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When we first moved here 20 years ago I didn't expect to find a vibrant quilting community in my little village of Montpelier. I joined the Richmond Quilt Guild and there was the Country School Chapter in Montpelier. I came to the first meeting expecting about 5 people. I was surprised to find a very active and vibrant quilting group. We have traditional quilters, applique quilters, art quilters, scrap quilters, charity quilters, beginner quilters and everything in between. More importantly, it's a wonderful community as evidenced by my weekend.  Marcy is still keeping FloMo occupied while I can't quilt. She's finished 4 veterans quilts so far and will probably finish the 5th and 6th today! This has been a huge help to me and she has been so happy to get in some practice. When I can get these on the design wall to photograph I'll be able to show you how much she has improved just in 4 quilts! She's totally independent on the machine new and doesn't need my help at all. I'm absolutely certain that there's an Innova in her future.  Estelle wanted to borrow some threads and offered to do any cutting that I wanted. I had just dyed these fabrics for a new hand quilting project so I got them ironed (left handed) and she cut enough squares for me to get started. She also found a few threads to use in her latest art quilt.  Becky came over Sunday and cut these pastel solid fabrics for my next flower applique project. She also trimmed the veterans quilts that Marcy quilted. While she was cutting I looked through my personal stash and found some great hand dyed fabric bits for leaves in her current applique project.
I'm so grateful to all of them and very excited to have some hand sewing to do. My arm it getting better but I'm a week or more away from sewing and longer from quilting. Having a little hand sewing might save my sanity. Fortunately I can do my fabric dyeing, if I'm careful, so I'm getting lots of that done. Ironing is coming along a little slower but I'm getting my left arm slowly trained! All in all, I'm doing great. It jut takes time and now I have some other activities to fill that time.
Tina in NJ
6/11/2018 12:45:54 pm
It's nice to have friends. Sometimes, all anyone wants is a chance to help out. For my guild quilt show this past April, we were short on big and medium quilts. I texted my sister and two friends and had the offer of a dozen or more quilts in a couple of hours. And one of the quilts won a blue ribbon. (Our show awards ribbons based on attendee voting.)
Mrs. Plum
6/11/2018 11:26:55 pm
Thank goodness for friends! And Vicki, thank goodness for your blog posts about bleeding fabric/quilts. I’m about to make a quilt with bright red and bright blue commercially made fabrics from my stash. Though they had been washed, I decided to soak them each in Dawn, to make sure they did not bleed in the finished quilt. The red has been soaking for over a week, with multiple water changes, and I think the excess dye is finally gone. When I began soaking the blue yesterday, I was shocked at how much dye was released! Thank you, thank you for coming back to this topic periodically. Much easier to deal with bleeding fabric before it is sewn into a quilt.
patty
6/12/2018 07:00:44 am
It is great how you have found a community that was open to acceptance of a new quilter. I have not found that where I live and can't figure out why. I ended up giving up on trying to find a group.
Mary Anne
6/12/2018 06:01:25 pm
It must be so nice to have quilting friends who 'get' the need to create, even when hampered by physical issues, and willing to come and help you reach that point. Those types of friends are keepers for life! Comments are closed.
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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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