Day 28 Porch Quilt Show and Article

This is a very special Day 28 of the Porch Quilt Show because the article about me came out in today’s paper!! I am over the moon with excitement.

Quilt Show Article

This quilt is called The Forest of Frozen Sorrows. In 2014 my guild was scheduled for a weekend sewing retreat up near St Francisville LA. The Thursday before temps plunged below 0 for hours. Pipes broke in the sleeping wing and inundated the great hall. The retreat was cancelled. This was the quilt I was I had hoped to finish at the retreat. Hence the graphic name!

It is a lot of batik fabrics of similar tones. The slightly lighter ones draw your eye around to take in the whole quilt. On the back of the quilt I repurposed my old bedroom curtains. #quiltswissy #quiltsanddogs #porchquiltshow

Day 15 porch Quilt Show

This is my Ginger Jar quilt with oriental fabrics. I am guessing about 2008. It was from one of the quilt magazines but I couldn’t check it since I lost all my magazines in the flood.

I machine quilted it with a paper template on each of the jars.

And frank made his very first block today!  I didn’t kill him, but I wanted to beat him about the head with the iron.....

The Daily Bird Porch Quilt Show Day 14

This was one of the most fun Quilts I have ever made.  Every day in December 2017 I made a new bird block. The pattern is a liberated bird by Lynn Tyler. Each day on this blog I posted the new block and a story about the bird based on his own true life.

The quilt top was put together in a jigsaw fashion. Because no block was the same size I  added half square triangles. Those triangles made this quilt top sing!

The quilt has hung in three different quilt shows and it was part of Julie Waldman‘s trunk show in Tennessee. It is a big quilt with those yellow birds on the back

Porch Quilts and Pandemic Cures On The Horizon

We live in a country that amazes me.  So many different entities are able to attack the problem of this virus from unique angles.  You don’t see that coming out of the closed communist countries like China.  They are busy kicking American journalists out of country. No info gets out that way.   I hope the solution comes soon.

So on a happier note, my porch show is in Day 10 with one of the graphic quilts. It won a 2nd Place in design but that ribbon was lost in the flood somehow.

It started out as a precision quilt that I always had doubts was going to make it. I gave up at some point because I can’t sew a straight line to save my life!

I took the parts and pieces and made this one, a tribute to Jim Morrison of the Doors. The quilt is named “ Don’t You Love Her Madly?”

And today we did a test of Zoom for our Modern Guild Meeting on Monday. We got to touch base with about 20 members including Brigitte in Germany!  Of course it was 1 AM there!

Marchita has been moved to Rehab and is doing well.  Thank goodness, she is a  strong old lady!!!

On the news for the Porch Quilt Show

Day 7 Porch Quilt Show

As predictions for rain share the news with COVID 19 today, I had to become resourceful and find a way to still hang the quilt and keep it as dry as I could.  I figured I could attach it to the shutters on the windows!  And it worked!

This quilt was an odd one.  I purchased it at a Quilt Fair in a bag as pieces just cut out. There was some order to it, but I had no idea what it was supposed to be.  Luckily the person had cut with amazing precision.

I tried several layouts and settled on this one, somewhere between wild and random. This gave it some sense of order.

This is one of my favorites because of the deep jewel colors and the rhythm that flows as you look at the quilt.

I think it was completed around 2007,maybe

We are well, hope you stay the same.  Ahh, here’s the rain now! I hope it washes all the virus away!  Or at least the pollen, which is killing me right now.

Porch Show Day 6

Today was day 6 and I brought out the Leafy Quilt.  As I was hanging it, I realized I still needed to bind it.  Than goodness for social distancing.

And I needed to have a discussion with this Hentz Orbweaver guy. He says he will grab him a mosquito meal and move on tomorrow.

Porch Quilt Show

As we walk through our neighborhood, we see chalked driveways with hearts and flowers, neighbors leaving messages for each each.  On Monday, when I put one of my quilts in the yard to air it out, I thought, hmmmm....

If I put this on the front porch, a lot of people could enjoy a Quilt show.  I can’t go to any of my quilt meetings since they are all cancelled, and we want someone to see our quilts, right?

So I put up a sign, and for the last three days I changed out the quilt each day.  people have been driving by, walking their dogs back and forth and looking at the quilts!  Today two ladies stopped Frank and asked to talk to me!

Like a celebrity!  I’ve gotten 20+ messages on Nextdoor about the quilts.  And messages on Facebook are so happy!

And if you notice, you can see DiNozzo in all the photos!

One lady in my neighborhood told me her grandmother came from a town near Gee’s Bend.  She has some of her quilts!  I would never have known that had I not had a Porch Quilt Show!!!!