September show and tell

I know, I know...I'm late.  This time I have a really good excuse tho.   My computer caught a virus and had to go see the Dr for 3 days.   Then I had to get all the pictures loaded onto the computer and edited.   Since there wasn't much show and tell last month, there are quite a few pictures this time. I think I'm going to break it up into two separate posts.  

Before I begin, I wanted to let those of you who don't know, about a little Fall Decorating Tour I'm participating in on Instagram.    If you want to see some fun pictures that Karen, Sandy, Patty, Tammy and I are sharing, then follow one of us on Instagram and that one will link you to the others.    I'm @cottonsnwool, Karen is @yellowfarmhouse, Sandy is @sfeigner, Patty is @myrty50 and Tammy is @basketnut1.    On Sept 23, we started showing our houses all decorated for fall and will continue every evening until Oct 11th.   Then we'll take a break for a couple of weeks and come back at the end of Oct with some Halloween decorating.    Hope to see you on Instagram.  

Now, on with Part 1 of show and tell.

First up is a pillow that Marilyn made.  She borrowed my Indygo Junction pattern for July and made 2 pillows for her daughter and son in law who live in Boston and love to sail.  

Mari made this quilt top but I don't remember the name of the pattern.  Sorry. 

She also whipped up this goodie from Crabapple Hill Designs.

Jean continues working on her wool Summertime Sampler blocks. 

Looks like these little fishies need some eyes!

The rest are all projects that Sandy finished up.  

This one is called Country Homecoming from the book called Primitive Gatherings 

by Terry Burkhart and Rozan Meacham  

A few years ago I had a quilt-a-long on my blog for anyone who wanted to work on this one.  

It was really fun to see all the different versions.  

Sandy participated but just finished quilting hers.   

This cute little kitty is called "Hocus the Halloween Cat by Briar Root Primitives

These next little pillow bowl fillers are from Cheri of Quilts by Cheri. 

And this one is a quilt block from Wooden Spool Designs called "Happy Halloween"

There are 12 blocks on the quilt but Sandy wanted to make a little pillow instead. 

This little pillow was a freebie from Buttermilk Basin this summer.

And continuing on with the monthly series from Sarah Spoorer of Indygo Junction, 

here is Sept

and June.   

I think Sandy is now finished with all 12.   

This cute patriotic quilt is called "Crossroads" from the book, Civil War Remembered. 

We can't get enough of the quilts by Cheri of Quilts by Cheri, 

Cheri just shared this pattern on her Facebook Group. 

It's called "Turkey Tracks".  

This little one is on the same pattern.   

There were so many finished projects that I'm breaking this up into 2 posts.   

See you tomorrow. 

Hugs, Anne

Embroidery anyone?

I love that embroidery is becoming so popular and shops are really kicking up their sections of stitcheries.   I'm lucky because one of our local shops, Sew Many Quilts, has a huge embroidery section and great employees who keep the store well stocked with samples.   And we all know that samples sell the patterns!

Meg Hawkey from Crabapple Hill Studio had 2 darling booths across the aisle from each other.

This is her reaction when my camera appeared.  LOL

Ah, that's better!

This new design is gorgeous with all the coloring and shading in it.   

Meg does such wonderful Christmas and winter designs.   

Check out all the snowflakes in the centers of the blocks.  Each one different.   

Cute for our sewing rooms, right?

How about a fishing theme for the men in our lives?

One of the designers I look forward to seeing at Market is Barri Sue Gaudet of Bareroots patterns.  I took a class from her when I lived in California and it was the weekend after 9/11.  Needless to say, we were all thankful to be there and did some serious bonding. She is truly a sweetheart and one of my favorite people.      

A perfect little book for the little ones in your life.   

How sweet is this?

You can never have too many Christmas items in your house...  

This is her new book with tons of projects to quilt and stitch.   

We all need finger puppets when the kiddos are around.    

Thanks to Meg and Barri Sue for being so gracious.    

Hugs, Anne

Make that FIVE!

When my longtime friend, Patty, was visiting from California  last week, she saw my four finishes from the last post and the fall decorating I'd done and she asked me what I had ever done with my Crabapple Hill stitchery from years ago. (like 7 or 8 years ago)!

Hmmm,   what had I done with it?    I knew I hadn't ever finished it, so it must be in a box or bin in my closet.  So, off on a hunt I went... and there it was.  Another UFO!   Yikes, will it ever end?

I had a stay-at-home day yesterday and my goal was to get that project finished.  Binding went on today and Voila...here it is.

Thanks Patty, for reminding me!

I hope I don't find anymore fall UFO's lurking in places because I have so many Christmas ones I better get busy now if I want them out this year.    I have to say that it really feels good to actually "finish" something.   And....if you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I really don't like quilting my projects.   I always use my friend Mary's phrase.  "I quilt by check".  I think I've found that I can get by with straight line quilting, but don't ask me to put a curve in anything.   :)

I haven't figured out where I'm going to put it so for now it's sitting on Mr CnW's footstool waiting for Jack the Cat to find it and claim it!

(Hmm, about 20 minutes after posting, look what I found)

What is there about a quilt that attracts cats?  

Hugs, Anne

More embroidery

While we were stitching away last week, one of Linda’s former students came in with her quilt top to look for border fabric.  When I saw her colors for the “Susan’s Dresden Plate” pattern, I instantly fell in love with it.  

I love the colors she used.   She picked out a pretty green floral fabric for the outer border.  It’s amazing how projects can look so different just by changing the colors and fabrics.  

Linda was working on more little floral blocks.

And I finished up 2 little stitcheries.   Not sure what I’m going to do with them yet.

Pattern is “Snow Much Fun” by This and That patterns.

Hmm, looks like I’m getting ready for Christmas or something! 

This pattern is “Marlene” by Primitive Stitches.

Embroidery

I’ve recently joined an embroidery group that meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.   We meet at Sew Many Quilts (where I used to work) and we are headed up by Linda, one of the employees who is an embroidery “guru”.  

 

She showed us a new technique (new to us, anyway) of doing the satin stitch. 

This is the front of the design…typical satin stitch.

 

Here’s the back.

 

Now, I don’t know about you, but when I’ve done the stitch, the back looks like the front.   She starts her design by outlining with what she calls a “split backstitch”.  She then kind of weaves the satin stitch part thru the backstitch, but only on the front of the fabric.   I know that sounds very confusing, but maybe you could google the stitch and get an explanation.   Her stitches are always perfection and can answer any question anyone might have.

 

She just finished up this Crabapple Hill Designs pattern “Susan’s Dresden Plate”

 

I love how it combines embroidery, applique and piecing.   It’s a stunner!

 

Margaret was working on this  preprinted  panel called “Covered Bridges of Oregon”

 

and she had just finished up this “Redwork Sampler” by Betty Alderman Designs.

 

 

Here’s another goodie being worked on.  It’s called “Bluebird” by Crabapple Hill.

 

 

There was lots more going on, but I must have been flapping my mouth too much to remember to take pictures.  I’ll do better next time!  

Hugs, Anne