Grandmother's Choice

Yea! started Barbara Brackman's new Block of the Week. Finished block # 1 today. Grandmother's Choice is the first block for this quilt project. This is my version done in purple, cheddar, green and red...

Grandmother's Choice Block # 1

My fabric choices for this quilt

After some research we found this 1918 banner for The Netherlands suffrage movement. Holland won the vote for women in 1919. My fabric color choices were not too far off!

"Let me in, I bring new light"

 
Australia's banner had gold and green, the Brits did purple, green and cream and Alice Paul's along with many of the USA banners were purple and gold as this one by the National Women's Party. On  the flickr site you will see many versions of these and more colors for this quilt!

Clink on Grandmother's Choice to go to Barbara Brackman's blog with more info... and here is a link to flickr and a photostream of pics of everyone's blocks participating in this project from all over the world. Never too late to join in!

 Other projects I am working on this weekend: A paper pieced block for Jill, our outgoing President of Annie's Star Quilt Guild...and our guild's paint chip challenge coming up in October...

 Can you guess which two colors are my paint chips? It's supposed to be obvious and we have to incorporate at least one nine patch block. Finished size is 24" x 24"

Happy Quilting and have a safe Labor Day

Carpenter Star Quilts

Gail finished the quilting on her Carpenter Star Quilt that she made in my class at Cathy's Sew and Vac. This is a class that I repeated, original pattern by Kathie Holland of Inspired by Antique Quilts. Completely quilted by Gail using a walking foot and free motion quilting...

Gail's Carpenter Star Quilt

Close up of quilt back ~ Gail's border and leaf corner quilting designs

 Check out the great job she did with her binding as well

Gail's quilt back

 Here is a re-post of Kathy W's Star quilt made in the same class.

Kathy W's Carpenter Star quilt

 And this is a picture that Kathy sent to me of a quilt she made after the class on her own! Pieced, quilting and binding all done by Kathy.

I am so proud of both Gail and Kathy for completing their quilts and jumping right in with FMQing.

Kathy T is right behind them with a black, red and white quilt she made in the same class. I saw it yesterday and it is beautiful. Well done ladies!!!

Have a great Labor Day weekend

Tomorrow is Saturday Morning Post!!! First block for the Grandmother's Choice: Votes for Women quilt project. Everyone has their fabrics selected and are ready to start. Not too late to join in!

Quilt Classes at Cathy's

Classes at Cathy's.
Tomorrow is my quilting workshop ~ Applique by machine. This is the first one so will see how that goes. We will work on a Mariner's Compass. There will be a flower applique to do as a second choice. This is my sample for the class:

Last weeks woven rail fence class was lots of fun. Four quilters, Kristi, Darcy, Sue and Betty took the first class. Here are pics of Kristi and Darcy's progress:

Darcy's in blues and green

Kristi's in earth tones ~ for her hubby

Next week's class we add borders. Sue had to drop out for health reasons but plans to take my next class and then get caught up on the Woven Rail Fence quilt in one of my UFO quilt days. Sue is a beginner quilter! Yipee!

Kristi and Darcy have taken more of my classes and are well on their way into intermediate quilting. They are doing great! Betty is an accomplished quilter and took the class just for fun. She already has her borders on and is ready to quilt the top. Can't wait to see it!

Our Block of the Month... this month's... Block # 12...

Block #12 made by Kathy T

my purple Color Me Happy block #12

Claudia has hers to bring in at tomorrow's applique class. We have one more alternate block in Sept, after that we will be ready to start putting our tops together. 

Added ~ Claudia's block # 12

Thanks for stopping by...

Samples for HoneyRun Quilters

Theresa at Honey Run Quilters has been very busy making store samples. It's great to have these to practice my longarm quilting on! Here are a few that I machine quilted. This one is quilted with a bamboo design...

 This one will have large flowers appliqued onto the blue fabric over the quilting...

This one is quilted with an all over leaf design and will have brightly colored leaves appliqued in one row...

 close up of the bamboo quilting design ...

 and the owl Theresa appliqued onto this quilt after it was quilted...

There are a few more ready to be quilted. Some of these quilts will be shown at Quilting in the Garden coming up soon in the Bay Area, Northern California.

Grandmother's Choice

 

Grandmother's Choice:  Votes for Women
New Block of the Week by Barbara Brachman

Starts September 1st

Barbara posted fabric yardage and suggestions this morning on the new blog she set up for this project. 

Dustin set up a flickr page for posting pics of blocks and progress

Here are links:  Grandmother's Choice for the blog and the flickr page set up for this project.

Many of the same quilters that did Barbara's Civil War BOW are participating plus lots of new faces :0)

Come join the fun!  Barbara always includes bits of history with each block. This project will be about the women's suffrage movement here in the States as well as around the world in gaining the right for women to vote.
I believe Becky will be making the block samples on the blog again.

New blocks are posted on Saturday... its the Saturday Morning Post  :0)

Quilting for Beckie

My Friend Beckie made this gorgeous quilt. I don't have any good way to take a picture of the entire quilt to do it the justice it deserves.

Love the border print, the peacock center panel and the gorgeous peacock print for the backing. Well made!

Quilting for Kelly

 I love quilting for friends who let me practice on their quilts! Kelly made this gorgeous applique quilt. Love her colors and fabrics!