I just finished listening to “The Innocent” by David Baldacci. Great book.
Will Robie works for the United States government as a hit man. The book starts with a hit gone wrong. Robie never questions his orders, until now. He’s supposed to kill a women in her bedroom late one evening. He quietly makes his way into the room where a mother is sleeping with her young child. For the first time ever he refuses to do the hit. Now Robie becomes a target. He crosses paths with a teenage girl on the run. Robie has never had an emotional connection to another person because of his job. Now, things begin to change. Good read. It really made my trips to Delaware and Maryland more interesting.
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Theresa sent me this photo of her appliqued Fiesta Mexico-Block Three. She recently took the workshop and moved quickly through this 10″ block. It looks great. Thank you for sharing your block.
This week I traveled to Lexington, Kentucky. Sara shared her Fiesta Three Block with Borders that she has finished except for the binding. She took the class in March at the show in Pigeon Forge. Sara and I both agreed….great quilt!
And then Cheryl shared her Oriental Flower project she made when I taught for her guild a couple of years ago. Cheryl’s had her piece finished for a while and was just waiting to see me again so she could show it to me. Cheryl did a nice job on the entire quilt and I especially liked her cording and her quilting.
Thank you ladies for sharing.
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My travels this week took me to Lexington, Kentucky for the Getaway/Retreat held by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society. To find out more about this state guild go to http://www.khqs.info/index.cfm I loved these ladies. What a great group. They were positive, upbeat and laughed a lot. When I entered the lecture room there were several wall quilts hanging along the side walls. I started to wonder what the challenge was all about. As the meeting moved along I finally found out. This state guild allows the incoming president to create a challenge for the members. This challenge involved childhood memories and a box of crayons. The concept is this…..each of these wall quilts will travel throughout the state for one year. The traveling exhibit goes to schools, libraries, assisted living communities and more. Each quilt includes a story from the maker. As the quilts are shown the stories of each quilt are read to the attendees. I thought this was a fantastic idea. What an excellent way to promote quilting and educate others about quilting. Did I say I loved this group of ladies? Yes I did. Here are just a couple of the quilts that will be traveling this year along with the makers name and story.
This quilt is titled “Ops!”. It was made by Davie Saari, Lanesville, IN. Here is her story… “I was a budding artist from an early age. Crayons were my choice of medium and sometimes my venues were not appropriate. OOPS! I have since learned to control my artistic urges, sort of.” (Davie’s quilt was nice and rectangular but it was hanging high so it’s at a bit of an odd angle.)
“Lollipop Flowers” was made by Lynette Brown from Sylvania, OH. Here is her story: “When I was a child I used to color a lot with crayons and I doodled on paper, creating things like flowers and faces. This quilt refers to doodling with crayons in the form of “lollipop flowers”, sort of a stick-flower often drawn by small children.”
Anne-Marie Miro from Gatlinburg, TN made “Color Monster”. She writes…”When I was in grade school the teacher would tap her ruler on the desk and say, “Color inside the lines” as she walked around the room. I silently called her the color monster. Now, I am old and the color monster is gone…..I can color any way I want to!”
“Happy Little Doodle” was made by Ashley Bandy from Lexington, KY. She said….”Although a fresh box of crayons is still great as an adult, most of our crayon experiences were during childhood. And most of the doodles as kids usually involved things like trees, houses, stick figures, clouds and the sun. I chose to scale my quilt to the size of a sheet of notebook paper (but I ‘tore off’ those scraggly edges that get caught on everything?) The design and quilting are done as through a child’s hand, adding to the whimsy of the theme. The title of the quilt is meant to remember a television figure that inspired so many people to be creative, even if it wasn’t with oil paints. Bob Ross’s happy little trees and clouds live on within “Happy Little Doodles”
I’ll share a couple more of the traveling quilt exhibit with you next week. Have a great week!