Lemonade

It's finished! Actually the binding is just glued around to the back ready to finish hand sewing tonight while I watch "Bella". Who knew that Elmer's Washable School Glue was a quilting necessity?!?


Now this other photo is of a crumby thing that was supposed to use up lots of random scraps (although it's hard to make a dent). The sashing choices are kind of lame, but I did figure a few things out and use up some (not enough) things I wanted to get rid of. Now I can piece more rejects to use them up on the back. It will go to Project Linus NJ and Hillary Roberts will figure out what to do with it! She always finds a home for everything!

Jasper, CA

Here's my favorite photo from our recent trip to Jasper, before we left DH to teach/coach/play at a music festival in Banff. It was a great hike - complete with a thunderstorm that went by as we reached the top (had lunch just below and waited for it to pass). We're on top of the world!

A bit of Lemonade on a hot day.....

Finished quilting this today. Now I just have to get the binding on (of course I forgot to get that, so it will have to wait until I get up to the shop). It's all lines, mostly curvy. This is one of my favorite ways to quickly quilt and it's easy for beginners as well. I agree with Tonya, there is something about lines. She is hooked on freehand fans. Check out what she does with them!

Next is a photo of another project in progress. I call it "something from nothing" since it's all the little scraps I would have thrown away before I started reading Bonnie's site! I'm working out a fun pattern for all the little bits with some sashings to perk it up. You see that soon.....





And by the way, check out Judy L's method for planning borders when you want to make them out of pieced blocks. She's figured out the math!!! Go to "Fitting a Pieced Border" on the links on the left at her site. There is a lot of other useful info there as well.

Lemonade

Here's today's project, along with the motivational cup of coffee in the lower corner. It's called Lemonade (thanks Gloria for the name) and it's a beginner class for the fall session at the Happy Quilter. It's a bunch of fabric strips joined on the diagonal and the triangle border is made from the leftover scraps from joining the strips - cool! It had better get done this weekend - quilting it all (or mostly all) with the walking foot so it's "beginner" from start to finish.

So...... I'm up and running with my first post! Thought I'd begin to share what's coming up for my fall classes at the Happy Quilter. Here is a shot of The Natural (check out the Hemingworth Thread I used for quilting if you can. I decided it was time to use all my favorite gold fabrics.
When DH gets home (with his computer) from Utah tomorrow, I can post my favorite photo from our recent trip to Jasper, CA. In the mean time here's a photo of a very happy day.