8 more done, 12 to go

I finished off these 8 arcs tonight and have 12 more started. I will finish the last 12 before Saturday. There is a lot more paper piecing to do before this Indian Orange Peel quilt will be done. We will have to organize some more Arc Support Group Sewing Sessions in the near future!

Red, Black and White

This block is for the red, black and white charity quilt that Chris and I are making for our local hospital's chemo unit to give to an adult cancer patient. We need 15 blocks for the quilt and 13 blocks were made by guild members. We are each making one extra so we can make our quilt 3X5 blocks. This block is from the Quilter's Cache and is called "Antique Tile".  Chris and I are getting together later this week to assemble the top so it can be taken to the quilting man.

I also worked on my last 20 arcs tonight but they are not done yet. I have to finish them by this Saturday when we are having our 2nd Indian Orange Peel workshop. I will post pictures when I have the arcs done.

It Snowed Anyway!

I thought putting the sign away would make the snow stop...but I was wrong. This is a tree in our neighbourhood yesterday morning.

The snow was very heavy on the branches of this tree. Today, it snowed a bit this morning before changing to rain so everything is melting once again.

Today, I made a cloth book for a friend who recently had a baby.

The family speaks more than one language so this book is perfect to read in both languages!

I am working on my last 20 arcs for my Indian Orange Peel...Stay tuned this week for pictures of these last 20 arcs.

I Won!!!

I got home from the London Friendship Quilters' Guild meeting tonight to find an envelope hand addressed to me at the front door. I had never heard of the person on the return address label!  I opened it up and found a cheque for $50.00 and a note inside.  The note read:  Please find enclosed the money you won as the 2nd prize in the quilt block challenge. Thank you for participating. It was quite a nice display. We are now making 4 quilts, of those, 2 are finished and 2 are being put together. They look terrific.  Louise M., Chair of the Quilt Committee. Prescott and Russell 2011 International Plowing Match and Rural Expo.

I purchased the material to make this block at last September's plowing match in St. Thomas/Central Elgin and made this block to enter into the contest.

Now, I guess I will have to try to go to the plowing match to see the quilts that have been made from all of the blocks entered in the contest! Here is the link to pictures of the three winning blocks. Go to "Country Living" and then "Quilting" and then "Quilt Block Challenge Winners".

Leaf Bowls and a Fabric Postcard

The London Friendship Quilters' Guild meets this week and I decided to make a postcard for the monthly postcard exchange. Do you need a quilting bee???  I love to get together with my quilting friends to chat and sew. We have not done this lately...we need to get together again soon!

The Canadian Quilters' Asscociation is holding their annual show "Quilt Ontario" in London in May this year. The call has gone out for volunteers to make these leaf bowls, designed by the Quilt Rat, for the banquet. Each person at the banquet will receive a leaf bowl with some quilting goodies in it. I made two bowls this week and hope to make a few more to donate to the cause.

By the way, since I put my "Let it Snow" sign away, we have had lots of rain and only a few flakes of snow!  I think it is working!!! 

I am so sorry...it is all my fault!

Back in early December, I decorated my house with all my snowmen and Christmas stuff. I put this sign up on my mantle, quite innocently, but it worked. The day after I put it up, the snow started and we just keep getting more and more snow. Even though we have had a couple of thaws, it snowed again and again, and now the ground is still white.

I just want everyone to know that I have put my sign and all my snowmen away in a bin in the basement. I am sorry I left them out so long...

I need to get a "Welcome Spring" sign to put up on my mantle...

I hope to see some of these soon:

I saw some green shoots in the spot where these grow during the last thaw.

Quilt 'til You Wilt!

Today was the London Friendship Quilters' Guild "Quilt 'til You Wilt". Karen and I were keeners and arrived just before 8am to set up our sewing machines. Karen worked on Indian Orange Peel arcs all day and managed to make a lot of progress finishing 30 arcs bringing her total to 80! She has started another 20 so soon will be at the 100 mark!

I worked on my Blue Ridge Beauty blocks and got quite a few done. I think I will make this quilt queen size so I still have more blocks to make. The pattern is by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com.



I have bits and pieces of every blue fabric I have ever owned in this quilt!

I decided to start a new project this afternoon. I have been intrigued by Tonya Ricucci's free pieced letters so I tried out a few from some food fabric that I have in my stash.

My husband gave me Gwen Marston's Liberated Quilts II book for Christmas so I made some liberated baskets to go with my FRESH letters.  I think there needs to be some borders between the FRESH part and the baskets so I will have to see what I can come up with.

This project made me hungry! Luckily, we were well fed all day!  (and we did not have to do the dishes!)

I also pieced my block for the next Elgin Piecemakers' guild Chemo Quilt. 

Today was a great day!

You can see more pictures of our QTYW day on the London Friendship Quilters' Guild Blog soon.