New House, Quilt Club and Class!!

Well, it has finally happened!! Our offer was accepted by the bank and so now my older daughter and I own half a duplex one road from the beach in Kure Beach NC. It is a 2500 square foot, many bedroom, many bath place that we hope to rent out during the high season and enjoy in the off seasons!! There is an owner's closet where I will leave a permanent sewing machine and sew while looking out at the ocean!

Yesterday was the October meeting of the Genesee Valley Quilt Club and as usual the show and tell was wonderful but it was difficult to get good pictures because of the angles. I contributed my excess Dear Jane blocks for the monthly raffle. I included over 180 blocks, the book and the notebook I made up with all the possible color combinations you could make of one block and the rotary cutting instructions!! I know the woman who won and she was very excited and gave me a big hug!! So that was nice!

I also had a garage sale for a dear old friend and new quilter who died in February. I surprised (shocked would be a better word) her husband with a very large check after the sale was over. I came in with probably 12 boxes of stuff and went home with one file box. I priced things to sell and they did!!

I also shared my vintage sewing trade card and cigarette silk collection with the vintage quilt group. I also showed them some of the pamphlets from the 30's dedicated to sewing and fabrics and written by Mary Pickens later known for her associations with Singer. There may be a few more collectors after they saw what I had!!


This is a piece done by Sarah Terry where she used a piece of her marbled fabric. She was in the same class as I was last summer and loves it as much as I do. She (and I am sure you also) can see the flowers in this one!!


This was an exquisite quilt by one of our most talented quilters. It is a surprise for her six year old grandson who loves cars. Toni is so so talented!!


This was a really fun quilt for Halloween which had all sorts of Halloween fabrics as well as the center panel. Just fit with the season. I got to wear my Halloween jacket as well for the meeting. I don't get to wear it that often!!

Today we had a class with Judi Warren Blaydon, a really well known art quilter. Yesterday she did a wonderful slide presentation on some of the quilts that were considered totally avant garde twenty years ago and how far we have come as quilt artists. The class today really emphasized the use of value in creating line, transparency and even sometimes luminosity. The setting was just beautiful and everyone enjoyed the class!

This is Judi with Mary Weiser who we don't get to see too often so it was a pleasure!

This is Judi and Pat Berardi discussing color placement.

These were Pat Pauly's designs which both showed her fabulous use of pattern and color even in the constrained format!

This was the view onto the pond from the shelter where we had the class.


These are examples of the transparency that we were trying to achieve.