Our 8 hour trip to New York!!

No not New York City, we spent the night in Fishkill New York, which is 60 minutes north of Manhatten.  DH was on a 'wishlist' speaker retrieval trip and I just happened to find a couple quilt shops to stop at on the way!

The first was Enchanted Mountain Quilting in Olean, New York.  It's 2.5 hours from our house and perfect place to stop for cookies and a restroom break.  While I checked out the fabrics my husband spoke with Betsy about their common home town of Castalia Ohio?  What a small world!!

First I found  this beautiful Serentity Gray by Red Rooster Fabrics.

Then I spotted this Beautiful Red Complements Embelishments by South Sea Imports.

The last thing I saw, was these Primitive Muslins by Moda, they looked like suede!

Then we got back in the van and continued on to Endicott for lunch then finally to Fishkill.

We checked into our Days Inn and then decided to go to the other quilt shop on my list.

The Quilt Basket in Wappingers Falls, New York

This shop has a great selection of fabrics, patterns and notions.  It was a little hard for me to make a selection with my DH following me around!  They had a number of totes displayed in the shop so I took the opportunity to purchase some Red 1" Webbing to use as straps on one of my next tote bags.  I also purchased the Large Twister tool.  I really had fun using the Lil' Twister to make this Christmas wreath wall hanging.

Yesterday we drove straight home so the van could be returned.

Today it's back to the sewing machine and a spring project to try and push away the snow and cold!!

Another 2012 UFO completed!!

I have completed another Unfinished Object that was on my list for 2012.

My two Bargello Color Wheel wall hangings.  I made these using a pattern called Bargello Color Wheel by Cheryl Phillips.  It included an acrylic 10 degree template that is used to cut the wedged pieces from the strip sets.

Nermal thought they were fine without borders and a center circle.

Now I need to decide if I will quilt them or have Jennifer quilt them.

Caitlyn Handbag

Last week when we dropped off our quilts at the Lake Farmpark show in Kirtland, we did lunch and then stopped at a couple of quilt shops.

I decided that I needed this pattern by Betz White.

I still had some of this great fabric that I bought at Joann's.

The directions were easy to following and had a lot of great diagrams.

It's a much smaller purse then I have been carrying, so I think I will have to eliminate some of the stuff I carry!!

My Spinning Sampler quilt received a Red Ribbon!!!

One of the items on my 'Bucket List' was to win a ribbon at a Quilt Show. 

I'm so excited that I can cross that off of my list!! 

I found out today that my Spinning Sampler quilt received a 2nd Place Ribbon in the

General Pieced, Mid size category of the 2012 Lake Farmparks Quilt show!  The General category is for those quilters that pieced their quilt and then someone else quilted it.

If I was to give an acceptance speak I would have to thank the following people:

My Dear Husband Jim for putting up with quilting projects all over the house.

My friend and longarm quilter Jennifer McCann for her great quilting and support.

My friend and fellow quilter Leita Shahan for suggesting that I enter this quilt and coming up with the great name.

Marti Michell for teaching the class I took in 2010 and providing a tool that helped me to improve my piecing.

Gayle Norman instructor of Cottonpickers Quilt Shop Marti and Me Club, for her encouragement.

God for giving me the time and talent to improve my piecing.

Below is the story I submitted with my quilt.

I took a class from Marti Michell using her Perfect Patchwork Templates at the 2010 Lake Farm Park’s Quilt Show. She displayed a number of samplers in class in 12” and 6” sizes. So I started one using my Scarlet and Gray stash that includes twelve 12" blocks on point, with a 24" Carpenter’s Wheel center medallion block.

Starting at the top the 12 blocks used in the quilt are Rising Star, Weathervane, Northern Lights, Rosette, Pieced Star, Hidden Star, Rolling Sawtooth Star, Ohio Star, Dutchman’s Pinwheel, Sweet Sixteen, Martha Washington Star, Wild Goose.

I used a layout I found in Electric Quilt’s EQ7 and then added a border that includes 200 Flying Geese. I’m not sure what really possessed me to make that many Flying Geese??

Jennifer McCann’s quilting really adds to the final overall presentation of this quilt.

So I have a question. can I now say that I'm an award winning quilter??