Another play

Another play this time I ventured on stage! For the first time I was on stage with my husband and daughter. We had so much fun. The play was "Inherit the Wind". It is about the Scopes monkey trail. A young teacher tried to teach evolution in a small Tennessee town in 1926, as you can image it did not go over well. We had so much fun doing this play. The cast was just wonderful!

I am Sorry it has been soooo long.

I have been very busy even though you could not tell by reading my blog! Just after this last post, my family was very busy with some community theater. "The Magic of Beauty and the Beast" was our latest play, some of us are tech people, we work back stage. My daughter loves to be on the stage. She played Patience, Beauty's sister.

I have also done some quilting. I finished my Dear Jane Quilt. I gathered the blocks that I had done quite a few years ago, and made about 12 more to make 36 blocks. It makes a nice size wall hanging. After it has hung for a couple weeks (while we were doing the play) I think it needs more quilting. Now just to find the time!

I have other things going too. Pictures of them soon. But frist another play. But this time lots of us are on stage! Yes even me. My husband, daughter and I are all on stage with one daughter back stage. It will be lots of fun. We open next weekend. "Inherit the Wind" it is about the Scopes Monkey Trial. I am a church lady and needed to have some sewing hand work to look busy on stage as we watch the trial. So while other ladies are knitting I will be sewing on a quilt. I made a Monkey Wrench as a way of connecting to the play. I will have pics soon. But here is a peak.

SNOW!! We woke up to surprise snow today. No it was not predicted, it is so pretty. What a wonderful surprise.

 

 

  

paint box quilt along blocks

I am doing a Quilt Along called Paint Box over at Oh Fransson!  Elizabeth has a wonderful blog and this is not her first quilt along. She walks you through each step, and there is a flickr group to post your pictures and chat with others participating in the quilt along. There are over 200 people in the group so far. These quilt alongs are so much fun and the results are always fabulous. The goal is to make 8 blocks per week for 10 weeks.  I am using a jelly roll of brown batiks with a sea blue solid. 

Her is my first set of blocks:

 

Here are the next set of blocks for my paint box quilt. I am thrilled with the colors!

New Wall hanging.

I saw a video on a new technique (at least new to me) called tube quilting. I wanted to give it a try. I also have painted a wall in my bedroom brown and wanted something new to hang on it. So I just used some things I had and gave it a try. Here is what I got.

 

There is not great contrast in my fabrics, but I am happy with the results. I would defiantly try this again. The trick is the cutting. But if you follow her directions, they do come out perfectly. I think I might add some neat buttons in the centers of the light diamonds. Give it a try and let me know what you think of this fun technique.

Another block

Well I have just one block left to go to finish my Dear Jane. But today I made this beauty. I think it is definitely  one of my favorites.

A Step Back

My Dear Jane Quilt

I started this quilt many years ago. 2002 to be exact. I had been thinking about it lately, and decide to find it and pull it out. A LOT has happened since I worked on it last. As I was keeping track of my quilt journey I know that the last time I worked on it was April 2003. That was about when I my life took a big jog to the left with a tornado like storm and my husband loosing his job all in one week. After that I guess I just never got back to it. It has been 7 years!! We have moved and thank God we have a new job. So.. I thought I might get this out and finish it. Back in the day I was very excited about this quilt. I met the author of Dear Jane, Linda Papadakis and many of her followers in Paducah, Kentucky at the AQS quilt show. It was lots of fun. I had 28 blocks made, I have decided to make just 8 more and finish this as a wall hanging. No I am not excited enough to make the 200 some blocks to finish the whole quilt. I have made a few more blocks this weekend with 3 more to go. Here are a few of the ones I just made.

 

I have put my blocks up on my design wall (make shift as it is). I am trying to remember just which blocks I have done. I also am working to even out the number of each color.

 

Thanks to the wonders of Blog land there are some great blogs to help me with my blocks. That Quilt is great. I am hoping to find a great way to finish off this wall hanging. If you have any ideas please pass them on.

Oh and yes I am still working on several other things, that are much more in my modern quilt mode. Just want to get this one done too.