Marsha Made a Kawandi Style Quilt!

Marsha here.  I was reviewing our quilt blog a couple weeks ago, and was reading Jane's January Tutorial from January 15, 2024.  I decided to give it a try.  C's friend, D-F, gave her a piece of fabric that she found at the ReUse Market in Garden City.  C gave it to me, so I decided to use it in a Kawandi style quilt.  

It is not humongous, however, I learned a lot from making it.  It is nicely bright and will look amazing on the wall in my room.  The oversized plaid sort of fabric, in all four corners, and here and there throughout, is the fabric from D-F.  It and the grunge yellow polka dot really make it Springy!

Kirsten's Adventure, Part 1

I went with C to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, to visit M.  She was retiring from the Air Force.  We helped M get some of her household stuff boxed up and helped clean the house after the movers came and took all her stuff away.  She kept back a few things that she packed in the back of her pick-up and in the trunk of her car.  On February 26 we left FWB and drove to Mobile, Alabama, where we stopped to see the USS United States of America.  

They are getting her ready to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to make a coral reef.  You can see her smokestacks have been removed. She is a sad sight, yet magnificent still.  

We headed from Mobile, C and I in the car, and M in her pick-up, up the highway to Laurel, Mississippi.  

There was a SAQA art exhibit on display at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art.  The museum was really big.  You would not know it by looking at the front of it.  It has many large rooms with all kinds of art, including baskets and quilts.  The quilt exhibit was part of an exhibit called Art Evolved: Intertwined.

This photo is of my favorite art quilt in the exhibit.  It is by Valerie Maser-Flanagan, of Massachusetts, USA.  We lost track of time, and the museum people lost track of us!!  We had come back upstairs from the quilt exhibit and were heading down the main hall to the front of the museum, when we surprised the security man.  He was starting to lock up, and did not know we were still in the building.  I call that a close escape!

The weather was beautiful and so was the small town of Laurel.  

This house is my favorite.  It is located directly across the street from the Grandiflora Bed and Breakfast, where we stayed.  We had the most relaxing time, for our very first day on the road.

This is the staircase that leads down from our room (or up to our room!)  The people were so friendly.  It felt like you were staying with friends!  Amazing!

Here I am, relaxing at the end of the day, on an antique bed.  Smile.  This adventure is going to take several posts, I believe.

Collaborative Quilt Top

In January we posted about the mess on the design wall.  Astrid and Jane have collaborated to make a quilt top out of all those scraps.  Some were orphan blocks, such as square-in-a-square, nine-patch, and pin wheel.  We even have some left over.

This is Astrid and Jane's quilt top.  They are now working on cutting out the backing piece and then Jane will quilt it.  It will take a little while to get those tasks done.

Meanwhile, we have big news.  Kirsten went on a trip with C, to Fort Walton Beach, Florida.  Kirsten's very good friend, M, retired from the Air Force in February.  Kirsten and C drove M's car from FWB to Glendale, Arizona.  M drove her pick-up.  They had great adventures and now Kirsten is moving in with M, in Arizona.  She promised to tell us all about their road trip adventures, soon.