Tee shirt quilt finish (almost...)

I worked hard on the tee shirt quilt, and have it quilted and ready for the binding. In my stash, I had some fun bicycle fabrics to use as the border, and for the strip down the back. I had some extra blocks, and they are on the back, as well.

Here I am, sewing down the elements of the 'bicycle' to the front of the quilt.

I use a small buttonhole stitch, with the needle down feature, to do this.
You can see evidence of my klutziness on my hand, where I burned myself with the iron. 

Ta-Da!! All quilted and ready to have the binding put on.
The tan bike print for the border added a nice finish.

Here's the finished bicycle.

To save time and money for the customer, I used a simple meander for the quilting.

A bicycle close up.

The back is blue chambray fabric with a strip of blocks and a blue background bike fabric offset to one side.

Yesterday was guild, and we had Mary Ellen Von Holt from Little Quilts as our speaker. She was wonderful! She brought many of the quilts featured in her books, and gave us a brief lesson on the 'magic colors' she uses to make her quilts sparkle. If you live anywhere around the Atlanta area, you should get her to speak at your meeting.

Today, I will be running around a bit, tending to David Gilleland from Vector Quilts. He is teaching a class in paper piecing to 18 members of the guild. Check out his patterns on the Vector Quilts website. The class will be making the Star Voyage wall hanging.

Tomorrow, I am off to Cleveland, GA to deliver the raffle quilt to the Quilt n'Kaboodle shop there. Over the weekend, we sold a bunch of tickets and took in over $1000!! Wow! Now, we have to order more tickets, as we are down to a mere 257 left! I knew it was a pretty quilt, but didn't anticipate how many others would think so, too. If you would like some tickets ($1 each or 6 for $5) you can email me at wazoo4u@gmail.com and take a chance on winning it for your bed.

Butternut Creek Festival success and some sewing

The girls out did themselves selling tickets at the festival this weekend! The weather held up and the park was jammed with vendors and shoppers. Mr Wazoo and I went on Saturday morning to beat the heat. He bought another birdhouse for the yard and a new garden fairy from the metal working guy.
We couldn't get near the guild booth where the ladies were selling tickets like crazy.

We made a stop at the metal-man booth to get the new fairy.

There's the raffle quilt! The booth was busy every time we went by!

Guild members selling tickets to a hopeful customer.

There really is a Butternut Creek, running through beautiful Meeks park here in Blairsville.

Today, I worked on making a customer tee shirt quilt. After cutting and prepping the shirts, I arranged them on the design wall and made the bicycle the customer requested. I added the sashing, but only sewed three rows together so I can sew down the bike without having to shove the entire quilt under the machine to manipulate it for applique. Hopefully, I will have the top done tomorrow.

I arrange the shirts for size and color, then construct the bicycle from more shirts.

All the rows are sewn, and the bike temporarily glued down.

Here is a closer look at the shirts in the bike.

I guess the customer saw my other tee shirt quilt with a bike and thought it would be perfect for her son's quilt! He must love to ride...all but one shirt are from bicycle riding events.