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Quite the year for the Diva's.
We presented the quilt to Tina and she was pleased and did not get mad that Jan had made up some story to get her to the meeting. Unfortunately we were shy a few members. I knew we had it right when she came in wearing the colors of the quilt.
Overheard at another guild meeting..."Aren't you part or Ruth Paul's basement group? I am really going to try to start my own." We could franchise the thing.
I will be missing you all on Sat so I hope for pictures.
Happy Holidays everyone,
K

It's almost that time

The second annual Jelly Roll Race is scheduled for Saturday, January 19.  Stay tuned for more details.  If you want to recall all of the fun we had last year, go over to Ruth's blog for a recap.

It's the little things

I mentioned that I'm keeping my sewing ambitions low.  This lined drawstring bag was on the list.  When Mike gave Brady a Cavs potato head that had multiple outfits and accessories, it was time to find a way to keep them contained.  Jeni's lined drawstring bag pattern was just the ticket.  I highly recommend the pattern.

Puttering ...

These last few weeks have been a doozie but, in order to preserve what sanity I still have, I managed to squeeze in a bit of late night sewing.  I put together another 24 circle blocks then decided I probably need another 9 to finish off the partial row plus another. The main purpose for this quilt is to decorate Brady's white walls but it may end up on a bed someday so I will make it big enough to be useable.

I haven't made much progress on the black and white challenge but I cut a few strips so I can start auditioning.  Excuse the bad, late night photography.

 

 

 

I am trying to keep my sewing ambitions small over the next few weeks, what with that holiday looming just over three weeks away.  The tree goes up this weekend.  Take care, Divas!

yippee

The Tina quilt is quilted. Hooray. I will pass it on to Jan who made the mistake of saying she would bind it. She is one heck of a binder after all.
Lori can have all her pins back now... On to the challenge.

Circle Play

Now that the Wildwood deadlines are behind me, I had a few minutes to sew this week.  It was easy to pick up where I left off on Brady's circles.  I was doing 7 at a time and found some efficiencies but I still think these are 26 minute circles (assuming your pattern is already made).  That's ok.  I like them, even in their untrimmed state. 

I've cut some strips for my black and white challenge but that is as far as I've gotten.  Maybe I'll switch off between these two projects ...

Quilt Show

Many of the ladies Divas from the Basement group belong to the Wildwood Quilt Guild. Their quilt show was this past Sunday and it was very nice with many really great quilts. For some reason the Divas seem to be reluctant to post their own photos and tell you about their quilts; maybe they are just shy.

 

All the photos I got of the Diva quilts are in this collage. Of course nothing here represents size. These are all different sizes from about 8 x10 inches to bed quilts and the little quilts look larger here than the bed quilts. I thought I had more photos but I had some issues downloading from my camera and I also kept running into people I knew and stopping to talk so I may not have taken photos of everything I thought it did.

Two of the quilts in the collage above were from their guild challenge. All the members drew a card from a deck of cards and that was to be their inspiration. Can you pick out the 4 of clubs and the 7 of clubs.

 

These two photos on the left are from the challenge. I could not get  back far enough to get a picture of the whole area. The inspiration card is clipped to the quilt. The Jack(of Spades)  in the Box is also a Diva's quilt. These are all small quilts I am not sure of the exact size requirements but it is somewhere around the size of a sheet of copy paper.

These 2 photos on the right and below are what was hanging to the right of the top 2. The 4 of Clubs on the lower right row is a Diva's quilt. there are probably others here from the Diva's  but they did not have names on them as there was voting for favorites. I am not sure who won but I know it would be hard to choose. There is an abundance of clever ideas here as well as good workmanship.

Maybe some of the ladies Diva's will add some photos of their  own and tell you something about their quilts. They have nothing to be bashful about.

One last thing, I was the recipient of a sweet little 4 x 4 quiltlet made by Jan. It matched her  7 of Clubs challenge piece. Now wasn't that nice!