quilt show!

being leap day, thought it was a good time to advertise my guild's upcoming show....if you are in the area, would love if you stopped by....

Faithful Circle Quilters’ 2020
Quilt Show
Facets of Quilting

Thursday, April 16, 2020
10:00 am to 6:00pm

Friday, April 17, 2020
10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Saturday, April 18, 2020
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Quilt Art Presentations daily at 12:00 noon

of course there is a stunning raffle quilt......

Through the Looking Glass
Raffle quilt tickets: $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00
Raffle Quilt Drawing Saturday, April 18 at 3:00pm
(need not be present to win)

a $10 and under table, a silent auction, a peddler's table (think quilty yard sale) and raffle baskets

First Presbyterian Church of Howard County
9325 Presbyterian Circle, Columbia, MD 21045

Admission: $8 admission for 3 days; children 10 & under free.

Please do not bring food, beverages, or strollers into the show

some progress

while most of my sewing time has been spent on the border of the blue/white, yesterday sat down at the machine and got this little flimsy ready to baste...

the paisley and its companion border print were donations to the senior center.....can't figure out why the designer used purple for the background on the larger border print but decided to use it anyway....there was just enough for this little wall quilt that measures about 13" wide by about 16" high....and for those of you battling winter snows, this was sighted just the other day at the local post office...

no, i can't believe it either....it's been the winter without snow this year and completely foreign to me even after experiencing 3 of them...daffodils are up as well and even the landscaping crew was here last week pruning and readying for mulch to come soon, no doubt.  ***  the remainder of my time is being spent getting acquainted with windows 10 and my new BFF Cortuna...the talking advisor...lol!

back at ya!

whew....it's been a looooong 11 days without internet access but thankfully the drought is over!  if you got a strange text or email from me, it was my fat fingers on the tiny phone keyboard...and what--you might ask--have I been doing instead of surfing???   here's an update.....

first, started hand sewing the setting triangles and squares for 'wildest dreams'....just to get an idea how easy it would be and what kind of time it would take....have decided to assemble the 8 diamonds by machine and hand sew the pink squares and triangles....plan is to make all the scrappy stars first and then put together a portable sewing project for the finishes...and more diamond units got pieced as well...

i'm getting better at points, hoping not to sacrifice too many...lol!

then this small piece of diamonds got sewn by hand, borders to be added and then bound for a very small finish.....it's a betsy chutchian pattern originally done in her book with repros, but I had this paisley that was begging to be used....and lastly

have finally reached the border of flying geese on the blue and white....one side and part of another is done.....might not be finished by march's arrival but not too soon after...all this sewing plus exercise time and the cooking of cardiac-friendly dishes have kept me occupied...finally, happy to say my dear mum celebrated another birthday a few days ago....God has blessed our gang of four with her wisdom, love, nurture, humor, caring and presence for many years--me the oldest for 70--and wish it could be 70 more....

glad to be back to blogland!