Shepard's Fold Quilt

This is Julie's quilt.  I've had it for quite a long time....

I looked online and asked around for ideas on how to quilt it.

 I used a One Song Needle Arts holly pattern for the outside border.  This is the first time I used one of theirs and I was very happy with it, plus it was on sale.  Yipee!

Just a wave in the small green border.

 This is a Kim Stotsenberg leaf border set.  This is the center top.

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 Decided to do a take a bead board for the background.  There wasn't a lot of space in there for a design.

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Dallas Arboretum

I love, love, love going to the Dallas Arboretum.  I went with my niece and her daughter. We had a wonderful day walking around, the weather was gorgeous with a nice breeze.

 
 The squirrel in the center of the tree was having a lazy day.  The hydrangea's are my favorite.

 
 There were several explorer houses on display.

Admiral Richard Byrd

 The "book" next to the house gave a history of the explorer.

 Captain James Cook

 

4th Saturday - May 2013

There were some absolutely beautiful quilts at our last quilting get together. I missed getting pictures of quite a few.

 Jennifer - Twister

 Diana made this from a Bonnie Hunter class.

Kelly made this quilt using blocks from a 9 patch exchange.  She hand pieced the other blocks.  Deb quilted this and it is absolutely stunning.

 The next few are Jennifer's.  She had pieced these.

 This is Suzy's applique block from a class she just took at Paducah.

Karen's first applique project.

 Sue's Phebe center.

 Diana's hexagons.
















What a great day of sewing it was.  I worked on my Pumpkinville blocks, will show these later.

Star Quilt

My sister made this quilt for her daughter.  It was her first paper pieced project and it turned out fabulous.

 I took a Craftsy class on using the templates and made the diagonal diamonds in the grey areas.

This is the continuous star border, go across in a 1-2-3 and come back and fill in the stars.

 I used my Sewline White Chalk pencil to mark designs on the batiks.

I used the Sewline Duo set to mark the light color fabrics.  The eraser for the set took the lines right out.  Really liked it but seems like the eraser doesn't last long enough.

I was really glad to finish this one.  It took a lot of hours, rulers and bunches of different thread colors to complete but in the end everyone was happy.