One of the main characters, Clare Fergusson, is the first female priest of the small Episcopal church in Millers Kill, a small town in upstate New York. Prior to being a priest Clare was an army pilot. Shortly after her arrival in Millers Kill she finds a newborn baby abandoned on the steps of the church. The mother is found brutally murdered. Clare connects with the Chief of Police, Russ Van Alystne. Together the Chief and Clare set-out to find the killer and father of the child. I liked the characters and the twists kept me wanting to read to the end.
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I found these fabulous clips to hold your binding in place while you either hand or machine applique the folded edge. They are called “Wonder Clips”. The clip opens easily and holds the layers of fabric. The bottom of the clip is flat making it easier if you use them when applying your binding on the machine. They also have guide lines for both a 1/4″ and a 1/2″ wide binding to help keep your binding even.
They are in the store section on my website under “More Recommended Notions” if you are interested.
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Someone from my quilt guild persuaded me to design the next raffle quilt for our guild. I’ve been refining the design for the past couple of months. Because I have worked with my guild on the raffle quilt before I know my guild likes to have some piecing and some applique. And I agree the combination is really nice for a quilt like this so that everyone in the guild, both the piecers and the appliquers, can participate. I have designed a project that includes paper-piecing, some machine applique and some hand applique. Hopefully this will keep everyone happy.
This week I spent working on some of the blocks that will be part of this raffle quilt. Below are two sections.
As you can see from the lines drawn in the middle of this block there will be some applique sewn in the center.
On Friday ten guild members, including myself, put all the kits together for this project. On the 6th of October I am holding a free workshop for my guild members and we are going to sew blocks for the quilt. So I’ll keep you posted on the progress over the next year or so. We hope to have the top together this fall and then it will be basted at one of our guild meetings. From there it moves around to our hand quilters until it is finished.
My plan is to publish a pattern some time next year. Again, I’ll keep you posted.