>Update Japan quilts
24 Mar 2011 1 Comment
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Go to the link below to get all the news on how this went. When everything is done quilts and kits and binding I think the count was 78 quilts for Japan. Thanks ladies and a few gentlemen for helping.
http://www.aprilrosenthal.com/2011/03/23/quilts-for-japan-the-recap/#comment-520
If you still want to help and didn’t get a chance go here there is still time and you don’t have to live near me to do it either.
http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/blogs/insideqn/2011/03/18/call-for-quilts-for-japan/
These photos are from other bloggers that had been there that day. My photos did not come out well.
My little niece helping out with the white flower head band and April’s Mom at the machine (April is the one that coordinated this event) and my middle daughter the orange blurr. Photos from the blog of Tea Rose Home not my photos.
I straightened the quilts up so we could all get a good photo for our blogs well mine didn’t come out so these are from Gracious Rain‘s blog post. Not my photo but it is my work in folding and straightening and a few of those are the ones I tied on too.
Another photo from tea rose home with me and my family in them. That is me in the back in white with black gloves on for tieing for 8 hours. My sister law in the black leather jacket next to me and another niece in the hat front right with another sister on law next to her in the black sweater. I also have nephew the blue blurr next to the sister in law in the black sweater and my three daughter here at this time helping. My husband came at the end to haul stuff to April’s vehicles. It was a family thing for us.
Me and my husband and 3 daughters
3 sister in laws and 2 nieces and 2 nephews
12 Harbaughs that is one great family I have I love them so much
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>49 patch block of GGH
12 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
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Here is another block from Great Grandma Harbaugh. I have a fan somewhere from her too that I will get around to framing still have not found it from the move a year ago but things are still in storage so that doesn’t bother me yet. Except that I still have things in storage that bothers me a lot. I love this block such vibrant colors. It hangs above a set of French doors in my dinning area now for all to see when they walk into that room. These squares are 1 by 1 inch.
>Grandma Harbaugh’s yo-yos
28 Jul 2010 3 Comments
in corners of my home, quilts, yo-yo
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When my husbands grandmother died she had some sewing supplies. They have since been divided among my sister-laws who sew and myself. In the the items I chose was a small bunch of yo-yos that had been made but not sewn to anything. So I sewed them together and framed them today I just love them so sweet and it is nice to have something from grandma, especially yo-yos.
She had a few more (3 and 1) in two different sizes which I will frame some time in the future. Those are kind of fun as the paper template is still with one cut out from a newspaper with the date and all.
This is the entry way from my front room into my kitchen I think it goes well with the embroidery that I got from my old neighbor.
On the top shelf is the rocking horse my children used when they where just tikes but they have since out grown it so now it is a decoration. The doll house is “The Littles” from when I was a kid. It is a pretty cool little doll house has cast metal furniture that functions meaning drop leaf tables actually work. This is sort of where childhood gets remembered on that shelf. I have a few more things to put up there but I have to find them first in storage still working on that.
>Battle Creek Falls
21 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
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I am a leader in my church for the 8 year old girls. We had a field trip today. Two adults 5 eight year olds and 5 teenagers/pre-teens. I think fun was had by all here are a few photos of the day.
Afterward we (me and my kids) went to quilt fair but sadly no quilt show this year so I didn’t take many pictures in fact only one of a piece of a very old quilt but I liked the pattern a lot and want to make it someday.
Also this was the sign on the gas pump on my way up the canyon to the waterfall. I know I have a lot of typing errors and grammar issues on my blog and as such this just made me laugh and I had to get a snap shot of it. As my family says if mom can find the mistake in the spelling and grammar it must be bad.
My day in a nut shell.
>help needed to identify a quilt pattern
06 Jul 2010 2 Comments
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sunshine
update:
thank you for the quick response sure enough the first person to answer found it. date of pattern is January 12, 1940 the quilt would be newer than that of course.
here is a link on the internet
http://fiberfantasies.wordpress.com/laura-wheelers-friendship-garden/
>Remember that yoyo quilt
10 Apr 2010 2 Comments
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I while back I posted about a quilt a lady showed when teaching a class at the local quilt guild fair, her daughters quilt is shown above. I wasn’t very excited about the class but the work shown was lovely as you can see from the quilt shown above.
Well the other day I found two of those store bought quilts (on clearance) sort of like the one pictured above that the teacher’s daughter did, but a tad bit different. Mine don’t have a scalloped edge and are not white on white. Mine are white on one side and colored on the other and the quilting is colored. One is bright orange and one is medium blue. As for the colored seam binging well that is something the teacher’s daughter added.
So I am thinking I will make two of these one brightly colored and one more subdued. I think the white yoyos the girls have been making with the big blue yoyo tool might be just the ticket for the subdued one, using the blue quilt. I will probably make a little tutorial to go with this so other people can do it too. The bright one I may add a quilt too it that I was making a while back that I want a little stronger and a little bigger. the nice thing about doing this type of thing is it makes the yoyo quilt stronger and it also makes it a warm quilt not just a summer coverlet on a guest bed.
>An interesting turn on English Paper Piecing
27 Jul 2009 3 Comments
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>Have you seen this tutorial. I think it is such a nice new concept on EPP. Sort of like a yoyo quilt or Cathedral windows in that as you add the pieces to the quilt you are done with that piece don’t have to go back, and you quilt as you go so thatis already done too. Wish I had thought of it but it does open up ideas for me. I will have to try this in the future. Here is a goggle translation into english. This tutorial was found through a link I saw on this blog.
>found a new blog
04 Mar 2009 6 Comments
>Well, it is new to me anyway. In case you want to find this new-to-me blog, it has a lot of tutorials on things I like, and she has a neat spin on things. Check her out and tell me what you think.
>Saturday yoyos and Betty Boop
31 Jan 2009 3 Comments
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My kids are watching a marathon of Betty Boop CD videos today and working on our yoyo quilt. I think more watching is happening than sewing. Not all of them sew equally well, but for this type of quilt the 7-year-old’s stitches will work just fine. The oldest is smirking because she was supposed to be sewing more than watching TV and knows she just got caught in the last photo.
>Black Red White…Apple core…life
19 Jan 2009 3 Comments
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So I haven’t posted much lately because my back has been out and I haven’t been doing many, if any, projects because it hurt to sit. All I have been doing is using a heat pad and working, which keeps re-throwing my back out. It will be OK; this happens often and I am used to it, but it sure is annoying. Today I left work early because it was slow and a non-floral holiday so there was no reason for three of us to be there. On the way home I got a call from my older sister telling me my stepfather had a stroke and a brain aneurysm on Sunday and that they might have to operate. If they can’t fix it, then he will more than likely die in less than three months. If that happens, my children will very much miss their Grandpa Smith. I have to say my back is nothing compared to that bit of news. So, if you have a small prayer you can spare, say one for my step- dad. I am here trying to clear my thoughts, and so I started on this, something I’ve wanted to do for at least 20 years, a black, red and white apple core quilt (my three favorite colors).
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