Heather,
I like your table runner. The colors are nice and cheerful. I could see that design on placemats, kids would love it!
I hope you get into the class. I also saw Helen doing free motion couching work on her Eagle. If you can view it on you tube you'll be impressed!

I just finished getting dye onto a batch of fat quarters. They are basking in the sunshine. I am out of many of my favorite colors now,,, I see an order happening very soon!




Till later,
May God bless your day with a happy ending,
Luann

Ooh Cathy whose portrait are you doing? Can we see it so far

Wow, everyone has been busy. I am still working on my portrait quilt. I love everyone's pictures, just have been to busy to post.
Heather, your table runner is great, and the place mats too. I think you will probably manage to get into your class. Hope you do. Have fun, and enjoy the show!

Heather I love your fork and spoon table runner. It is so cute! Nice work on the placemats. Have fun with the curved piece and the Halloween piece. How nice your husband is involved.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments on the wedding quilt. I hope she likes it.

And, of course I will show you what I make with my new group! You guys are my main squeeze!!!

What M&Ms? I haven't seen any M&Ms! drool, chomp, crunch

geneva

twiglet wrote:
I feel silly that I've not heard of her, except I *think* maybe she was on TQS some time ago....maybe?? I hope the class doesn't fill up. I've no idea how that works, how quickly they fill, etc. I did not pick a 2nd choice class.....maybe I should have? In case this one is full? I don't know. None of the others at that time really speak to me, so figured if not, I'll just wander the show

Her website though is hilarious; her personality just seems like an amazing fit to me.

Thanks for the comments too on my stuff It's fun stuff.

Wow just been watching Helen Godden couching on Utube. I'm getting my foot out of it's packet.

Love all your projects

Love the quilt Geneva!!! Good thing I'm not the one with the bowl

You have all been so busy!! It's only halfway through July yet!

I have got some stuff done, finally!! I finished binding the spoon/fork table runner, in purple, for my sister. Then found little buttons I bought at Houston last year, which I meant to put in the corners, so will do that before sending it to her.





I made my first ever continuous bias binding, to bind the round place mats, and got that sewn onto the fronts of half of the placemats, and need to make another bit of binding to do the rest (I knew I would have to do it in 2 batches, and the fabric is marked and ready to go, just need to do it). I will work on sewing the bindings around to the back as I watch TV and stuff; these are a no-rush project, just for me, to work on between other stuff.





Then I cleaned up all that mess which had been all over the place, and the mess from the corset top as well, and pulled out one of my 2 UFOs sitting there -- a pattern I bought a few years ago, and I had bought fat quarters & fabric for it back then, but have since used that fabric for other stuff, so bought new fat quarters for it on July 4th weekend, when a shop near me had buy 10 fat quarters, get 5 free. So, pulled all that out and cut the pieces, all of them, and started sewing! It's curved piecing, and my first time doing that, but it's nice and gentle and not too bad at all.

this is 4 of them so far, there are actually 8 that I have started -- this is when it was 2 curves together, and I was pinning the 3rd curve on. I've since sewn the 3rd curve to these 8 in this color-way, and will do the 4th curve and then the 5th/final curve, then move on to the next color way. This is the Radiant Suns pattern, though I'm subbing in some other blocks to add an oversized star block and a compass block, and then doing the "starry night" coloring, but using some suns as moons, and some as suns, and so some daytime blues (these) and some nighttime blues (next up), and some that will be mixed.



Also did blocks for a Halloween themed table runner; I need to return to buy fabric to make setting triangles, but will go this weekend for that, as my husband picked out the fat quarters I used (I made him come with me to the sale last week), and so he wants to pick out the fabric for the rest, too. So while I wait on that, that's when I started the UFO, which I'm happy about.

The blocks will be on point all in a row, but for the photo I put them closer together so they'd all show.




But the most exciting thing I've done is register for Houston IQF!! Well, submitted my class registration, and hopefully the class I want won't be full. My best friend is coming down, we'll stay in a hotel one night so we can go to Preview Night and then the class the next day, then we'll drive over the other days since I live near enough. Now it just needs to be October already!!

This will be my first ever class, assuming I get in. An all day, free-motion quilting class, with Helen Godden (sp??) from Australia. I looked over all the FMQ classes, which I desperately need to learn, and looked at all the teachers' websites alongside to figure out who would be the best fit for me.....this is who won I hope I registered early enough to make the class (surely 7:30 the morning registration opens is good, right???), and I cannot wait to go!

twiglet wrote:
And ours are calorie free unless you're the one with the bowl!

Excellent Geneva the quilt and local group. I bet they don't have M & Ms like we do

Beautiful quilt, Geneva. She'll Love it. And I very much look forward to seeing Rosey' quilt too - a kaffe feast - that is certainly something to wait for!
Enjoy your other friends, also looking forward to what they will inspire you to do - a new chapter in the Geneva-life - enjoy!

Wow, Geneva! That quilt is stunning! I love everything about it, especially the little extras like the fringe and the binding treatment! Enjoy your new friends and show us what you make with them.

Geneva, You crack me up!

Geneva,
That quilt is fabulous!
And as far as having another area of interest,, hmm, I just hope that you'll show us some of the projects that they inspire in you!
Luann