Posted By drsao on March 18, 2012
PLEASE keep your eyes open for any quilts made by Karen Combs! Her car was broken into and her quilts stolen……..this is SO WRONG!
Here is her post on her website where you can see more pictures of her quilts! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
Cubism - a Karen Combs Quilt
Posted By drsao on March 17, 2012
I wanted 2012 to be especially memorable as I journeyed through my adventure in quilting! First, I decided to accept the 2012 Color Challenge created by Fiber Artist, Vicki Welsh and hosted by Judy Laquidara of www.patchworktimes.com. I, like many others, seem to be drawn toward CERTAIN FAVORITE COLORS – so I thought that it would be INTERESTING to try to create using colors that were DIFFERENT!
Learning to do Free Motion Quilting has also been one of my goals – otherwise known as my TO DO LIST. When SEW CAL GAL announced a 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge, I just had to be onboard with that too! Each month a different FMQ artist gives us an online tutorial and a challenge to try something that they suggest!
Finally, during my undergraduate days I became involved in working with families who had loved ones experiencing the devastation of Alzheimer’s Disease. Later when I became a professor, I led some of my students to become involved in various research and activities to benefit those who had Alzheimers. It is a cause near and dear to my heart and I wanted to do my part, as a quilter, to help raise funds to further our knowledge of this disease – and TO FIND A CURE! Therefore I made my own 2012 SAO CHALLENGE to make a quilt EACH MONTH in 2012 to be donated to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative to be sold so that ALL OF THE FUNDS can go toward research.
That is how my TRIPLE 2012 Challenge came to be…..why not make an Alzheimer’s Art Quilt each month using Vicki Welsh’s COLOR CHALLENGE colors for the month and the Free Motion Quilter’s Challenge for that same month!
Here is the Color Challenge for January.
Tiles from an 1882 Ship - from the Victoria and Albert Museum - January, 2012 Color Challenge
Here is my January 2012 Alzheimer’s Quilt made from these colors (with the Free Motion Quilting Challenge of Heart Shaped Leaves!)
The Spangle Tree
For February our color challenge was to use the color of FIGS!
Figs - the February Color Challenge 2012
Our February Free Motion Quilting Challenge was to do FEATHERS!
Here is my February Creation.
Angels Watching Over Us - Feb, 2012 Challenge
Our March Color Challenge was inspired by a picture of art glass from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Art Glass from the Victoria and Albert Museum – March, 2012 Color ChallengeThe Free Motion Quilting Challenge was to make Twists and Loops and/or Flowers/
Here is my March Alzheimer’s Quilt
Twists and Loops Through the Circle of Life
This has really been so much fun and I am looking forward to seeing what our colors and quilting pattern for April will be!
Posted By drsao on March 17, 2012
Friday night we had our Richmond Modern Quilt Guild monthly meeting in Midlothian, VA. For our program, we were entertained and informed about the latest and greatest rulers – by Joyce Hartley of Quilting Adventures.
Our outgoing president, Catherine Etter, gifted us with wonderful – creative – artistic – modern quilt guild pins. What a fabulous surprise and wonderful gesture. THANK YOU CATHERINE – that was so thoughtful!
I hope you enjoy the pictures of our SHOW AND TELLS….that is the most fun for me to see the creativity in our group!
Don’t miss our April meeting when we have a FLOWER FIESTA – we will be learning how to make fabric flowers and we will be celebrating our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY since the FOUNDING of the RMQG. We will also be honoring our OUTGOING PRESIDENT, Catherine and thanking her for her hard work in getting our guild up and FLYING. It really has been a wonderful year and kudos go out to the entire CAST of BOARD MEMBERS who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure that everything worked as smoothly as clockwork!
Posted By drsao on March 17, 2012
I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with friends in the Richmond Modern Quilt Guild’s first ever workshop – “Quilting 101” (not really the title of the workshop) taught by Julia Pfaff. I really learned SO MUCH about Free Motion Quilting and I also feel so much LESS ANXIOUS about it after today’s instruction. (I didn’t SAY that I was BETTER at it – just that I am LESS ANXIOUS….LOL.)
Julia Pfaff is a knowledgeable, extremely likeable, entertaining, gifted quilt artist – to say the least! VCU is really lucky to have her as an instructor.
Julia’s quilting is absolutely inspiring. I hope – that with practice – that SOME DAY – my quilting may be half as good as hers. Here are some of the photographs that I took of her work!
Some of Julia's Favorite Thread!
Run - don't walk - to get these SUPER FINE pins!
These Super Fine pins are really SUPER AND FINE and Julia highly recommends them!
Ok – so after that little break for those two product recommendations – I return to Julia’s quilts!
She dyes her fabrics!
Hopefully, Julia will come back to the Richmond Modern Quilt Guild soon to teach us how to dye fabrics!
I really liked the instruction on how to attach two quilted sections together. I think I would like to try this!
WOW - a rounded "corner"
Attaching two sections using the same fabric makes it less noticeable!
This is what it looks like on the back when joining two quilted sections....
Beautiful color in this fabric
Foundation piecing is something else that I want to try
Foundation piecing - courthouse steps - ELEGANT!
Love this one
I love Julia’s thread box (she told us that she is frugal)!
Speaking of how we organize our thread…..
I like the way Chris has her thread organized
This is how I have my thread organized – in a Hello Kitty Lunchbox! 🙂 I put the thread into baggies so they won’t come UNWOUND and get tangled!
Love this show and tell – isn’t this a great DOUBLE WEDDING RING WALL HANGING! Becky did a great job!
More show and tell - this quilting is by Chris
Susan's
Sue's
Catherine's Nest - a SHOW STOPPER
Isn’t this nest just the BEST! Great job Catherine!
Here are some of my ATTEMPTS!
I think these are beginning to look like flowers. THIS IS GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF PRACTICE. Once you get going on this Free Motion Quilting – it is like trying to hold onto a freight train…..it just MOVES…….and I feel like I am on a roller coaster ride and I can’t get off…..LOL. I am LEARNING to slow down a bit and I must say that I really like doing FMQ on my Featherweight!
My Feathers - it sort of resemble feathers! Maybe a deformed leaf?
Don't we look like we are having fun!
Catherine made a couple of CREATIVE little IMPROMPTU nests on the back of her fabric!
Can't wait to see how Chris quilts this one!
Catherine claims that she is a beginner – but these peacock feathers look professional to me!
Catherine's peacock feathers
Love these pebbles – Chris does good work!
Here are other samples from the class work….I think we all made progress!
If you missed the workshop today, make a note to YOURSELF not to miss another one of Julia’s workshops! I promise that you won’t be disappointed!
And since it is St Patrick’s Day – here is a picture of me, my DD and two of my grandangels wearin’ the Green and saying HAPPY ST PAT’S DAY to Great Grandpa Albertson!
HAPPY ST PATS DAY from Grandangel Sarah, me, Grandangel Leanna, and DD Christi
Posted By drsao on March 12, 2012
The first thing on my design floor is the fabric that I pulled for my 2012 Color Challenge – organized by Vicki Welsh. The picture this month is of a glass sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. I like these colors and will work on my March Alzheimer’s Art Initiative Quilt using these fabrics.
March 2012 Color Challenge
I am also continuing to make these cute little hexagons for my Scrappy Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt.
Scrappy Grandmother's Flower Garden
I guess I am on a hand work ROLL because I have also been doing lots of hand quilting. I keep hoping that I will get better with practice. I am now using the little finger gels (from OFFICE MAX) that go on the tips of your fingers when you are sorting papers. This helps me grip the needle and also keeps me from sticking myself so much. I also have a LEATHER THIMBLE that covers most of one finger……so now I have coverings on all except my PINKIE and it is cutting down on the injuries….LOL.
Hand quilting - slowly but surely....
Go to Judy Laquidara’s blog to see what is on the Design Wall of other quilters around the country. I love the quilt that Judy is making using the color challenge fabrics for March, 2012!
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