Madison, Maryland

 February 7 - February 14, 2015

This past week the Seven Sisters Quilters from Trappe, Maryland went on our first annual quilt retreat. We wanted a house close to home for various reasons. Some spent part of the week, one went home daily to tend to the cats, and one went home daily to tend to a husband. The retreat house was 28 minutes from the shop. Since the house was so close to home my daughter also spent the week. She just had to leave 25 minutes earlier each morning to go to school. (Tuesday school was cancelled because of ice.)

This was the view from the dining table. The first night had the best sunset!

View of the house from the dock.

On Sunday the weather was unseasonably warm.

It was a great day to go out for a walk. The sand was so warm with the sun beating on it.

We think this large track was from a Great Blue Heron. We saw one hanging around all week.

My daughter having a little fun.

That is me.

By the end of the week it was unseasonably cold!

Due to the wind and the tide there was beautiful ice cover!

This is a close up of the grass.

We are dressed a little differently from the beginning of the week.

GREAT FUN!

Two More Elephants

Previously I posted about the Elephant Quilts some of the 7-Sisters were making. 

Here are two more.

This is Barbara's. I love how she put something in for the eye. The pattern just left it empty with background fabric. I think it has more life with the eye filled in.

This is Chris' elephant. She also put something in for the eye. I love it. Her elephant is not yet quilted.

Here is mine again. I am going to have to go back and put something in for the eye.

This is Earleen's.

Baby Elephant Walk

 Last week seven of the Seven Sisters Quilt Guild decided to make this Elephant quilt. I love how they are looking and could not wait to share them. So here are three of them so far. 

Earleen is the first one to finish. 

She used yellow and pink Batiks and it is absolutely beautiful!

She quilted it on her midarm.

Mine is almost done. It just needs to be bound.

I used 21 different pinks all from the shop.

I quilted mine on the longarm before applying the pinks.

Lou is well on her way. She is using all blues from the shop.

Lou is sewing on her blues first and will have it quilted afterward.

Chris, Cheryl, Barbara, and Margaret are also making one.

The pattern for this quilt is in the book "Scrap Happy Quilting."

Queenie the Quilter

The town of Trappe has a Fall celebration every year the first Saturday of October called Trappetoberfest. Each year they have a Scarecrow Contest. Being a new business in town this is my first year to participate. I got a few of the Seven Sisters together and we made a Quilter.

I never knew you could stuff pantyhose with straw. I thought it would get all torn up.

Doesn't Queenie look content sitting there on the porch?

A want to give a special Thank You to everyone who helped with Queenie; Chris, Margaret, Earleen, Barbara, Lou and Faith. THANKS GIRLS!

7-Sisters Raffle Quilt

When time allows I try to keep up on some longarm quilting.

This quilt is a raffle quilt made by the 7-Sisters Quilt Guild.

You just can't go wrong using all Batiks.

7-Sisters Swap

Back in the Spring of 2011 nine of the 7-Sisters participated in a fabric swap. We were supposed to have them finished for our quarterly meeting last night. Most of them are done.

 Margaret made a 9-patch. The center block is made from 9-patch blocks from everyone's fabric. The other large blocks has one of Margaret's  9-patch in the center with the fabric of a particular participant surrounding hers. My fabrics are in the top center block; the oranges.

 Earleen used the twister ruler. It looks great but she was a little disappointed at how small it got.

 Wow! Look at Lou's quilt. I believe she added some blues.

Polly had misplaced her fabrics. She just found them this week . Boy, she really has her work cut out for her.

The black really sets off the fabrics in Chris' quilt. She does not have it quilted yet and I think she intends to add a border.

I finished mine in September 2011.

Cheryl's is stunning! Cheryl has a long-arm and has been doing a very special job on this quilt. She had to take it off of the long-arm to bring it to show.

 Just look it this border that she has done!

Earleen finished this top last night. LOVE IT!