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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited March 2011

    Anna - Those are gorgeous.  Great Job!

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    Wow Anna your quilt is just gorgeous! The pieced animals are amazing!  I've never tried something like that............mmmmm............me thinks you've got the ol' brain cells ticking over.....lol  Oh yes, welcome to the thread!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2011

    Lovely Anna!!! I hope you have a label on the back....

    Mary, spring starts NEXT weekend...right?

  • AnnaM
    AnnaM Member Posts: 136
    edited March 2011

    Yes, Chrissy, the brain cells tick away every time I get into my stash!

    I had a few extra blocks and used them for labels, Barbe. I like to go overboard in the label department.

    I made a quilt for my daughter's best friend Alex's wedding last spring. I liked it so much I made a duplicate for myself. My daughter tells me my quilt will have to move up north with her since it's so much colder there than here in Virginia. The quilt is from Kaffe Fassett's Museum Quilts and is called the Welsh Medallion quilt. I named the one I gave to Alex Field of Flowers, because I will never forget the day before my daughter's wedding in 2004 when she, Alex and I went to a local flower farm and picked masses of flowers to decorate the tent. Mostly peonies. I never even knew what peonies were before visiting that flower farm. Now they must be just about my favorite flower.

    Yes, that's a wee dog there trying to sneak into the picture. Her name is Gilly and she tells me that anything Celtic should belong to her since her ancestors are originally from Yorkshire and Yorkshire was once settled by Celtic tribes. Not little dogs, though. 

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    That's pretty.

  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 325
    edited March 2011

    Anna, I just can't believe those animals aren't paper pieced!  That must have been difficult to do.  Found out today my MRI was benign so I'm going to celebrate by sewing!  Dragon

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited March 2011

    Dragon - Big congrats on the B9 MRI - happy sewing.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    Dragon, congrats on clear MRI and happy sewing!  That's got to make you feel good!

    Anna, that quilt is beautiful !  Peonies are amazing flowers and if I had a favourite flower they would be one......does that make sense?....probably not...lol.  I just love all flowers!

  • samsue
    samsue Member Posts: 599
    edited March 2011

    Dragon, congrads on the clear MRI. Happy dance!

    Anna, love your quilts. The applique is so cute and the medallion really beautiful. Love the color choices.

    Meece, what pattern did you use for the scarves? I've been trying to knit one and keep having to take it apart because the size just isn't working. How wide did you make it? and how long???? I don't think I can take it apart many more times and still use the thread. Smile I'm just trying to "wing" it....

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    The scarves are crochet, and they are about 5 inches wide, 48 inches long.  Some of them were just double crochet the whole way through.  I just kida of make them up as I go, depending on the yarn.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2011

    Anna. I, too LOVE seeing your work!

    Thanks for sharing. Keep posting any other projects finished or underway. I really appreciate seeing things 'in process' as that is all the more inspiring to me.

    I have a favor to ask.

    I have a video up on YouTube, that documents the 'quilt' response to my first picture book by an Art teacher directing over 300 Kindergarten students quilt work.

    It would be a HUGE help if you would click on the link. Most of the quilt photo/documentation are right at the beginning.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvqljjC0ww

    I think you'll get a kick out of seeing what they created in honor of my visit to their school. It is the BIGGEST community project to date in my honor.

    Thanks!!!

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I started a new project, guess it was just too stressful to be clearing up too many of them.  I have started a Grandmother's garden quilt and am doing the top completely by hand!

  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 325
    edited March 2011

    Meece--love the grandmother's flower garden!  I restored an old 30's style one a few years back and it's true, it has to be done by hand.  I love hand work though.  Am starting a cute embroidered purse--have 2 quilts going also.  And some other purses.  Wow, I better not start anything else.  My UFO (unfinished object) pile is big enough.  Have to have another minor surgery--that will give me a couple of days on the couch to embroider.  Dragon (quilting fool!!!)

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I had decided I needed a laptop project for waiting rooms and car rides.  Here is my first "Block":

    Once all the blocks are complete I will choose a background color to connect them all.

  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 325
    edited March 2011

    Meece, beautiful!  Red is such a hopeful color.  Dragon

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited March 2011

    Meece - You are so talented.  I can't wait to see the finished project.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I think it will be many colors, but I realized that I have a lot of scraps of reds.

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited March 2011

    Meece, it will be gorgeous with many colors in it.

    Sheila 

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    I have seen a Grandmother's Garden quilt and I think they are beautiful but I think I would need some tuition before attempting one.  Your first block looks great Meece and I can't wait to see more as you progress!  Still knitting this scarfe in between all the normal household things that I am now able enough to catch up on.....yay......but it makes a simple scarfe a huge prolonged project! 

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I am heading to my onc on Thursday so I figured I could use a lap project.  We are also traveling with a group to LA Saturday, so maybe I can get another block done then. 

    My mother has her grandmother's Grandmother's Garden quilt.  The story goes that she had told her family that if she ever made one, it was because she was going crazy.  She made this one in her final weeks because she was suffering from cancer and she used it to keep her mind off of that.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    Wow Meece, what a great quilt and memory to have!  Any chance of a pic?

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I will try to take some pics.  I will just have to remember my camera, or try with my phone.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    I wait with bated breath.......well no I am breathing but I would really love to see it and the fabrics used.  Phone is good if you forget your camera..lol.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I love to look at the fabrics from the forties and fifties.  I have three old quilts I should take pics of.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    Oh please!  The fabrics although limited were very interesting in their colors and pattern.  I am old enough to remember some of them...lol.   I wonder if they differed much between countries?

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    That would be interesting to see as well.

    I will certainly take some clsoe ups of the fabrics.  A few years ago I was looking for fabric to back a quilt top my grandmother started before she passed.  I found a selection of retro fabrics, and wish I had picked up more.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    Not all the quilting stores here carry a lot of the retro fabrics but usually you can find half a dozen different ones.  I just can't help myself when I go to these stores but my stash has just grown and grown until I'm running out of room....lol.  Now I just need a bit more time to do more work so I can start buying again!  Wouldn't that be lovely!

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I am still using out of my stash from 20 years ago.  I never seem to be able to really put alot of fabrics away to stash, I usually buy fo ra specific project, but buy extra.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited March 2011

    I go to the store thinking I just need a little bit of fabric to lift the present project what ever it is and end up walking out of the store with a heap more of the ones 'I just couldn't resist'!  For now, I'm trying to stay away from the stores so I'm not tempted.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I am always on a budget, so I usually get just what I "need".

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