Design Wall Monday - February 27, 2023

 Good Morning Quilters!

Today we are driving home from our visit to the Mid Atlantic Quilt Show in Hampton, Virginia.   The quilt show was wonderful and I will show you which quilts I had hanging in the Churn Dashers of Tidewater Virginia exhibit.  There were three of my bed quilts with matching doll quilts shown:

I must not have taken a picture of this one in the show, so here’s another picture of it.

And two other quilts:

I have blogged about all of these quilts before, so if you want to know more about any of them, let me know and I will give you a link to the past blog entries where I talked about any construction details.

It was a great exhibit and was our last one, as the Churn Dashers of Tidewater Virginia has disbanded as a group.  The block exchanges were wonderful and I so enjoyed meeting with the other members.  

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Design Wall Monday - February 28, 2022

 Good Morning Quilters!  Thank you for all your prayers and kind words this past week.  Your words comforted me and were very much appreciated.  

As I have mentioned in the past, I am part of a group of quilters in Virginia who exchange blocks and make civil war repro quilts.  The group, The Churn Dashers of Tidewater Virginia, had a display of some of our quilts in the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show, in Newport News, Virginia.  It ran from February 24-27, 2022, and I was not there in person to see our quilts.  Friends sent me pictures of the three quilts I had in the display, so I am going to enjoy seeing them “hung” here on the blog:

The above is a full sized quilt and the two below are doll quilts.

The Churn Dashers next block exchange will be a Jacob’s Ladder block that finishes at 6 inches.  The block is in a nine patch configuration with four hsts and five four-patches.  Here are my first four blocks made for the exchange:

It is a very old block and if you want to make some, the directions are on the internet in several places.  Just google “Jacob’s Ladder Quilt Block” and many sites have good directions.  For the exchange, which happens this fall, I will need to make 16 blocks for each participant, 8 blocks with a dark “ladder” leaning to the right, and 8 blocks with a light ladder leaning to the left. There are 8 of us in this exchange, (so I will make 112 blocks for others).  This should work out nicely for me, as the quilt I plan to make has 120 squares, and I can make 8 additional blocks to go with the ones I receive in the exchange.

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Design Wall Monday - January 20, 2020

The decision has been made on my January UFO.  Thanks for your input.  I am in the process of making small half-square triangles to ring the outside of the cheddar baskets quilt. Here is a picture of the progress on the hsts:

The six quilts that are going into the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show in February are now ready to be sent to Virginia. This week I finished the hanging sleeves and labels for all of them.  The quilts will be part of an exhibit of reproduction quilts made by The Churn Dashers of Tidewater Virginia.  I am still part of their group even though I no longer live in Virginia.  This exhibit includes several versions of an old quilt owned by one of the members.  I made a larger and a smaller copy:

Another small quilt that I am including in the exhibit is a simple one patch quilt:
I made it for my old Raggedy Andy and Raggedy Ann.  The squares are 1 inch:

Andy has had several repairs as he was much loved while our son was teething. Also Ann has lost her apron, but is in slightly better shape.  Here’s the simple quilt:

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Monday Morning Musings

Here's what I'm working on this morning:

Lighting can make a lot of difference in pictures.  These are both pictures of the same block.  A photographer I am not.  This is part of the applique project, Birds of a Feather, which is almost finished.

Last Thursday I went to the big quilt show in Hampton, the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XXV.  I want to share just one quilt from the show.  It's what I call a "tile" quilt, and I am interested in making one. Tile quilts have white "grout" between the pieces, and I think they look so interesting.  Plus it had old buttons too!  I hope you enjoy these pictures of just one of many beautiful quilts in the show:

Monday mornings is time to look at all the design wall pictures at Judy Liquidara's blog.  (Here)