Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Mallory's Quilts

I was visiting my sister a couple of weeks ago and took a look at a couple of quilts I had made for my niece, Mallory, years ago.  This is Mallory's horse quilt!
Her room was red and there wasn't all the "girly" colored horse related fabric available like there is now.  I wanted a big horse motif for the center and after brainstorming at the shop wound up photo copying a horse from a piece of fabric and then Carol Ayotte took it to the printer and blew it up for me.  Mallory chose the pictures of her that she wanted on the quilt.

I embroidered some horses and when Mallory came to visit told me she could draw me horses if I needed more so it turned out I had enough to put one Mallory drawn horse in each of the corners.

 She did draw one winged horse that is embroidered with sparkly silver thread!



It was fun to make and Mallory's involvement made it special!


When she needed a new quilt, Mallory made her own while she was visiting during the summer!  I helped hand sew the binding!  

 When Mallory was a baby/toddler my sister Kathy embroidered this Raggedy Ann center panel!  Then she sent it to me to do something with it.

 We changed the bottom left corner to add Mallory's name and hand print.

Then I found some Raggedy Ann and Andy fabric and some tie dye fabric and made a quilt!  I don't know why I wound up with tie dye. It's not what you think of with Raggedy Ann.

Now her room has recently been painted a pretty light green that she has accented with orange.  Before I went to visit I sewed a tuffet using Amy Butler's Gumdrop Pillow pattern and stuffed it while I was there.

I hope your weekend was fun!

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Monday Morning

TUMBLEWEED WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY FOR MEMORIAL DAY!  
We will be open Sunday, as usual, from 12 to 5.

There's always a lot of different things being worked on in the classroom on Monday mornings!
This week Barbara worked on some embroidery,
Dot M. did some appliqué on her Dresden Plate,

Joanne worked on a pinwheel quilt,

and Dot H. was making a black and white quilt!

Mary Collari finished the borders on these two Christmas quilts!


Jeanne Carey has two beautiful Granddaughters that was busy making bibs for!  


Thursday, May 23, 2013

Adele's Classes!

Adele will be teaching this Windmill Quilt in an upcoming class on June 12!
Reversible Bargello Tablerunners will be taught on June 26!  

This is a sample for her strings tablerunner!

Of course you can always expand it and make a quilt like Michelle Collishaw did after taking a class with Adele!  

This is something that Adele is working on, and it looks like fun to me!  

Remember, these classes are for the project or Open Sew so you are welcome to work on your own project and get some help from Adele!

Friday, May 17, 2013

Fabric Art by Ina Nenortas!

This month we have beautiful fabric art by Ina Nenortas on display in our gallery area!







Stop by to see them!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Judy Sebastian


On Thursday, May 16, former Bayberry Quilt Guild member , Judy Sebastian, an accomplished fiber artist and quilter will be speaking at the  Eastham Historical Schoolhouse, the yellow building opposite the National Seashore Visitors Center , as part of the Eastham Historical Society lecture series.  She will be speaking about her journey with fabric , fiber art and the use of dyes.  The lecture starts at 7 PM and the suggested donation to the Historical Society is $5.

Quilting With Willie!

Eileen Smith is pictured here with her Farmer's Wife Quilt!  She started it in Iowa and finished it with a little help in Willie's classes!
It has 2008 pieces in it!!

Willie made this baby quilt using organic fabric with a science lab theme!

Marilyn Holle made a Spring colored Twister quilt!

Shari Sears is using some fun colors for her Science Fair quilt!

Marilyn Holle already has another one started!

Jeanne Carey is using red, white, and blue colors for her Science Fair quilt!

Willie made a Lotus Quilt using the Hex and More Ruler from Jaybird Quilts!

This is another quilt that Willie made!


Monday, May 13, 2013

Quilts!

Robin MaGuire used her own pattern to make this quilt top!  

This is Willie Fiedler's Toes in the Sand Quilt from the pattern from Jaybird Quilts!   
Terry Curry had these next two quilts to show us last Wednesday night during Open Sew with Ruth!


Lynn Conroy was pinning this spiral quilt she is working on during Carol Ayotte's Open Sew Class.

Wow!


Quilts!

Stephanie Nesi is making this quilt for her daughter, Sarah!
Click the picture to see the white fabric - it has raised stitched roses on it!

 Dorothy Stahley brought in this vintage 1930's yo yo quilt for us to see!

Pardon the pictures, the color is off.  Bad camera day!

This is a nursery rhyme quilt that is punch needled!  Donna Brouillard made it and came in to pick out borders!

The detail is amazing!

 Debbie Zeida made these bumper pads for her Grandson, James, and machine embroidered his name on them!