Nancy, as usual your piece is beautiful! The quilting makes it all yours. Thanks for sharing your process and pictures. I also like how it is not a perfect rectangle.
Geneva

Beverly -

Thank you for your kind words! I hope you will post yours when you're finished. I'm sure it'll be incredible!!

Nancy, just read your great blog. I bought this as a kit at Paducah last year and am just now getting around to sewing it. I like everything you did in quilting it. I don't have your expertise in machine quilting, but I'm working on it! Thanks for sharing!

Hi all -
I finally finished my Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry Feather Study 28 quilt and posted about it here. I'm pretty pleased with the quilting and also included a little tutorial about another facing method. Check it out if you're interested.

Thanks!

I wrote about publishing my blog:
https://terryknott.blogspot.com/2017/08/published-blog-and-heres-proof.html
I shared about the grands coming to "retreat" at our house:
https://terryknott.blogspot.com/2017/08/grands-and-their-retreat-at-papas-and.html
I wrote about my progress of the Quilt As You Go (QAYG) project in three posts:
https://terryknott.blogspot.com/2017/08/month-6-of-8-qayg-quilt-as-you-go-part.html
https://terryknott.blogspot.com/2017/08/month-7-of-8-qayg-quilt-as-you-go.html
https://terryknott.blogspot.com/2017/08/month-6-of-8-qayg-quilt-as-you-go-part_16.html
I've been away--got to visit my daughter. We met in Paris and visited the Southeast of France. I'll be posting about the trip soon! Thanks for coming to visit. I haven't really worked on the chickens in weeks. . .I need to get back to that project as I am not that far away from finishing!

Hi all, funny story. I was standing in line at the next county to enter my barn quilt. The lady in front of me turned around and I introduced myself and then she said, "oh, I recognize you from TQS site." I nearly fell over! She enjoys TQS and the forum.

barn quilt will be judged tomorrow.

Sharon in colorado

The Grands helped me with some pebbles:
https://terryknott.blogspot.com/2017/07/little-helpers-and-pebbles.html
Then. . .I actually finished the pebbles:
https://terryknott.blogspot.com/2017/07/pebbles-complete.html
I still have a long way to go on the chicken project; but, the end is truly in sight!

The grands were over for a "retreat" and we made a crib quilt.
I've also made more progress on the chicken.

Thank you for visiting and know that your kind comments help spur me along!

Terry you amaze me! Your work is so precise, in the fabrics, quilting and thread choices. I love it all! Your chicken piece will surely be a beautiful work of art. All those pebbles! Yikes!

Luann, I received your blog post via email. I like how you are doing so many different things. It's always interesting to hear/see what you are up to.

Art on ladies!

geneva

Thanks so much, Terry! Funny that the art quilts that I am happiest with come from scraps, mine and from others! As for the pebbles, I will give your method a try and see whether it works better for me. I have been making the larger ones first and have a tendency to quilt around the larger ones. I will try with the smaller ones first and see if I can improve on how a pebble background looks.

Renata,
Most of the fabrics came from my stash. The yellow fabric for the building came from JoJo. The brown strip came from my bag of strips. Truly, many of the pieces were just that--leftovers from other projects! The pinkish and purplish parts of the building was a fat quarter and actual yardage that I bought a long time ago because it had words on it and I liked it. I've tried to use it in a number of projects. . .but, it wasn't just right! I used the photo to select my fabrics. Then, I asked JoJo to help me find the ones that played best together and that was when she gifted me the piece of yellow for the building.

As for pebbles, I make some small ones and then I make several larger ones. Then I come back and fill in the spaces with whatever size pebbles will fit. Sometimes, I'm stitching "sand!" I hope that makes sense! Thanks for letting me know that you enjoy reading my blog as that comment lifted my heart!

quilting00 wrote:
Both projects are beautiful, Terry. Two questions... First, how did you go about collecting/selecting the fabrics for the hh hall building quilt--they are remarkably beautiful. Second, your pebbles in the chickens quilt are so impeccably done. Is there a method to how you do them in terms of when to switch from a large pebble to a small one? They look so random and don't look like a large circle with smaller circles around it as often happens (to me).

Keep blogging! Always enjoy it.

I finished quilting the slice of the building.

I also am back at work on those pesky chickens!

Terry loved seeing your progress on the slice of a photo in fabric!

Barb