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Sally Schneider Guest Speaker

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It has been a long time since I was able to attend Quilt Guild on a regular basis. It was such a treat to go yesterday. Wonderful memories came back yesterday when I attended. I loved my guild in Tulsa. So many friends and that is where I met Becky. 


Sally Schneider was the guest speaker. She did a program on built in borders from her book Designing with Built In Borders. Built in Borders is a method for making complex pieced borders as simply pieced blocks. Make the blocks using your own designs for the center and select a built in border for the sides. It was so simple. You can contact her at quiltersally@yahoo.com. 

She had a sheet hung from a quilt rack with the center of a pieced star quilt hung from it. There was velcro on the sides of the sheet. As she showed a quilt with the built in borders she would attach that to the sides. We saw a lot of different border treatments. Check out the pictures of her demonstrating how it works. I think you can see what I am talking about. 

My Aunt Millie has been a member of this guild for a long time. Several members commented to her they were surprised how much I enjoyed it.  You never know when you will learn something new. It may be built in borders. or a quilt that inspires you with the use of color. There are so many things to learn. More than anything I just love quilts. Seeing what others are doing and the proud look on their faces when they show a completed quilt is so much fun.

Visiting with Friends

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Can you believe I am writing on the blog.  I have lots of ideas and good intentions. Somehow I manage to procrastinate too much. I told Becky I was going to begin writing on the blog on a regular basis. She said she would have to see it. 

It is always so much fun to have a friend come to visit. Especially if they are a quilter. My long time quilting friend Glenna Hailey and her husband Bill were recently here.  We share so many interests that it is a none stop gabfest. Bill and Paul love to play golf.

Glenna’s company is Holly Hock quilts.www.hollyhockquilts.com. Check out her new book Sugar Sack Quilts. She specializes in quilts made from feed sacks and reproductions of feed sacks. You should see her room with all the feed sacks. She has the largest collection of them I have ever saw. I always wanted to spend a night in that room. 
Glenna also sells antiques and collectables including feedsacks. http://www.feedsax.etsy.com. She is so much fun to go antiquing with. I have learned a lot from her. She found a spread while we were out that was nursery rhymes characters. I would have walked by it but she saw the possibilities for it. It is fun to shop looking at things from another person’s view.
We decided to go to the Palisade Peach festival which is about 15 minutes from my home. What a treat. They gave us peaches to eat when we paid to get in. There was everything imaginable made from peaches there. Wine, ice cream, fudge, salsa, etc. It was a taste feast. I advise you not to try the peach peanut butter. Yuk!
While entering Palisade we saw the greatest sculpture, which gave us all a good laugh. It was a statue of a fire hydrants with a dog at the base trying to jump up to it. 
Have a great creative day. I am making pillows this afternoon for my sister’s birthday.
Linda

It’s a beautiful day…

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I worked in the yard this morning. There were weeds to pull and plants to move. Steve got out the chainsaw and pruned the ash tree in the backyard. It’s going to have to come out in a few years – it’s too close to the foundation. We’re going to plant a replacement tree as soon as it’s cool enough.


There are days of yard work ahead but that’s for later. I’ll be going to Tampa to teach for the Feather Princesses on Tuesday so my gardening is over for now. (BTW – Isn’t “feather princess” a great name for a guild?!)


I have a huge sage out front. It’s easily chest-high and is usually buzzing with bees. Lately there have been monarch butterflies on it as well. They flit around a lot but I did get one non-blurry image. The orange habanero pepper was not moving and was easy to take a photo of.
I plant peppers in the front yard, next to the big sage. I’m going to add even more vegetables out front next year. They blend in with the rest of the plants and the neighbors don’t seem to care. Steve makes a great habanero sauce with these peppers.

Painting pumpkins…

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I helped Elanor paint pumpkins a few days ago. This was after we worked on a birthday cake for her mom and dad – they both had birthdays this week. And after we fixed the hole she cut in her shirt with scissors that morning. (We fused a star over it.)

Elanor had me draw outlines for the eyes, nose, and mouth on each pumpkin and then she did all the painting. We used acrylic tube paints (which is what I had on hand). There was some color mixing. She was after scary pumpkins and I think she nailed it!

Did you notice that I forgot to spread newspapers underneath the paint? Elanor did fine, but I managed to get paint on the table. It mostly came up!

Good ideas from dorm rooms…

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When I was catching up on some blog reading I read a post on designsponge that led me to a NY Times article. It’s an article about interior design on the cheap – done by college students. Click on the multimedia slideshow on the left side of the page to see the images. 


There are some really good ideas! I especially like the big polka dots on the wall in slide #7 (at left). I’ve been wanting to add some dots in my kitchen and this might actually get me moving.

You may need to register yourself with the NY Times to see this slide show. It doesn’t cost anything and it’s a very good site. I find a lot of interesting information on their site.

Karen, we need your address…

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This is to Karen O’Neil, the winner of the blog hop door prize. We need your actual address so that we can send the book, Piecing the Piece O’ Cake Way, to you. It’s possible that you have a spam blocker on your email that is keeping our emails to you from getting through. If you would email your addres to us at pieceocake@bresnan.net we’ll send the book.


To those of you who are not Karen: If we don’t hear from her in a reasonable amount of time, we’ll draw another name. So check back… the doorprize drawing may not be over!

On a related note: Linda and I did talk about the blocks I found when I cleaned up my spaces. Yes, we will be using them as future door prizes. We’ll spread out the fun, and give them away one at a time. We don’t know exactly when that will be – my guess is that we’ll start it up in the next 3-5 weeks.