Pets on Quilts Show

Today is the start of another great quilt show!

I love the idea that you can show your pet quilts or your pets on quilts!  I have two very special cats I would like to share with you today.

First up is the late Opus the penguin. 

He was my baby for 14.5 years.  He was my sewing partner, computer partner, roll around on the carpet partner.  He was also the inspiration for the name and logo I sell under. 

As you can see he loved being in the center of my quilting action.  If you notice I came into my studio one day to find him laying on the Christmas cat fabric I was ironing on the ironing board.  Behind him on my design wall was a wall hanging made of cat heads.  Also two 12" cat blocks from a swap I was participating in.  Oh and a couple of 12" Star Trek swap blocks.  Opus would also lay across my shoulders on the back of my sewing chair and bat at the needle as it went up and down on the sewing machine.  He also loved to walk across the computer keyboard as I emailed my internet quilt group.  I miss him still.

My current kitty is Kalli.  She is not as brave and fearless as Opus was. She is only just now warming up to the sewing machine noise.  Before she would not even stay in the same room with it.  But she is a quilt kitty!

I won this Christmas mix tape quilt from fiesty eily and laid it on the floor to photograph it.  Kalli walked right up and laid down on it.

And then she started rolling around on it like it was covered in catnip.  Whenever I get this quilt out she always rolls her self up in it. 

Kalli also loves to walk on the back of the sofa and hide behind the quilt hanging on the wall.  Sometimes I look all over the house calling her and then remember to look there.  I think she thinks she is invisible behind there.

Keep dreaming...Colleen



On Gull Lake in Canada, Dad would carry me and my kayak

some where and drop me off to paddle.



Blocks for my month

This is my month for Lets Bee Together.  I sent out packets of DS Quilts fabric to the other 11 people in group A.  When I returned from Canada I had already received 2 blocks

This one is from Linda as Stray Stitches

And this one is from Staci The Confused Quilter

Dont they look nice together?

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Foto Finish-Things that are slow

Two weeks agoin Ontario, Canada just off Big Gull Lake I kayaked up Deer Creek on the way to Deer Lake. Sitting on a log was this turtle.  I looked at him and he looked at me and posed nicely for a few photos.

Keep dreaming...Colleen



Kayaking up Deer Creek I always have to cross the beaver dam.

Kayaks are nice and slow.



Creeping closer to a finish

Before I went on vacation I finished the modern log cabin quilt I started back in November. Im going to love having this quilt on my bed.  I have picked fabric to piece the back from my stash. 

I just need to take the plunge and figures out how I want to quilt it.  I made it with scraps from $1 scrap bags I bought at Karen Gray designs during the Flaunt event last October.  BTW Flaunt is an arts and crafts fair happening again this year on October 22 and I will again be participating. 

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Knit Picky is an amazing yarn store in Winston -Salem I discovered recently.

Sewcation part 2

Catching up on my blog posts going back to June.

After I spent a few days in Boone at the NCRA leadership Conference I traveled on to Gatlinburg to stay in my parents Blue Green vacation club. 

 It was a lovely place.

The drive through the Blue Ridge Mountains was beautiful.

The place was a lovely condo with wildlife every where. 

 Though I never did see that bear. 

 There was plenty of room for me to set up my sewing area.  And even an empty chest to store my fabric.

 I used the included ironing board and iron. 

My goal was to make the Kauffman Solids challenge quilt. 

I had a triptic board covered in felt to use as a design wall.

As you can see I had fun and accomplished my goal. 

I also worked on the cancer quilt.  I need to finish sewing on the borders and then quilt it.

There was a great Fabric Store on the Artists 8 mile loop. 

 It was a moda fabric lovers dream. 

The store was in a small pedestrian mall. 

 She had a long arm studio in another storefront across the way. 

Her husband helps her out. 

When I was there he was cutting fat quarters. 

She had lots of repros-40s and Civil War prints. 

I really loved this quilt pattern. 

She also had a lot of batiks. 

This is the quilt she designed for the recent shop hop that unfortunately had already happened the weekend before.

It was a wonderfulfour days in Gatlingburg.  Its a little commercial though more quaint then Pigeon Forge.  It was just nice to get away from life and be ablt to sew without distraction.

Keep dreaming...Colleen