I Entered This in a Contest

I entered this one into another Quilting Gallery Contest. Thanks for all the votes for the lst contest I entered. I didn't stand a chance against the quilt that got over 700 votes, though. I thought I would try another one. So starting Friday-Sunday you can vote Here for this quilt here. Thanks so much for your votes. You can vote only once, but this time for your favorite 3 quilts.

Sakura Quilt

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Round Robin House Quilt

The applique group I belong to had a round robin day. We each made a house of our choosing and appliqued it to a background fabric. Then the idea was to pass the house on to the next person to add a little applique or embroidery or embellishment and when you were done to pass it to the next person and so on. By the end of the day your house looked quite different and this was the result of mine. I just quilted it and added the binding. It was so fun to see how everyone's house turned out. That was the first round robin I ever did, and while this was a one day thing, usually a round robin gets larger and larger as more and more people add on borders or blocks to it and you have more time to complete your addition to the quilt too.

Round Robin House quilt.

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Miss Mouse

I just received a comment from Linda on my thread catcher posting here and saw she had a blog called Memories and Mouse Making so I went to her blog to see what she does and oh my gosh she makes the cutest little mice. That reminded me of the mouse that my mom made when I was a young girl. So I took photos of Miss Mouse to share with you all and Linda. Please take a look at her blog too and see her cute little "mouses".

With hood pulled down.

Profile showing tail.

With hood up.

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NMQA

I went to NMQA (New Mexico Quilters Association) today because they had guest speaker Laura Wasilowski there. She was great and so funny. To see photos of her,  NMQA show-and-tell and the annual balloon quilt, hop on over to my other blog (Daryl's Fiber Arts Blog) here.
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Twister Around the World Quilt

It's quilted now. I posted photos of this quilt top not too long ago here.  I used a simple straight stitching to quilt it in a variegated thread.

Close-up of center.

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Would You Vote for My Quilt? (pretty please with sugar on top)

I just entered the Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt that I recently quilted and my Mother pieced by hand (back in the early 1970's); in the Quilting Gallery Weekly Contest. You can vote once starting today (Friday) for your favorite quilt with the hexagon theme. I would appreciate it if you would vote for my quilt. Here is a photo of it. Go here to vote for the quilt.
Thank you so much!
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Collapsible Thread Catcher

This is easy to make and very useful, especially if you go to classes or even if you sew in other rooms of the house and need a place to put all those snips of threads, fabric, yarn, etc. This was a free pdf online you can get here from Red Hen Fabrics.

 I did alter the circle size of the cardboard pieces because you either need to gather the fabric tube in order for it to fit to the cardboard pieces when you sew the pieces, OR draw the cardboard pieces using the outside measurement as I did. The instructions tell you to draw the inside ring measurement, plus it says to further reduce down an 1/8th inch from the inner circle and that causes you to have excess fabric to have to gather to make it fit. No mention of that, nor do the photos show excess fabric. Since it's cardboard I could gently bend it and insert it through the fabric tube using the larger size. I suppose the reason for the smaller size is so that the bottom piece fits into the ring when collapsed down. Where as mine sits on top. Not a big deal, but it made sewing around the cardboard to the fabric tube much easier without excess gathers in the fabric.

Here it is collapsed down. You twist it like you would when opening or closing a lid on a jar.

Untwist it and it stands up ready to hold your threads and snips of fabrics. Portable to go with you.

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