Thursday morning

You never know what you'll find in the classroom on Thursday mornings. Sue is completing this knitted shawl.

Sue Oats showed us this fantastic needle felted owl she made. I love the wings.
Mickie and Paula are working on felted bags.
Nancy is knitting a bag.
Ellen is working on a bag similar to this one of Sue's.
Debbie made this shawl.
Debbie also finished this tablerunner.
Vi is wearing a necklace and earrings that she made.
Vi is also working on this quilt.
And, Barbara is wearing a bandage for a rotary cutter injury.
Today a group of the Thursday ladies went to the new Twilight Movie and to dinner. They are always having a good time!

Random

More Westminster Fabric came in today!!

There's some really cool seashell prints.
Here's my quilt I made with Bali Pops. Mostly. I always add more, I can't help myself. The colors look better in person, or maybe if you click it?
Janet Vaughn showed us this quilt of her's. It's also batik strips. I like her's better. Mine's simpler. I always love Janet's quilts. She does awesome scrappy quilts!!
I LOVE this one. Carolyn showed us her Venetian Tiles Quilt done with Kaffe fabrics. I love the subtle background colors. It's one of the X-Block patterns.
Here's Barbara Nicosia's current project. It's the Night and Day Quilt from the Pink Lemonade Book, but to Barbara it's known as Ann's Quilt. Love it!!

Thursday morning

What's been going on in the classroom on Thursday mornings lately? Too much to go through in one day's posting! The whole group is making a baby quilt for a gift for someone they know. Here's Sue starting to lay it out.

This is the quilt in progress.
This is Sue's Cape Cod Village quilt.
Nancy Vincent has been doing this one.
Eeda Jill Belkin has been knitting. She made this beautiful shawl.
She also has been playing with knitting lace. Here's some "freeform lace" she's been working on. It's so fine it's pretty sheer. Click it to see details!
She made it into this shawl. I love it.
There's lots more Thursday stuff to show you, but that will be another day!

Magazines

Louie has done it again! We received the new Studios Magazine and were surprised to see me and Louie in it. It's the same picture they used in the previous issue with my studio in it.

They did an article called "Animal Attraction" featuring studio pets and Louie was included! I just happened to be in the picture with Louie. She's a good cat to know. She does get around!
Remember this quilt that Betty Crowell helped make last year? It won first prize in Houston?
Well, they submitted another group quilt this year and it won third prize!! And there's an article in the current Quilters Newsletter Magazine about them. They're the Coastal Quilters and they've been meeting for years. They started making "slice" quilts. They take a picture and slice it into pieces and each person does a slice. They've done a few now and they are awesome!
The quilt that just won in Houston was from a picture of Fenway.

Congratulations Betty and the Coastal Quilters!!

Texture Magic

The Crazy Quilters of Cape Cod are having the opening reception for their show, Quilts & 3-D Exhibit, sponsored by the Falmouth Artist Guild, today from 2:00 to 4:00. The show will run through December 6. The address is 137 Gifford Street, Falmouth. For directions and further info see their website

Mary Hamilton, from Superior Threads, was at the shop on Wednesday to show us a new product called Texture Magic. Here she is showing us a purse she made with the product. It's hard to see in the photos, but the purse is completely textured. Very cool!

It's so easy to do! You take a piece of the Texture Magic and machine quilt it to your fabric. Stipple, do grids, however you want to do it. Then steam it with a steam iron or steamer. The Texture Magic magically shrinks the fabric to form great texture!
It's really fast.
She showed us lots of examples. It was interesting to see.
We will be getting Texture Magic in the shop soon. I can't wait to play!

Quilts

I'm swimming in notes! I take pictures, write down the info on cryptic notes, and put them in my pocket. So I wind up with all these random little papers. Depending on what's going on, the notes might hang around for a "few" days. Like if I decide to blog all Halloween things for a week, all those little notes representing pictures have to wait. Then I have to decipher them and find the picture it goes with. It's a process.

So, back to business. This is Nancy Dorgan behind a fall tablerunner she made while at the Cape Point Hotel for a Weekend getaway.She also made this quilt. This was the result of a strip swap with the Brown Baggers of Norwood.
This is Marie Menfi with her FIRST QUILT EVER!! She had made tablerunners and bags, but no quilts. This quilt is for her daughter's Audrey Hepburn room. That sounds cool!
Now this is interesting!! Linda Keough made this bag. She makes a lot of bags and goes by the label "The Old Bag". This one is for her RE-TIRED GEAR BAGS. She has two sons who are professional bike riders and goes to a lot of races. They go through a lot of tires, and Linda saw that they could be used in her bags as handles. The gears were a great idea for embellishments!

If you are interested in finding out more, you can email her at: keough7@comcast.net .

Sharon Barrows came in with this Tumbling Blocks quilt she's making for her son.
Reinette Graves made this baby quilt to give to her granddaughter at her upcoming baby shower.
This will be her 5th great-grandchild.
That's it for now. I was able to discard 3 pieces of paper. I'm catching up!

Hex Quilt

Take a look at this!!

This was purchased at a thrift store in Chatham in September by one of our customers, Pam Hedlund.
There's never anything like this when I go into a thrift store. Or a yard sale. None of my relatives have anything amazing like this in their attics waiting to be discovered either. Pam is a lucky girl!
The original quilt maker had boxes and boxes of basted hexagons sorted and grouped by design.
You can see the the dates on some of the papers used for the hexagons.
After a three year break from quilting, Pam has been drawn back into putting this Grandmother's Flower Garden together.
This is truly a labor of love on both the part of Pam and the original quilt maker!!
I can't wait to show you a picture of the finished quilt one of these days!