Everyone!  Donna, Gloria and Lorae each win a bundle of Fat Quarters from the Lulu collection!  Lorae, I’ll send your with your quilts and Gloria and Donna, you’ll need to drop in and pick them up (or tell me you want them sent). 

Thank you for participating!  It’s always good to have something new to peek at!

Today’s the last day to tell us about your favourite quilting website in a coment to have your name in for the Quiltworx first Blog Giveaway!

 

Here are some pictures of the quilt tops that I wrote about last week… Venetian Glass and Curve Play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Arlene – a quilter’s best friend – dropped off this top she did for me…. it is the Multifacted pattern done with the Spumoni Bali Pop next to the one (that still needs borders) done with a Cappuccino Bali Pop…. simple technique, great results.

 

And finally!  The Lulu collection from Camelot Cottons has arrived along with some pieces from the Bridgewater collection

 

 

 

 

 

This week has just flown by, yesterday was Wednesday and today is Saturday…. our drywall is finished and primed, the decor plan is in place…. I get to tile all of my floors in my whole place!  no more cheap laminate  that’s all dinged up, no more parquet wood with no finish left on it, no more porcelain tile that’s scratched to heck and no more poorly tiled bathroom that the tiles are so close together there’s no room for grout (I have even removed and tried to replace the old grout and cracked a few tiles doing that).  Well, I shouldn’t say no more for a while.  It’ll be a while before I can buy the tile all at once and then we’ll probably do one room at a time…. so check in with us next year!

I was looking through old bookmarks today and ran accross this give-away on the Quiltmaker blog, all you have to do is click on the post and scroll down to the bottom and add a comment.  A chance at free fabric is worth a couple of minutes!

http://www.quiltmaker.com/blogs/quiltypleasures/  and they are doing a block tour, showing all kinds of different blocks – there’s always something new to see!

I was wondering if anyone has a favourite site/blog that they like to check out once in a while?  Why not leave a comment, Why not let’s have a little giveaway ourselves?  Okay.   So, leave a comment with your favourite web place to visit for quilty stuff and we’ll do draw at the end of the week – Saturday Nov 21….. and the winner of the draw will get an awesome Quiltworx Gift!  

 

Ok, so I have been here typing and downloading pictures for a while this morning, I pressed the wrong button at the wrong time and voila, something I didn’t want to disappear, did.  So, we’ll try again.  The original post was trying to explain that I have quilted this week but I haven’t taken any pictures…. so I have a few for you anyhow.

These are fabrics that also came last week, Nara Gardens from Hoffman.  The large design is fabulously gorgeous and the lighter one is more creamy with gold accents than gold with creamy accents, does that make sense?  and the dark one is a beautiful smoky green that is to die for.

At the end of October, we had Diane Jansson from Di-Versity Quilting in Pritchard, BC (close to Kamloops) come and teach a couple of classes for our guild.  Quilters could take the Land of Maples class over two days and/or the Curve Play class on the second day.  I took the Curve Play class using the Eva collection of fabrics from Moda.  I really enjoyed it.  I have actually gotten it together, still have to add the borders though, but here’s what it looked like on the design wall;

I was so proud of the progress that I’d made that when Kathy S stopped in to show me what hers looked like, I whipped mine out to show her that I was caught up to her.   Then she pulled a second one out of her bag.  Hmmmmm…. a bit of an overachiever?  It really was easy, fast and effective.  With Diane’s tips on the curved piecing, it really went fast and I worked well.

This is a picture of Elaine’s Land of Maples (another overachiever) – she’d taken this class a while ago from Diane and decided to make a massive quilt with 16 blocks instead of 4.  More pictures are in the September post when we quilted it.

 I have been picking away at the corner that seems to have accumulated everything that doesn’t have a home.  I’ve been going through my collection of magazines and re-evaluating whether I will ever use the patterns in them that I marked. Some I found in other magazines, and some just don’t appeal anymore – 6 years later, so there are a ton of new magazines in the “Take me Home” pile, so stop in.  I do have to admit that I was a little distracted by a pattern I found Friday night in a Quick Quilts by Fons and Porter…and I started it on Saturday afternoon.  I got the top done – it just needs borders (the story of my life).  It was called Venetian Glass, the magazine had it in reds and golds but I have the fabrics and charcoals, greys and browns.  It is in the Murano collection by Blank Quilting, Graphite colorway.  I’ll have to add a picture later, I thought I had one…..

Happy Saturday Everyone!

We had a foggy week here in Castlegar, I may have had more departures than the airport this week!

Lauren came to pick up her Sampler quilt, it was beautifully pieced and the colours were very warm and cozy.

This is Kathy S’s quilt.  It was made from the Floragrahix Collection by In the Beginning…. we quilted butterflies on it with a wool batting, an open design gives it lots of fluffy loft.

Technically, Sally’s Quilt has not gone home yet, but I couldn’t wait to show it off!  (She said it was alright)  This is for her grandaughter and will be finished into a duvet cover.  It has hearts, flowers and butterflies all over it!

New Arrivals!  These came this week and they are sooo nice!  These are Celebration by Hoffman, gold metallic, black and red, how could you go wrong?  I got the blue because I loved it.  It’ll go with many other things in the quiltworx.

These are from the Whimsy by Pillow and Maxfield for Michael Miller, they are bold and fun!  I was leafing through the Fons and Porter Easy Quilts, Winter 2009 and found a quilt called Alhambra made from these fabrics!  My neices may see some bags out of these at Christmas!

The  computer is cooperating, I got my urgent bookwork done and I caught up on my quilt schedule! 

Here is a picture of Heather’s Border Creek Station Double Cross Mystery quilt, we did our all over Flower Garden and I think Heather was pretty happy with her quilt!

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is Barb’s quilt, I think that the original pattern was called Colour Weave.  Nice colour choices.   The border batik had swirls in it so we quilted swirls all over the top.

I love the speed of this new computer… but …. I can’t find anything, I am having difficulties with lots of things…. my bookkeeping software is too old to work, my email list is not here….. I am getting the old one back to hopefully be able to transfer the information and get my GST done(due Monday?). 

So, here is the before pictures of the Quiltworx, this is our original space, very compact and efficient.

and…. here is our new space…..

What do you think?  a lot more space…. I still have some “tweaking” to do.  I want to be able to have some quilters in for workshops – that will entail being able to move my machine  – there’s one wheel so far, the joys of living in a small city, to find things like wheels, u-bolts and other little things that a hardware store would carry, you can find them but there’s only 2 when you need 8 or they take a week to come in.  So patience is a good thing to have. 

I am also a few quilts ‘behind’ which tells me I should focus on those rather than take on another project such as a class schedule right now.  I will probably be ready to rock with my classes/workshops in the New Year… it’s not that far away is it? 63 days until 2010.  Where does the time go?  I ask that a lot.

Here’s a peek at some of the fabrics in Moda’s Evening Mist collection.  We have all of them.  They are so pretty, soothing, muted, gorgeous, they beg to be touched, fondled, petted….

My wonderful hubby ordered a new computer yesterday!  Now loading pictures won’t take two hours!  I’ll be able to do some quick updates that are really quick…. this faithful old computer has been with us for about 15 years, I guess it’s time for it to retire…..

I had a great time at the Rossland Quilters’ Show last weekend…. what an awesome display…. they had lots of beautiful quilts, lots of tecniques, designs and they ranged from very traditional to the extreme artsy.  There was a quilt that depicted Red Mountain – where many Canadian Olympic Skiers got their start…. I ran around a bit and took some pictures, but I was so busy visiting that I didn’t see all of them (again).  Since Rossland has their very own Professional LongArm Quilter – Valerie Rollins – there was only one quilt in the show that I had quilted.  This is a picture of Nina’s quilt hanging in the show.

Here are some quilts that I’ve been able to quilt lately…

This is Rhonda’s Flannel Snowman Quilt.  She lives in Saskatchewan so a flannel quilt with wool batting is perfect for warmth and cuddling.

 

 

 

 

This is Verna’s Quilt.  She calls me a BRAT everytime she sees me – all because of this quilt…. at our Guild’s year-end BBQ, my friend Sandi came over and we made enough little goodie bags for everyone…. some had little goodies and some had fabric… Verna’s had ten 10″ sqares in it.  Later on in the week, she came in to the quiltworx with her squares wanting to use them in a quilt.  We put together some fabrics and when we couldn’t figure out how much she’d need for the sashing, she took the whole bolt to use on the back too.   So she went home, cut out the fabrics that she bought and started sewing.  Turns out the original ten blocks were a little smaller than the ones that were cut and pieced already… so they didn’t make it into the quilt.  So, I quilted straight lines into the sashings – I have avoided straight lines for approximately 3 years but I’m good at them now.  Then we put a custom swirl into the blocks.  We used Madeira PolyNeon Silver thread in the sashings, setting blocks and the bobbin and Superior Rainbows Allspice in the blocks.

These last three pictures are of the back.  We had even cut strips from each fabric for the binding… they were incorporated into the back and the binding will be all one fabric. 

Hope you enjoyed these two, I’ll  try and speed up so I have more to show you soon!  Hopefully, I find a housekeeper soon…. both of my great ones applied for and got casual, part-time jobs.  They are so awesome, they have both been offered full-time careers.  I knew that would happen – good on them, one is working with Seniors and the other has become the Sales Manager for one of the big hotels in town.  I do wish them both well and appreciate everything they have done to help me out, including posting ads for a new helper for me!

Today is the last day of our Grand ReOpening Sale!  It has been crazy busy – that’s a good thing – and Fabric has been going home with many happy quilters!

The new line from Moda has arrived (we’ve been waiting for it since August) it’s called Evening Mist and it is Gorgeous – you’ll have to stop by and see it because I’m sure I can’t describe it well enough and I know that pictures will not do it justice.  I’ll try to post some next week.

Tomorrow and Sunday I will be in Rossland at the Miner’s Hall for “Quilitng Under Cover” the Rossland Quilters’ Show.  It runs from 10-4 on Saturday and 10-3 on Sunday.