Aunt Reens Jelly Roll QAL

Heres my progress for week 2 of Aunt Reens Jelly Roll QAL, 210 blocks!  You can join the QAL here: http://auntreensplace.blogspot.com/2013/06/last-week-we-cut-out-all-of-our-pieces.html

                         I havent ironed them yet but they are done!  Bring on step 3!!

El Dorado County Fair 2013

Here I am with my

"Modern Starburst" Quilt that I entered in the El Dorado County Fair.  I didnt win any prizes, but my goal was to show people that quilting can be young and modern and bright and fun, not just older style  patchwork.  I hope that many young people saw what can be done with all the beautiful modern fabics that are out there.  Thanks to  Melissa Corry of "Happy Quilting" for having this QAL so that I could make this wonderful quilt...

and heres a few more pictures from the fair...

Dougs Comma Quilt 3rd place

Dougs 1st Place

Fantastic Paper piecing!

Best of Show! Beautiful!

Scrappy Tumbler LOVE!

My wonderful son & his lovely wife!

and Jayden!!

The fair was a blast this year!  I even won 1st place for my English Toffee!  Blue Ribbon!  

Aunt Reens Jelly Roll QAL

This QAL started last week over at Aunt Reens, you can go to the link here : http://auntreensplace.blogspot.com/2013/05/announcing-junes-jelly-roll-sew-along.html

I have decided to kill two birds with one stone and use this as one of my commissioned quilts that I need to get started on, so I will be doing it in black and batiks and making it a queen size...heres my progress so far..550 batik pieces and a bunch of 2 1/2 background squares!

Theres still time to join in!

Doll Quilters Monthly for June

Karen F is my partner for the June Doll Swap Monthly...she hinted to me that she was really loving the cute barns being made with Lori Holts "Barn-A-Long"...so since I already had a few made, I picked out one I thought she would like and made it into a little patriotic Americana doll quilt for her....its on its way to its new home!

For my QBSA partner

Amira from "my little mushroom cap" blog was my partner for May in the Quilting block swaps Australia...she requested a postage stamp block..heres what I sent her..

And here is the gorgeous block that I recieved from Amira...Its gorgeous!  It even has her "signature mushroom" in the middle...LOVE IT!

& Sew on BOM for April...

So quite obviously, I am a bit behind on this BOM, but I am still puttering along trying to keep up!

Its so cute! Love those scissors!

Raffle Quilt for the VFW

My oldest sister who lives in Mohave Valley, AZ is very active with their local VFW post #404.   She is always baking and cooking and volunteering to help as much as she can so when she asked me if I could make a quilt to donate and raffle off on 4th of July to raise  money for the post...I said "heck ya"...so heres a scrappy patriotic quilt...all done in our beloved RED WHITE & BLUE!

My sister received the quilt in the mail today and loves it!  I hope they raise a bunch of money!
                                               Thank you to our Veterans!