2010 Northland Needlers Quilt Show

Well, we are now just under 5 months until the 2010 Northland Needlers Quilt Show here in Gladstone, MO. The show will be September 17-18, 2010 at the Gashland Presbyterian Church on North Oak Trafficway.
The quilt show committee has been working hard for months on the show behind the scene activities, such as securing vendors for the show, securing sponsors, working with the many wonderful volunteers, getting the Opportunity Quilts made and getting all of the wonderful miniature quilts that will be donated to support a local charity through a silent auction.
We are also excited to have a lot of new vendors participating in our show this year including, but not limited to, Ann Hazelwood, nationally known quilt appraiser; Linda Everhart, internationally known quilter; The Wooden Spool Quilt Shop (Excelsior Springs) and Pigs In A Blanket Quilt Shop (Weston). The local Bernina dealer will also have a booth at the show!
As we get closer to the show, I will try and update you with additional details.

2010 MSCS Quilt Challenge

After months of worrying about what I had done to accept a challenge to participate in designing my own quilt....it is completed!
The quilt shop that initiated the challenge sent us a pattern to make the blocks for six consecutive months and the only rule was we had to use the background and floral print in each block. They also would send us various other fabrics each month with the block pattern and it was us to us whether we chose to use them or use other prints. Over the six months, I had used what I was sent, but then by the time I received the sixth block...the fabric choices didn't look good together. So, back to the drawing board and I ended up remaking three of the blocks trying to give some color consistency.
The rest of the challenge was to complete the quilt with our own design, get it quilted, bound, labeled and it must be at the quilt shop in Minnesota by May 1st.

I am so happy to have this project behind me and can tell you I won't do this again when I have so many other commitments hanging over me.

Once again, I requested a local quilter by the name of Angela Walters to do the quilting. I must admit that I was blown away when I saw the quilt as she made each block stand out on its own. Angela, thank you for helping me complete this special project.

I will post one final picture of one of the blocks so you can see the quilting up close.

Quilts for Silent Auction at 2010 NN Quilt Show

As many of you know, I haven't posted in awhile. So I thought I would show you a couple of the quilts I have been working on. These are two miniatures that I will be donating to the silent auction at the Northland Needlers 2010 Quilt Show that is coming up in September. The Northland Needlers is a Quilt Show comprised of two local quilt guilds (a daytime guild - Northland Quilt Guild and a nighttime guild - Nitetime Needlers). I belong to the nighttime guild and am co-chairperson of the nighttime committee.

The label to the left is the label that I embroidered and have put on the two quilts I am donating.

The quilt to the right is called Civil War Legacies and the pattern called to make the quilt up in plaids. Well, since I am not a big fan of plaids and have all of this Thimbleberries fabric around, I made this little quilt up from 1-1/2 and 2-1/2-inch strips in my stash.

The two miniatures were pieced by me, of course, and then a local quilter (Angela Walters) quilted the quilts for me for free. She wanted to do this because she knew that I was donating the quilts and the money raised from the auction is going to support a local charity that our quilt guilds like to support - Synergy House.

Thank you Angela, as always, your quilting is outstanding and some lucky winner of these quilts will have a treasure.

This little quilt is called "A Tisket A Tasket" and is a Thimbleberries pattern by Lynette Jensen. And for the ones that don't know it (are there any of you?), I am a huge Thimbleberries fan.

Again, Angela Walters quilted the quilt for me and her outstanding work helped to complete the quilt.

I also had to add some embroidery work to a couple of the baskets and I must admit, it is very cute. If I hadn't already committed myself in donating this quilt, I would be adding it to my huge inventory of quilts. But a promise is a promise!! lol

My hopes is that some of you reading this blog will be enticed to come to our quilt show in September and bid on the quilts. Remember, the money raised goes to a good cause.

Thank you for stopping by to read what I have been up to. I will be making another post later today and will unveil the quilt I designed for a Thimbleberries Challenge.