Other Barn Happenings

While at Mary's Barn on Tuesday, a couple of gals worked on something other than the Peekaboo Bag. In a hasty post this morning (I'm off to Peeble shortly), I will share those with you.

Cherie came with a goal. She wanted to piece this entire quilt top. Her strips were cut out and she may even have had them in the order she wanted them. Anyway, we hardly heard a peep out of her because she was accomplishing her goal!

Her colors were medium browns with a few dusty pinks thrown in. I think they all work well together. She said all the fabrics came from her stash. That's my kind of project.

And here is the completed top. She did say she was open to adding borders, but had yet to decide about that. It looks just great.

While Cherie worked on big piecing, Laura worked on tiny piecing. Take a look at these pics.

Laura sewed these sweet stars on that lovely repro Featherweight machine. She had her little assembly line all set up, with pressing right there beside her. Talk about efficiency.

Her pattern is from the current issue of Primitive Quilts. As you can see in the next photo, I cut off the full title, but you can see the pic if you are interested in making it.

Well, the car is loaded up with quilts and quilt tops. I am off for a full day. I will report back in due time.

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Quilting At The Barn

This past Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending one of Mary's quilt days at "The Barn." I showed you the pineapple blocks we all made in a recent post.

Since that block was so easy and went together so fast, we brought other projects to work on to complete the day. I will show you some of these projects.

Mary, our hostess, was working on a really sweet bag made from an Amy Butler pattern, called Frenchy Bags.

Monica is a regular at the barn events. On this particular Tuesday, she was working on a project with some very tiny pieces.

My apologies for the blurry pic, but the size of the pieces is evident, nonetheless. I love quilts like this, but I know tiny pieces are sometimes tedious. The upside is you get an awesome quilt; the downside is that the piecing is labor-intensive. You just have to weigh it out and see how bad you want that quilt, I suppose.

Cherie was in the beginning stage of a new project. The table runner called Seven Santas is what she has started.

 

Cherie says she will have it done for Christmas, so good luck to her! I wouldn't have the confidence to do it, I'm afraid. I have not been bitten by the wool bug, and I hope it stays that way! I can't afford to deviate from my main focus - quilts made with cotton!

 

 

Pam was appliquing this house onto ticking. I did not see her pattern, so I can tell you nothing more about it! Sorry!

 

And, I am sorry, too, that I do not have the project that my newest quilting acquaintance Gwen was working on. This "nose for news" was too busy, I suppose, working on my own things.

 

I would normally show you Terry's and Sheryll's projects, but since we quilt together frequently, I will more than likely have other opportunities to show their items.

 

I am calling it a night, folks.

 

Happy Quilting, Friends!

 





Another Rewarding Day of Sewing

I am a lucky girl, I know. Three days in a row this week, I was pretty much able to do whatever in the world I wanted. It isn't often that I can say that, and so when I get days like that, I really treasure them! Did I mention that DH was on a little road trip with his dad and brother to Florida? It sure is different around here when DH is away.

Recapping, Sunday, I was able to read all day. I needed to get our book club book finished, because I wanted to give it to Sharon on Monday. She and I are both in the book club, and she hadn't been able to get a copy of the book. So, a marathon day of reading - with a small interruption for the OSU-Michigan State game, which we won - and I finished the book early evening.

It was a mystery/historical fiction, and it was pretty good. I will be interested to see how our discussion goes. The book is The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Englemann, and is her debut novel. I would definitely recommend it.

 

  Well, that was Sunday. Let's move on to Monday.

Still on my own, I expected Sharon around 9:30 for a day of sewing. My last post was all about that, and I was very pleased with the blocks I finished. After Sharon left, I looked at 3 projects I have lined up in a queue - these are projects that I have been procrastinating about for long enough. I decided to tackle one of them, just for the sake of getting it out of my sewing room space!

It was a repair job. DS Adam needed to have handles replaced on a nice bag he likes to use. It's nicer than a gym bag, maybe more like a man's version of a carry-on bag.

I had some nylon rope in the sewing room supplies, dug around for a masculine brown and figured out a way to make handles and attach them! I am rather pleased with my efforts, and Adam is, too, so all good for the first job on the list. Take a look and tell me if those handles don't look just fine!!

 

The third day of doing what I want was Tuesday, and after I finished my OUC class, I drove up to Mary's Barn in Grove City for a project she was offering. Terry and Sheryll from the Frankfort group were there, as well as Monica, a friend I met the last time I sewed at the barn, and a new sewing acquaintance, Pam.

Mary has a nice little system worked out. Every month she offers to teach a class, serves lunch and snacks, and provides this wonderful little barn-turned-sewing studio to do it in! For a small fee, it is totally worth it! And I won the door prize!! *big grin* It's been awhile, but I quilted here once before and blogged about it. You can read about that adventure by clicking here, if you are so inclined.

Below is a picture of the project Mary made to show us what the finish would look like. She emailed cutting instructions ahead of time, so I had mine ready to go. The others had started at 9am, but I was about an hour or so later because of my class.

 

I got the entire thing finished, complete with appliqued handles and all! I tell you, doing that machine applique on a loaner machine is not something I'd planned on doing, that's for sure! But it looks just great, and I am eager to get it quilted and put to use.

 

 

 There were a few show and tells which I will share with you. At lunch, Mary showed us a quilt she'd just recently gotten back from the long-arm quilter. She is ready to bind this and call it done. Isn't it gorgeous?

 

Pam, shared a recent quilt she'd made for her granddaughter from a Nancy Drew panel. To make it all even more cool, she has found a copy of one of the books shown in the panel! Now that is special!!

 

While we were making our table runners, Mary, our hostess, worked on a sweet little quilt for her granddaughter. They are a family of  horse-lovers, and the panel in this fun quilt fits that theme quite well.

 

Pam had opted out of the table runner project and instead brought a hand-stitching project to work on.

 

I regret that I did not take a picture of the table runner Sheryll was working on, but I do have a picture of Terry's. I love the toille background that she used!

 

That's all for today, peeps. I am determined to stay busy on the remaining "procrastinating" jobs I must finish off, so stay tuned!

Happy Quilting, Friends!