What is on Marsha's Design Wall in September?

This is Marsha, doing the blogging today.  Last month, Astrid won a first-place blue ribbon on her liberated wedding rings quilt at the Western Idaho Fair.  Meanwhile, I am working on another Gwe-Fre quilt.

We have so many scraps and it seems like tons of triangles and half-square triangle blocks. I am making a quilt with triangles.  I was hoping to use a whole lot of them and not much else, but I need more black & white to unify my work.  Thus, I am making some black & white half-square triangles to go with all the orphan triangles I am attempting to use.  This is what I have so far.  Most of it is just laid out and not sewed together yet.  My problem is, I want to do four things at once, so I have a hard time concentrating for part of the time.  I want to divert to make this other thing.  That is why so many of us have nothing completed, and many things only half done.   I had better get back to work!

Liberated Wedding Ring Quilt

Greetings!  Astrid here.  I finished some of my multitasking projects.  Mainly, I completed my liberated wedding ring quilt.  Those traditional wedding ring quilts look too difficult for me.  This one was, actually, quite simple.  I did not think so, at first, but once I got going it just took off and next thing I knew, I had all by blocks done!

Then I had to dig out some pale fabric for the sashing and borders.  Once I got it all quilted on my handi-dandy home sewing machine, I just had to fiddle around with picking the binding fabric.  I made the binding and got it completed last night.  I even sewed a label on the back.  Whenever you make a quilt, put a label on the back, so it shows that you did it and when (maybe even where or why).

2026 Kuna Days Parade

We went out for the Kuna Days Parade again.  We like to hang out, sometimes, with the Peacemakers of Idaho quilt group of Kuna.  We all wore red, white, and blue, or something near that, and decked the float up with quilts of the same.

Fortunately, the smoke has settled down a little, so it was not so hard to breathe today.  We were number 27, (out of 90 entries in the parade) so we finished earlier than normal and got to head home.  We are planning a luncheon out with some of our favorite quilters, since we were all hot and sweaty, we decided to do lunch at a later date. 

Some Of Us Multi-task!

Happy summer!  Astrid here.  Marsha, Willa, and I have just been chillin' together this summer.  Between going out to our wading pool and being inside with the AC, we have managed to keep ourselves busy.  I am making myself a new pinafore dress and have been making blocks for a new quilt.

I am working on a liberated wedding ring quilt.  I was inspired by Gwen Marston's wedding ring quilts.  I started with some proper granny fabrics, then added a few contemporary fabrics that were a little lighter in tone.  I think it is balancing out rather well.

I am almost finished with my dress.  I just need to sew the straps on and add a hook-n-eye at the waist, in the back.  I already finished the button-hole and a button, last night, to fasten it on the back.  I had to practice my button-holes and my machine was not being helpful.

Willa took the photos of me while I was working on my dress.  She is becoming quite the little photographer.

Jane has Completed a Liberated Shu-fly Quilt!

Jane here.  I've been working on a liberated quilt with shu-fly blocks.  I used red for a background, like Freddy Moran would do.  I just used scraps to make it, and did a cheaty binding that I hand-stitched on the front with some thick thread that has little bits of pink now and then.

I placed the blocks on-point.  I quilted it myself.  On to the next project!

Adventures of Gracie!

I, Gracie, went on a road trip with C, to visit Kirsten and M in Arizona.  We stopped at the Nevada state line and took a photo.  We drove on to McGill where we visited an antique shop and did some exploring.

We spent the night in Ely and drove on, to Kingman, Arizona, the next day.  We did a little thrift store shopping for drapes for M and Kirsten's new place.  We also, drove to Glendale and visited K.  Kirsten and I had lots of fun exploring (with C and M) Route 66 places in Kingman and not too far from Kingman.

One day we went to Bullhead City.  Those photos are next.  The 'Welcome to Arizona' sign was at the river between Bullhead City, AZ, and Laughlin, NV.  We got my photo there, because we did not stop at the sign just south of Vegas, when we first came into Arizona.  We went to three quilt shops in Bullhead City, but C only got photos of me at two of them.  

Kirsten and I at the Colorado River.

Kirsten and I on this gigantic turtle!  Route 66 has all kinds of oversized art.

This is the quilt shop where I got some of the fabric that I put in my Sunny Delight quilt!  It came in other colorways, and now I wish I had not been so restrained. Anyway, we went back to Kingman for a short rest then headed north on Route 66, to Antares, where the big green head is!

Me and the "Guardian of Route 66."  

This is "Giganticus Headicus" and me!  While we were here, I got a couple of cool buttons for my plaid radical hat.

Apparently, one does not see too many of these anymore.

Before I knew it our fun time was coming to an end.  C and I headed back to Idaho.  We stopped this time, at the AZ/NV border. (I have cool pins on my hat now!)

Hoover Dam is at the border.  We visited the overlook!  You can see the dam in the background.

C took my photo at the Idaho border.  I'm wearing my new outfit, I got at First Friday in Kingman.  We had a wonderful adventure!

Gracie's Sunny Delight Quilt

Hello!  Jane here.  It is my turn to update "our" blog.  We have all been doing a little quilting, but some of us have been doing some traveling.  I have not been traveling.  Gracie just got back from Arizona, but she has been putting the final touches on her recent project.

I took this photo of Gracie as she was hand-stitching the binding on her quilt.  She used some amazing fabric/color choices in this one!

Here she is posing with her latest masterpiece.  She has named it "Sunny Delight".  Until one of us need to use the design wall, again, we are leaving the quilt up there.