Kindred Spirits Quilt Club

The Kindred Spirits Quilt Club had their monthly meeting at Stitch by Stitch Quilt Shop in Chesterfield Virginia. The gals really went all out with projects and show and tell this month! Here's a sampling of what was shown:

This project is called "Pinwheel Puzzle." 

The pattern came in two different sizes, and we had a sampling of both of them. Pam, our director in charge of creativity, made a tote bag out of a large block.  This pattern was featured in Quilts and More magazine.

More in a few days!
Till then, Keep Stitchin!
Mary in Virginia

Here's another project from Beach Week 2016. I am upset with myself because I cannot remember who showed this quilt. She had just gotten it back from the longarm quilter. There is a blue and white quilt on my bucket list, and I just thought this one was fabulous!

Here's my completed table runner from the Kindred Spirits club. It's called "Split Decision." This is our demo for our March meeting. It's a Courthouse Steps block sewn to 9" square (using a 3" square center and 1.5 inch strips). Then you slice it in half vertically and horizontally. You insert the sashing and tiny cornerstone (which is cut at 1 inch square).

Here's an individual block done in the "Simple Joys" line from Penny Rose Fabrics. You can't have too many Christmas quilts, can you?

I do love a good miniature quilt! 

Here is a  Courthouse Steps quilt from a Jo Morton design.

Pinwheels make a simple but charming little quilt.

That's some of my Liberty Blue tea set posing for you.

Hot tea is my favorite beverage.

Here they are together.

You can never have too many miniature quilts!

The pattern on the front door is called "Charming Coins."

It's a great use of little scraps.

These pieces are cut 1.5 inches by 2.5 inches.

I hope you enjoyed the miniature quilt show today!
Till next time, keep stitchin!
Mary in Virginia

Sewing at the Beach

I spent last week at Nags Head, North Carolina with some friends at a quilting retreat. We had lots of fun sewing, eating, shopping, watching tv and relaxing.

One of Nancy's projects (above) is the Jamestown Sampler. It was a block of the month at our LQS several years back. Nancy is piecing it and it will be a raffle quilt for the Richmond Area Quilt Guild.

 Here's the view from our great room! We had a few days of bad storms (including some snow), but it did clear up in enough time for us to view the dolphins playing one afternoon. They are such beautiful animals!

This is the Kindred Spirits project for March. It's called "Split Decision" and is a tablerunner about 15 inches by 45 inches. I used mostly Jo Morton fabrics. I have machine quilted and bound it. 

I made a new walker bag for my mom who lives in Florida. This is a free pattern I downloaded from Etsy. She will be 96 in 3 weeks! And she is doing amazing well.

My friend Pam and I are making the Trifle Dish Row-by-Row quilt that is a free pattern at ModaBakeShop. This is row 1--Pam's on the bottom, mine are on the top. It's called Spinning Spools.

Carmen is working on the Vintage Farm Girl quilt(s). She's making 12 inch and 6 inch blocks. These are a few of the ones she made this week. I thought I took a photo of her adorable red flowered tractor--but I don't see it! Rats!

I'm also working on TheSplendidSampler by Pat Sloan and her friend Jane. But I'll save that for another post!

Till next time, keep stitchin!

Mary in cold Virginia