Cold in Alaska for the Fourth of July!  Today was a relaxing day.  I made chocolate cookies that had chocolate, walnuts and pecans.  I think the cookie was just a vessel for the goodies.   They taste much like brownies.  A trip to a friends and we dug some iris and trollius for the flower garden. 

I finished hand quilting one of my fall class samples.  The binding has been machine stitched so now a little handwork and it is complete.  Samples and pictures are due on July 20.  I'll be teaching beginning quilting in October, scrap fun in November, and hand quilting in December. 

My summertime mum quilt will be hanging this summer in the church and will come down for entry in the September Anchorage Log Cabin Quilter's Show. After its hanging, I will take a full picture and post. This is the large free hand quilted with white perle cotton. The Baptist fans give lots of movement to what seems a simple but colorful quilt.

In the meantime, I had forgotten we made pictures of the "mad quilter" .  The background is one of my early quilts.  My first sampler and first real size quilt.  It comes out every Christmas and even hung at the church a few years ago.   The mad quilter on the other hand is modeled after German Christmas ornaments and will hang our Christmas tree this year.  Elizabeth made the glasses, Dan turned the body parts on the lathe........



Happy day after the Fourth of July! 

Thrift Shop Crazy Eight

I like the way the reds and yellows pop in this quilt.  The fabrics from this quilt came primarily from Bishop's Attic in Anchorage.  Fat quarters and half yard pieces with a date range of at least the 1980's for the blue and purple stripe, 1990's for the Alexander Henry primary colored jungle print.  I'm guessing the remaining fabrics were from the 21st century.  The green/black check was a favorite.  I always like fabrics that make  your eyes work and I actually got a large piece , 2 1/2 yards for only $2.50.  I thought of using it to back the quilt but my friends thought it was too busy so I used the remainders of the quilt patches from the front and pieced the back with a black fabric with primary colored polka dots.   I'll use this for a sample in my beginning quilt class to demonstrate hanging diamonds for machine quilting. 

Well, the name has finally changed to fit more of what I want my blog to reflect.  Sometimes quilting isn't the only thing that I do.  This weekend I do hope to quilt and wrap up my class descriptions for the fall session.  I plan a hand quilting, at least one beginning quilt class as well as my favorite class to teach....scrap fun or as I plan to start calling it ..."the remainders"........today's entry is just to get me back on track and hopefully tomorrow will have pictures. 

We have the remainder of a lovely pineapple in the refrigerator so pork, pineapple and green pepper shish kebobs on the grill this evening.  Suppose I should take a picture of that, too!