Take The Quilt Festival Pet Project Postcard Pledge!

 

Pokey Bolton was the Editor and Founder of the magazine Quilting Arts. Recently she went to work for Quilts, Inc (Houston International Quilt Festival) and moved from MA to Houston, TX.  She was surprised by the stray animal problem in Houston and came up with a way to help Friends for Life, Houston’s fastest growing no-kill animal adoption and rescue organization. 

 

Pokey has put out a call for animal themed fabric postcards to offer for sale at the Houston Quilt Festival this November to help.  She hopes to get 500 fabric postcards and sell them for $20 each.    

 

 You can read about it here:  Pokey's Ponderings 

 

Here are 3 that I will be sending. 

 

 

And if you would like to see more, check out the blog post of one of my favorite quilt artists,

 Jamie Fingal:   Twisted Sister

 

I ended this fun filled day with a pumpkin doughnut from Dunkin Donuts.  The commercial that they run over and over on he TV finally got to me.  Who doesn't like pumpkin? 

  I have to say that it was yummy, yummy delicious. 

Happy Mother's Day

My favorite thing to do on Mother's Day is to sew.  I stay in my pajamas all day.  I am not responsible for cooking or cleaning or even taking the dog out.  I start a new little project that I know I can finish in one day.  It's like a sewing vacation for me.

I have been playing with putting postcards into shadow box frames.  The frames really make the little quilts look more like works of art.
















So I was thinking about taking one of my patterns from my upcoming book (Quilt Fiesta)  and making it in miniature and framing it.  I had to simplify it quite a bit, because instead of the blocks being 9 1/2" finished, this small quilt had blocks that were 1" finished.  I used a very small blanket stitch to do the applique and did not piece the border. 

Oh, I did have to get dressed to run out and get the frame - poor planning on my part.  But I finished it today and it looks great even in miniature.  The quilt measures 7"x7".  Happy Mother's Day to me and to all of you.

Key West Houses

I have Key West fever. I decided that I had to make some of the typical conch houses that are all over the island, out of fabric. I went to The Seam Shoppe, which is the local quilt shop. It's actually the only quilt shop for 150 miles. I bought a charm pack and a few quarter yards and some sky fabric. I also had some fabric that was usable from another project.

This is a photo that I took of one of the house styles that you see everywhere. The hard part is getting a clear picture without cars or foliage blocking the view. The roof is metal.

This is my rendition:

It's small, about 4"x6".

Here's another house style,

and another.I made 15 of these little pieces. I couldn't stop. I turned 8 of them into a fiber book. The cover I made separately. I did the printing using WordArt with the computer. Timtex was used as a stabilizer to make the book rigid. It's constructed accordion style so that it can be displayed on a table or shelf. I plan on doing some beading along the top edge.

I am making the rest of the houses into postcards. I have also gotten carried away and started making postcards out of the fusible scraps. Stay tuned.