A tribute to Goldie

We lost a dear friend, quilter and teacher here in Northern California. Goldie Olson passed away peacefully with family on Tuesday. Goldie touched many of us with her heart that was filled with the joy of quilting. She loved to share that knowledge with everyone around her with her classes, groups, gatherings and pot lucks. Good Times Weekend, Friday Night Live, Stash Burner and Scrap Happy have been hosted by Goldie at Honey Run Quilters in Cathy's classroom for many years. Just this past weekend Good Times was held without Goldie's presence and smile for the first time. 

I meet so many quilters that have taken a class or classes from Goldie. Most recent her Bargello class this year. We have all benefited from her knowledge and love of quilting. It was a pleasure and honor to quilt many of Goldie's beautiful quilts.

Following are pix of a few plus pix taken during show and tell at two of her Good Times Weekends and ending with her quilts displayed at Annie's Star Quilt Guild's 2011 quilt show when Goldie was our Featured Quilter. 

 Goldie's Christmas Tree Bargello sample quilted for the class she taught 

at Honey Run Quilters in the Fall of 2014

Let's Begin sampler by Goldie Olson

Goldie told me when I quilted this for her, Let's Begin was a sampler that she taught many moons ago. The fabrics reflect the era :0)  

Goldie's Bargello class sample 

Pix taken during show and tell at two of 

Goldie's Good Times Weekends...

All of the following pix were taken at the 2011 

Annie's Star Quilt Guild quilt show 

when Goldie was our Featured Quilter... 

Goldie, you and that beautiful smile will be sorely missed  

Goldie and her daughter Marta

Marta posted this pic on FB yesterday 

Margo and Marta, your mother is loved by sew many! 

She is one very special lady 

Scrap Happy Top almost finished!

This is my top made at Goldie's Scrap Happy Day

There was a great turnout and allot of good food!

The top finished at 48 x 48. I finished the rows and added the borders this morning. Not quite finished with the top as there will be applique in the borders. Kim Diehl's version adds leaves. That was my original plan however since I decided to use geometric prints instead of floral I am going to use a geometric shape.

Jewel is the shape I decided on. These are blue fabric scraps cut out just for a layout. My plan is to use my EPP set that Beckie gifted me (thank you Beckie :0) for each shape and applique them on after the top is quilted. They will be all different colors, not just blue as in the photo. Three per snowball and probably seven in each of the corners. 

The plan is to use a lime green Glide thread and quilt circles and swirls. Didn't quite make it with my background fabric and had to use a different fabric for the corners so now the background is scrappy too! This quilt has been fun to make. A departure from the Civil War fabrics I usually work with. It's keeping me balanced :0) Big plus... all of the cut off corners from the snowballs and left over strips will be used to make HSTs and another block for Faithful!

Above is Lori of Humble Quilts Big Top quilt which was made from traded HSTs and later Lori hosted a QAL to make each block. I made one block (here is my block made last year) and after this project have enough to make a second block for my top. Kind of sounds insane but you have to be a quilter to appreciate the sanity of it all. The pleasure is in the process! AND I am using up allot of stash!!! Below is the first block I made...

The World Cup is done! Yea. I won't say who in case you haven't seen the game. Happy to say that the Netherlands are in the top three! Yea!!! Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Groetjes, Jo

Scrap Happy Day

Last month I joined in on Goldie's Scrap Happy Day at Cathy's Honey Run Quilters and it was sew much fun! A whole day to quilt with friends, share fabric and eat! (It's also a pot luck) The one for July is tomorrow and there are a whole bunch of us planning to attend, Pam too! YEA!!!

I started a scrappy quilt that I've wanted to make after finding it in one of Kim Diehl's books. (love her style) and then again when I saw one Cheryl made, it's on her header.

This is as far as I got last month with finished blocks plus more fabrics up on my design wall auditioning for this quilt. I decided to stay with brights and "kind of geometric"s prints.

That's what I'll be working on tomorrow!

Janie and I also worked on a new block for Amaretto Cottage. 

This is my block and Janie is working on hers.

Groetjes, Jo