Pointless Quilter

wow.  As promised here are the Loose Thread pictures.  But first... I think he liked it. Now on to Loose Threads.  We have all been working on our Whisper Challenges but we aren't allowed to share them until we reveal next year.  But in the mean time, there are birthdays and for each of our birthdays we give gifts.  Here's what Karen Taber got - she wanted quilts with fairies on it. This is what I made for her. Grace Hoya made for Karen Sara Kelly made a wing quilt for her. Barbara Sawyer played with her inks and made this. Now Barbara Sawyer wanted something horizontal to hang on a new rack she has in her kitchen. I made another of these paper pieced leafs (pattern from Deb Karasik) Sara Kelly made this for Barbara  A close up. Karen Taber made this one. Grace Hoya made this for Barbara We exchange our challenges next month and also bring our quilts for Sara's birthday - her theme --crac...

          These are two of my latest finished projects.  Well, they still need names and labels.  I will take suggestions on names.  A blogger I read suggested you go through magazines like Good Housekeeping and look for names that way.  That's my next step.   I got the top done to my step-daughters Christmas rag quilt - I just need to make all the snips.  This past weekend was her bridal shower.  It was a beautiful luncheon at her aunts house in Livermore.  They did a great job with wonderful food and Kelly was just beaming.   That's Kelly and my mother-in-law on the right and her fiance's grandma on the left.  It was a little warm, but luckily there was plenty of shade.  While in Livermore I asked my sister-in-law Marcy if we could stop at a quilt store there.  So we did.  I got a 5" pack of Christmas material and some yardage to go with it and also some good scissors to help cut through h...

The Common Threads Quilt Guild that I belong to had their big reveal night - we reveal our mystery quilts, the challenge and whatever else that needs to be revealed for the year. This year our challege was a yo yo challenge. You had to have at least one yo yo on your quilt. The talent in this guild is absolutely amazing. Here are a couple pictures of our guild's challenge quilts. I'm not sure who all the quilts belong to because I was on the stage when we were all holding them and I couldn't see everyones. Mine is the all green one. I should count how many yo yo's I made. This is from one piece of fabric that I bought at our guild's white elephant sale last December. My friend Deolinda won Viewers Choice with the body quilt. The funny part of her quilt was when she was holding it up - it looked like her head at the top of the quilt. My friend Anna Koelewyn also won something with her oriental florals. It was beautiful and her quilting was spectacular. Sara Kelly won...