How Time Flies!

I can't believe my last post was the first week of October and NOW it is the last week of October!  I've got to do better at getting the updates on here sooner.

I've been really busy this month. I 've taken a day trip to Crozet, VA to attend their Fall Art and Craft Festival with some friends.  It was a beautiful fall day.  The art was fabulous.  The company superb!  On the way home we stopped at a "Gourmet" Grocery Store.  They had tons of pumpkins and winter squash outside.  Perfect for picture taking ops.

Again another day trip with friends to Ferrum, VA, the Blue Ridge Folk Life Festival.  Again the day was perfect.  Tons of people there.  We watched mule jumping and coon dog swimming races.  Had a yummy BBQ sandwich and soaked up the sun.

Blue Ridge Folk Life Festival Mule Jumping

Just a portion of people watching Mule Jumping

Corn shucking machine

Coon dog water races

I have continued to work on the round robin quilt.  I've got a little bit left in the 6th block to quilt, then it's on to the borders.


I assembled the last block on the MaKenna Ryan "Beach Walk" quilt.  Now I need to stitch the pieces down, sew the blocks together, then quilt and  bind it.   I plan to have it done by the time our Quilt Guild has our quilt show next year.  That's my plan anyway.

I also finished my second quilt for our guild yearly challenge.  All to be shown at the December QG luncheon.

Birthday Week!

     I have been busy since the last post.  Also the Internet slowness is driving me crazy as I've been trying to post since Monday.  I've been continuing to SLOWLY hand quilt the Round Robin quilt.  I've got three of the six blocks done and have started the 4th one.  For pictures see my post labeled More Tee click here .  I've also finished my tee that I've been working on.

What is REALLY exciting...... are you ready?   On Monday The Explorers Group in Lynchburg (I'm one of them) got together and tried our had at marbling fabric.  Some did the traditional style you see when you think of marbled paper or fabric.  However one of the recent Quilting Arts Magazine had an article on marbling non traditional designs.   We played with different coloring materials.  We found that diluted Setacolor did OK,   Tsukineko inks were fabulous, India Ink gave a fabulous pop to the colors,  the expensive inks sank to the bottom.  We tried sprayed fabric dyes that the craft shops sell, which worded really well.  Anyway, because we were so messy we did this outside and it's a good thing.  The pictures below show some of the fun.

L-R: Linda & Debra

Combing the colors for traditional marbling.

Patty adding inks for the non traditional marbling

Patty's results

Jackie dipping her fabric

Melissa trying alot of black.

Just about ready to dip the fabric

Melissa's results

Today was another hike with the Ridge Runners.  We hiked up a trail to the Devils Marbleyard, which actually is a hillside of huge rocks.  We climbed on them and had our lunch before descending on the trail back to the cars.  It was a beautiful clear sunny day, starting off cool but warming up as we climbed higher.

I can't fight the slow Internet any more... I'm going to post this with hopes that tomorrow will be better.

Have Sew Much Fun!   Bette