Tamara's 2009 Block of the Month

Here's February's block, Diamond Star. The pattern can be found here.

Ott-lite Giveaway

The Quilting on a Budget blog is having an Ott-lite giveaway. Add a comment to enter.

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Chickens!

Here is the latest chicken quilt, Funky Chickens II, which I sold to Nancy. I included some other photos to show the evolution of this quilt.

Here's the Petaluma Quilt Guild's Opportunity Quilt which was raffled off in 2005. People are still talking about this quilt. Members of the guild made the individual blocks. I asked for "funky" chickens and that's was I got. I was worried they would clash but when Tamara and I laid them out they looked fabulous. Not all the chickens were funky and that's okay. The plain ones give the eye a place to rest. I searched for months for the green fabric and ended up using a cabbage print becuase it was the right shade of green. Nancy donated a great chicken wire print for the red border. Dena and I embroidered the eyes on the chickens. Tamara and I attached the green to the chicken blocks (extra wide so we could trim them down to all the same size) and joined the center together. Liz put on the borders and Kathy quilted it.

This is the Chicken Quilt that started it all. I made this in 2003. The chicken block was a free potholder pattern I found on the Internet. After making a few potholders a friend suggested I make a quilt. I used fall colors and made many more than I needed. The leftovers were turned into potholders for Christmas gifts.

And now, a sneak peek at Nancy's suprise house warming gift. Can you guess what it will be?

Service Day

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr, I hosted a day of service at my house yesterday. I was joined by Tamara, Tonie and Maura, a new member of our guild. We finished two tops and made five into sandwiches, ready for quilting. I forgot to take pictures, so here's a sneak peek of the quilt I'm making for the guild auction February 3rd.

Tamara's 2009 Block of the Month

This is the first installment of Tamara's BOM for 2009. She started with December 2008 so we would have 13 at the end. This is called Christmas Star and it's from Marcia Hohn's Quilter's Cache website. http://www.quilterscache.com/C/ChristmasStarBlock.html
























Here's January 2009, Twisting Star, from the same website.
http://www.quilterscache.com/T/TwistingStarBlock.html

Here are four more quilts for the San Antonio Childcare Center. The first one I made. I loved it so much I bought more fabric so I could make another to keep!























This one was donated by a friend of Tamara's from her embroidery group. It's hard to see but all the white squares have machine embroidered motifs.























These two quilts were donated by a friend of Joanne's.











































This is the quilt I made in the Kaffe Fassett class at Houston. It's called Glorious Diamonds. Kaffe made some very nice remarks about it in class. It's about 48 x 72. Now I just have to decide how to quilt it. I have lots of left over diamonds so I may make more of these.

Here are the five quilts I dropped off at the San Antonio Childcare Center Tuesday. The director was thrilled. Thanks to the Valley Girls for help making them.