WWWQ BEE BIRTHDAYS

Last night we celebrated the November birthdays at our Wonderful Women Who Quilt bee. Betsy was presented this quilt for her "0" birthday this year. She is an ice skater so Margaret designed the quilt for her. Four weekends were spent in the making of this quilt and Judy quilted it. The pictures of workshop days are on Margaret's blog.

Priscilla Hair's NY Beauty Workshop

One of Priscilla's creations she had at the workshop. Friday the guild had our workshop with Priscilla Hair learning paperpiecing on her NY Beauty pattern. She is a dynamic and outrageously funny teacher. I would love to take another class from her. Priscilla's comical wit takes the stress out of the impossible and her easy-going attitude make what seemed to be a difficult task attainable. No matter how far anyone got in their process, we all had a great time. No two blocks were the same and all were inspiring. The encouragement we receive from one another and from Priscilla (when she wasn't catching me not working) make the workshops all the more fun as well as a learning experience.
















Queen Rachael was the first to finish her wedge and proudly wears it as a tiara...it even coordinates with her outfit.

Rachel W. or as she sometimes calls her self, 'the other Rachel'...We sat together and had a great time helping encouraging one another throughout the workshop:


































Jolene used the most wonderful piece of fabric for her spikes. It gives the illusion of alternating colors but is actually the fabric itself..wonderful watercolor feel to it. (sidenote: Jolene is the one who made me the wonderful Gotta Have It Bag).

Princess Ille wearing her tiara:




























Sonnie really took up the challenge to alternate her spikes...I was doing well to alternate 2 fabrics let alone 4!!









Buzzy wearing her crown & her two finished wedges.













Pat H's piece hanging on her portable design board:



















Carolyn showing her piece. As a side note, Carolyn is Rachael's mom.

















Linda holding two of Rachael's paper piecing projects, the mini ny beauty and her heart. Rachael has this whole paper piecing deal all sewn up for sure!

































Ille showing Rachael T's pirate doll for the PMC Stargazer Tome class. Rachael is certainly the clever one and her pirate is a real charmer!!

My untrimmed piece:














Shelvy's piece:

















Shiela's:



















Dana's piece:



















Nancy who hand sews all her quilts:














Linda's




Barbara McB's.

Marie's finished block.

My Judy Twitty Class Project

So far here is my progress on my Judy Twitty project:














It is going to be an amulet bag for friend Jolene Eakle (Jolene is making me a 'gotta have it' bag).








The class was way lots o fun!! Mostly because of taking it with my friends!!

The Heart That Started It All

The Crazy Heart that started my obsession with beads, threads, ribbon and fringe!! It was given to my mom for Mothers Day this year...

Here's a close-up of the heart...Many thanks goes to Susan Edmonsonhttp://blackeyedsusansnc.tripod.com/ for her inspiration!! Her class was the first one I ever went to and I had such a ball...Susan was lots of fun and has such a laid back easy approach which makes crazy quilting and beading much less intimidating to do than it looks. Her samples were so awe inspiring but she assured us that we could certainly do it too....thank you Susan!!