New Product

For a few weeks I have been working on a new product line for AHFA, hand-dyed, silk & natural-fiber blend scarves.  Here are a few that will be available at Helix in downtown Athens, GA.

...and look at these scraps.  They'll be great as ribbons, hair ties and perhaps as strands for knitting!

Supreme Slip

I was happily sewing along, quilting a sweet toddler quilt when my machine started to act funny.  I stopped for a few seconds to see if I could find a problem.  No problem, so I sewed another few inches.

Humm.  What a pain.  We were moving along so nicely...

 ...until I machine quilted my Supreme Slider to the back of my quilt.   Good grief.

Am I the only quilter who has ever done this?

Here are a few items that I'm preparing to sell at the OCAF (Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation) Holiday Market in Watkinsville, GA the first weekend of December.

I'll have some small quilts for children...

These are potholders in various stages of being finished...

 

Come on over for a weekend of fun and holiday shopping.

Student Work

On Saturday I taught an Advanced Dye class to a group of lovely ladies.  We played with thickened dye, soda soaked fabric (wet and dry), stamps and screens and all sorts of other tools to print on fabric. Here are some of their pieces (I missed photographing some of the best ones, I'm afraid)...

Miriam was creating fur colors for a new piece.

A good, messy time was had by all!

1 Week, 2 Ribbons!

This weekend the Georgia Quilt Show was held in Duluth, GA (metro Atlanta) and once again Marybeth Tawfik and I had an entry.  Last weekend we won a 2nd place ribbon for "Chromatic" (see the last entry).

This week we won a biggie--Holis Turnbow gave our quilt, "Blue Moon",  his Judge's Choice ribbon!

Here she is... 

Misty Mountain QuiltFest

This weekend we were vendors at the Misty Mountain QuiltFest in the Georgia mountains. The trees were in full Fall color and it was a lovely weekend for the show. Here are some highlights...

Our 2nd Place quilt (Anita Heady maker and Marybeth Tawfik long arm machine quilter)


Our friend, Mary Ann Mauney, won the Judge's Choice ribbon! This piece had it's own wall in honor of the award.


And what do we have here? Fabric beads on this art quilt by Carleen Brock.


Lovely!

Fabric Beads on a Quilt

For those of you who have taken my little fabric bead-making demo, here's a photo from the 2011 Asheville (NC) Quilt Show of fabric beads on a quilt. Terry Williams is the maker, and the quilt is lovely...