Sunday, January 13, 2013


I have been busy with quilting related things, but there hasn't been much really interesting to post, photo-wise. I changed out the quilt hanging in our bedroom last night, so for lack of anything better to show, here is the quilt:


Here are some close ups of the great quilting by Sandi Wagner of Sew Fine Machine Quilting:



This quilt is the pattern "Stars for a New Day", which was the BOM from thequiltshow.com in 2009. It consists of fabrics predominantly by Kaffe Fassett, hence the name of the quilt, "Kaffe-inated."

Our guild meeting was Friday evening and we kitted up fabric for our charity quilt project for 2014. On Saturday guild members met to sew drapes that will be used as backdrops for the upcoming quilt show in March.  We made 64 new drapes so now we are set! In December we repaired over 250 drapes.The channels were too small and tight in many instances to easily pass the display rods through. They should be much easier to hang and with any luck the job of erecting all the drapery standards will be much quicker this year.

This morning I pieced an easy strippy top from plaid fabrics that have been in my stash forever. This will be the first of two or three quilts that will be donated to the charity project. A lot of floral and otherwise feminine fabrics get donated for charity quilts and it seems that quilts appropriate for boys are in the minority. This will help to tip the balance a bit.


6 comments:

  1. What a beautiful quilt! I love your choice of fabrics, especially against the white fabric in the border. Good name for your quilt as well.

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  2. I see here and at the TQS website that there was at least one more Stars for a New Day at your last quilt show - the pink one. Were there any more as well? It is fun to see the different approaches.

    Do you have any photos of the main blocks close up? I'd be interested to see how the Kaffe fabrics worked out with those. It's a great quilt, with the best name ever!

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  3. Beautiful quilt! I'm working on a boy-charity-quilt too.... Blues/greens and white. We've got plenty (too much?) time to finish these up. I completed a top today, pattern name is Swoon - check it on my instagram feed, if you want, I'm cwillbanks :) later gator!

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  4. Beautiful quilt! I'm working on a boy-charity-quilt too.... Blues/greens and white. We've got plenty (too much?) time to finish these up. I completed a top today, pattern name is Swoon - check it on my instagram feed, if you want, I'm cwillbanks :) later gator!

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    1. If I had any clue as to what instagram was, I would gladly do so. Googling it only slighted lifted the fog.

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  5. another wonderful quilt for us to admire, you are a very busy bee with all your charity projects, such a worthwhile thing to do

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