Sunday, November 22, 2009

A Rose By Any Other Name...

I present my latest finish. After the quilt show I decided I wanted to work on something that gave me a deadline. I have had this pattern for a little while and wanted to make it in time to take on a trip.
It is knitted and felted. The wool for the bag body felted so nice. The roses are beaded yarn (Tilli Tomas flurries). I then made it a lining (sorry no photo but very simple) and sewed it to the handle. I still need to hand stitch the roses to the bag so they don't flop around.
Michele

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Quilt Show

Halloween weekend marked the Lake Norman Quilters second quilt show. We had a great turnout and an overall great show. Here is my winning patchwork pumpkin.
This is a quilt by Sandy Palmer. I just loved it.

The Sailing Under the Harvest Moon Challenge.


The Roots Challenge.




We had 244 pieces. That is an amazing number for only 57 members.





The pink quilt on the far right was Best of Show.



The Flights of Fantasy Doll Club display. I am also a member of this amazing group but I forget my doll to add to the collection.




All in all a great experience but a lot of work.

Michele




Halloween


As you can tell from an earlier post, Natalie was Dorothy for Halloween. Her costume was good (I found my own mistakes of course.) She did forget Toto for the parade.

Here she is with Daddy. He took his lunch early so he could be there. It was important considering he was in Talladega for Trick-or-Treating.









Here we are.

Michele

October Happenings


I've been waiting to upload all of the happenings here at Casa Gray Barn. My camera is MIA and I was using Jason's and couldn't get the photos downloaded. Anyway, success, so here we go.
Natalie really wanted to carve pumpkins, so thanks to Pop and his garden, we have FREE pumpkins.
Here she is getting ready. Of course, she did not do any of the actual carving but she did enjoy slopping in the seeds.

Here we are carving.







Natalie with pumpkin number 1.

And pumpkin number 2.
After we were done, I figured out it had been at least 15 years since I carved a pumpkin. Needless to say, I had fun.
Michele