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!!!!

IMPROVing an Old UFO

In 2011 I went to a class by Judy Laquidara.  She is a very traditional quilt designer who loves borders. She creates complicated blocks and then adds 12 borders, literally.

It was the only thing at the time, if I wanted to take a class, traditional was all there was.  If I wanted to buy fabric, traditional was all there was.  So I had a side gig, so to speak, of the modern stuff.  And they chuckled at me and pointed when I walked by.......maybe not that bad, but they all knew I didn’t fit that “traditional “ mould.

The box got put aside in 2011, somehow made it through the flood intact, and just taken out yesterday.  There was about 25 bags of precut pieces for future blocks.  No way, was I going to piece more of those blocks. So I took out some pieces and tried to figure out new things to do with the parts.

I put a border of the triangles around the 4 existing blocks, and decided it looked too traditional for me.

I ended up with 10 improv stars with some scattered triangles.  Not sure the triangles will actually stay, or be in that format. But that is how it evolved over the last two days.

More later.

Stay safe everyone!!!!