Another Bloomington Blog With Photos

Lots of Art quilts and not as many traditional quilts this year.  I do have photos of some of the traditional ones just haven't clicked on them yet.  Two posts in one day!!  Yeah

Quilts From Bloomigton Quilt Show

Here are a few more quilts from the Bloomington Indiana Quilt Show.  I took over a hundred photos so I'll share a few at a time.  I love the Art Quilts.

It's in the 70's here and suppose to be that way for the next week.  I hope it's beautiful where you are.  Now that I can get back in here I want to do a give away so keep checking back as I hope to have it together by the week-end.

I'm Here!!

I haven't been able to get on here and that's because I was using the wrong user name!!!  I have been trying since December and I was sooo mad at Blogger.  Well I now know that it was ME!  So I'm glad to be back.  I've added a few photos here but I have a lot more to share.  I love this purse and I bought it at a indoor garage sale they have a couple of times a year.  This is now my favorite.

This is our last little snow fall.  This winter has been so unusual even for here.  I'm thinking about planting some peas and lettuce as it's going to be in the 70's all week.  Worth a try!!!

I have a bunch of these kits and a lot of old fabric from a lady that died a couple of years ago and her family donated all of this stuff to the Church Sewing group.  If we sell this then we can purchase items that we can use for quilts.  If you're interested then send me an e-mail and I'll send more photos and descriptions.

This is a water color that was at our local thrift shop and I love yellow so it came home with me for a $1.99.

My friend Suzy and I went to the Bloomington Indiana Quilt show recently and I took about a hundred photos.  This is the first one so I thought I'd start sharing.  Guess what!!!!  We are going to the International Quilt Show in Cincinnati Ohio on April 14th and 15th.  We have a hotel room paid for and we are going to Ikea then the quilt show.  I am sooooo excited about this as I never thought I'd be able to go since they were always in Houston.  I don't know how many photos I will take but I'll be sharing.  Think of all the vendors also!!

I hope everyone is doing well and now that I know my log in I should be on here more often and I'll start putting on more photos of the beautiful quilts we saw and I have a couple of quilt tops finished, I did some color removing on some fabric this past week-end and I've started working on some Art Journal and Art quilts. 

It's Me and Somehow It's November

The last of my Dahlia's

They had already gotten some frost bite

I finished my Disappearing 9 Patch Baby Quilt and I hand quilted it.

Yesterday I went to a class in Greensburg Indiana and spent the day cutting and  sewing.  This is the result so far.  There are 3 borders so there is some work to go.  This is all Batiks that I have been collecting for a long time.  I only purchased the background fabric so I did well at using some of my stash.  If you want to take a look at the store go to

https://treecitystitches.com/

I put a tiny love seat in my sewing room.  I can sit and watch TV and hand sew.  Of course it's an Ikea love seat as are the pillow covers.

The newspaper picture above it is some fabric I brought back from Brazil and I stapled it over another framed picture.  I know I need to redo it as it's crooked but then I think it lends some personality.

I always say this but I hope to be back sooner and I still need to take a photo of the quilt top that I made at the quilt retreat.

Take Care!!

My First Quilt Retreat

I must warn you that there are lots of photos!!  The Quilt Retreat was at Clifty Falls State Park in Madison Indiana.  The river runs behind the hotel and you can see Kentucky on the other side.  The lodge was excellent, food was great and the Quilt Retreat was sooo much fun!!

This is outside the room the retreat was in.

Hotel and the rooms had great views

Part of the room with people sewing away

Lot's of displays and items to purchase

My wonderful roommate that I had never met before.  We'll room together in February again.

Kyle who sat on one side of me and was a hoot

Some of us took a road trip downtown and this is a wonderful shop.  She even has a gazillion Christmas items in the basement but the main floor is fabric. 

This is L&L Yards Goods and it's an entire house in a residential section.  Some great fabrics in here.

Leslie sat across the table from me and this is the hat that she made for the Hat Party.  I forgot so I wasn't part of that.

Here's my room mate in her hat.

The lady on the right is Lisa and she's Leslie's sister.  Don't you just love the hats??

Love the views

This is the road as I was leaving and I just love all of the trees and the shadows on the road.

My next post very soon will show you the quilt top that I made during the retreat.  If you have all of your cuts made then you can just sew away.  I have to go for now but I hope you liked all of my photos.

It's September! What happened to August??

I don't know where the time goes.  I did want to tell you that I'm going to my first Quilt Retreat for 3 days!!  I'm very excited and I hope that I don't forget anything and I want to get a lot done.  I won't have to worry about cleaning as they clean the rooms, dishes - no they will do the dishes, clean anything - no!!!  We'll this will have to be a good week-end. :) 
I've never met the lady that I'm rooming with but I've heard she is very nice.  I hope my snoring doesn't drive her insane!!  My granddaughters say I snore as of course I'm not awake to hear me.
The quilt retreat is about 50 miles away in historic Madison Indiana and is taking place at the State Park where they have a hotel.  You can check it out here http://www.in.gov/dnr/parklake/inns/clifty/index.html
I've been to the park before but not the hotel.  I just know it's going to be fun!!!!!

This is the quilt my 9 year old granddaughter is making.  It's all different cat fabrics.  She wears that hat all of the time since she is a big Harry Potter fan.  She's been wearing it all of the time since January or there about.

                                      Here I sewed some strips together that I had left over for a
                                      baby quilt.  All novelty fabrics.

                                           With all the reorganizing I found this one and several more
                                            old quilts I have purchased over time.  Great antique fabric
                                            but I don't know if I'll ever do anything with them.  May E-Bay.

Well I need to get ready for work and I hope everyone is having a great day or evening!!!

Long Time No See

I can't believe that it has been 5 months since I posted.  What happened?  We'll in the spring I fell out in the yard and ended up having knee surgery on the same knee that I had surgery on last October.  Now it's bone on bone so I'm trying to be very very careful.  I had a lot of problems with swelling and finally doc removed the water from my knee (It HURT!!) and now I'm doing much better.  I'm walking without a limp and I'm feeling more energized.  Amazing what one thing can do to your whole system.

I haven't really done a lot of anything as I had to be in bed when I wasn't at work.  But I hope to show you some of my flowers if blogger will let me load them.  I have been able to turn on the water so I still have some pretty flowers.

Well blogger or my Internet will not take me into photos.  I'll have to try later.  Hope everyone is doing well and that it's cooler and maybe you even had rain!!!

This is some old old quilt blocks that I'm selling on E-Bay as I don't know if I will ever do anything with them.

This is an old quilt top that I'm selling on E-Bay.  I bought several old tops a few years ago and here they sit.  Time to get them out of here as we are cleaning house.  My daughter and I are going thru everything and I mean every piece of paper and everything so that I can get rid of some stuff!!!  It's feeling good.