Happy Easter!

Instead of Sewing...

I'm experiencing so many new things since living in Auburn.  Today hubby and I went to the Southeastern Conference Championship for Equestrian.

Beautiful horses.

Talented riders.

Beautiful weather.

It was a fun morning!

This afternoon my in-laws came for a visit.  Tonight I was too pooped to go to the baseball game, so hubby went alone.

Tomorrow I'll do a bit of Easter cooking, but HOPEFULLY I'll be able to fit some sewing into my day.

A Sad Week...

Lovely Luna, Daughter 2's kitty, lost her fight Tuesday night.  Poor baby - only lived just over a year.  Daughter 2 is having a rough go of it, but we're all trying to hold her up.  Wouldn't you know she has a HUGE midterm today?  She will persevere, I know!

Here are a couple of quilts made by friends, brought to our small sewing group earlier this week.  This one is a Bonnie Hunter free pattern and will be donated to a local hospice program.

And I believe this was a local block of the month.  Beautiful....

As for me, I'm trucking along on some handwork.  Love me some slow sewing....

I Made the Deadline!

I did it! I made this little quilt in a matter of a few days...making the deadline for the local art competition. Whew! You know I love my hexies, but it was nice to do something different over the weekend.  I call it "THE SUN IS SHINING THROUGH."

The voting is done on Facebook.  There are 41 entries.  Voting will continue through March 31, and then the top ten will be judged by former winners of this competition to declare the winner, which I believe will be sold in the Auburn Art store.  If you would like to vote, you need to be on Facebook and "Like" the site AuburnArt.com.  Then you can vote for my piece which is on the second page of entries.  Here's the Facebook link:  Auburn Art Contest.

Here's a shot of Mickey Blue Eyes enjoying the sun today.  It was a bit chilly though, and he was more than ready to come back inside!

I'm sending lots of love to Daughter 2 and her kitty, Luna, tonight.  Luna is sick.  She just turned one year old a few days ago, but now is not expected to make it.  We are sad.  :(

Photographing Quilts

I don't know about you, but photographing quilts is always a challenge for me.  Where to do it?!!!!

After six months in our new home, I finally figured out a solution here.  We have a trellis "wall" surrounding our back patio:

Hubby found some big hooks (meant to hang over attic beams) we had at our old house.  But any big S hooks would have worked, too.  I put two of these hooks through the trellis and put a quilt on a curtain rod on the hooks.  Voila!

Can't wait to show you the entire quilt....

Here's the backside of another quilt I photographed this morning.

I love the little back detail  - leftover squares from the front of the quilt.

I know these photos aren't good enough for submission to a juried show, BUT for my current purposes they are just right!

How and where do you photograph your quilts?  Inside?  Outside?

Lots of Love to My Readers...

Here are a couple of works from the fiber arts show in Montgomery.

Yes, it's a 3-D quilted castle!

I want to take a minute to thank you all for faithfully coming by to meet me here at the blog.  I'm grateful to you for taking a moment out of your busy schedule to check in here to see what's going on.  I reached a milestone recently: more than 100,000 page views.  WOW!  Extremely thankful!

And I'm also grateful to this wonderful hubby of mine for making it possible for me to do what I love: make quilts and share them with you.  He's the best!

And more thankfulness:  Quick and Easy Hexie Quilts is going to the printer TOMORROW!  Thanks to the American Quilter Society for making this possible.  They have been wonderful to work with, letting us review and edit every step of the way.

We were saddened to learn that the head of the publishing arm of AQS, Andi Reynolds, left AQS recently due to health reasons.  We wish you well, Andi, and appreciate your hard work on our behalf!  Thanks to our editor, Kathy Davis, for staying in close contact and helping us turn our ideas into a FABULOUS book, of which Peggy and I are very proud.

And a special thanks to Peggy Rhodes, my wonderful partner in crime hexies!  Peggy, you and I make a great team!  Peggy is very organized, professional, and kind.  We worked so well together!

Here's to another 100,000 page views!

Am I Finished Yet?

Perle Cotton.  Perle Cotton.  Perle Cotton.  Pushing the needle through these layers was not easy.  I could have used some pliers to help... but I was too lazy to go find them. :)

I'm going to put this away and look at it again tomorrow to decide if it needs anything else.  I have plans for some easier hand sewing tonight.