluffy pancakes in the oven.

Here are a couple of her pretty fused glass plates.

Since we didn’t eat enough at breakfast, we got together at the Firetap Restaurant, for dinner.

Hope left for a school play about the time that the power went out. We had a great time in the dark, waiting for the lights to come back on, so we could get our bills.

Our favorite dessert at the Firetap, is the Guinness chocolate cake, with praline sauce. Oh, it is WICKED GOOD! Warren & I share.

Oh, & just to throw a little fiber into the mix, here is the  center of the quilt I’m working on right now.

 

 & if you’ve bothered to read this far, you might be interested in the fact that it was –4 degrees here today. It’s dry & cold, & my DH had his first colonoscopy today.

Also one of our dear friends, (best man at our wedding actually) is in the hospital after getting stomped on by a moose this weekend. Please say a little prayer for Richard.

Grandma’s Bragging

  Just wanted to share these pictures of Carys, my youngest grandchild. Isn’t she  cute?
Have you noticed I'm trying to blog more often, but trying to keep it short & sweet!
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Calendar Girls

 Calendar Girls met at Rena’s house today. Yum! Rena went to Culinary school & it shows. I told her she has really raised the bar for our meetings

Don’t you just love the bibs?

It has been snowing progressively harder all day. We were supposed to go out for dinner, but I can hear cars spinning their tires, trying to get up our hill, so we're staying in tonight. We'll go tomorrow instead.

I have spent the majority of today working on another of Shirley Fraser's quilts. I'm noticing that Lily is going really smoothly, since Megan came over & tweaked her a little. Thanks Megan!! I'm also noticing that I'm getting better at stitching in the ditch. Working with the rulers seems to be getting easier. It really is a lot different, this Longarm quilting, as opposed to home machines.

Thanks to whoever is bidding on the crazy quilts!

A Modern Romance on Ebay

My crazy quilt,” A Modern Romance”  & several others Including Alli Aller’s  “Ode To Tamar”, are up for auction on Ebay right now. The auction goes until Nov. 16, at 18:00 PST.

They are raising funds for the Alliance For American Quilts.

That’s my plug for today. Now I have to go get ready to work at the hospital today. bleh…(I know, I shouldn’t complain, but I have a quilt on Lily that I really want to work on). More on that later. Have a lovely day!  

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ABC’s of Embellishment Class #3

Yesterday we did some creative bead making in my class. Above are the beads done by my student Karen (pictured below). They cloth, wire & embossing powder. She had so much fun making them, I had trouble getting her to move on to the next task!

My star student, Natalie loved the playing with fire part of the class.  She got really excited about it.

These are the beads that Natalie made. I loved the one wearing the Tutu!

I put the clock works on my clock. Above you can sort of see the number 12 made from wire. 

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Exchange Day at Kathy Harte's

On Friday I went over to my friend Kathy Harte's house, & we did an exchange of techniques.
Kathy showed Judy Wedemeyer & myself , how she does perfect, completely by machine binding, & I showed them how I do free-motion feathers. Kathy's little pal Holly tried to nap while we were busy talking & showing.

By Kathy's kitchen, she has this quilt hanging on the wall. It's a Laura Cater-Woods quilt. Kathy bought it from here may years ago.

Take a close look at Kathy's cupboard doors....They are quilted!