Cedar Chest Quilter's Winter Festival

Last weekend I headed down to Cedar to the Cedar Chest quilter's winter retreat. My Aunt and I went to the trunk show by Blanch Young. Blanch is 90 years old and showed some fantastic quilts. I loved her amazing use of color and the way that she used big prints on the back of her quilts. Here are a few pictures from her trunk show. My favorite saying from her trunk show was "Some mistakes I make, make the best quilts!"








My Aunt Karla and I took an all day class from Blanch's daughter Lynette Bingham. We made a baby trip around the world quilt that was called Twice as nice. This actually ended up making two quilts in reverse order. Her are the tops of the first quilt that Karla and I finished. Lynette has a fabric shop in Hurricane Utah called Main Street Quilt Cottage. I will add her link on the side. This retreat was really fun and we just might have to make this a yearly tradition!
Karla's Quilt

Carolyn's Quilt

moda bake shop

Hey ladies,
I just checked out the newest 'recipe' for moda bake shop and it is darling for Valentines. I also went to the site of the contributor, Piece N Quilt. She has some darling quilts and tutorials. I thought the spray starch applique method was interesting and I might try it. This site will be another one that I add to my favorites, along with the dozens of others I have for favorites. I guess that just about anything quilting is my favorite!
Linda

January Newsletter Piece in the Valley Quilt Guild

Pauline Warner is our new President for 2010. Cindy Gardner. be over the program this year and started the meeting by giving an overview of some upcoming events. Next month we will learn needle turn applique taught by Jan Dutson. On April 8th we will have a class on maintaining your Feather Weight machines. Our garden Party will be in August at Carol's house and we will have all day sews in June and July. On September 9th we will have Barbara Walsh teach a class to us on organizing your sewing space. We will also have Marsha and her "Side Kick" from the Corn Wagon come to teach an applique block. This class date will be announced later. This sounds like a fun filled and educational year ahead!

Winners of this years UFO contest:
1st place with 16 finished quilts went to Shanda 50$ or a quilted quilt by Jan
2nd place with 12 finished quilts went to Pauline 25$
Congratulations Ladies!

Carol Smith-Snow Goose Festival
Snow Goose Festival will be on February 19th and 20th
Everyone check out the web sight to see pictures of this years classes and information about the Snow Goose Festival. We still need people to sign up to help set up, sit and the front table and clean up. Contact Carol if you can help. Thank you to everyone who signed up to help make the treats to sell. Call Shanda Bishop if you have questions about the treats. Holly Nissen will have a table to display non quilt items that you have sewn this year so start gathering! Holly Dutson will put together a table of antique quilts. Let her know if you have anything to contribute. Jane Ekins is in charge of the Luncheon.


Ann Morgan- Utah Quilt Guild
Ann has Fat Quarters for the Breast Cancer Foundation Fund Raiser for sale for $5:00. She also has applications to turn in to the State Guild if you are interested in being an instructor to teach other quilt guild in the state. Contact her for more info. Pauline added that she received $25 from the Utah Quilt Guild to use for Prize Money.

UFO Incentives- for this year will be a variety of cute stitching and paper piecing patters with thread to go with them, so everyone keep working on all of those UFOs!

Show and Tell incentive- Holly Dutson has organized a fabric line of Layer Cakes to give away for everyone who brings Show and Tell this year.
Thanks to Pauline and Holly for organizing this year's incentives!

Block of the Month- Julie Hayes
Julie will be giving a pattern every month to those who would like to make a block of the month. Everyone who makes a block can enter to win all of the blocks!
The blocks this month should be made from a Whimsical print.
An additional idea she gave would be to make one more block for yourself at home and them make a sampler quilt with all of the blocks you make.

Program
Our program was on how to access the newsletter on the Sew Mama's Blog as well as how to post and comment on the blog. We also saw some of the fun quilt blog links attached to our blog. We hope everyone will post something on the blog this year!


Show and Tell

Carol shared this table and Christmas Socks made by her Daughter

Helen


Helen's Trip around the World made from scraps


Lisa Quilt top #1


Lisa- Quilt Top #2

Lisa- Charm Pack Quilt top #3

Cindy G.

Jan showed two quilts made by Joyce Jensen


2nd quilt by Joyce quilted and shown by Jan

Jan's Quilting on the Back





Melissa finished two Christmas quilts that were started by her mom.




Hollie Dutson helped her daughter make this quilt

Ann Morgan

Ann's ribbon quilting on the back

Karen Jelly Roll Quilt
Karen Flower Quilt

Shanda Turning Twenty Riviera


Shanda's Bandanna Quilt
Shanda also shared a cute Green and Black Bag

(Sorry Shanda no Picture...you had better post one for us!)


Melissa's latest bag

Pin cushion by Melissa (looks good enough to eat!)
Bag by Shanda
Valentine Table Runner Carolyn

See everyone next month and don't forget to sign up for all of the fun classes at the Snow Goose Festival! Send your registration to Linda by February 6th.

Did you read the bad news?!?!

AmandaJean is ending the Crazy Mom Quilts blog. It is my FAVORITE quilting blog, and I'm so sad about this. She says she'll leave it up as a reference, but nothing new. (Although she will still post quilts at her flickr account.) Sad, sad, sad....

(Cue crickets chirping....)

Okay, I'll quit being lazy and post some stuff....

Shanda and I made a baby quilt for a girl in our ward. Don't look too closely, however, as we apparently sew very different 1/4 inch seams (sometimes even different from ourselves....?!?) Overall, though, it turned out soft and cute, and Shanda's quilting makes it look kind of fabulous.
( I should apologize in advance that every quilt picture I ever post will have feet sticking out underneath...)

I finished my coin quilt that I made out of a charm pack (Sweet by Moda.) I really like it. I used Kona cotton for the off-white, and I really like it. I'll be using it again.

And the back...




And I put together a kit (I know, gasps of shock...) But really this one was pre-cut and so easy. It didn't even take an hour (unless you count the time used sewing ricrac on, which is a little challenging for me!)
Shanda practiced her daisy quilting on it, and I wish it showed up better, because it is darn cute. The back is polka dot minkee- you can sort of see the cute daisy quilting on this picture if you look very closely....

And finally, we decided to make new school bags for my girls again (since the ones they are using are nearly three months old, and therefore, ancient...) We did messenger bags this time using rag squares. They chose their own fabric, and I think they turned out pretty cute.
Miss M. was all about the bright colors. Hers is made of cotton quilt fabric.
Miss R. chose pastel flannels for her bag. It is very soft.

Okay, somebody else show me what you've been doing! I'm ready for inspiration!
Melissa

Fun little giveaway...

Green Fairy Quilts is giving away a super cute pumpkin table runner- leave a comment to be entered to win!

http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.com/2009/10/show-and-tell-pumpkin-table-runner.html

Anybody going to the Holiday Quilt Hop this weekend? Want to meet up for dinner or something?

A Few Projects

I have been really slow at posting some of the things that I have been working on. This is really late but I made these skirts for my girls for Easter. The first three are a two tier skirt from a pattern that I found on line and the smallest one I made up from the scraps.

One of my friends wanted me to make some aprons for her mother and mother-in-law for mother's day. I actually made her three different aprons but could only find pictures of two of them.


After making the aprons for her I decided I wanted one for myself and just finished mine a couple of weeks ago.

So I didn't make this last apron, my sister-in-law made this one, but I loved how she added the hot-pink rickrack

Hello.... anybody out there?

So since NOBODY else seems to be posting, I thought I'd at least put pictures of my last few projects. Most of you guys have seen them, but that's okay, I suppose. The bag above was a gift for one of my daughter's friends on her birthday. It reverses to the picture below...
If I am going to be totally honest, I kind of wanted to keep it! I like the bright green.

The next two bags are my girls' school bags. They are reversible, too, but for some reason, I forgot to take pictures of the other side. Oh, well.

This is the baby quilt Shanda finally convinced me to finish. And that Shanda quilted. And that she did the hand stitching on the binding on because I am a crybaby and I hate doing that part. It now belongs to my cute little newborn nephew.
Do you like my husbands shoes peeking out under the quilt? If anyone has advice on how to take a picture of a quilt without shoes or tops of heads showing up, let me know!

Blue and yellow version two...

I just finished a second tiny turning twenty. This one was for my friend Jessica's baby. Instead of doing the quilt-as-you-go sashing this time, and because I'm not very good at it, I decided to do it the regular way and add borders instead. Shanda quilted it on her longarm-and did the binding. It turned out very soft and sweet, I think! Now, I'm ready for someone to have a girl. I have two more boy babies coming (not personally, mind you, but in my family,) and I have fabric purchased for their projects. But I'm kind of in the mood for pink!

Shop Hop

I am pretty late to post our adventures at the shop hop. I guess I have been too busy quilting and loving all of my great fabric finds! Shanda and I hit all of the stores, some twice and some not on the hop in two days! Some of our favorites were Elaine's Quilt Block and Quilts Etc Etc. We of course always love the Corn Wagon too. My mom joined us for part of the fun and we ended up in a Hula Hooping contest at the Corn Wagon. It was a tight race until they made us walk while Hula Hooping and I just couldn't beat my mom at that so she was the winner! I found fabric for two new quilts. We had better get quilting so we can go on the next shop hop!

What Kathy has been doing

The tractor quilt. I have it all pieced together. I just need to put borders on and then bind it. This will go on Mikey's bed when he gets a big boy bed. I have to stop with this quilt for now, because I have decided to make my sister-in-law and my sister a baby blanket and one is due at the end of July, the other in September. So I have to get busy on those. I will post progress when I get started.

Here is Lanie's quilt, I made her awhile ago. We have it on her bed. Hopefully you can see the wall to match. The pillow is my Great grandmother's. I have an orange bed skirt to match.

On Line Shop Hop

I know that we are on fabric shop overload after just getting back from the shop hop, but I just found a link for an on line shop hop that looks kind of fun! Visit fabshophop.com to check it out! (I put a link on the side bar) I also added a link for quiltsoup.com that is another fun website.

Anybody else excited?

Shop Hop starts TOMORROW!

I know I stashed some cash somewhere in the house. Better start looking!

Not the most interesting post in the universe, but I figured the old blog needed some kind of update.... And to be honest, I really am quite giddy about getting out of town tomorrow. I actually dreamed about it last night. Guess it is safe to say that I could use a little more mental stimulation in my life...