Hodge podge this weekend

I finally took a pic of this awesome hand thrown wood kiln fired pottery. I bought this near Big Prairie, Ohio. They only fire twice a year and I happened to be near the shop during spring opening weekend. I just love the concept of hand made pottery....instead of 'made in China'...... My friday rest was having a manicure and pedicure....hey I used a gift card from Christmas 2006! LOL I tell you...my time is soo limited that I had to force myself to use the card. Only catch with it, was that the spa is 40 minutes from my house. Had it been the local nails shop I'd have been there the very next week! Still it felt great...and yet another sign of spring and open toed shoes.
Ah have I mentioned that DD2 loves fabric? she can't stay out of it...
But who can be made at THAT face....I love my little squeezy poof.....

Oh and I did start another WIP.....I cut all the strips for the Ruffles and Rows kit and made about half of the yo-yo's and the prairie points as well. I've gotten a good start on it. Now it's monday night, the girls are fast asleep and I should be too. I just can't stop thinking about the night I've missed. I was invited to a reception for Ted Storm. Her quilt won best of show this year at AQS in Paducah. A mutual friend is having a big party for her. A couple of my other quilting buddies came ALL the way from Tennessee for this event...but I am home...an hour plus drive away from the action. It about breaks my heart that I will miss seeing them, miss the opportunity to meet Ted....but it wasn't meant to be. Hubby is out of town...and no sitter.....well I have to look on the bright side and hope they took pictures!

Thimbleblossom giveaway...

Camille's having a giveaway...check it out.....she's giving away her 'Bloom' quilt...eeekkk! love it...

Others' Quilts

There were so many inspiring quilts and projects at weekend but I chose a few pictures of the best to show here....well by best I mean the ones more inspiring to me. One gal used Kaffe Fassett fabrics and really impressed me. The shadowed nine patch was done by our LQ shop owners daughter.
This quilt has quite an interesting story. Apparently 15 years ago the local quilt guild was raffling off blocks for some fundraiser. One gal won them and didn't do anything with them for all these years....so she was going to throw them out. Another gal in our weekend group took the blocks and put this together...had it quilted and took it back to the original owner to show. The original owner was stunned and actually thought this gal would give her the quilt!! But that didn't happen....I didn't get a good picture of the quilting but it's hand quilted with baskets in the white blocks...it's beautiful.
This will be a granddaughters quilt...I have a WIP nearly just like it...someday I'll finish it!
Ahhh and this cherry of a quilt....there are those Cherry Baby fabs again...did I mention I bought more of them to make this table cloth??? It is trully lovely in person and besides myself there were 4 other gals wanting to copy cat this quilt.

More on "quilt away"

This is the Round Lake Christian Camp where our retreat/quilt weekend was held. Is this camping?? Wow what a great building....bright lights, comfy carpet, clean clean clean!
This was my view while sewing....there were about 22 of us at this retreat. It was beautiful....almost too beautiful to be inside sewing...I said "almost"...haha
This was one of the weekend projects, Pincushion Stacks. This was the sample...I haven't made mine yet.The retreat wallhanging below...sooo cute...again..I didn't start it...I had sooo many other projects to make....
Here's the gal I went with...she's just cutting away there....being all busy while I lazed around and took pictures.

Weekend projects

The Quilt away weekend was awesome. I posted the pics of the goodies I bought but the weekend was so much more than that. I felt as though I had accomplished so much. I can't say there weren't interruptions as I DID have to leave on saturday and drive 20 minutes home to see a patient in my office. It was a glitch but he has limited time available so I tried to be accomodating AND he's one of my quilting buddies' husband, oh and I did stop home for my other camera....so that's where half my pictures are from.
I suppose you would like to see what I worked on??? come on...pretend LOL!
With out much further ado....my finished tops! This is a tumbler little quilt from Celebrate Spring charms by Sandy Gervais. A little Dandlelion Girl charm goes a long way in this table topper. The half square triangles on the right were left over from the flying geese blocks in the table topper. I put a border on it and it measures about 5 X 7 inches now....I think I may finish it with just a backing and frame it.

Another table topper..have I mentioned I LOVE table toppers right now? I started knitting a dishcloth as well but only stitched 1/3 of the rows so nothing to show yet. This is a Pearl Louise quilt pattern. I am going to quilt it and applique the edges at the same time.
Daffodils near the camp....a sign of spring..just what we needed. I hand quilted a little quilt but I am putting the binding on so I will take a photo when I have it done-done.....