Door prizes....

Picked up my Tonga BOM today, won a pink/peach zebra FQ and a charm pack of Moda's Cattails & Clover.

Found a new free BOM that just started this month at http://piecesofranaslife.blogspot.com/ 

It looks like it will be a fun fall quilt. I'm still deciding on if I want to make it, what do you think?

Started the heritage hexies...

I finished the paper pattern and started the hexies. The first prototype that I made only had three rounds. After I double checked Carolyn's original quilt, I corrected my pattern to match. The original quilt's hexagon block had four rounds. This quilt will use up all the extra strips that I cut for the snail trail log cabin quilt that I finished recently. I am planing to use a hexagon template to trim the blocks before I assemble them. I ordered a template from Marti Michell, as she had one that went up to six inches. This hexagon is only four inches, but I have another pattern that uses the six inch size.

In between the hexagon paper piecing I am trying to get my youngest Daughter ready to get her driver's license. She needs to have it by next month so that she can get herself to school when I am at the Georgia Quilt Show. The paper piecing seems to south my nerves after a ride with the new driver. Hopefully she will gain enough confidence to get her license and strike out on her own soon.

Guess who came to our Guild Meeting .....

Well of course most of the Carolina Pine Quilters and our guest speaker was Siobhan Furguson of Scraps and Thread tales . She gave a very interesting program on how to date vintage quilts. She also brought many examples different decades of quilts to share. You must have her come to your guild for a presentation, the quilts were awesome and I learned alot. Go to her blog for some samples of the quilts that she collects.

This is my only really antique quilt. It was given to me by my Dad (who is 84 this year) and he said it was made by his Grandmother, because his Mother was not a quilter. Siobhan dated it in the 1900's and said it was a good representation of indigo fabrics of that time period. Looking at it now, I am starting to like it and the pattern. When I got it at age 15ish I thought it was just a bunch of ugly shirt fabric sewn together. I guess I am a real quilter now because I now appreciate the pattern and the hand stitching.

Funny how in my memory I remembered it as just a bunch of squares sewn together.

Now I see half square triangles and blocks sewn together in a planned pattern. I am thinking that one day I should make my own version of this quilt.

This was my favorite quilt from the meeting last night. It belongs to my friend Carolyn and was from Alabama where her Husbands Family came from. I think it was made by her DH's Grandmother. I was so amazed and enamored by it that when I got home last night I tried to draw a pattern from memory. I called her today to see if I could look at the quilt again and try to make a good pattern for the block. She said sure come on over. The block that I remembered was only off by one round.

Here is a close up of the block. it is kind of  a pineapple or log cabin hexagon. The center is black corduroy. I really love all the colors that are in it. When I get the pattern drafted I am going to try to make one out of my left over blue and cream fabric with red centers. I may have to start a colorful one too. I know Carolyn is going to make one. Now back to my sketch book to get the pattern done...