Birthday Surprise from the Wonderful Women Who Quilt

My birthday was on a Monday night this year so I celebrated it with the Wonderful Women Who Quilt the night division of Pieceful Hearts Quilter in North Augusta, SC. We meet at St. Bart's Episcopal Church on Martintowne Road the first Monday of the month for meetings and every Monday following for quilting bees. They are a great group of ladies and we have lots of fun helping each other and spurring each other on in our projects. Usually only a handful come to the bees but the meetings are rather large.

me (before the great haircut), Ille (the doll who brought me cake) and Betsy and Marie













me, Ille, Betsy













Jackie, Marie, me, Ille, Betsy, Kay's mom, Kay's sister Beth













The WWWQ gave me flip flops for my birthday!! They said since it wasn't a finished quilt they were going to give it to me as a quilt kit...thankfully they were kidding :)
















They wouldn't tell me what was going in the middle so I suppose I will have to wait to see what it is














Sooooo.... I was invited to the quilt workday the following week after Margaret was finished working and this is what they had done before I got there



















adding some flip flops



















Ille pondering



















Mary & Margaret pondering



















Laying it out what does it need????














Margaret sewing like a fiend & Ille preparing to iron.














Ille who irons as meticulously as she quilts and pieces.



















Mary working on flip flop blocks














Quilt so far...and yes Margaret I swiped the pic from your blog *heh heh heh*

Hoochy Mama Quilts & other projects

Joyce had her projects to work on, finishing baby blankets for a nephew and quilting a wholecloth quilt for her daughter's upcoming wedding in August.





















Ille works on her Lollipop appliqué quilt that she and Judy started at Hickory Knob.












While we were at the mountain house, Ille, Judy, Margaret and I started on Mary Lou Weidman's Hoochy Mama quilt. I'm always talking about hoochy mama's and Ille gave me Mary Lou's book for my birthday. It seemed like a fun project for our mountain vacation.

Ille's hoochy mama's, I just love her sherberty colors:














Some of Margaret's hoochy mama blocks, the black really makes the colors pop:














These are the blocks I worked on. I've decided to take the large log cabin and make it the center of my quilt. The smaller blocks will go around it. I'm going to combine the hoochy mama and Diane Hires playtime techniques in my quilt. It will probably wind up downstairs in the sitting room/guest room since the colors match so well. This hopefully will help use up some of my stash with little buying on my part. I'm trying to use black since it seems so effective in quilts I've seen. It's a real stretch for me though so we will see how it turns out. :)

Yesterday was a playday at Margaret's. I needed to work on my quilts for Romania and she was working on a new version of kaleidoscope quilts.

Here she is pinning...

Scrapbooking for Tory Ruth

Misty's friends had a baby shower for her last month and I wasn't able to attend (actually I wasn't invited...sniff sniff...but we will not go there)....





sooooo since they were doing scrapbook pages for Tory Ruth (the expected little one) and I wasn't there and Brandy didn't know the pages were for Misty's baby book and didn't fight the throngs of females cutting, pasting and creating....

we had our own scrapbook page making day and here are our results....


Kylie is going to be quite the little artist I'm sure...between her mommy's talents and her Auntie Kim's she's got it in the bag...also my Mom sewed as well as my grandmother and great-grandmother who also quilted...Kylie and I both like glitter and lots of it....

Connie, Margaret, Ille, Sue & i (even though my contribution was only putting food out on the counter at lunchtime & photography of the event) got together to put Jeff's giclee prints into wall quilts.

Jeff needed to get 2 of his pictures 'framed' with fabric before an art show later that evening.

laying out the pictures and fabric

Ille and Connie sewing on the borders

Sue looks through possible quilt backs

Sue, Margaret and Connie preparing the quilt for the final quilting.

Ille and Jeff pinning the quilt together

Connie does the quilting

finished quilt!! which was sold later that evening!!

Lura Swartz Smith came to our guild to teach her Faces in Painting class.

Lura Swartz Smith was so positive in her critiquing of everyones works. She is also energetic and very talented and we really enjoyed her.

My picture of my granddaughter, Sierra

Margaret's painted picture of my niece, Kylie

Rachael's drawing of her niece. Rachael had a natural talent and hand with the inks.