Pointless Quilter

Three years ago, my quilt guild, Common Threads, started having an annual boutique in October.  It has been a wonderful fund raiser for our guild and we are starting to get a following of people who look forward to it every year.  I try to make as much stuff as I can and I also make some bigger quilts that I put on sale on consignment - the guild keeps 20% I get the rest.  The other stuff that we donate we get back if they don't sell.  We can pick the price we want the items to be sold at as well and without your permission, they can't lower the price. Here are a few items I've finished this last month.  I had the two baby quilt tops done at my retreat at my friends a few weeks ago, but I am done quilting and binding them. Baby quilt from a panel kit.   Decorate pillow case for 16" pillow form. Just some Christmas decorations Some ornaments Another panel quilt.  All the spider webs and ghosts are quilted in glow in the dark...

I can finally post this quilt I finished a couple months ago for our guild's challenge. It was a magazine page challenge.  We each drew a magazine out of a bin (without looking) and then we drew a number out of a bag.  We had to be inspired by the page in the magazine that matched your number.  This is my page. See how lucky I was.  I had a circle with buttonhole stitching on it.  I had 1/4" on my page and I had lots of words.  Words, words, words!  And some colors.  All the background fabrics in my quilt was text fabrics.  And I used the colors in the quilt using some of my small stash of  Kaffe fabrics.  I had just seen the Missouri Star quilt tutorial about the melon block.  I thought I could use that technique for circles.  But thought a quilt full of just circle blocks would be kind of boring so I added the melon patch in there.   And guess what?  I got 1st place in the challenge.  And ...

Okay so more than two but they are small.  The first is this kit quilt.  I bought this kit at Road to California this past year from Nancy Rink.  It's called Trafalgar Square. The quilt is an art quilt for our next art theme challenge - Art Nouveau.  I used the Tsukineko Inks.  No water used so I can get full coverage.  I got the design from one of those design source books. The next three items are for our guild's boutique in October. I spent all last weekend embroidering and one of the things I finished was the pillow.  I also stitched out 4 labels and a bunch of Halloween and Christmas things.  Not sure what I am going to do with it all but while it was set up I just kept stitching. And I need to end on some cuteness.  My step-daughter sent me this pic of the grandkids. Guild is this weekend so I have two bags of show and tell this month.  Well 2 of the quilts are for our charity group - one I made and anot...