Where am I?

Another guessing game, like guess the mystery object... This time, where am I right now?
These are the clues:

Batik Table Runner is in Use!

I'm safe and sound, back in Savannah after that whirlwind trip. 

Last Thursday, I took some photos of the table runner that I made from batiks:

 This lovely cream pitcher and bowl set is from Vallauris (sp?) France, where I got it a couple of years ago. 

 I thought the colors look so nice against the batiks!

 One of my sewing group friends and I spent some hours making these yo-yo and button flowers, more on that later!

 In the afternoon, my daughter stopped in with her beautiful little boy,

 Isn't he a sweetheart?

 Starting to get inquisitive....

Report on Customer Appreciation, Block 17 and Applique block

We had a busy time today at the store, and these are some of the things that you might have seen if you were there.....

the 9th Applique block

Pieced Block number 17

some colorful new batiks!

an amazing quilt top!

how amazing? yes that is a grape there to show you the scale of the piecing!

and it's a pretty big top!

stylish footware

more batiks for a project

door prize #1-- won by (Lois?)

Door prize #2, won by someone else

door prize #3, won by E?

 as you may be able to tell, my mind is faltering, and i can't remember every detail.
however, it was a nice day, and I even got over to the art sale,
It was great to see so many customers and friends! and the sun was out!!

Art sale

Just passing on some info about the art sale that my sister will have paintings in this coming weekend
 You can see some of her paintings here
  
 2012 Big Sky Artists Show & Sale

Location :  Grace Westminster Church Auditorium                        

10th St and Eastlake Ave, Saskatoon SK 

Times:       Friday April 20th  7 to 9:30pm                   

Saturday April 21st  10am to 5pm                   

Sunday April 22nd  12 to 4pm 

 

See you there!

New Works (in progress)

Yesterday (Monday) I spent with some friends, sewing!  Of course.
This is definitely the best part of being in Saskatoon-- seeing friends, whether at the store, or elsewhere.  So, I didn't have a particular project to take.  I contemplated the stack of quilts that have the bindings just waiting to be hand-stitched, and then reached for a stack of batiks and black and white prints. Then I threw in a jelly roll by French General that I've had for quite a while. 
When I got there, I had a heap of fabrics, but no clear plan....

 So, I tackled the jelly roll.  A while back the "jellyroll race" was popular.  It is done like this:
1. sew the strips all end to end, cut a little bit off one end, like 15 or 20 inches.   
2. cut this huge 40meter piece into two equal 20 meter pieces and sew them together. 
3. cut the 20 m piece into two, and sew them together, and so on until you have a rectangle that seems like a good shape for a quilt.

 This is what I arrived at.  I thought that the stripes would be going vertically, but was told that I probably had used some of my strips for something else, and so it turned out different.  Okay, I won't quibble, since this could be the real explanation.
I think that this piece needs a little more work before quilting it, but that will be for another day.
On to start "New Project number Two"
I was intending to make some black and white nine patches to work into some sort of table runner.  Somehow, what with chatting and sewing, and resting, and eating, I ended up with rectangular nine patches and some leftover strip set parts.  So, I turned them into 16 square chequerboards and sewed a row of batik around each of them.  There are 14.  This project needs a little more work as well, but that can be a job for another day.

 On to the Third New Project in Three hours!
I started with the purple batik, and some orange ones cut into 2-1/2" strips--( just the same width as the strips in a jelly roll!)  I sewed them into strip sets, and then added a 2-3/4" strip of black and white print fabric to the sides of each strip set. 

 Then I cut the strip sets into 2-1/2" sections and sewed them together in a staggered staircase sort of way. 

 I was sorta suprised at how long it turned out..
Here is another view...

 It is pretty long.

hello down there......

But that's okay!  I have a long table.
Today I decided that another day had arrived and I'd better do something with one of my 3 new Work in Progresses, and so I am quilting this one.  (I just added 1-1/2" strips of the purple batik around the edges. 

Being a bit more adventurous in my Free motion quilting these days, I am doing some sort of vine.

Well, how many new projects have you started this week so far????