What I’ve been up to
It turns out that after a retreat it takes a little time to get back to reality. And then there’s a guild meeting and a holiday. Today is my official catch up on everything day (if I owe you an email let me know).
I spent last week preparing for our NJMQG meeting. I’m queen bee for the month and had to cut all of the fabric for my Christmas quilt, which turned out to be really time consuming.
I made a test block to make sure that my instructions were accurate.
The meeting was wonderful. We announced the winners of our guild quilt block challenge as chosen by our judges Mark Lipinski, Alison Glass and Elizabeth Hartman. Anyone who has talked modern quilting with me knows how much I idolize Elizabeth Hartman. And when I found out that she had picked my block (#14) as her winner I just about exploded with happiness. My prize was a gift certificate to RPS and this beauty, a jelly roll of Kona solids from challenge sponsor Robert Kaufman:
In my free moments (there weren’t many until yesterday) I was working on my Aerial Quilt blocks from Carolyn Friedlander’s Sewdown class. I just have one half block left:
And then I’m on to this pile of loveliness:
Stay tuned.
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Loving your Christmas fabrics, and congratulations!
Loooove that first block! Great fabrics and colors and block. And those threads and fabrics! Love.
Love your Queen Bee Block. I have a question. Do you cut and give enough for one block per person? (without extra fabric for flubbing-up (that’s a word -right?) HaHa!
Congrats! That is way too amazing! I felt the same way after Mid-Atlantic Mod (our guild meeting was two days later). May I ask, how did you get such a cool challenge going? (love from a fellow president 😉 )
I’ll send you an email! But it was definitely a case of ask and you shall receive.
It definitely takes awhile coming back from retreat – sewing by yourself is so lonely! But, thankfully, it comes back. 😀 And who wouldn’t love your guild block?
You’re so sweet! I never sew efficiently with other people around– I am finally getting more done now that I’m back. But you can’t ignore quilty people. They’re too wonderful.
I did make the squares a little big to allow for trimming, but I don’t usually give extra fabric for flubs. If there’s a flub, we figure out how to fix it. 🙂
Thanks Renee! I’ve seen you using the 12 wt Aurifil for awhile now. I can’t wait to play! And just wait for the bee blocks to come together. I’m so excited– they make stars/snowflakes. 🙂
Thanks Kate!
So much fun stuff!!