So Many Quilts

Last Tuesday was Jo's "Little Women" club at Glad Creations Quilt Block.  We had lots of show and tell and lots of fun.  Here are some of the quilts and highlights of the evening...

Debbie, a past employee of Glad Creations and a prolific quilter she says she gets so much done because she eats lots of fruits and veggies.  She's a crazy hard worker and does perfect work.  Below is some of her handiwork. By the way...she likes to make two of all her small quilts!!!

Jane also brought  several wonderful quilts.  She likes taking Jo's patterns and re-arranging them to make bigger quilts or sometimes table runners.

Back side of one of Jane's quilts.  See the star fabric, it really cuts up well on the diagonal.  (So sorry the picture of the front side didn't turn out well)

Jane's "Raspberry Swirl" rendition

There were several examples of "Pottery Shards".  I gave each of my students a square of the 'ladies' fabric to include as an alternate square.  It's the gold one that looks like ladies faces in a row like a film strip.

Also, a few "Raspberry Swirls" showed up.

It was a really nice night!  Thanks to a great group of quilters!

Happy quilting!
Annemarie
www.QuiltsRemembered.com

Another Show Stopper #2 of 2

I stopped by Eagan

High School library today to look at the quilts on display for Women in History month. It is their 17^th annual show and I have participa

ted every year. The show is always an eclectic mix of quilts made by local quilters. The quilts this year did not disappoint. I would proudly take any one of them

home. I have posted pictures of my 2 favorites (it is really hard to have favorites they are all wonderful). Star quilt by…Dee Legvold and Flower quilt by…Janet Schuetze.

My quilting friend Suzanne displayed a quilt made from one of my patterns.

The pattern name is ‘Pride and Glory’.

She is a 1930s reproduction fabric fanatic.

I just love how the quilt looks using her fabrics!

There were 2 more of my pattern quilts on display at the show. Marcia, another one of my quilting friends displays her version of ‘Laura’s 1870 Cradle Quilt’. (Quilt on the upper right of photo). ‘Stars Divided’ is on the upper left side of the photo and I am sorry I don’t know who made that one. The rest of the quilts in this picture are mine from Jo’s Little Women Club #9 which I teach at Glad Creations, Quilt Block in Minneapolis, MN.

The show will be on display for another couple of days. The show closes noon on Friday March 18, 2011. Don’t miss this year’s wonderful display…you don’t want to miss it!

Thoughts for Today!

What's a mom to do? My son says my husband and I work too hard. That's probably true but how else do you get everything done. Should somethings just wait and never get done? Shouldn't you just do something when you know it's time? For instance...when the grass is mid-calf - you mow it...if the pet hair tumbleweeds are blowing across the floor - you sweep...if you're out of underwear...you do the wash. All of these things take priority to having fun sometimes. I know he is young and hopefully will 'get it someday'. The old adage, "fun is wasted on the young" or something like that is oh, so, true!

Tonight is the last in the Jo's 'Little Women' Club series. The sample is quite patriotic. A good sample for the summer -Memorial day, Flag day, Independence day and Labor day. You just can't beat Red, White and Blue!!! Here is a picture of my last quilt in club #9, Daffodil Hill. Enjoy!

Happy quilting,
Annemarie

What Makes You Smile?

It has been a while since I have written on my blog. It's not that my life has been boring or that nothing is going on. It's the opposite! Sew many quilts, sew much fabric, and tons of things to do. But when my life seems to be spinning out of control there are those moments when the simplest things happen. They remind me that life shouldn't be taken so seriously. Enjoy the day. Make someone smile. My cat Hazel makes me smile...as I hope these pictures of her will make you smile. I guess she has found a different use than I have for both my quilts and my fabric. Have a great day...Spring is around the corner.

Also, 2 pictures of quilts I have finished recently.

Jo's Little Women Club - Autumn Crossing




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Scrapbaggers Challenge, Black & White + One - Pretty in Pink

My Challenge quilt along with other Black & White + One challenge quilts will be on display with approx. 70 other quilts at the Eagan High School's Library. The show is held in conjunction with celebrating "Women in History" month. For more information go to: www.eagan.k12.mn.us/librarynew/quilts

Jo's Little Women Club #9

On the 5th of January a new Jo's Little Women Club begins. For all you Jo's club fans now is the time to sign up. The class starts in a little more than a week. There is an afternoon class and and an evening class.

The first quilt will use bunches of fabric. You will get to pull both lights and darks from your Jo's scraps. The sample quilt pictured has a piece from each of the 'pack' fabrics...plus a lot more. The center could be the embroidery or a favorite focus fabric or maybe even a photo on fabric. You pick! I'm excited for class to begin. Hopefully, I will see you there. Give the shop a call and get your name on the list. Have a happy and safe new year!!!

Quilts Remembered

Quilts Remembered is my new pattern company. I have been working very hard on getting this idea off the ground. The concept of a pattern company came to me while working on the quilts for Jo's Little Women Club. As I made the quilts for the club I was also designing and making an 'Extra' quilt for the club members. They seemed to enjoy the 'EXTRA' quilts. So I thought maybe more people would enjoy them and want to make them. The 'EXTRA' quilts then became the quilts for Quilts Remembered. You can see the first 7 quilts and the patterns at Glad Creations, Quilt Block. They are on display in a trunk show until mid-December.

Along with the Quilts Remembered patterns I needed a website. So, why not design that at the same time? It seem to do my best under pressure. I had no idea what I was getting myself into and I can see I have a lot to learn. Please check out my website at, http://www.quiltsremembered.com/.

I have little gremlins that live in my house. They love to play tricks and do thoughtless things. They thought it would be funny to add one more layer of complexity to my life so the wonderful little dears crashed my computer. I had been babying my computer for a long time and it did need to be replaced. However, not while I was writing patterns and building a website. So off to the computer store I went.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get help on Black Friday at a computer store??? I looked at several models and of course confusion set in. My head hurt! After a couple of stores, reams of paper listing specifications of the different models, talking to salesmen that didn't know what a quilt was, I made my decision. I am happy with my choice...so far. Unfortunately, I didn't get the pretty one.

Hope you had a tasty Thanksgiving...did you know that quilting thread is a good substitute for kitchen string to tie up a turkey? Worked for me!

Happy Quilting,

Annemarie S. Yohnk