Virtual Retreat Aug thru Dec 2015 Info on first post

[Scoopie]

Geneva, beads and soccer patches! Who da thunk? I did go and research the crazy ants and their attraction to the electronics. Very fascinating! But, I decided that between the toxic mold, and the crazy ants, Texas is probably not where I'd like to live! The bluebonnets are beautiful, though!

Welcome Purple Quilter! Yes, we would love to have you share your work!

Marianne, fun placemats! Great modern quilting! My style! I love doing straight lines! It's the FMQ twirls, swirls and feathers that slow me down! I'm still not that confident with those!

Dawn

[rehak]

Those are very cool, Geneva! I'm sure the girls won't care if their patches show up or not. They'll be thrilled just to put them on and enjoy them!

[rehak]

whew busy morning this morning! Ok here is the first one for my 1st grandson Zane, it's all Frogs, 17 total and each frog is different, I checked a quilting book out of the library then copied the pattern it at home. Each frog is hand embroidered. The first photo with red and white is the pattern we picked, i just switched the toys for frogs

[rehak]

That is very cool, purple quilter! I love the frogs that you found!! Your grandson is going to love it!!

[golfjane]

Love the Flavia books and think I've read all of them. Happy to hear someone else likes them too.
Just saw the Virtual Retreat site and glad I did--interesting stuff.

[golfjane]

most of them are actually coloring pages I found , and others are various cartoons and clip art

[golfjane]

And now for #2, this was suppose to be the back of one that I made Boy Friends step daughter asked to make for her, it didn't work out that way so to speak LOL This project is also hand embroidered. I found a very cute pig drawing with doodles and swirls.

[lotti]

So good that you found us, Jane!
Love that pig, purple quilter, that is going to be a great quilt.
:cheer:

[lotti]

This is the lap quilt I made for BF's step daughter,

[twiglet]

Fun quilt.

[CarrieG]

Love the greenwork frogs! Are they all on 1 big piece of fabric? I'm partial to hand embroidery.

[CarrieG]

Thank you! Yes its one large piece till I cut out all the individual frog square. I had to measure and mark each square before hand tracing each frog in the squares. I left it one piece till I finish the hand work of the frogs, much easier to handle and moving the hoop to keep it taunt enough

[CarrieG]

My last post, maybe,, until I get back from vacation

Last night I finished cutting and piecing block 1 for the Craftsy Summer 2015 BOM quilt. It's a free class, so you might want to check it out. Each month they gave out four blocks, one main method and three change ups. It's interesting, and it's out of batiks, so I waited until I saw enough blocks to take the plunge! I'm now behind by 15!! But the first one turned out very nice



And mid morning I got my arm turned to crank this one out before I started packing.




Last load of laundry is in the dryer, the car is ready, most things are in the car, and I'm going to go cut more pieces for that batik stars quilt. That way when I get back, I'll get busy right away and not wander about for two or three days wondering what to work on.

May God give all of you interesting activities to pursue and the energy to pursue them,
Luann

[CarrieG]

Marianne, I love your placemats! The quilting on them is wonderful -- I love how you did the crossover on one side and then opening up on the other -- very fun!

Geneva, those wall hangings are great! Love that you just went with what the girls picked and had fun; kids have such funny ideas sometimes!

Purple Quilter, those are all wonderful! I've done one piece of hand embroidery, likely never will again! That is some hard/time consuming work!! Your frogs turned out great, and that pig drawing is adorable! Thanks for showing us everything

Luann, great job! I've got a quilt similar to your Frozen quilt that is in my line-up -- my boys have requested one out of Marvel superhero fabrics, similar to what you've done there, for our movie room. Sometime.....I've got quite a list I'm working on, so we'll see when I get to it. Luckily they want something simple that shows off the fabric, so that will be good.

Go and have your trip now! We'll still be here

[CarrieG]

Thank You!, the hand embroidery is my first time ever doing it in my life, I thought it would be very hard to do also but it really isn't. I'm using the basic straight line stitch along the outline of the frogs I traced onto the fabric and just turn my hoop when I need to.