Time for a road trip

Today I will be going to Blue Ridge Assisted living to give a trunk show and talk about the changes in quilting over the years. I have one duffle full of old quilts that I have either acquired as a quilt and repaired, or got as a top or blocks and made into a quilt. The other duffle is full of my own quilts, both pieced and appliqué, that use elements of the older quilts, but with contemporary fabrics. The only problem I foresee is holding the quilts up for viewing, as I have one assistant and the quilts are mostly big ones! I will be calling the facility at 9:00 to see if they have someone who can help me get the 'dead body' duffles into the room and , maybe, stay to help hod them. Its a long shot, but worth the effort.
Back up to yesterday when I was in the studio working along on my queue of quilts. The first one was another David Gilliland paper pieced project from the class we had a couple of months ago. You have seen one already, but they are all different because of the maker's color choices. I have one more to do after this one.

The maker used a controlled palette of gray tones accented with black. I like the icy look of this quilt.

The Panto is called Chevron, and I spaced them close together and staggered them to mimic the piecing.

She also had me do the label, sleeve and binding. Here is a peek at how I apply a label into the binding. The security of having the label sewn right into the edge protects the quilt from being stolen at shows. I would be really tough to get off once the binding is sewn around the corner. I finished the hand work on the above project last night while watching the Democratic debates.

 

I loaded two quilts mid-day yesterday and I have started both, and almost finished the one on the Millie. When I get home from my talk, I'll get going again, and probably finish the Panto one. Busy day ahead!!

This beautiful brick and block quilt is being custom done. I'll tell more about it later when I finish the quilting.

I am working the squares with a little flower and the bricks with a leafy motif. There will be two colors used. Every other row will be this melon color, and the others a light turquoise. 

This one will be finished soon!

Gosh, I almost forgot to tell you about the speaker at guild on Tuesday night. Jennie told us all about feet for our machines and what they are for. Oh my! Does she have a bunch of feet!! It boggles my mind what can be done with the proper equipment and makes me want to get a couple of feet to make  my sewing easier. Unfortunately, Bernina feet (for my 770QE) are mondo-expensive. I have to really need one to cough up the $100 to own it. We'll see...

Jennie talked about feet while members passed around the feet and gave them a good look. The giant book on the table next to her machine is a compendium of all the feet for her machine. Yikes! In front of the machine is a large box of feet as well as the smaller boxes with fancy feet in them. It was a great talk, informative and fun.

I pulled out this UFO from my Scan and Cut class, and would like to finish it up for Christmas. One panel left to fuse, and I can get the pieces sewn down and the whole shebang assembled and quilted. I think it will be a good Sunday stitching project, don't you?