Quilt Show

This past weekend was the DVQ quilt show. My very first show was a lot of fun. I worked at the registration booth handing out the ballots for people to vote on their favorite quilts. I got to know two people form the guild who I hadn't ever met before. It was really neat because going to the show helped me realize how many people I've met going to quilt club. I even got to talk with a a lady who is friends with one of my friends and who goes to the same quilt group as my aunt which was really fun.

I had a lot of fun joking around with the different ladies in the group. They had hourly door prizes and I talked with the ladies who were doing the drawing. I told them to make sure they drew my name and that I would lick the piece of paper with my name on it. That way they could just feel for the wet one and know it was mine. I didn't actually do this, but my name was drawn. I won a a kit worth $76 dollars! I was not quite as impressive as I thought because the center part is actually just a pattern printed onto the fabric instead of piecing, but it's still neat. I put the top together. I think I will see if anyone would be willing to do the top quilting so it can be donated to community quilts. The quilting pattern was actually printed onto the fabric too. I'm not sure if this is done for the long arm person to follow if if it's intended for hand quilting...can any quilters answer this for me? Sewing this project, I learn A) what a mitered corner is and B) how to do them. The corners on the outside boarder of the fabric meat at 45 degree angles which allows the gold boarders to form the rectangle around the middle of the quilt. If I didn't do mitered corners, the gold lines would extend to the edges of the quilt because they angles would be 90 degree.

I also made Andy a new blanket. He has a bird blanket that has existed since he was a little boy. His mom made the first one. He eventually wore through the fabrics, so she had to make him another. She used part of the first one as stuffing for the second. Now he's worn through the second one. It was leaving bits of stuffing all around the bedroom which became enough motivation for me to make the third version of the blanket. The first photo is the second blanket. The first version was destroyed long before I met Andy. The second photo is the blanket I made. I top quilted straight lines on his old blanket and used the whole thing for the batting on the new blanket. So I basically just made a new coat for his blanket. He came with me to the fabric store to pick out the fabric. I think it looks pretty neat. He's a typicall guy and isn't very sentimental about things, so it was nice to be able to embrace one of the few things he's really emotionally attached to.

There were no guesses for name that tune, and I don't have any more videos. I'll wait one more post before I give away the answer.

SOOOOO Neat.

You’ll never guess what I made. That’s right, a muumuu!! Ok, no. A purse. Imagine that. Annette is doing jewelry shoes and agreed to try to sell my purses at her shows. She is going to have a table set up at Ceylon days this weekend. The last three purses I showed photos of (including the ones in this post) will be for sale at the show. I don’t know if anyone will be interested enough to pay for them, but it will be neat to see. My friend Catherine was asking about how big the purses were so I put a dollar bill in the picture for a size reference. This purse is a little different since it has the pockets on the front, but the inside is the same as the others I've made. I think it's one of my favorite color combination, but you have to be a careful person if you want to keep the white/cream clean.

I was in Fairmont for Annette’s 50^th birthday party last weekend. 50 is the new 30 in case you haven’t heard. It was a fun time. I ate several cookies and cheeseburgers. It was an all day grill out, and we hung out in the garage playing a bean bag toss game. I called it “toss across” and then got made fun of, but no one else came up with a neat name, so screw them. I decided to make Annette a bag for her b-day. She doesn’t know yet, so I hope she doesn’t read this first and ruin the surprise. It’s the same as the brown reusable bag I showed a few posts ago. For hers I put a piece of plastic stuff in the bottom to make it more sturdy. If my purses sell at all I might make more of the reusable bag things to try to sell too since they’d be something I could sell for a lot cheaper.

This weekend is the quilt show. I have never been to one, so I’m excited. I signed up to sit at the registration table for awhile to help out and then I’ll browse the show. I decided to skip on submitting anything for the show since it would be hard to make the drop off time and I kept forgetting to submit the form I was supposed to fill out and now it's basically too late. I guess I’m also nervous for people to see my stuff next to stuff made by people who knew what they were doing….

Someone finally guessed what the last name that tune was. Jack got it right with "Imagine" by John Lennon. This video is the last song I have recorded. If anyone says they want more, I'll keep doing it (if I can find more bits to learn), but otherwise I'm calling it quits. I think this one is easy so I"m not going to give any hints except for that it's another classic rock song. Good luck.

The PIT!

A few years ago my sister and her boyfriend moved in to a new house. Recently my sister learned that the house has a mysterious abyss in the basement. The place is really old and has an unfinished basement. In the corner of the basement is a mildly terrifying looking "door" which is actually just a wood slab covering a stairway. I found it odd that there was a second set of stairs in the basement that led "up" but "up" was really to nowhere.


When you go up the steps, there is a few feet of space and then the bottom of part of the house with a bunch of support beams. But the weird part is that the floor is broken up by a giant pit. It is about three feet wide and as long as the room (maybe 12-15 feet). It is maybe four or five feet deep and filled with a bunch of random stuff like pieces of mystery garbage and old tires. It is the perfect place to trap a small child for torturing and killing.

When Meg took me down there to show me, my first question was whether or not she was going to kill me. I tried to take some pictures to capture the terror factor. They look less scary then it was in person. My mom thinks that the pit might be an old coal storage area from back in the day when it was burned for heat. I'm still not entirely convinced that it isn't a torture chamber for children.

As far s name that tune. No one bothered to venture a guess as to the previous post, so I'm not going to tell you what it was or give you a new song. Jerks. I also only have one more video, so I want to wait a bit longer before I post it.