Here's where we will be pretty soon!

Getting Ready for the Quilters' Day Out, Louisville, Kentucky

Yes it's another year of fun for quilters in the Kentuckiana area.

This year's Quilters' Day Out has a baby quilt challenge with double the prize money we had last year.  I'm entering "Nora's Owls".  It is due tomorrow and I'm doing my usual last minute quilting exercise for a deadline and am squaring it off.  

I always, always, always, put a label on a quilt.  There is nothing sadder to me than finding a quilt at a flea market and no one knows it's story.  Almost all quilts have a story, unless they are made in China, and even then who knows the trouble they've seen.

My label says the usual stuff, my name and date and city.  I ended it with a phrase, "Smart girls have more fun and Nora you are one smart girl!!

Liverpool Beats the Red Devils!! 3-1

Who would have thought this outcome?  The Liverpool team seemed in control for the whole game.  Holding the Red Devils down all the way.  The Anfield crowd let their voice be heard with some of the most rousing rounds of song to heard on TV at a soccer game in quite a while.  You've got to love a team with a show tune for the team song!

The energizer bunny of a man, Dirk Kuyt was the only goal scorer (3) for Liverpool.  What a striker.  Suarez proved his worth with his valuable foot work, which got the ball to Kuyt a couple of times.

This is not the team of the Pre Christmas slump.  I wondered if they all knew that Torres was on the way out and were wondering about their fate.

Ah well, what a turn around the Reds are on fire! Great game!!!

Embellishing is Like Icing a Cake-It's Hard to Overdue Icing!

Well, maybe you can overdue it a little.  


Our group shirt comes complete with a name tag in the front and a label on the back.  On my last post you saw the front.  Here is the back.  Complete with hologram beads and antique hanky-how I like those juxtapositions!!

I cut a bit of the blue batik to give the beads a little more emphasis and for stability.

A New Retro Designed Shirt

This is the front of our new group shirt.  It was a really large man's work shirt I bought at Dollar General for 10.00.  After cutting the sleeves down and shortening the length we have a new design.

This is not our first denim shirt we have made for our quilt group.  Traditionally the pocket has served as the name tags and I chose to paint mine and then add a vintage hankie for a little bit of vintage retro flair.

It's a quilter thing.  I plan to wear it on trips with our group and to Quilters' Day Out.

Happy Lincoln's Birthday Everyone!

Can you imagine how difficult it must have been for him?  The civil war?  Separation of states?

We will be having a log cabin block design as our Christmas July quilt Show and Tell.  At our Christmas party in December we have a block or fabric exchange, then we let the members do something with it and exchange it in July.

Denim shirt redo

I've removed and shortened sleeves added an interesting interfacing and cut the lower edge, maybe a little too short.  But, in the fabric world, there is almost nothing you can't fix.  So I'll have to get back to you after I've finished the whip stitching around my batik interfacing.  I'll cut the button holes and add some fray check around the button holes on the batik side.  Batik fabric is tightly woven and is suited for that kind of treatment.

Alterations are a fun thing to do.  Probably if you want to make money sewing, alterations might be a good way to do that.  Everyone falls in love with a dress or whatever and they want it to fit perfectly.

This shirt is very forgiving.  Denim is pretty forgiving and can be eased in easily.  I just love that phrase, "easing in".  It's a metaphor for life, I suppose...smile.

Altering a shirt you get to use the sleeve table on your machine.

I also made a little progress on the owl quilt.