Block of the Month Day at Allatoona Guild

We are getting close to the end of the block of the month for guild.  I actually finished the last of the blocks for next month but still have to put the quilt together.  Here is my blocks first followed by the others that were there.

I have all the sashing made and hope to get the quilt put together, at least to the final border after I finish up the Saturday Sampler quilt.  Here are the other quilts so far.

I love how different each of them are turning out.

Melinda

Halloween Blocks and Halloween Lighted Bag

I made two more Halloween blocks for the block lottery.  I still have some more fabric but I think three will be enough.  Here they are.

I had forgotten how much fun it is to make wonky stars. 

I finally remembered to take couple of photos with the Halloween bag with the lights turned on.

It is really cute – even cuter with the lights turned on.  There is a pocket inside to hold the battery pack.

Melinda

Allatoona BOM Day

The above is my August block for the BOM.  We had our meeting yesterday and there were several other blocks shown.  Here are the ones I got a photo of.

As usual, we had a good time at the meeting and then even more fun going to lunch together.

Melinda

Allatoona BOM Today

We had a great time at our BOM meeting today.  Here are my blocks so far.

Here is a close-up of this months block.

I have the next row of sashing on the first row and it is looking pretty good.  One more block and I can put the first half of the quilt together.

Here are a few more blocks from today.

Fun, fun, fun!

Melinda

Ready for Community Service Day at Allatoona

Tomorrow is a community service sew-in at Allatoona.  The guild supplied jelly roll kits for a fun day of jelly roll racing (not really racing but having fun sewing them together).  The collection I got was batiks and I foolishly decided to put a square of black in between each strip.  That was a lot more work than I had anticipated but since I am working on other sewing projects, I used the squares and strips as leaders/enders and finished them up this morning.  I then rolled the strips into a jelly roll so it will be easy to start sewing tomorrow at the meeting.

Glad I am ready to go in the morning.  This morning I also boiled several eggs so I can take egg salad tomorrow.  Glad to be a little ahead for a change.

Melinda

Allatoona Quilters’ Guild Meeting

Today was the monthly meeting of the Allatoona Quilters’ Guild.  The program for the day was to show quilts made at our annual Red Top Retreats, past Block of the Months or Quarterly Quilts.  Here are a few of the quilts shown.

Last year at Red Top, the featured quilt was Swoon.

Mine is put together but still needs a couple of borders – on the list for hopefully the near future.

Melinda

Table Runner

Fun day at guild yesterday. While I didn't finish the table runner there, I was able to get it completed last night. I still need to get he binding out on, but the actual runner is done and quilted. 

 

I think it looks great. I need to get a couple of star buttons to finish it.

Beginning classes today so will be busy.

Melinda

Special Projects Day

Today is our monthly special projects day at Allatoona. We are going to make Christmas table runners. We had cutting to do before we meet so here is everything I need 

With any luck, I will have a finished table runner when I come home. It is a quilt as you go project so it won't go into the dreaded "to be quilted" mountain.

Melinda