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back burner stitcher back burner stitcher between full time work and moonlighting as a food and nutrition writer there s a little stitching going on tuesday april 21 2015 marilyn s garden close to done i have a new quilt i have been working on in secret marilyn s garden an overview from my cold and windy porch tonight marilyn is marilyn mook one of my professors and friends from michigan state university who passed away a couple of years ago she used to donate a quilt to the michigan academy of nutrition and dietetics formerly michigan dietetic association s state conference every year to help our association make money for dietetic student scholarships i made this quilt and am donating it to the association to honor her memory and hopefully make money for the same cause marilyn had a nice perennial garden that ringed the edge of her fenced yard thus the name of the quilt this quilt will be given to one lucky ticket buyer this friday i had better get working on the binding the binding will be the same batik as on the front of the quilt doesn t it look great with the back posted by vicky f at 7 22 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels mand marilyn mook marilyn s garden quilt mda monday february 16 2015 baby quilt pronto and an addition our new addition mr shorty we named this kitty shorty because he has a short tail and always hung around our house his family named him fred but he ll always be shorty to us he was a super friendly neighborhood cat but for the longest time we didn t know where he lived one summer while we were walking the neighborhood we figured out who his owners were both last winter and this winter have been horribly cold and the owners would let him go outside he would come to our house a few houses away to get warm one time we brought him home and the owners said he hadn t been staying home much and they were thinking of bringing him to the shelter what you guys are letting him out in zero temps dh decided right then and there we would adopt him and they were ok with it he is a very nice cat and gets along fine with the other cats but miss rose gets bent out of shape about it once in awhile he s about 13 or 14 years old baby quilt packets getting prepared for the stitchers at work next is our baby quilt project we have a pregnant co worker who did not want to know the baby s sex so that left us quilty ladies in a quandary what color to make the baby quilt fortunately deb and i saw a kit and cute pattern from renee nanneman that was just perfect for either a boy or a girl and on sale too baby quilt top put together in a weekend we were given 1 week s notice of the shower mom got to see the quilt top last week not done at her surprise shower and loved the colors my task this week is to finish the quilting bind it and attach a label baby is due march 4 but mom looks like she s going to pop her buttons literally a little quilting done still have the square in square blocks to quilt posted by vicky f at 9 41 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels group baby quilt shorty wednesday december 31 2014 new old blocks i bought some pennsylvania dutch quilt blocks from a woman who dated them at about the late 1890 s early 1900 s they have that distinctive bright mustardy yellow with a tiny red print you don t see a lot of reproduction yellows as bright as these i just love the bold colors the yellow is the closest to real yellow in the 3rd photo down i m not sure what i will do with them at the moment but just looking and admiring is fun double pink green and mustard yellow makes the block pop a nice rich red with the mustard yellow almost glows in the dark what i did not count on was some little mouse got to these blocks before me and made a very pretty house from some of the red and yellow blocks ms mouse had good taste in fabric more mouse work it will be easy to repair these blocks but not so easy to find the right yellow i have found a couple of reproductions that could work but the hand of the new fabric is so thick and stiff compared to the older fabric that i don t want to go that route yet there are people who specialize in selling older fabrics but i have found the yellow to be on the rare side thus the price is high 50 dollars or more a yard anyone and they sell the fabric in small bits i e 15 inches by 20 but 25 dollars for a small hunk of fabric yikes i still hold out hope that i ll find a nice stash of a variety of mustard yellows and bright reds that someone will beg me to take off their hands hah posted by vicky f at 5 17 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1890 s fabric mustard yellow fabric pennsylvania dutch quilt blocks repairing mouse holes sunday december 14 2014 christmas card production 2014 so did you guess christmas cards that s what the quilt block was for and by the way it was my husband s idea i never would have picked an 8 pointed star as a quick thing to throw together to use to make cards i had to sew it by hand because i had to get the pieces to fit and did not have a pattern or template back to geometry 101 we have been making our own christmas cards since the early 1980 s one year when my husband was swamped with work and had absolutely no free time to fit in christmas card designing i had to buy cards they were cute cards but i felt so guilty that i wrote a sorry this is not a homemade card this year inside my friends thought that was just too funny posted by vicky f at 3 34 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas cards 2014 saturday december 13 2014 secret projects working on a little something can you guess here s the front it s about 11 inches square with the black border fa la la la la la la la la posted by vicky f at 2 36 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday october 12 2014 two finishes and signs of fall a little behind here we had stay over company company at my dad s who we had to run and see checked out artprize with the company and attended the west michigan quilter s guild quilt show all mushed together in about 2 weeks aunt pat and her quilt yay i finally got aunt pat s quilt done as you may recall this is a quilt that her grandmother made in the early 1960 s we figured i repaired the shredded patches there were lots of them and put knit fusible interfacing on part of the back where the backing fabric was gone just to keep the guts in the last thing i did in the 2 days prior to aunt pat leaving michigan they only stay for 4 days or so was tie a new back on the quilt with no 8 perle cotton and put a new binding on that binding was a bear but i did it all by machine due to time limitations got it done at 1 a m of the day we were meeting them for breakfast at 9 and surprising them with the quilt yikes but i think aunt pat likes it buggy barn pattern spring posies i think i finished up this quilt too all i needed to do was bind it and sew a sleeve on the back now it hangs in my stairwell overlooking my living room it is about 60 by 70 inches now i need to get to work on something more seasonally appropriate to hang in this space something orange perhaps a nice row of pumpkins at potter s want some good cider this is the place to get it next up showing you photos of artprize i got a shot of the winner s work and the local quilt show which was outstanding posted by vicky f at 9 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aunt pat s quilt buggy barn posie quilt finishes pumpkins wednesday september 10 2014 fall quilting fall 2014 garden so where have i been outside of course this summer has been one of the nicest i can remember temperature wise and with lower humidity makes you want to stay outdoors all the time even when i am at work i make a point to at least walk outside around the building at lunch time catching the light while it s still here i am making some quilty progress too slow but sure i m about two thirds of the way done quilting this one i thought i could get by with machine quilting in the ditch between the blocks but it was not enough at least the stitching between blocks is holding everything together while i hand quilt the logs of the blocks the blocks are about 4 inches wide i have more to report from a harriet hargrave lecture at our guild to the aqs show in grand rapids mid august stay tuned posted by vicky f at 11 39 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels broken star log cabin fall garden older posts home subscribe to posts atom translate followers my food and nutrition blog vicky ferguson r d buddy chief quilt block mixer rosie princess of all follow this blog with bloglovin blog archive 2015 2 april 1 marilyn s garden close to done february 1 2014 9 december 3 october 1 september 1 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