Judy Mathieson's entry into the WSQC is Scarlet and Indigo. She finished her quilt first – see, it's quilted and bound! Mine is not. Click on the quilt to see it bigger. The quilting is amazing. I wish my echo quilting was that good.

First I have to say Mt. Massive is an interesting name for a mountain. It makes me think the person who named it had just run out of good names and went with the most obvious choice. That happens to me when I'm naming quilts so I understand how that can happen.

Here are my guys on the summit. The last time there were some folks on Mt. Elbert to take their picture. This time they were alone and there wasn't a flat place to put the camera and use the self-timer. Mt. Massive, the second highest peak in Colorado and the third highest in the contiguous US, at 14,421 – just 12 feet lower that Elbert.

There was a metal box at the summit with the log book and a number of unusual objects that people had left, including Woody. Steve left a kukui nut. I'm guessing Woody went back into the box.

Caryl Bryer Fallert's quilt is lovely and unmistakably hers.

Caryl is on the 'other' team. My teammates are John Flynn, Hollis Chatelain, Sue Nickels. The 'other' team is made up of Caryl, Judy Mathieson, Mary Sorensen, and Ricky Tims. What is fun is seeing how different and wonderful each of the quilts is.

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John Flynn's 2010 entry in the WSQC is a Storm At Sea quilt. Remember that these are 16" x 16" quilts. This is an impressive bit of piecing. It isn't quilted yet, but knowing John the quilting is going to be very fine indeed.

Last year John made a 2-sided quilt…

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My son and DIL have been remodeling their kitchen (those are IKEA cabinets). They have done a lot of work with help (when needed) from Steve. My part of helping came in the form of painting. Last week I worked with Lorna and we painted the living/dining room walls and ceiling. Two coats each. They look good. I also volunteered to 'marble' the kitchen floor.

Initially they thought the floor would be better in solid gray. They used a satin finish latex floor paint. Satin finish latex on the floor is just too hard to keep clean. Everything shows on it. So here it was before…

And here is after marbling…

I used the same gray for the base coat and 'bagged' in a blue/black mottled marble pattern. Both paints are high gloss alkyd floor paint. I did this to my own kitchen years ago and I can tell you that it wears really well. And it's just paint – easy to touch up or change. The best part is that dirt is hard to see on this kind of finish.

Marbling really isn't hard to do. You work wet paint, dabbed onto a wadded up plastic grocery bag, into a wet base coat. Every now and then I stuck my bag in mineral spirits and worked that into the design to 'soften' some of the pattern. The veins are made by dragging a crummy narrow brush (or a stiff feather if you have one) loaded with dark paint to make squiggly lines of varying widths. You will make a more natural line if you hold the brush with the fingertips of your non-dominant hand.

I was covered with paint by the time I was finished. I wore gloves to protect the very fine manicure I got this week and was just proud of myself for not messing up my nails. At least I didn't get any in my hair.

I explained the World Series Quilt Challenge here. There are eight of us making quilts that will be auctioned off to the highest bidder in November, after Quilt Festival. All the proceeds of the auction go to Alzheimer's research so this is an excellent way to make a (large) donation AND buy a quilt!

I got the OK to show you the quilts-in-progress that I have photos of. First up is Hollis Chatelain's 2010 entry, in progress:

This was her 2009 quilt, Fading:

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