Player of the Year

Spring is finally here! It has been a long and cold winter but Spring has finally made an appearance.  With Spring comes a new golf season.  We just had opening day at our club.  The weather could not have been better (this is usually not the case).  The only thing keeping this day from being perfect, was that a well known and loved golfing lady from our club passed away from cancer  the week before.  God bless her and her family.  We know that Phyllis is in heaven now looking down on us.

These are a few pictures from just before the tournament as we remembered Phyllis.

After a fun round of golf we all had lunch and waited for the results of the tournament.  Before the tournament results were announced, the club announced "Player of the Year".  When my name was called, I was very shocked.  I was not expecting it! Come to find out, I was the only one in my family that did not know.

To make this day even better, our team won first net.

The Quilters Quilt

I went into Suzzie's Quilt shop and found the really neat sewing themed fabric.  The fabric is Sewing Box by Gina Martin. I really liked the fabric so much that I picked up the Yellow Brick Road pattern by Atkinson Designs to make a lap quilt with the Sewing Box fabrics.  The pattern calls for fat quarters (12 for a lap quilt).

Just a small note.  I used bamboo batting (Nature-Fil Batting by Fairfield).  I had the easiest time quilting this quilt than I had with any of my other quilts.  I don't know if it was the batting or not but from now on I am only using  Nature-Fil Batting.

I have named this quilt The Quilters Quilt because both my husband and my son-in-law both called it the quilters quilt when I showed it to them.

After I finished the quilt, I went to Suzzie's quilt shop to show Suzzie the quilt.  She and another worker liked the quilt so much that both of them picked out the same fabrics  to make this quilt for themselves.  Suzzie asked me to bring the quilt back on Wednesday for Quilt Club.  After showing the quilt at Quilt Club two more people were wanting to buy the fabric to make this quilt. Wow, I didn't realize how popular this quilt would be.

Where The Wild Things Are Quilt

I know that it has been awhile but I have not stopped quilting.  I was working on my largest quilt to date. I made a full size quilt for my daughter's friend's son.  She gave me the fabric and asked for a full size quilt made out of large squares.

I cut out 12 1/2 " squares of three fabrics for a total of 35 squares. I cut out 2 1/2" strips out of another fabric for the sashing.  Out of the 2 1/2" strips I cut 28 6 1/2" x 2 1/2". I then pieced the remaining strips together to make 6 60 1/2" x 2 1/2", 2 96 1/2" x 2 1/2", and 2 64 1/2" x 2 1/2".  Then out of the last fabric I cut 6 1/2 " strips for the outer border. I cut 2 at 100 1/2" x 6 1/2" and 2 at 76 1/2" x 6 1/2"

This is not the greatest diagram, but I hope you can understand it.

I sewed 12 1/2 inch pieces of the 2 1/2 inch strips on each side of the squares. I then sewed a long 2 1/2 inch strip in between each row.  I then added the sides of the inner border. After that I added the top and bottom of the inner border. I then repeated the process for the outer border.

Here are pictures of the finished quilt.