Sherry Rogers-Harrison Class at MQS

I have finished my lancaster star that Sherry made for all of the participants in the class.  We did a small practice piece in class and had this to take home.  This is how it looked when I first started to paint:

After many days it is finished.  My nephew had four feather pillows that belonged to my grandmother.  I took one of them and made into this pillow:

I love how the painting turned out and it was lots of fun.  And it goes perfectly with my lemoyne star quilt:

I also took the left-over jelly roll strips from making this quilt and made this pillow also using one my grandmother's feather pillows:

There is a video at http://www.youtube.com/embed/gVJLgfUXF9o  I hope this link works.  If you haven't checked out Missouri Quilt Company's web site, you should at http://www.missouriquiltco.com/  She has some great tutorials and lots of You Tube videos if you do a search for Missouri Quilt Company at You Tube, you will find them. 

What I am working on

At AQS in Paducah I bought this pattern:

And a kit to go with it.  I now have it "webbed" down.

Now how in the world do I rotate this??????   Oh, well, you can tell what it is.  It is going to be the medallion center for a quilt for my husband.  I plan to surround it with flying geese and log cabins.  His birthday is Nov. 22 and our anniversay is Dec. 1.  Will I have the quilt finished by then????  We will see.
And I have Barb's quilt on the longarm and I'm almost half through with it.  It is rainy today so I couldn't get the right lighting so you could see the quilting, but here it is:

And I have all the blocks made for Pie in the Sky and have begun sewing them together as you can see on the bottom.  I decided to go with a solid sashing rather than all the squares Kim Diehl used. 

Now if it would just rain and get it over with, I could do some  quilting on Barb's quilt.  Our electricity goes out at the drop of a pin so I don't dare try it when it is dark and looking rainy. 

BLOCK NO. 7 SAW TOOTH STAR

Fabric 1 (dark red):  Cut two 5" squares
                                 Cut twelve 2-1/2" squares
Fabric 2 (pink):  Cut two 5" squares
Fabric 3 (black):  Cut eight 2-1/2" squares
Fabric 4 (orange):  Cut five 4-1/2" squares

Place a 5" dark red and a 5" pink square right sides together.  Mark diagonally from corner to corner and sew 1/4" from drawn line.  Do the same with the other set of pink and dark red squares.  You will have four of these:

Using the connector square method, make four of these using the black on one side and the dark red on the other side of the orange 4-1/2" squares.  You will have four like this:

Take the remaining orange 4-1/2" square and sew a red 2-1/2" square in each corner using the connector square method.  You will have one like this:

Lay out your pieces as shown and sew together as a nine patch.

Sherry Rogers-Harrison Class at MQS

The girls (Linda and Dana) and I took Paint-leque from Sherry Rogers-Harrison at MQS.  What fun we had.  I don't know why I didn't take pictures of our art work (she gave us a quilted small piece to practice on) other than brain drain.  But we all enjoyed it.  Here are pictures of Sherry's quilts and our inspiration:

This is one of her award winning quilts.  Nope, that is not applique!!  She quilted it on white PDF fabric and then painted it.  Exquisite!!!
On for more eye candy:

Yep.  All done the same way -- quilted and then painted.  She gave each studio a quilted piece to paint.  This is the quilted piece that she had painted for samples:

Of course, we bought all the paints and can't wait to start painting this little quilt!  I would really like to take all of ther classes but time didn't permit.  I am not sure that this would be faster than needle turned applique, but I sure like the technique. 
And this is a pattern that Dana bought.  Can't wait to see it finished:

The trip was GREAT!  And it got my mojo going again.  Can't wait to paint and quilt!

More eye candy from MQS

Even though I absolutely love the quilts, I love the quilting more and that is what I take pictures of, but I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Eye Candy from MQS in Kansas City

I didn't take enough pictures -- and no pictures of the winners.  The quilts were beautiful.  Sharon Schambler's was great, but I didn't take a picture.  Can't tell you why.  Linda Taylor had another beauty that I didn't take.  Here are the ones I took and I have no idea who did them!

And closer for the quilting of this one;

On to another.  This is Sherry Rogers-Harrison's Autumn Butternut (just a portion of it):

It was so beautiful (won a 2nd) -- and it is not applique!  It is painted!  Took her class and will do another blog on it.
And a few more that I have no idea who did them::

I'll add a few more in another post.  Hope you enjoyed the eye candy!

Two Baby Quilts

I quilted two baby quilts for two friends recently.  This is Nancy's and I did this one free hand:

And added the large daisy with the longarm:

Really a cute quilt. 

And this is Debbie's.  I used my Circlelord board for the zigzag and a stencil for the little rabbit holding a carrot and radish:

Close-up of rabbit:

And this is a picture of a red fox in our front yard.  You can barely see him but he is just below the writing:

Well, I don't see any writing, but he is just left of the tree. 

Have a great day!  Next week I am off to MQS with two friends.  We will be taking a class with Sherry Rogers Harrison which should be a lot of fun.