Baby Olivia

This little quilt was made from a Baby Genius panel. I hand pieced it and hand quilted it. It was a present for Baby Olivia, the daughter of Greg Camp. Greg was a student of Steve's and is on the board of the Southern Center. The quilt is 40" x 47".

Tumbleweeds

This was made from a kit supplied by the Wilderness Road Quilt Company during their Spring Retreat in March 2009, all I added was the zebra, the back and the binding. The finished product is 74" by 84". It was machine quilted by Shery Whitaker, who works at Wilderness.

Cup and postcard

Every now and then I get around to making some small non-quilt items. Here are a couple:
Atlanta Intown Quilters, THE best quilt store in Georgia, asked its customers to send them a quilted post card, so I made and sent the above. (It was announced that a drawing would take place later in the summer and that the winner would receive a gift certificate to the store. A huge incentive for every quilter to send in the card!)
In March I participated in a retreat at Wilderness, in addition to making two quilts, we all also made a couple of minor items. The first was this "quilt in a cup," for which the staff of the store had embroidered each of our names to be included in the cup. A very cute and fun idea.

Peace by Piece V

The Peace by Piece quilters met for the last time - with me in attendance at least - for dinner in June of 2008. At that time, they surprised me with a present of two beautiful pillows they had made especially for me. How wonderful and how sweet. A beautiful and so meaningful reminder of our great time together, which made my new home so much more like home, right off the bat.
For the front of the pillows, they had constructed these two amazing pictures of zebras drinking Diet Coke with Lime from a straw! I, of course, always drink Diet Coke with Lime from a straw and almost constantly have one of them with me no matter where I go!
The back of the pillow covers were pieced with fabrics from each of their quilts. So I have scraps of all the beautiful fabrics they chose and from which their quilts are being made! What a great idea.Each pillow had a label. I think they may have been making just a tiny bit fun of me when they made the labels. I had talked to them about the necessity of putting a label on each quilt you make, always! Perhaps they thought I had been too emphatic! But this label, surely is wonderful and descriptive.
The other label was very creative, each woman held out her fingers in a "peace" sign on several "pieces" of their fabrics, and it was done in a circle for our group! A lot of symbolism packed into that label.
This is a picture of us, with the pillows, from that last meeting. From left: Marie, Kirsten, Charlotta, Sara, Ela, and Mica. As mentioned previously, Shelby had mostly dropped out by then, so she had not been involved in the pillow project.

What a great time I had with these young creative women. I feel very privileged to have been able to get to know them and hang out with them. So far, I have been able to stay in touch and to meet with them a couple of times on my return trips to Atlanta.

Now I am anxiously awaiting a visit from them, or at least some of them, here to the Vatican!

Peace by Piece IV

Marie is very prolific and very creative. Here is one of her quilts. I love the bright colors!
This is another of Marie's quilts, a lovely Drunkard's Path, with creative pieced borders.
Kirsten has so far been the most prolific of the group. She has completed several baby quilts.
This is Kirsten's diamond shaped baseball quilt made for her nephew.
Kirsten hand appliqued this quilt inspired by one she saw at the Gees Bend show. Last I heard, she was in the process of hand-quilting it. I especially like the blue block in the upper most right corner. She told me that she made it because she lost a block she was working on at the celebratory service held in memory of our friend, Lewis Sinclair. I love the symbolism: the block is unique but nevertheless fits in and looks just right with the rest; Lewis was most definitely unique, yet he was such an integral part of all the rest of us and made us all feel as if we belonged together.Another beautiful baby quilt by Kirsten.