Show and Tell

Yesterday I had an absolutely wonderful day with quilting friends. I think there were 7 of us in all. We are mainly working on getting a bazaar quilt ready for this fall and though Colleen had shared her lovely quilt pattern with me the idea kind of got away from us and the quilt is nothing at all like I had imagined. Well, lots of different sized blocks in piecing, applique etc. but besides that it doesn't much resemble Colleen's group's quilt. Actually, it doesn't resemble much of anything. Not anything that we've ever made before! I sort of wonder how this is going to turn out! We've got four or five more blocks to do and then we'll se how we can start getting it all together. If nothing else it will be interesting! Right now it looks like a mess...

BUT... We all got out our latest projects and had show and tell so that was great fun. I love looking at everybody's new things and I really appreciate all the compliments my friends give me too! So here are a couple lovely things.

Mrs. Ochiai finished up her Carolina Lily quilt this January and it is a beauty. I think I've shown this quilt before in the making but she has it on her daughter's bed now and brought it specially to show me before her daughter spills anything on it. This quilt has been in the making for many years. (I think most of us can say the same thing for at least one of our projects) but Mrs. Ochiai is thrilled to have it finished and is ready to start on something new. She was looking longingly at the Happy Village quilt I'd brought so that may be her next project.

And Mrs. Furui pulled this out of her closet to surprise us all. I don't know when she made this. It is the first time any of us had seen this at all and already at the flimsy stage! Mrs. Furui belongs to a crafters club and they send little (very little) squares of all their fabrics to her every couple months. I suggested that since she's got bags and bags of these little squares that she ought to start using the Leaders/Enders system and she decided to make this up quickly. She's planning to do some intricate hand quilting so we probably won't see this quilt in completed form in the next year or so...

And when Mrs. Furui wasn't making her lovely quilt she was making this very cute little needle case for me!!! I begged her to make me a hedge-hog needle case and I love the little footprints that come from the back of the case to the front! Now I have no excuse not to bring my own needles when I visit my quilting friends!

Anyway, a lovely day and I'm inspired all over again!