Three for today

Judy Brummel might have been a little surprised when I asked her to let me hang up her pocketbook for me to snap a shot of it, but I'm pretty sure I left everything inside where it needed to be! Isn't it pretty? The handles are soft and the grommets add a lot of character.




Gwen Ashburn (with the pink, green and yellow quilt) and Dorene Foster (with the blue and yellow) both made these log cabins with class and style. Beautiful.

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Who-o-o has some advice?

Good morning! I wanted to share this cute little purse that I made out of this owl fabric we have in the store. I made this from a pattern book called "Fast and Furious". Love the book as I've made a baby quilt from it and an easy quilt as you go table runner from it. However, this particular purse pattern made me furious fast...I think I took out every seam that I put in. But it's done, and it's on display, so come check out the fabric and tell me what you would have done differently.

My ha ha funny moment is to do with this picture. I have this great tube of lip gloss that I usually have in my pocket...and then there is this great tube of Bernina oil for the 8 series machines in which I was using this morning... a case of mistaken identity ensued that had nothing to do with me oiling a sewing machine with lip gloss. However, use your imagination as to the opposite and now you'll understand why I've changed to colored lip gloss now. I'm just sayin...

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Gorgeous Batik Quilt

We have a fantastic quilt to display today from our customer, Gay Moore. Here's part of her email that she sent to us, "I am attaching a picture of a quilt that I recently pieced and quilted on my BERNINA 820 that I purchased from you last fall. The quilt uses Bali Pops 2.5 inch strips. The pattern came from Brenda Hennings 'Strip Therapy 3' book. I love my 820. The extended arm is great for me to machine quilt all my projects. I love the dual feed, the lighting and the larger bobbin thread capacity. Actually, I love all the features."

We're so glad, Gay! It's really lovely and we're tickled the 820 has made sewing a dream for you!

Food and Foolishness Class

We had such a great time on Saturday. We started the day off with our block of the month class which incorporated applique. The month's block involves different shaped hearts, so a lot of people used the handy accuquilt GO cutter to cut their shapes before they left. Then at lunchtime our next class began, starting with a box lunch and a mystery project that turned out to be this fun apron. I wish we could have gotten a picture of everyone that came, but look how proud everyone is with their cool finished project!

Garden Beauty Time!

Look how pretty the Garden Beauty quilt turned out!

This is a six month block of the month class that we are starting on June 17 @ 5:30 PM. It'll run every 3rd Thursday through November. Cost is $150 and includes the fabrics for the top and the book.

It's gonna be fun! Wanna Come? For each class that you come to sew you'll get a $5 store credit.

You can register by calling the store at 336 786 7074, visiting our regular website at http://www.creativesewing.com or sending an email to creativesewingprojects@gmail.com.

Quilt Raffle for Autism Speaks

Well, this is my blog, so that means I get to show off my own projects, right? Take a look at my beautiful Birthday Blooms quilt that was made in a block of the month class. In January 09 we started with the trellis blocks, getting that part completed and out of the way. Starting in February we did a flower a month for a whole year, finishing out with the pink carnation block in January 2010.

We had a great group of ladies that took this class, as we labored over the red rose block in June so much that I think all of us would be suited to never receive them again. Others were more fun as we got very used to making half square triangles in several different ways. Then there were the months that I made us all paper piecing patterns so we could get through some of the more confusing angles.

The best part was that when I sat down to put my quilt together, I realized I had sold my border fabric and had less than what I needed. That's when I got to remake all my trellis blocks again!

Lucky for me, I was able to convince Amy Askins of Lowgap to quilt it, and I'm very pleased with her work and how she brought out the best in it. I was going to give it a try on my own but was ready to call it done!

Reason being, I am raffling off this labor of love to benefit Autism Speaks, an organization dedicated to promoting the early intervention, research and a cure for Autism. It's a serious developmental disability and I'm excited to be able to put forth donations towards this organization. I will be running the NYC Marathon this November under Autism Speaks so all proceeds from this raffle will go to this cause. If you're interested in a raffle ticket, let me know, they are $3 each or 2 for $5. So that means a book of ten will set you back $25, but it's for a great cause. The quilt is on display at the store.

I have a lot of catching up to do! Here is a speckling or sampling of a bunch of projects that we've been able to enjoy.

Sandy Woodard created this appliqued children's quilt using the embroidery on her 830.

Beautiful Judy! Those flying geese really finish it off!

This is a beautiful batik quilt made by Sharon Rhudy.

Karen Springthorpe is relatively new at quilting, yet she obviously has an enormous amount of talent.

Isn't this elephant quilt precious?

Gwen Ashburn used the cute Moda high heel panel to create this one.

Faye Seal made this Merry Go Round quilt out of fat quarters instead of the jelly rolls and it turned out beautifully.

And then she made this Christmas pineapple quilt.

Alice Brooks took our crazy curves class and made this floral beauty.

The pineapple quilt class was a big hit, and Leanne Mantero shows us hers. Nice job!

Very pretty, Susan!

Sharon shows us another beautiful creation.

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