It has been a
while since I posted on this blog. Sometimes life is a bit gets a bit too busy,
but with it being Worldwide Quilting Day today I thought I really needed to
catch up with you and write a little post about the quilty things that have
been going on.
A few weeks
ago I went to Judith’s (click) show and tell at Karen’s B&B (click). Pictures have
appeared on other blogs already, which is a good thing, because I did not have
the best seat in the house to take good pictures, wooden beams were a bit in my
way when Judith was ‘showing and telling’ , but never mind, it was a great
afternoon. She is a good speaker, loved listening to her stories, getting a
close look at all those beautiful quilts and seeing familiar faces.
This is one of
my favorite pictures of the day, the Les Soeurs quilt by Judith and the Drayton
Hall quilt made by our hostess Karen, they both ended up on the table next to
me. So much inspiration in this picture.
Some other pictures
from the show and tell:
Petra Prins (click) was also there with her shop and as usual she made it look beautiful.
Another one of
Karen’s smaller quilts on a table:
In between all
the other things that were going on I did manage to do a bit of quilting myself.
Started work again
on this ufo, the Jules quilt, at the time it was a BOM from Dorry (click), I had already pieced and appliqued the blocks,the work now is the quilting, the quilt-as-you-go method, a first for me.
I mostly use this
thread for quilting, Aurifil Mako Cotona 12 (red spool), which is wonderful to work with.
It is has a lovely shine to it, a beautiful color, glides through the layers
and is so strong. At the time I bought this from Laura (click) during a
workshop and I hope that more quiltshops will start selling the large spools in
more colors of this thread, I see the small spools here and there but they work
out a bit expensive to use for quilting. This color blends well with a lot of
my work, it is 2326, for darker quilts I use 2370.
