Three Mennonite Quilting Sisters

Three Mennonite Quilting Sisters
Polly, Julia, Barbara

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Quilt Class

Star Tricks II
This is what these ladies are working on.
 
Today 6 ladies came to my home for a quilt class on "Star Tricks II" This wall quilt is a small version of the "Star Tricks" pattern in my book.  I will be teaching this same class at the AQS show in Knoxville, TN in July. Some of the other classes I will be teaching  are:                                                                                                        Shenandoah Star


 Pinwheel Spin

 Learning to design inside a Lone Star layout

Also Julia, Polly and I will be having a power point presentation called "Mennonite Sisters Quilting Journey".  This will be on Sat. July 16 at the 9:00 brunch.  Come to Knoxville AQS show and enjoy the fun.






Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Quilting Continues on my Farmer's Delight

Julia posts.
Can you help me name my quilt? I'm using the Farmer's Delight pattern in memory of my Grandmother Vera Heatwole. She made at least 15 bed size quilts with 20 blocks in each quilt in her life time. Grandmother used scraps to create her quilts and they turned out beautiful. Sometimes you see the pattern with only 1 ring of triangles around the center. My sister, Polly, drafted this pattern for paper piecing and she and Barbara made their own versions.

I decided to continue the design out into the border by quilting with dark plum thread.

And now, what name would you suggest for this small quilt?

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Polly writes:

Taxes and Sewing
I'm stuck working on this:

When I'd much prefer working on this:


I'll leave you with a picture that was taken over New Years when our family was together.
Here Mark and I are with our ten grandchildren.


...and with the whole gang!


Friday, January 14, 2011

Rhoda

--Julia posts --
It's birthday time again. This time we celebrated Paul's sister, Rhoda's 40th.
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I found an elementary school picture of her and printed it on fabric and then quilted it.
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She was pleased, to say the least.
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We had lunch together at La Fiesta Bravo in Macon. The waiter brought a special dessert just for her.
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Monday, January 3, 2011

New Pattern Coming

Posted by Barbara
Over Christmas I worked on a new pattern.  I need to quilt it and I think I will finish the edge with red binding.  Do I have any suggestions on a name for this quilt?  Ideas:  Dalmatian Trials