Baby Quilts for Sendai

Our quilt guild, Meramec Quilters Guild, pulled together to make 8 baby quilts for the area devastated by the tsunami in Japan.  Clara Asnes organized the project and relayed today they have arrived in Japan.
We hope to know when they are delivered.

Quilts can be seen at:  http://s753.photobucket.com/upload/albums/foxy8631/?location=Sendai+Japan++Baby+Quilts+2011

Webster Groves Rotary - Quilt show

The Webster Groves Rotary Club is organizing a quilt show for June 10  2012.
One featured speaker will be Toby Lischko.
Cash prizes.
Save the date.

Hearts N Hands Quilt show

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I am a new member of the Hearts n Hands Quilt Guild in O'fallon, Il.  This past week end, they put on the best quilt show I have ever attended.  It was a huge show with anything and everything a quilter would love to see in a quilt show.  The above quilt is being raffled until Dec 13th and you can buy tickets at http://www.foxyquilts.com/.  Throughout the show, quilters demo'd a variety of quilting skills.  These included, applique, handquilting, machine quilting, and much more. 

The featured quilter was Nancy Eisenhauer, a nationally accredited quilter.  On display was her future entry into the National Quilt Musuem contest for 2011.  We were spell bound by her creativity, use of color, fabric and texture, artistic abilities and quilting.  I can not wait to see the finished project. 

Be sure to put this show on your calendar for 2012.

Memory Quilts

Plans on in progress for a family memory wall hanging about my parents - wedding photo.  Having never copied photos onto photo sheets, I set out to find some information.  I found the attached instruction and thought I would share it with my fellow quilters.  If you have an interest in memory quilts, maybe the information will be helpful for you too.Memory quilts

Choosing a pattern

With so many terrific patterns to chose from, actually deciding on my next project is a difficult one.  Maybe this is why, I have 4-6 projects in progress at any one time.  Should I pick the Dresden Stars, which boasts a easy technique for the Dresden plate.  Or, should I make "Crazy Baby" and use my scraps.  Or, I could go on and on. 

Owning my own online store places me in constant contact with patterns and designs.  Thus, I am constantly being tempted by patterns.  I love it.

I just finished Brownstone and loved it.  Hope to post it soon for your review.

Do you have a favorite pattern?  Share it.

Marsha Bray - Instructor

I recently interviewed a quilt instructor in my area, named Marsha Bray.  During  the interview, MS Bray showed me a quilt her grandmother had made.  It was a quilt made during her participation in a church devotion group.  Each week the women were given a Bible verse to memorize.  If they memorized the verse they received a colored piece of fabric to add to their block.  If they did not memorize the verse, then, they used white in the block.  Every woman wanted her block to be a colored block.    No one wanted a block with white pieces.

Seeing this quilt reminded me of my childhood and my mother's devotion groups.  I believe our church had a similar devotion quilt group.

Review the attached photos.    

Happy New Year - 2011

It has been a while since I last posted on this blog.  I think about blogging everyday, but, just do not sit down and write.  I have not been very busy. I purchased a long arm machine, made 7 quilts and much more. 

Also, my business is keeping me busy.  However, the New Years resolution is to blog at least weekly.
I hope you will follow me and send in your comments.

Visit my website  http://www.foxyquilts.com/, we would love to have you.  I have a big sale starting Thurs.
If you are in the area, we participating in a quilt show in Oklahoma City on 1/13.  Stop buy and see us.