sao’s Quilty Happenings This Week – and Then Came Mamie my Singer 99K

| February 1, 2009

Featured in my weekly quilting log are two new quilts –  Augusta Cole’s Hidden Pinwheel Quilt and Bonnie K. Hunter’s Strip Twist Super Bowl Quilt Blocks.  I also sewed  on Joey’s Forever Plaid Quilt – I put pictures of these on an earlier blog today! I did finish the Fabricaholics January 24th Mystery Quilt (aka Bonnie K. Hunter’s […]

Thimbleberries at Quilter’s Corner – February 2009

| February 1, 2009

We had a good time today collecting THIMBLEBERRY BUCKS for our HOMEWORK and SHOW N TELLS!  There were some fabulous SHOW N TELLS today! And, of course, we had great snacks too.  Enjoy the pictures of our meeting today – wow, Super Bowl Sunday is a HAPPENING DAY here in Midlothian, VA.    I fear that […]

Super Bowl Twist – for all Bonnie K. Hunter Fans

| February 1, 2009

Today is a BIG DAY for football and SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL fans alike…….and then there are folks who add QUILTING to the mix of anticipated happenings for today.  Bonnie K. Hunter’s FANS are doing the Super Bowl Twist – either making her Strip Twist Quilt or another one of Bonnie’s patterns in mostly blue fabrics.  […]

Augusta Cole’s Cutting Bee January 31, 09

| February 1, 2009

Saturday I attended my FIRST CUTTING BEE hosted by Augusta Cole…..and it won’t be my LAST cutting bee.  It really was LOTS OF FUN. Twenty-four quilters each brought in 20 1/2 yard fabrics cut into 4 1/2 and 2 1/2 inch strips.  Half of the fabrics were lights and half were darks.  We put all of […]

Cooper Lost his First Tooth and Gained his Yellow Belt

| February 1, 2009

This was a BIG WEEK for grandangel, Cooper (5) – he lost his FIRST TOOTH – and he GAINED his yellow belt in Karate!  Way to go Cooper!