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Wordless Wednesday

Free Motion

Last month I took a free motion class

with Teresa Fusco.

The class was titled "Feathers, Feathers, Feathers!"

Please visit her web page; her

quilts are just gorgeous! 

Teresa taught us how to draw feathers

free hand in corners, squares, triangles of your quilts and

also along the borders.

A great learning experience for all!

Here I am at home

practicing in a square!

What is it about feathers - we just love them!

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We had a Tote bag challenge at our guild this year.

We were given 5 pieces of fabric and were allowed

to use just 2 pieces of our own to make the tote.

Here I'm auditioning   a piece of my gold shiny

fabric with the fabric that I was given. This is

harder than I thought!

Unfortunately, I had  to miss the Guild's Christmas

Party this year but.....

I was told that my bag won - Best Use of Fabric.


The bags that were submitted will go to Domestic

Violence Services here in Lancaster County.
 


Happy quilting!



 
 

Old Country Store Museum

I went to the Old Country

Store in Intercourse and

upstairs there is a museum

with items that you can purchase -

also they have quilts exhibits.

This month they were featuring

Jo Morton! But I also found this

one that was hand quilted!  

Whole cloth

Close up - wreath medallion

Another close up---feather chain

feathers are beautifully stitched

Part of the border - Scalloped

 Whole Cloth 103" x 80 1/2"

by Reba Dagen.

Winterberries by Jo Morton (reproduction fabrics)

 

To be continued....

 

Hurricane Sandy

Due to the hurricane many people
are without homes. My heart aches
for them!

I was born and raised on Long Island;
and the devastation there is unbelievable.
I can't imagine what my friends and
family are going through - some in 
my family lost their homes and cars 
to the storm!

So I was happy to read on Facebook
that eQuilter is doing another Quilt
Relief for those "most drastically
affected" by the hurricane.

Here's is the URL <a href="http://www.equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/quiltrelief.html?sid=31U9Hz2zEA113Ub-18112267225.76">
eQuilter Quilt Relief

I hope that you'll join me in 
making some quilts!

 




  

   
   

October FMQ challenge

Our FMQ tutorial on Sewcalgal this month is

from Teri Lucas!

http://terilucas.us/9415.html



Incorporating various quilting motifs:

shells, writing our name, feathers and 

a lot more!

Teri encouraged us to use different

color threads.

My favorites were the shells and of course 

the feathers.

My first feather on the left - I then changed 

the spine a little on the one right 

and made it a little more fuller. I like the 

way this one came out.



Learned a lot during the year from this


challenge -- now if I only had time to

practice more!

Thank you Teri and SewCalGal!

  

Wordless Wednesday