NOthing like doing yoga in the morning on a deck at Kinderhook Retreat overlooking the lush farmland of Illinois. Relaxing and energizing, ready for a day of sewing with friends. People said shen I came down stairs I appeared to be a woman on …
Three years have passed since retirement. I have been enjoying doing what I want pretty much when I want but I am missing one aspect of my professional career. Having been an educator for over 35 years I am itching to get back into the …
Saturday I had the pleasure of taking daughter and friend to the starting point of RAGBRAI 2015, Sioux City, Iowa. The Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa draws thousands of bike riders from across the nation. I saw license plates from California to Florida and states between. Once their support truck was located, tent unpacked and set up we visited a quilt shop, Heart and Hand Dry Goods before I left them and headed back to Des Moines with their car. I had no agenda for the quilt shop–no need for fabric or patterns but, of course, found fabric not to be lived without. Some batik fat quarters that will be part of a pattern in the development stages, a pattern that would be a great one for showcasing a complete fabric line and a book that looked intriguing with it’s star making technique were put in my bag before heading home. Though I was tired when getting from Des Moines to Hannibal on Sunday I put one fat quarter batik on the design board for mulling a potential project while I continued work on the “Anatomy of a Leaf” project!
Anatomy of a Leaf A group of quilters in the Hannibal, Missouri area are exploring artistic techniques using the leaf as subject matter for learning to create different textures in their creative quilting. The first session was thread painting. The second session was using Tyvek …
Denali Dreamin’ was made from a photo to keep us focused on our upcoming trip to Alaska. Next year at about this time we will be crossing over into Canada on our way to Dawson Creek, the starting point for the Airstream caravan through Alaska. …
Tyvek Play Day After some dutiful sewing on a landscape quilt I needed to play so tried some ideas with Tyvek. In my mind the butterfly was going to be beautifully iridescent with the outline left after pressing/melting away the stitched on Tyvek applique. …
July Block of the Month Patriot’s Star The July block is my design and could easily be repeated for a four block quilt for the Honor Flight quilts. With multiple repeats of this 16” block a patriotic throw for 4th of July picnics …
Everyone is creative but sometimes we need an igniting of the spirit.
Join us July 9 from 6-8 pm at the Inspirations Building in Hannibal, Missouri to explore artistic techniques for quilting.
I will share an artistic technique that can be used in our quilting. For July we will be painting on Tyvek and then sewing to a quilt sandwich. Once again the subject matter will be leaves to add to our “collection”. In October we will put the small projects into a final arrangement to become an art quilt of your creation.
There will be a $10 total charge–five for materials and five for use of building.
A thank you to Cindy Hannold, new owner of the Inspirations building, for use of the facility before they start remodeling in August as well as to Pat Waelder who has supported the pursuit of quilting by groups in the past.
Contact me at sharonwasteney@gmail.com so I can let you know what to bring to this session and make sure I have supplies for everyone.
My apologies for being so late with the June BOM. Just as we need to clean our sewing machines we need to also “clean” our computers and mine was apparently overdue. The block this month is called the Farmer’s Daughter. Depending on how the …