Ponies for Angie

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Ponies for Angie

Last month I took a really fun class with Terry Waldron http://www.terrywaldron.com. I am a member of Canyon Quilt Quild and we have these great classes six times a year, always someone different and always a different technique. Well, Terry taught us to do a landscape wall quilt and I had a blast. If you saw my blog yesterday about the landscape fabric postcards then you now know where I got my inspiration.

So this quilt started with the blue skies, of course. That’s like one of the most important elements of a landscape. But not always I guess. Anyways, I added the mountain ranges and at first I had this narly old tree in the foreground. I love old trees and really liked this one, but I wanted horses running in the background and couldn’t make it work with both. So, against my will I chopped down the tree, put in a fence and added two ponies running around behind the fence.

Since Angie, my daughter-in-law, was turning 30 tomorrow, and she loves horses, and works with them and has been riding and training horses for more than half her life, I decided to give it her for her birthday. I think she likes it.

Teaching Fabric Postcard Class

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I taught seven incredible ladies last Saturday how to make a mailable fabric postcard.  I kept it simple this time by showing them how to make a landscape.  We started with a beautiful blue sky, followed by rugged mountain ranges.  A couple of ladies took it further by adding waterfalls cascading off one of the mountain ranges, and others added flowers in the foreground.  We had a really great day of laughter and learning.

My Funny Nehemiah

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My Funny Nehemiah

This is a pictorial quilt I did of my favorite grandson. I took this picture of him a couple of years ago while we were outside playing. He was laughing at JaJa and I was busy snapping away. I used red in the border because that is his favorite color; the pinwheels signify his constant motion, and if you look on the left side of the border you will see bubbles, which he loves also. I had a really fun time making this.

Philanthropy Quilts

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I make and give away many quilts each year to primarily three separate groups.  One is Prayers and Squares Quilt Ministry, which is one of my main passions.  I meet with this group every week at my church where we make quilts for people going through tough times, like cancer or heart disease, lots of reasons.  I received a prayer quilt six years ago when I was going through breast cancer and it made a hugh impression on me.  After I completed all my treatments I started this group at my church and it has been going strong for five years now. 

The other group I have made quilts for is Royal Family Kids Camp, another of my passions.  I have been a part of this group for nine years now.  We take about 30 kids ages  7 through 11 who are in the fostor care system in San Diego County to a camp for one week of safe fun.  They are abused and abandoned children that we lavish with God’s love and treat them like royality.  We give them a handmade quilt which the children really do cherish. 

The other group is called Linus Project which is quilts for children in hospitals. This quilt is one that I have made for this project.  I love all the bright colors and the movement in the quilt.  If you look closely you will find a giraffe.

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My sister in law Gayle ask how I did this little village “Venice”.  It’s a really fun process of cutting up geometric pieces of fabric, 12 different colors in all.  We simply started putting the pieces of different shapes directly on batting, overlapping each one by maybe 1/8″  I had the sky fabric already placed at the top.  Once all the remaining batting was covered I cut out roof tops and looked for likely houses to put them on, folowed by windows and doors.  It just took shape.  I put steps to walk up the hills to the houses, and trees of course.  There’s also a stainglass church,nd a giraffe hiding in he mix.

Fabric Postcards

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About three years ago I learned about fabric postcards that you can actually mail to someone, and it’s a mini-quilt, so to speak.  I joined a fabric postcard group and exchanged postcards with women, and one man, located all over the world.  I have postcards from New Zealand, Ireland, Australia, Africia, London, and of course, all of the fifty United States.  It is a very organized and friendly group and we communicate almost on a daily basis.  I also have taught classes on making fabric postcards and in fact, have another class coming up the first part of March.  Here are a few of the ones I have made and mailed out over the year.  Let me know if you would like a little tutorial on my blog of how I go about making these little treasure.  Enjoy.