 Hanover Country Life, 75" x 77" It's done and delivered! The Fab Farm quilt (pattern by Elizabeth Hartman) is finished and has been delivered to the Montpelier Center for the Arts and Education. This will be their 2025 raffle quilt.
My quilt club meets there 3 times a month and part of our rent includes providing a raffle quilt. I had been looking at this pattern but didn't have anyone to make it for. Once we moved to MCAE for our meetings I knew that this quilt would be perfect to represent our rural county. I named it Hanover Country Life. If you want to see a lit of detail photos you can look at the quilt page here. In other news, I've been busy packing for our trip Tuesday. So far I've gotten my crochet projects packed, run my pre-trip errands and started on clothes.
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 I went into my sewing room yesterday to make a post and got totally sidetracked and never got to the computer. In the end, it worked out because Mom and I were gone all day yesterday and I wouldn't have had anything to post today. We went to Farmville, about an hour and a half away, to meet up with two cousins and some friends. It was a really nice day. The one thing I accomplished a couple of days ago is getting Fabr Farm quilted and trimmed. It's ready for binding but that will have to wait until I get home from my trip. I'm thinking about a medium/dark green for the binding like one of the leaf greens. What do you think?  The back is a gradient. It's a pattern that I used to have in the shop called Thrive and I really like it with the theme of the quilt.
About my trip. I'm leaving Monday to ride with a friend from Richmond to Denver. She spends the winter in Colorado skiing and I'm just going along to keep her company for the trip. I don't stay to ski because, well, I have altitude sickness and absolutely no interest in skiing. The trip is going to be a lot of fun with stops in
I will not have my computer with me so I will not be blogging. I think I'll have 3 posts scheduled while I'm gone but I'll have a full report when I return. I have a crochet project to take along to work on in the van while we are on the road. I'll be busy packing this weekend so I won't have anything meaningful to post. I'll have book reviews on Tuesday, my December summary Wednesday and one last Christmas project Thursday. Have a great New Year!  Merry Christmas! As I said before, we celebrated Christmas Saturday so yesterday I got busy with some quilting and sewing. On Monday I did another project but I can't share that one yet. Yesterday I got Fab Farm loaded and started quilting. This will be a raffle quilt for a local organization and I'm doing a simple pantograph on it. The amount of money it will raise doesn't really warrant custom quilting given all the time that's already invested in it. Also, this quilt is about the animals, not the quilting.  I also started piecing the blue veterans quilts and got 4 rows done yesterday.
Today we do have one social event in the afternoon but I expect to spend the rest of the day working on both of these projects. I also might start doing some packing for my trip next week. I hope you are having a lovely day whether or not you celebrate Christmas.  I didn't get as much done yesterday as I wanted but I did get two veterans quilts loaded and basted before I left for the quilt club meeting.
In the morning our new (vintage) dining room table was delivered so there were some moving around tasks with the old table. But now I have a new puzzle table that will be more comfortable as a dining table. Today we have another siding installer coming to quote but, other than that, I should have plenty of time to quilt on these quilts.  I had another great sewing day yesterday and got started on this veterans quilt. I had blocks leftover from the Big Blue Quilt and used those as seeds for this little quilt. I needed 24 extra each of light and dark bow ties. I got all the dark ones made yesterday. When we get together again in December I'll continue working on this one.  When I got home I got to work on the second Christmas card design. I used the Cricut to cut tree templates until I got the size of trees that I wanted. The snow will be free form cut. I went through several options for trees and snow and I'm finally happy with using these metallic painted fabrics from my stash. I had purchased some glitter tulle for the snow and that was a huge mistake. I'll never buy glitter anything ever again!  Well, except for glitter heat transfer vinyl. It worked perfect for my stars.  The trees are traced on the back of the fabric and that's where I'll get started today. Later today I have my annual physical follow up appointment followed immediately with drinks with my friends. If there's a habit I need to change I'll just ignore it until tomorrow.
 Yesterday at sewing I got all of these blocks sewn for one veterans quilt. I brought them home to put on the design wall and I'll eventually get this top sewn together. It's actually brighter than it looks in the photo and I think it will look good quilted in red thread. The idea for this one came from Cynthia Brunz. Her blog is so inspiring because she coordinates block drives and quilting for a massive number of donation quilts every year.  Last night I started pulling some things for the next Christmas postcard idea.
Today is another sewing day and I'll start piecing blocks for the other kit that I pulled. That one will only get started today. It will carry over to the December sewing days.  Yesterday morning I had my annual eye exam and got an A+ report and get to skip a year of changing prescriptions. That saved me about $1000. Then I decided to head over to a friend's house to take her some flowers for a big celebratory event in her life. On the way I turned a corner too tight and busted a tire on a curb. I kind of have a curb habit but I've never busted a tire before! My friend was nearby so she offered to come and help me with the tire but I just wanted her to come by so I could give her the flowers! I tried to change the tire myself but couldn't get the lug nuts loose. Instead I learned that USAA Roadside Assistance (that I signed up for just 2 months ago) is awesome! A super nice guy was there in 30 minutes and got me on my way to the Costco tire department. Chris picked me up and they called around 4 to tell me the car was ready. I've never thought about tire warranties before but now I appreciate them! The replacement tire was only $49. All-in-all, the day worked out just fine.  The first time I got home I got one of these quilts basted and I got the second one basted after I brought the car home. Today I'll start quilting.  After I picked the car up I stopped by Hobby Lobby and got some fabrics for my fabric postcards. I'll be working on these today too.
The day started with a little chaos but everything ended up just fine.  I had two big accomplishments yesterday. The first one was cleaning the house and that's nothing short of a miracle! We have a cleaning lady and she's awesome. Cleaning hours really stirs up my allergies so that's why we have Lisa. But Lisa had some major eye surgery recently and has gotten 2 weeks behind on cleaning. Chris and I decided to give her a break from us and clean the house ourselves yesterday. I think we actually did a pretty good job of it too but we will be glad to have Lisa back soon. My allergies went batty. But in the afternoon I was able to get this quilt top together. It is now in the to-be-quilted closet and it will ultimately be a veterans quilt.  Tuesday night was quilt club and the annual trash-to-treasure sale. All of the money goes to the club to buy the backing and batting for our veterans quilts. This is about 2/3 of everything that was brought! There was a lot of stuff to choose from and we made over $1000 to go toward buying batting and backing. We spent about $1500 every year and all of that money comes from the members. We have the best group of quilters!
Today I'll be out most of the day, getting my annual eye exam and having lunch with my cousin and Mom. This afternoon I hope to get 2 veterans quilts loaded and basted before I settle in the watch the Eagles and Commanders tonight.  You may remember that on our family vacation in May that Chris fell and had a horrible accident......I didn't cause it, by the way. The result is that the early days of that vacation were spent in various emergency rooms and a hospital. The rest was spent keeping a close eye on him. I got one hour on the beach. I really missed the beach and have been thinking about it ever since. I finally decided to take Mom and a friend and go to the beach for a few days this week. We are going to Sandbridge, in Virginia Beach, and we are going to be blessed with beautiful weather. We will also get to visit family and some friends. Yesterday I started preparing and will take this kit to work on. This is the quilt that I surveyed you for the color of the alternating blocks. Although most people picked green, I was just too drawn to the orange.  The beach chairs and sewing are packed. Today I'll get on with the less important items, like clothes and food.  I also got started on leaf blowing. This is about 1/3 of one Maple tree. There will be lots more waiting for me when I get home.
We leave tomorrow around noon and will be home Monday in time to set up the precinct for voting on Tuesday.  Yesterday was day 2 of sewing with my quilt club. Since I got the HST quilt blocks done and up on the design wall, I took another quilt kit to make and got all of the 4-patch blocks put together. Then I laid them out with the alternating 4" blocks and we all agreed that the pale tan does not work at all! I packed everything up and came home to search through my stash to see what might work better. I sent these 3 options to my opinion committee and I got a unanimous response of green. This week I will be dyeing some green fabric so I can finish this quilt.  Then I did a very nice thing. No one ever asks me to do alteration or repair things and that's a good thing. But Chris has a friend visiting town for a couple of days and they have been playing golf. Matt had just bought himself some new pants and I offered to hem them for him. I really don't mind doing hemming. I wish I had some thread in the orange color that Levi uses but he didn't care. He was just thrilled to have them done!  I had just enough green thread to hem the green pants for him! I love an empty thread spool.
Today it's nice outside so I'm doing more outside work and then meeting friends for a drink this evening. |
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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