Welcome back to Melva Loves Scraps and the weekly Sew & Tell party...
I'm going to mix thing up this week and do the weekly feature first. Each project shared in the party is made with love and you each take time to not only make the items, but also write about them... I want this party to celebrate each of you up front... not as an afterthought.
So (drumroll)... this week's feature is Donna at DonnaLeeQ. She shared that she had started some fun projects for her. She's been busy with the making of charity quilts, which is always wonderful and usually well needed and appreciated... but the "fun more me" projects can be just as satisfying. She started the Autumn Nights Mystery Quilt.
These cute pumpkins are fun! Hop over to her blog to see where the pattern was found... maybe you'll want to make a pumpkin patch of your own. ;)
My deepest appreciation goes out to each of you! Because of your participation (not just in the party, but the sew along events I have hosted over the years), you have helped me to gain confidence as a quilter and a writer. Enough confidence that I bravely applied for and have been accepted... as an ambassador for Connecting Threads. EEEEEEEEEEKK!
I finished my Wild Goose Chase placemats last week. Thanks to those of you that stopped by for some coffee/tea and gingersnap cookies. I enjoyed our conversation.
I haven't had much going on in the studio... I started the Little Ghost placemats and have them ready for applique and binding. I'll show off the final photos in the "Out of the Dark" Halloween blog hop taking place October 20 to 23. I am scheduled for Tuesday, October 21.
Speaking of blog hops... After hearing that last year's Virtual Cookie Exchange was the last, I had planned on picking up the baton to continue. Turns out Joan and Carol missed all of the hopper participants and will carry on with the baton. I'll allow them to carry on. Be sure to mark your calendars and if you want to share some special quilts in the hopping good parties reach out to them. I'm sure they would welcome you in.
Fall is in the air, and it is time for a change in the guestroom... That means that I need to get my RSC Hexagon project off of the bed so that I can change the quilt. I have been slowly formulating a plan for the progression of this project. Here's what I think...
I'll will add some pastel greens and then start to blend the oranges into brown... below the teal/aqua area I will fade to greys and below the purples blend back into pastel pinks... At least I have a plan now. ;)
As I opened the cedar chests to select a quilt I spied my cross-stitched wild rose quilt. This is one of the first ever quilts I made... back when I was more of a cross-stitcher than a quilter.
My very first quilt was completed in 1993 – I had cross-stitched blocks of a wild rose arranged in a checkerboard pattern. I really had no idea what I was doing when I quilted it – turns out I did a “quilt as you go” kind of thing by creating sandwiches with the blocks, batting and some interfacing and then assembled the blocks together. I then made a backing that was stitched into place at the seams along the borders and at the binding. I managed to fumble my way through...
It was on our bed for years – until I finished my first BOM quilt in 2003.
the full story of this quilt is that it was supposed to have many more stitched blocks, but I grew tired of the slow pace of the project and decided that seven was enough with wide borders. The threads of some blocks (Dave's side of the bed) were worn thin and missing in a few spots after 10 years and that was when it was "retired".
How long have you been quilting?
Do you still have your first quilt?
Leave a comment... I'd love to hear from you!
Keep Piecing,
Melva
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