tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13699370582993361662024-02-19T09:28:43.414-06:00Kristi QuiltsSharing my love of Quilting~Friends~Life!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14785757905947391996noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1369937058299336166.post-46690854172129228522016-03-19T19:25:00.000-05:002016-03-19T19:25:18.308-05:00Owls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I learned how to make these cute critters at the last retreat I attended.</div>
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They are Christmas-turned-Valentine's Day gifts for some owl loving friends.</div>
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While I was working on them, someone asked what do you call a group of owls?</div>
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A discussion ensued of birds and their "flock" names.</div>
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"Owls don't fly in groups, so they are just owls."</div>
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I am glad I belong to a swarm of quilting bees!</div>
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I thought this was going to be a fast, easy quilt.<br />
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Two years later...<br />
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The Cathedral Window has shrunk from<br />
a queen size quilt to a center patch of 9 sections<br />
that will be surrounded by HUGE borders.<br />
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The goal was to have it finished by dad's birthday....<br />
then Thanksgiving,<br />
then the first cold day<br />
which turned out to be today.<br />
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I may resort to my sister's old Christmas tactic:<br />
put all the pieces in a box,<br />
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"a Do It Yourself project"!<br />
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My great-niece was creatively drawing on my mirror with a grease pencil.</div>
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When she finish she said, "TaDa!!! SCRAP ART!!!!"</div>
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Our youth director wanted us, the church quilt ladies, to teach the youth how to sew a baby quilt to donate to our church nursery. The only thing we knew was that it was a group of boys & we had one hour to work!<br />
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As the week went on we became a little anxious...how many kids, what ages, will they be rowdy...with the sewing machines...with <i>rotary cutters?</i> What have we agreed to do? We had agreed that a rag quilt would be the easiest, fastest first-time quilt to make as a group. <br />
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It turned out that only two of us were free to "teach" the session. </div>
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This young man selected fabric he dubbed "Girl Power". He decided to give his quilt</div>
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This young man had already been trained by his grandmother on how to operate a sewing machine. However, this was the first rag quilt he had made. His original creation is a "reversible" rag quilt. If you notice, on the left side the fringe is on the front and on the right side it is on the back!<br />
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The youth director was trying to give a devotional entitled God's Quilt or The Patchwork Quilt.<br />
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We were asked to make quilts for boys because, as older ladies, our quilt group tends to use fabrics with lots of pinks, flowers and ballerinas. So, I went to the fabric store and bought my decidedly "boy" fabric. I took care to showcase each variety of terrifying beast on the squares. I envisioned a boy-child growling in fierce battle with these predators as he defended his camp. Any boy would be delighted to own this quilt~<br />
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I was at a workshop located in a gym when I was finishing up this project. At the end of the day a group of kids passed through the building on their way to an after school program outside. They visited with each of the seamstresses and commented on the various quilts. Naturally when the boys looked at mine they said... "Umm, dinosaurs" with a tinge of boredom while the girls responded with an enthusiastic, "I LOVE dinosaurs...I want a quilt like that!" <br />
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....so, I'm currently making a quilt for my 10 year old great-nephew. I am painstakingly researching all the "boy" games and cartoons he <i>loves</i> so I can incorporate them into this creation that will be his Christmas gift....and I better not get a tinge of boredom when he opens his present...or I'll give it to his sister!<br />
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A few years ago I went to a quilting retreat in the fall. It was wonderfully inspiring as usual.<br />
After lunch we had show and tell so we could give encouraging applause as we admired our friends progress on their projects.<br />
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This day a lady came in with her arms full of old fabric that she placed on a table. She explained that a relative of a friend was cleaning out his attic and wondered if she would be interested in this pile of junk. A few ladies held up the fabric to display it to the group. Simultaneously everyone gasped.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14785757905947391996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1369937058299336166.post-85038223321359285012012-09-26T17:42:00.002-05:002012-09-26T17:43:29.233-05:00Amen!<a href="http://ajpadilla.com/public/image/Tutorials/cathedral/cath_sample2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img align="middle" alt="" border="0" height="288" hspace="6" src="http://ajpadilla.com/public/image/Tutorials/cathedral/cath_sample2.gif" width="168" /></a>I am working on a Cathedral Window quilt. I am using the directions for the folded version. I forgot a step, so I went online to see what to do next. During my search I found this site called <a href="http://ajpadilla.com/tutorials/cathedral-windows/cathedral-window-sample-gallery">Angie's Bits 'n Pieces</a> that has some unique variations for Cathedral Window projects.<br />
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My cousin sent me a video several months ago called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA">Nature by Numbers</a>.</div>
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I had never heard of Fibonacci Numbers before seeing this awesome video. This inspired me to research on using this numbering sequencing in quilts. One of my first searches brought me to Jackie Wills. <br />
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Visit Caryl's quilt gallery for an amazing tour of her art quilts.</div>
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Making a Fibonacci quilt is now on my "to-do" list!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Five years ago my brother got me interested in learning to play the dulcimer.</span> </span></div>
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These are my friends from the Northeast Texas Dulcimer Chorus in Pittsburg, TX.</div>
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This is a fun group of people who meet monthly.</div>
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They jam for 2 hours, pack up their instruments</div>
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where they eat lunch before performing for the other customers. </div>
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The point of this post is that my OLDER brother, yes even in our twilight years our sibling rivalry persists,</div>
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One day I was looking through one of my quilting books by Liz Schwartz & Stephen Seifert.</div>
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Could it be?...the same Stephen Seifert that my brother Steven took dulcimer classes from in Texas?!</div>
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Why...yes it is!!!</div>
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I am vindicated!!!!!</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Pieced-Stained-Glass-Garden/dp/1891497057/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347847814&sr=1-1&keywords=paper+pieced+stained+glass+garden+stars">See Amazon for a series of Liz & Steve's books</a> </div>
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I was looking online for ideas for a friendship quilt pattern. This will be my first one to make, so I am absorbing all the ideas I find. I came across a pattern I liked on <a href="http://www.bethanyreynolds.com/coolstuff.html">Bethany Reynolds' Cool Stuff link</a><br />
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What I appreciated was that on this link she lets you download for free a graph page and then a template of 1" blue and white frienship blocks to cut out and arrange to your heart's content.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From this pattern I flipped the four outer corners parallel to it's diagonal friends and the last set of left and right "arrows" to face outward. It turned into the image below.</td></tr>
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Of course I did not stop there. The only drawback was that I had printed the squares on slick paper, so it made my whole pattern move when I tried to turn just one square. Arranging the squares on a piece of felt helped some. Then I got brilliant!!!</div>
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I got a magnet "sheet", applied adhesive to the non-magnetic side, stuck the squares right side up on top of the sticky, trimmed them and then stuck them on my refridgerator. Now I can create every time I eat!</div>
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God gives us quilting friends to keep us sane so we will be loveable. </div>
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I could not make it through this life without the advice and encouragement of my quilter-therapists!</div>
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God knows I need LOTS of therapy so I have quilt friends everywhere: in town, out of state & online.</div>
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If you need a smile, come visit me at North Louisiana Quilters on FaceBook:<br />
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