Friday Night Quilters

Last night I enjoyed a very nice evening filled with

good friends, good food, and really good quilts!

Here are some pictures of my talented friends

and some of the projects they have been working on.

Joanne with a couple of Alzheimers quilts that

are ready to be sent in to be auctioned

to raise money for Alzheimer's.

Mary's quilt

This is the quilt that we made for

Linda after her bed-bug experience at quilt camp.

It is hanging on her wall.

Katrina's out of this world quilt.

It has another name, but I can't seem to remember what it is!

Cheryl recently returned from a trip to Bali!

While there she made this batik panel.

She drew the design on paper, then drew it with wax before

she applied the paint colors to this piece.

She also made the jewerly she is wearing while in Bali.

Sharon has been busy finishing Quilts!

Sharon again.

I think Mary might have gotten the prize for the most finished tops.

Mary was given a patchwork dog like this when her twin girls were born, so she decided to duplicate it!

More from Mary.

I didn't have anything to show last night so I have decided to spend the afternoon doing some sewing!!!!

til next time,

Happy Quilting!

tammy

Lots of things going on..........

The last couple of days have been busy ones

filled with family and friends and QUILTING!

This past week I finished up a couple of quilts.

This one belongs to Liz............

This is a close-up of a corner of Liz's quilt.

She chose a bear from Anne Bright's quilting patterns.

And a moose for another corner.

This next quilt belongs to Deb.

Close-up of one of the side setting triangles.

The inspiration this design came from

Kim Stotsenburg's "Just Leaf it" quilt design book.

The January meeting of the Friday Night Quilters

was held at my house last night and it was a fun-filled evening

starting with making pizza.

Here are Kathy and Katrina getting started.

We had some beautiful show and tell last night.

This quilt, made with Kaffe Fasset fabrics, belongs

to Katrina. It was a real beauty!

Cheryl is displaying a quilt made by Dolly's

11 year old daughter Kelly. Kelly designed, pieced,

and quilted this little quilt to donate to Ami Simm's

Alzhimers Art Quilt Initiative. This little ladybug quilt raised

$100 for this cause. The person who bought the quilt

requested that it be sent back to the maker since it was

her very first quilt. What a sweet story!

After Show and tell we all went downstairs to

make a little project.

So that was Friday night...........Saturday morning

Mike and I went on a little 4 mile hike in preparation

for the 15 mile hike he has signed us up for in 2 weeks.

Yikes! I'm a little worried about doing this!

After the hike we pushed back most of the furniture

in the living room and moved a bunch of it out to the

back porch for a little Family Jazzercise!

My daughter-in-law Jen is working really hard to become an

instructor and needed some students to practice on.

WELL! She got some pretty challenging students and

she did really awesome. I think she'll make a great instructor!

Our neighbors Bert and Gail started a holiday

tradition several years ago. We call it

"Bert bombs the Neighborhood"

He makes us a B52 Bomber.

They are pretty yummy!

Bert.....the Master Mixologist!

See the 3 layers?

Bert and Gail........cheers!

Happy New Year from Mike, Brian, Rafael & Tammy!

Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI)

I received an email today from my friend Dolly telling me that the new auction has started for Ami Simms Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative.

What is special (to me) about this particular auction is that Dolly's 11 year old daughter Kelly AND her mom Joanne

both have quilts that they have donated included in this auction.

This is Kelly's LadyBug quilt.

This is Joanne's Patchwork of Life quilt.

If you go to the site http://www.alzquilts.org/quiltauction.html

and click on the pictures of the quilts you will get to read the artist's statements

and on Kelly's......see her picture! She is the youngest quilter ever to donate a quilt!

I was fortunate enough to get to see Joanne's quilt up close and personal.

What is amazing about her quilt is that all of those tiny, little bitty, miniscule triangles

are all PIECED! This is not a printed piece of fabric you are looking at here folks!

I just hope that their gifts of love will bring lots of bidders and $$$ for this cause.

Kelly's grandpa recently passed away after suffering many years with

Alzheimer's disease.

What a lovely tribute Kelly and Joanne have offered him.