WAZOO! Quilting studio

I actually cleaned my studio over the weekend and had to quickly take some photos before it gets back to normal! Enjoy the slides and come see me some time!

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Finishing up some of my projects

Over the holiday weekend I finished some of my UFOs. The bright strippy block quilt was from my retreat. The simple squares quilts are for hospice. They are memory quilts given to the patient for visitors and family members write messages on. When the patient passes, the quilt is given to the family as a memorial. Our guild makes these and gives them to a local hospice. The little raccoon quilt is for the head start charity project where a quilt is presented to every child in their day care program. Both of my guilds do this.
Now, I am back to the customer work. It was nice to take a few days and get some of my things done.Makes me happy!!

Work and fun DO mix!

I have had some nice quilts to do over the last few days. It just proves that if we like what we do, the work becomes fun. This was the cse with these quilts. Done and out the door! I know I'm happy.

WAZOO! May 2011 Retreat

We are home from Sebring and once again, I didn't take nearly all the photos I had planned to take. Seems we get having so much fun that I forget about the camera! Oh well, next time I will try harder. Enjoy the show!

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All in a week's work

Wow! It has been a busy week with sewing, quilting and physical therapy for my shoulder. I made another sample for the up-coming retreat, a tee shirt quilt for a customer's daughter, and quilted three custom quilts. Everybody is getting itchy to get quilting in Sebring starting Sunday. Be sure to come back next week and see another fun slideshow from the Kenilworth Lodge. Meanwhile, enjoy photos of this week's quilts.

Quilts for family

I took a couple of days to work on my daughter's wall quilt as well as my sister's quilt for a friend. There are loads of quilts waiting, so I have to hurry up and get to it! Green and blue is my sister's quilt (it was an absolutely perfectly made quilt...I am jealous of her piecing skill) bright southwestern quilt is for my daughter who has moved to Arizona. It's going in her office.

Back home!

I had to post the Paducah post after I got home because I had no internet access for a week!! Horrors! Anyway, we had a wonderful time despite the dodgy weather and the show being all over town. My quilt was hung next to two famous quilter's quilts, so I was humbled to see it there. Sharon Schamber won my category, so you can see the company I was in!! Wow. Here are a few shots from my week away. I need to get back to work pronto because I have already taken in four more jobs just today!! No rest for the folly seekers.

The almost "No- Show"

Here we are in Paducah and it almost didn't happen!! There is quite a bit of flooding in the area and the river is expected to crest well above flood stage. When this happens, they close the flood gates and everything is a mess down where the show is supposed to be. I am so impressed by the engineering feat the show organizers did. The entire show was taken down and moved to locations away from the river. The vendors all had to be organized and moved. The classes were all moved. This is a BIG show!! I can't imagine how hard this was to do. But here we are...in Paducah after two days of driving through rain and a night in a hotel in Kennesaw, GA without power at the hotel, and now, torrential rain in Paducah. It is raining right now! On the quilt side...I made the semi-final for the show but didn't get a ribbon. Sharon Schamber took first place in my category. Good company!
Here are some photos from Paducah. The river at flood stage with the flood wall in the foreground, my traveling companions looking happy that it stopped raining for a few minutes, and me at the award ceremony looking happy to be there. Tomorrow, we go to the main show venue and see my quilt hanging with the other wonderful entries. Should be a great day!!

Off to Paducah!

Tomorrow I will be off to Paducah for the quilt show. Five of us girls are going to have a wonderful time doing all things quilty. I made a quilt for the couple we are staying with and just need to do the hand sewing on the binding and it's ready. Here is a photo of the quilt (binding not down yet). If the wifi is good at the hotel, I'll post something about our road trip! Until then, have a nice week!

Count down to Paducah!

Another week trying to get somewhat caught up on the customer quilts before our trip to Paducah. If I didn't say it, I managed to get a quilt juried into the show!! It is the first one in the photos here (green and purple). The other two are wonderful customer quilts I finished this week. It will be exciting to see something I made hanging with all the exquisite entries from the famous quilters all over the world! I am still overwhelmed by it all. ( but not so dizzy as to miss the hundreds of vendors). Back to the machine!