Hi Guys, Back in the Valley to get the SMDGD and take her back up the mountain with me tomorrow. I wanted to tell you all that I joined the quilt group up in the mountains and will be entering a quilt (the Log Cabin quilt I made for my VDMIL) in the show this weekend!!! The group is called the PineNeedlers and they even have their very own meeting house! It's a nice little building and inside they have 4 large banquet tables for sitting & sewing, 3 cutting tables with cutting mats of all sizes, acrilyc rulers of all shapes and sizes, rotary cutters and two ironing boards and multiple irons for the members to use! They even have a HUGE bucket of large (2" or so) binder clips to use when pin basting quilts! I have been working on a quilt for DD made of Egyptian print fabrics. The blocks are 12" modified Log Cabins made of 3" strips. I'm not sure what the actual name is but the first block is in the lower left corner (instead of the center) and the logs build on that. I have used a purple fabric printed with the bust of Nefertiti in metallic gold & black as that beginning block. From there I have alternated Egyptian print fabrics and multi color fabrics in shades of purple, turquoise or blue. The blocks are set on point (WHAT WAS I thinking???) and the HSTs for around the edges are cut from the CleoCATra fabric line that was popular several years ago. I've gotten the beast (a 76" x 86" lap quilt -- LOL) about 85% pin basted and then ran out of pins (I forgot to bring ANY quilting supplies with me!!). I made a stop at Joann's before getting to DD's and will hurry up and get the rest of the quilt pin basted ASAP since she gets home in about
3 hours! Once I got the Egyptian quilt so far along, I started strip piecing MY autumn quilt -- FINALLY!! I started collecting the fabrics for this quilt about 4 or 5 years ago -- LOLOL! I used a bunch of the fabrics in the HUG for Little Mike but still had major amounts of fabrics left. This one is a type of rail fence block but nothing will match up -- it's very scrappy. The blocks are 10" square and made up of 5 fabric strips -- the middle one being of CAT print -- of course :-). I have everything pieced and the blocks cut and ready to be assembled. This will be another HUGE lap quilt (80" square) so that there is enough room for me AND the kitties. Needless to say, I will post photos once everything is finished AND DH gets here with the camera in 3+ weeks. I do hope everyone is doing OK -- no way can I read through all the posts using Google Groups! I'm hoping to manage another meet & greet with Pati & B'fly but we'll have to see how that works out. Miss being able to read the group with any sort or regularity but this is better than nothing :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<PAX, Tia Mary