YAAAY! Caught up on my BOM!

I spent the day in my sewing room. I was waaaay behind my bee friend Linda on our "Calendar Kids" Block of the Month. Here's the quilt in case you've not seen it before!

Linda and I saw it at Hampton Roads Quilt show back in February and we got our first block kit in May. As we are both elementary teachers, we love the way it is arranged by the school year beginning with September and ending with August. So, today I made the September, October and November blocks as well as 8 house blocks and 7 tree blocks. Woo Hoo!! It was fun to do...allot like playing with paper dolls as you dress them according to the month.
I also finally completely finished quilting and binding the Gi Gi Girl quilt and the wallhanging made with the leftovers from the quilt. I named it Mainly Curls.

I used variegated thread in yellow, green, purple and red to quilt it . I made large wavy edged leaves as the design idea came from the paisley in the quilt.

I finished binding them both and attaching the labels, too. I took them to the Artful Quilter quilt shop as they are class samples for their upcoming class newsletter for the fall.

I'm thinking what UFO I can work on tomorrow...hmmm....

Wordless Wednesday- Quilt Odyssey 2009

The beautiful grounds at Hershey Lodge!

Norma Campbell and Mimi Dietrich hosting Show and Tell!

Norma teaching her table runner class!

Us girls at the free motion machine quilting class.

Pat Sloan and I in her booth with her machine George!

So many great booths!

So many new fabrics to fondle!

Many wool felt booths!

So many inspiring new quilts to admire!

Cool new patterns and books!

My bee friend Lorraine bought a new machine!

Such good times we had a Quilt Odyssey 2009!

What a slacker!!

Well, I can't believe it's almost been a week since I last posted here! YIKES! In my defense, I was at Quilt Odyssey for 4 days , but should have posted as soon as I got back... but was inspired to get some sewing and quilting done after seeing all the gorgeous quilts there!! So, after getting back Sunday morning around
10:00am, totally exhausted, I had to get the normal weekend chores done like getting groceries as the fridge was empty and doing laundry and unpacking all my sewing gear taken to QO for classes. And I took a longgggggg nap!! I never sleep very well away from home! Do you? Even with Tylenol PM... :-(

But yesterday, I did sew up a cute purse. I'll post photos of it as soon as I take some. But I promised to share with you the gifts I made for my three bee friends to use at QO. I made us all a portable seat sewing organizer.

I found some cute Mary Engelbreit border print fabric and used polka dotted , checked and striped black and white ribbon to match as well.

I saw a pattern for one on the web, so I just looked at it and made some adaptations and created my own version. I made mine first as an experiment and had to make a few adjustments for theirs. I used my embroidery unit to personalize them with our names.




There are two side flaps that have ribbon attached to tie around the side rails of the chair for support. The side flaps have pockets for thread and ruler and rotary cutter and scissors. The front flap is large enough for a book, magazine or several patterns. The foam fabric covered seat cushion is sewn into the back of the unit.




They all fold up and tie shut with ribbon and have two wide ribbon handles for carrying. We all used them at the classes we took at Quilt Odyssey. When your machine is sitting up on a table, it always seems you are too short to sew comfortably when you are seated, so having a bit more height helps! Take care!! :-)