Happy Thanksgiving!

No turkey quilts here!  But we had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Edna made it out here, to see us for the holiday, and we had so much fun!  We had a wonderful dinner, some relax time, and lots of visiting.

It was so good to see Edna.  Astrid came; I had not seen her in a little bit.  Marsha and Willa came, and Willa wore her pilgrim lady bonnet.  She is so cute!  Then, of course, there is Jane and I, too.

We had a lot of show and tell.  Edna brought her medallion quilt to show us all.  Her fabric choices are fabulous! I have to get my medallion quilt finished, then I think we will post all of them in one post, so everyone can see them all together.  

Red and Green Quilts in October

Remember this past July when I visited with Kirsten, and she was working on a log cabin quilt?  She finished the version she was working on, then she made another and oriented the blocks the opposite way.  She got them both completed and they look marvelous.

They are both very distinctive, but I think my favorite is the one with all the color in the center, instead of on the outside edges.  Kirsten calls them her red and green quilts.  They are not Christmas quilts.  It seems to me, Kirsten has not completed her medallion challenge quilt yet.  Keep checking back to see what is new with Kirsten, Astrid, Marsha, and me (Jane). 

Quilts at the Fair!

Jane and Astrid entered quilts in The Fair.  Guess what?!  They both won first place ribbons, and Jane also won a bag of batting.  It was so fun looking at all the quilts. There are so many creative people in the valley; especially quilters.

Here is Jane with her amazing sixteen-patch on-point quilt and blue ribbon.  One of the remarks on her grade report was about the nice grid-work quilting.

Here is Astrid with her amazing Civil War nine-patch quilt, made completely with Japanese fabrics, and her blue ribbon.  The judges liked the Japanese fabrics.

We also ate caramel apples and rode the Ferris Wheel.  Marsha took the photo, below, of the setting sun, while we were on the Ferris Wheel.  We were wondering if it was named after Ferris Bueller.  If I had a day off, I would spend it at The Fair.

Kuna Days Parade 2021

Today we were in the Kuna Days Parade!  We had so much fun, and there were so many people out to see the parade.  We were between the Piecemakers of Idaho entry and the Kuna Roller Derby Girls entry.  It was alot of fun!  The weather was perfect for a parade today.

Here we are waiting for the parade to get underway.

Here we are waving at the crowd.  The flag kept getting in Astrid's face, but she survived.  After the parade, we came home and had tomato and cucumber sandwiches and relaxed.

Scrappy Log Cabin

Kirsten has been busy, and she has been busy making a scrappy log cabin quilt.  She's using red and white for half the blocks, of which there are two.  She's using green and white for the other two.  She is making four big log cabin blocks, which she will sew together for the central part of her quilt.  She said she is winging it, and it looks like it.

The red and white parts, she has finished, and they look wonderful!  She is still growing the green and white parts.  She promised to take photos of the two ways she could arrange them to make her quilt top.  I want to see what options these four really big blocks have in store.  The way she has them laid out is with the light fabric in the center.  She could do it with the reds and greens in the center, and the light fabrics on the outer edges.  She could make more blocks and do one quilt of each!  She said she will think about it.

Tulip Medallion Quilt

Things are heating up here, literally.  We are staying in with the A/C and getting some quilting done.  Or at least we are getting some planning, cutting, and sewing done.  Marsha has finished her medallion quilt.  We drove over to a shady place, on Sunday evening, and took a photo of Marsha and her quilt.  

We love it.  It seems this is the year for pink in our quilts, or maybe I am delusional.  Must be the heat.  Kirsten is the only one who has not completed her medallion quilt.  We don't even have a clue about what she is doing, so maybe she is not working on it yet.  I will have to do some nosing around.  Astrid said, she thought she had taken one of my center blocks, that I used on the tutorial in January, as her central focus.  

     We need to find out if The Fair is happening this year.  If so, we need to decide which quilts we are entering.  We have made quite a few over the last year and a half.  

Snowball Quilt

Marsha went through her stash and matched up a mix of vintage fabrics and new fabrics to make this beautiful snowball quilt.  In fact, the border fabric she just received, in the mail, from Jordan fabrics.  It looks vintage, but is new!  It is called Freeze Pop Dots or something like that.

She also managed a nice balance of large and small prints.  We love it and hope she is gifting that to someone she knows who has a design wall and camera. Wink!