Posh Pumpkins Around the World

Way back in May of 2013, Green Fairy Quilts was giving away a fat quarter bundle of Posh Pumpkins. And I won!! 

Like I said before, orange is my favorite color. I try not to drool over fabric, but this line is to drool for. After I received it, it sat on a shelf until I decided what I was going to make with it. 

I finally figured it out, I wanted my PQA friends to help me. Last year we were making blocks for each other, so I thought this would be the perfect time to cut that bundle into little pieces. I remembered the quilt everybody was making a while back and I knew this was the right pattern. I found Bonnie Hunter's pattern, cut up the fabric, and passed it all out. I received back 25 blocks. I love them. They are just perfect. All of those wonderful fall colors I love. I had a lot of fun with the layout, but decided on this design.

Now that all of the blocks are together, I know I did the right thing with this gift. The quilt measures 48 x 72, not a bad size!

Then one of my sweet PQA friends gifted me two charm packs of Posh Pumpkins and a stack of similar fabrics. Now I can make more blocks!!

I am so excited. I can't wait to finish this quilt!

TTFN

A Study in Orange

I finally have most of my fabric in their new home. Back in September, when my parents moved in to my family's home, I had to pack everything up and put it into storage. We have now bought a huge storage shed and I have moved all of my stuff into it. I have been working slowly at getting things organized. I have decided to work through one scrap box at a time. Orange was the first to fall under my rotary cutter. It IS my favorite color!! I went looking for ways to use up a ton of scraps and found the Scrap Vortex Quilt Along. Amanda Jean, uses a lot of scraps and has a lot of great ideas. Over a few tutorials she shows how to make these wonderful blocks. I love them. Here is my version of making her quilt, I am going to name it Fabric Scrap Vomit. 

Grab two piece about the same size.

Sew them together.

 Trim them up so that both sides across the seam are straight. I did not worry about the other two sides.

 Take another two-piece section and sew them together. 

 Trim the two sides across the seam that you have just sewn.

Add another section. 

 Trim. Each time you add another section, you trim up the two sides where you just sewn.

 Keep adding and trimming until you have it the size you want.

Here, you can see how I am adding it to another piece that I had already made.

 Trim these.

 Larger and larger it gets, until it is the right size. 

 Is this big enough?

 Or do I add more?

As you can see, I decided it was big enough. These are all the blocks I have made. I am not sure what I am going to do with these. I figure until I have made all of the other blocks using my other colors,I will not know. So until then, I will just keep these in a box. And yes, I still love orange!!

TTFN

Old Fort Boise Days Quilt Show

I wanted to show a few of my favorite quilts from our Old Fort Boise Days Quilt Show. 

The first three quilts were apart of our older quilt section.

Friendship Quilt, not sure of year

This quilt was made from old clothing and real wool straight off the sheep. It was made in 1929.

I hand pieced Cathedral Window quilt, not sure of the year.

A graduation quilt made by my sister-in-law for our nephew.

A Halloween Jar quilt made by my friend. 

A jean quilt for another graduation. The woman that brought this one showed 4 more very large quilts like this one. 

Not much information on this quilt, I just love the pattern and fabric. 

This one was made by my friend.

Another one made by a friend. 

Another one made by a friend for her daughter. 

TTFN

Busy, Busy, Busy

So, I have been very busy. This last weekend, we had our small community's Old Fort Boise Days. For the last few years my quilt group has put on a quilt show during this time. Our first year was wonderful. We were near the festivities and had a lot of visitors. Last year we moved to a bigger building, but then we lost some of our visitors. This year we lost even more. I am not sure what we are going to be doing next year, but we need to find a way to get more people to come to us. I thought I would show you a small peak at two of the quilts that were at the show. 

This first one is mine. It was a wedding gift from my husbands grandmother. We have had it for 26 years. We have worn it out. 

This one was made in 1955. The LDS church in my town, made this quilt to be raffled off to raise money to build a new church building. On this quilt, all of the names of the church members are embroidered as leaves on this tree. It is a wonderful piece of history. 

One of the other things I have been up to, is delivering Groomers to customers. My husband has been making Arena Groomers for Premier Equestrian for about 4 years, he is in a business with his brother. This picture is of my husband (the tall one), his costumer, and groomer, a new invention, a Premier Equestrian Pro Arena Groomer. This is the website for the other groomers my husband makes. He is so happy that this groomer has been making so many people happy. 

 This is some of the country we got to see on our way to drop off the new groomer. He had about a 4 hour drive. I love going on these trip with my husband. Good conversation, great scenery, and I get to work on my hexies!! 

I know life is crazy for everybody, mine is not different. I really need to come back to blogging! I miss this way of sharing one of the best parts of my life. 

TTFN