Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Janie's Amaretto Cottage

Yea! On Friday Janie and I spent the afternoon together
and finished piecing Amaretto Cottage!

Started on April 16th, 2014
Top finished April 10, 2015

Top finishes at 112" x 112"
It's been a wonderful journey for both of us

Janie made perfect mitered corners in the outer border!

Janie is one of my very first customers and we have become wonderful friends over the years. Both of us growing and learning as we improve our quilting skills. We already have several ideas floating in our heads for quilting ideas. Janie loves butterflies so there will definitely be lots of them stitched into this beauty! 
A King size roll of wool batting is scheduled to arrive this week
along with some black batting ordered for Brandie.
Another friend doing some amazing stitching of her own
Check out her latest blog post with some amazing cross hatch
Brandie used a CD to mark her crosshatch... love it!!!
I consider myself very lucky to be in the company of so many wonderful quilters! 
Enjoy your day, stitching away :0) Jo

Monday, March 23, 2015

Kim Buzolich

Update on my last blog post, more info and pix of quilts made by Kim Buzolich, the featured quilter at Yuba City's quilt show. Recent work is photo transfer combined with thread painting. Lots of florals and two dogs...

Sidney
Lola



Gorgeous!
These pix are from Kim's Smugmug which I found after doing a web search. Thanks Tingirl :0) All of these quilts were in the show yesterday. They were that much more amazing to see in person. I also found this photo in one of my files from pix I took at the 2013 Yuba City show. This quilt was in yesterday's show and I remembered the feather quilting in the background...



WOW!

An example of Kim's Hawaiin applique and hand quilting
 from the Yuba City 2008 show. It won best of show.

Amazing work!

I was very drawn to the quilts of the dogs. Something I keep throwing around in my mind is to find a technique in order to make a quilt of my Crystal. I'd love to do that one day. 

Yuba City Quilt Show 2015

Brandie and I had a fun afternoon with a drive to Yuba City and attending Valley Quilt Guild's 32nd quilt show. This is the first quilt we were both drawn to in the first isle. Very cute and fun! The theme of the show was 'Not Your Grandma's Quilt' and this quilt fit that theme :0) Brandie loved the flamingos wearing boots. Very cute, Glamping in lots of bright prints! Hand quilted too!

Kim Buzolich was the featured quilter. Her quilts were stunning! She was there with her quilts in the next isle, we loved her work. Lots of machine as well as hand quilting on Hawaiian applique quilts. Kim's most recent work are quilts combining photography and free motion quilting. Gorgeous work and I didn't get one photo, we were so taken meeting Kim and admiring her work. Plus, right then we bumped into a friend that I haven't seen since my return to Chico. Nice! Link to new blog post with pix of Kim's quilts.

From that isle I spied Jim's big smile and headed over to visit the Sew So Shop's booth. I spent allot of time visiting with Jim and Nicky, owners of the shop and my Innova dealer. Caught up on the latest Innova news.  I've been hoping for a longarm event like Birds of a Feather on the west coast. Well that wish may come true later this year... Yea!

Back to quilts... my draw to quilts of course is the machine quilting :0)
Brandie and I both loved this one with piecing and applique. 
I like the cornerstones/sashing and the fill on this one.
 This quilt was just across from it and also beautifully quilted!

 This medallion quilt was fun, 
we both liked how she used the sun in the top and bottom borders.

 Another quilt with Civil War fabrics 
used to make these unusual blocks set on point and more wonderful quilting...
 Named Civil War Stars made by Linda Matsumoto
and quilted by Karen Litvinchuk

Karen Litvinchuk and Quilts by Kathy did allot of the machine quilting for the quilters at this show. Really nice work by both the piecers as well as the longarmers. I'm usually better at documenting who did what but Brandie and I were there for another purpose as well, connecting with vendors and we were getting short on time. We are the vendor chairs for our guild, Annie's Star Quilt Guild and it was nice to meet and greet vendors that will be coming to our show as well as inviting new vendors.

 More quilts, this one had some fun quilting done by it's maker

 A Sue Spargo inspired quilt of birds
I like the beaded neck on this one
and Brandie liked this one below, we both loved their feet :0)




 A second quilt made by Linda M and quilted by Karen Litvinchuk
Love the ruler work Karen did on this quilt

 Nice curved cross hatch on this one
:0(I took a pic of the placard but it's not readable)

 LOVED this one... with it's feathered stars
 Sandy Klop (American Jane) fabrics
 and the quilting WOW! These are some REALLY small stitches!!!
(again, placard is not legible, time for a new camera!)
or operator

One more, a row quilt
Not my favorite style of quilts but I do like this one
Especially with the row of little Swoon blocks :0)

It was a wonderful afternoon
Enjoy the week
Make the time to take some stitches because...
"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
Native American Proverb
tot ziens, Jo

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Happy Spring!


Springtime! 

Always nice to see those happy daffodil faces :0)
popping up in our garden

Lots to celebrate this weekend
International Quilter's weekend
with LQS sales and a weekend of free shows
running on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims

Brandi and I are headed to Yuba City for their guild's quilt show
Fun day! Enjoy yours,
Jo

Monday, March 16, 2015

Design wall Monday

Calypso center and the March portion of this BOM is together and up on my wall.
Info and links for the project on the previous blog post.
Enjoy your week
Tot Ziens, Jo