Show N Tell

Sue Risius is doing our Bali Pop Block of the Month project. She decided to work ahead and make a 2nd version of this pattern as well. For her 2nd quilt top, she choose green for the stars and lavender and purple for the setting. Even more stunning in person. Thanks for sharing, Sue.

Submitted by a customer - - - -

Last night, my kids and I were sitting in the living room and I said to them, 'I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug. 'They got up, unplugged the Computer, and threw out my wine. They’re such brats...

New Stuff!

This is an adorable shop sample made by Jackie Orton. It's called Pillow Wrap. See the back below - - fun Laurel Burch cat print. The ties can be wrapped around to the opposite side to reverse the colors (purple ties on a green background). This is available in kits and covers a 14" pillow. Fun, easy, quick gift.

And here are some of the new fabrics.

This is a panel from the new line, Woodland Quilters by The Wooden Bear. This is the 2nd bolt we've had of this panel and it is going as quickly as the first one did.

Here is a close up of one of the motifs in the panel. This cute raccoon is going through scraps in the "Free Scraps" barrel!

Just out from The Wooden Bear are these four 12 x 12's. They are adorable displayed on a table stand.

Show N Tell

Faith brought in this raffle quilt she made for her church fund raiser. Very nice. Bonita, shown below, took our series of Beginners Quilting and followed that with our series of Novice 9-Patch. Now she is turning out quilts left and right. This first one is more of a country flavor for her own home.

Her second quilt is more contemporary - made with all batiks for her daughter.

Holiday Open House

Adel holds two Holiday Open Houses each year. This weekend is the first one.

Adel Quilting & Dry Goods Co
November 4-7, 2009
Come visit us today or tomorrow to shop from our expanded selectin of gift items. We also have several demonstrations of quick, hand made gifts, free paper piecing patterns for oranaments and Christmas trees and lots of new fabric.

Atherton House (also open on Sunday afternoon)
"VISIONS of CHRISTMAS" OPEN HOUSE
November 4 - 8, 2009
Exceptional new work from American and international family-run workshops.
Special emphasis on fair-trade and sustainable work.
Wed., November 4 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thurs., November 5 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Fri., November 6 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sat., November 7 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sun., November 8 12 noon - 4:00 p.m.
Once again be open at 9:00 a.m., Monday - Saturday starting with this event.
Also be open all Sundays 12 - 4 through Christmas, starting on Sun., November 8.

Cameo Rose (also open on Sunday afternoon) Gifts and Collectibles
Cameo Rose will be having their Holiday Open House on November 5-8. All Christmas merchandise is out on display and ready to sell. Daily door prize drawings for a limited edition Christmas Bearington Bear. Refreshments will be served. New store hours for the holiday season. Now open: Mon.- Sat., 9-5; Thurs. 9-7; andSun., 12-4. Special sale going on over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

New Great Nephew

Meet Cooper James. This is my new Great Nephew. Can't wait to smell his little head.

Thought of the day - - - -

God doesn't give you the people you want, He gives you the people you NEED: To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you into the person you were meant to be.

A few new shop samples

Colleen has been productive, as always. This is a card holder she mad from a new Art to Heart Book. The tree "branches" are actually pockets to hold your holiday cards. This hanger is about 5' long and would hang nicely on a door.
This is the new Snap Sack. These little patterns come each month. Then we pick fabrics and Colleen whips up a shop sample. Kit for the pattern, front, back and binding is just $12.99.

This is a 2nd version of Colleen's pattern, Reflections of Earth. It's available in either pattern or kit (while the fabric lasts!)

Leaf Special

As every year at this time, we are offering one free bag of leaves with every $1 purchase. Offer good now through the first heavy snow. Bags will be provided. BYOR (Bring Your Own Rake) :)

Comfort Quilt

I am very proud to be associated with a group of quilters that put together this comfort quilt in just a few weeks for a young lady who is quite ill. Blocks were donated by many of you. A group of quilters pieced it to together, the shop donated some of the fabric, Kathy Blomquist of Adel did a beautiful job of machine quilting it. Margaret Beal did the binding and it is ready to present. We may not be doctors, but we are comforters.

Cover Girl

Here is our new 2010 calendar of quilts, featuring winning quilts from our spring Outdoor Quilt Show. Our cover girl this year is Margaret Beal from Adel. This is a quilt she made using the pieced applique technique taught by Marge Pearson for the shop. Cost is just $11.95 and makes a great gift to yourself or your quilter friends.

New quilter show n tell

Meet Jeff. He calls himself a beginner but, aren't these quilts nice? This first quilt is from a pattern called Serendipity. Jeff calls this his first quilt. The fabrics have a little shine to them and are gorgeous. This pattern is from a Jelly Roll book and Jeff calls this one his 2nd first quilt. Nice job!

Pictures from the Oct 12-14 Ladies of the Lake Retreat

Here are a few pix from our Mon-Wed quilt group. See below some gift items that were made. Later this week, I will post some of the quilts that were made.

Virginia Berger spoke about vintage quilts.

Lots of stichin went on.

Below, Colleen processes pictures she takes in our photo booth. Guests pose with their quilting buddies for their annual photo op. With our featured quilt as the back-drop, Colleen takes pictures, prints them and sticks them to a little fabric magnet. It's a fun little tradition.

and more stitching and laughing - -

Take time for yourself - - -

Gentle Yoga Class - 6 week course, meets Wednesday evenings from 5:45 to 6:45, November 4 through December 16 (skipping Nov 25) at the Wells Fargo Meeting Room in Adel. Fee is $10 a class or $55 for the series. Call Mary Lea to register at 515-993-4691

Heart Wisdom Stress Management - This workshop teaches you to become more aware of your own body's unique ways of letting your know you are under stress. You will become familiar with the ways your heart lets you know what is going on with you. Discuss and practice stress management ideas. Learn how to use all of this information to decrease the ill effects of stress on your health, to stay healthy in spite of normal and extra stress. Taught by MaryLea Holcomb, (Healing Therapies) Saturday, November 7, 1-3 pm at Prairieland Herbs, Woodward - $40 - Contact 515-438-4268 or shop@prairielandherbs.com to register.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

More retreat pictures

We start this series of pictures with show n tell
above is our retreat 2008 project quilt and below is a super sized Baskets of Blohms quilt.

This is a pattern Faith's husband picked out for her to make.

This is three of the 6 quilts done by this group of friends. It was a row exchange. Each picked a row and made six of it, using the fabrics each provided for their own quilt.

Here is a close up of a great label that tells the story.

Linda shared this quilt featuring the Butterscotch Bali Pops.

Nancy made this charming blue and yellow quilt at retreat.

Lorna finished up her Penny Haren quilt. It's the results of a series of pieced applique classes.

Kim finished her FIRST quilt top. Yea!

Mindy and Karla each made one of these great leaf applique quilts.

Colleen showed her grandmother's 3 year project - Cathedral Window

Julia showed her three year project of the same :)

Colleen assisted

and taught (seen below with daughter, Kaitie)

This group of mom, sisters and friends decided to each make a barn quilt. By end of retreat, there were barns, silos and trees everywhere!

close up of a few blocks

This group warmed up by making yo yo puppies. Later, the broke out the machines and did some serious stiching.

Designer, Donna Bremer from Holstein, IA was our featured speaker

In addition to her patterns, she brought plenty of quilt pottery and fall fun for shopping.

Enough retreat pictures for today, but there are more coming!

Retreat group picture

These are the gals from our Oct 12-14 retreat/

Our Retreat Challenge entries - -

Our 2008 retreat theme was "The A Word, Applique". We had a jewel tone batik charm exchange. Then, we gave each participant a background square and pattern to make this flower. Their challenge was to "make something", using the collected fabric,and flower pattern, and bring their completed project to the 2009 retreat. Here are the entries.
Betty Duncan and Elizabeth Reel are shown above in the sweatshirts they made with the fabric. On closer inspection, you will see that they each have "Ladies of the Lake" painted over the left chest with an over sized L like Laverne (from Laverne and Shirley) would have used. Very clever, indeed.

We had the staff at this conference center vote on their favorites and the winners were the place mat by Mary Martin and the pillow by Cindy Kirk. I thought they were all winners, though.

Another Calendar Girl!

I love all of the quilts in our 2010 calendar but this is my favorite picture. This quilt belongs to Susan Bish of Adel. We took the photo in a Des Moines city park after my niece's bridal shower. The timber made such a great back drop.

The 2010 Calendar is in!

Here's a sample. This is Jan Mueller's French Braid quilt. This photo was taken by her daughter, Meridith for our 2010 calendar. They are in the shop now and just $11.95 each. Come get yours soon or ask us to ship.

VA scheduled to speak - -

Quilt Historian, Virginia Berger, will be our featured speaker at the Oct 12-14 Ladies of the Lake quilt retreat. Retreat guests are invited to bring one old quilt for Virginia to discuss.

Strippers on Wheel photo album

This is a photo ablum made by our bus mom, Sandy, after the September bus tour. Take a look. You may have to copy and paste this to your browser.
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Retreat speaker

Donna Bremmer will be our guest speaker at our Oct 15-17, Ladies of the Lake Quilt retreat. She is a quilter, pattern designer, crafter and potter. Love these little pots with the quilt motif.

New Stuff

The new Snap Sack kits are in for October - This one is called"Autumn Patches". Colleen made a shop sample using fall browns, cream and red. The kit, including pattern, back and binding, comes packaged in a cute little gift bag for just $12.99. Jenni Osler made this little shop sample. About 7" square, this little Santa kit comes complete with fabric, fusible gridded base, wire rim glasses, and buttons.

And, we've added to our red/white and black/white selection. They'll be more of this coming when Alex Anderson's new line is released.

Ladies of the Lake Prepare to Retreat!

Ladies of the Lake Quilt Retreat(s) are Oct 12 through 14 and Oct 15 through 17 at Lake Panorama, near Panora, IA. There are still a few vacancies in the October 15-17 retreat so if interested, call soon. Cost is $95 for Fri/Sat and $115 for Thur/Fri/Sat plus hotel at $70 a night for double occupancy. All meals, speakers, lectures, prizes, gifts and tons of fun are included!


The venue is open sew but we do teach and provide kit projects for those interested. This year, we will be teaching the Lazy Angle Ruler and Flying Geese X 4 to make this "Chain of Events" quilt by Far Flung Quilts. We have kits reserved for retreat guests in both color ways. The quilt kits finish 45 x 60 to make a nice wall or throw size quilt.
Above is the two tone purple quilt (all batik). This is just a sample of how the color combinations will look. The actual kit is for the throw size, same as shown in the autumn colors below.This is the autumn color way, mostly batiks. Colleen Tauke made both of these quilts and will be presenting a lecture on the techniques used in this quilt pattern. She will also be on hand throughout retreat to assist. This is a quilt you can easily finish during retreat. How fun to go home with a completed project.

Bus wrap up

Thank you so much to everyone who helped with the planning, sewing, cooking, cleaning, clerking, feeding and hostessing for our Strippers on Wheels bus tour. We welcomed 11 buses and each was full of smiling faces. Thanks to so many willing hands, the weekend went very smooth. Special thanks to our own Bus Mom, Sandy Ellis, for traveling with our bus and keeping them on track.

Below are pictures of the buses we received. In a few days, I will post pictures taken along our bus route.

We had a little trunk show of some of our Quilt Circle of Friends project quilts. Members Margaret Beal, Jackie Orton and Rozetta Fiscus are shown here with the quilt display at the Methodist Church where our bus guests ate their meals.

The Methodist women wave from the kitchen as they prepare the Baked Potato Bar. Our guests raved about their cooking.

For 3 days, they shopped - - -

---and headed on down the road to the next shop.

One of the bus drivers chewed on a toothpick and waited.

Our own bus returned about 7 pm Sunday evening and grabbed a slice of pizza before heading on home.

Another Novice Nine Patch is done!

Donna Grove brought in the quilt top she completed after a series of Novice Nine Patch classes taught by Colleen Tauke, both shown below. Very pretty, Donna!

The bus takes off

A bus full of happy quilters just took off on a three day excursion.

The other Jackie's bag - - -

Jackie Orton made this bag to carry when the AQS show comes to Des Moines that last weekend in October. On the other side of the bag, there is a circle with IQ appliqued for Iowa Quilters, the online chat group she is part of. This group has plans to meet up at the DM AQS show. To learn more about IQ and for lots of fun quilt stuff, go to www.connectingthreads.com , then sign up on 'Quilt With Us'. Then you can join the Iowa Quilters group. There are lots of neat groups to join. One with recipes, mini quilts, etc.

New Shop Samples

Scrappy post Civil War quilt made by Colleen.

And another by Colleen - a very pretty teal and brown pinwheel.

This started as a block of the month and is now available in a whole quilt kit. Aunt Millie's Garden made by Judy Williams.

This is my Nap Under the Pine done in pinks and browns with applique flowers to match the motif in the fabric (instead of pine trees) across the top border. Maybe it should be called

Nap Under the Daisies.

Of course, each of these quilts are available in kit!

Comfort Quilt

Isn't this pretty? Done in pinks and browns, Theresa made this comfort quilt for her mother.

New Stuff!

The shop is just full of new Fall stuff now. We have also expanded our gift items to include a selection from Prairie Land Herbs of bath gels, body butter, pampering kits and sachets. We have also just received some very nice, 6" stained glass quilt blocks. Come see!

This Moda line came in yesterday.

Rozetta made this fall wall hanging shop sample. It uses a dimensional applique technique for the leaves and a very easy application for piping in the binding. Come in for a demo. Isn't this adorable? We have both kits and patterns of this. Pattern includes the binding/piping instructions.

Jackie Orton made this Quilt for the Cure comfort pillow for a shop sample. It uses just two fat quarters and is reversible (re-tie to the other side and you get a brown background with light ties). Here is a wonderful gift idea to give in support of a friend or relative. We have this in kit and it comes with a free pattern.

Julia made this shop sample quilt. It's folded over this hanging rod so, the quilt center is actually at the left of the photo. Kind of like a Boston Commons/color wash, this quilt is called "Circle of Friends". We have this in kit and it comes with a free pattern.

Show N Tell

Jackie Orton brought in this Adel Alumni comfort quilt she made. It's all Tigers colors, Red and Black. Diane Beuthein has mastered scrappy. This is a log cabin using 1" cut strips (no paper piecing here!)

Below are a couple pictures from the Guthrie County Fair quilt show. The Guthrie Co. quilters really put on an impressive display. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Quilting Stuff

FALL OPEN HOUSES:

Thursday through Saturday is Fall Open House in Adel. Several businesses participate with new fall items on display and refreshments.

ADQDG has tons of new fall fabric, samples, demos, gift items and refreshments. Come on out!

Other Stuff!

Gentle Yoga classes begin in Adel this evening, 5:45 to 6:45. This is a great class for regaining flexibility and muscle strength. Class meets once a week for 6 weeks, takes a week off and the starts another 6 week session. I've been taking this class for a couple of years now but wouldn't call it easy. Maybe just appropriate to my age!
Mary Kay Cosmetic special - Once a year, I offer Mary Kay products at 25% off. This is a great time to shop for holiday gift giving. Let me know by Oct 1 if you need anything.

Lots of new stuff

The Fall Quilt Sampler is in the shop now. These do not last long so, don't wait to snag your copy. And lots of new, fun fabric - first this dog line (comes with a free pattern to make a dog bed)

Then a new flannel line from Laurel Burch featuring jungle animals

And - the most exciting of all is the new line from local designer, Kelly Mueller. She is owner of The Wooden Bear and resides near Winterset. This Red Rooster fabric line comes with a free pattern using the panel piece in a quilt. It is very cute and many of you have seen the quilt hanging in our shop. Now we have the fabric!

Show N Tell

Jenny Osler brought in the T-Shirt quilt she just completed for her son. It's a great example of using different size t-shirt designs.
Kathy brought in the bag she made after seeing our shop demo. Her grandson suggested the rose applique to brighten it up a bit.

Thanks for sharing, gals.

HOLY E-MAIL
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So he called one of His angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time. When he returned, he told God, ' Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not. God thought for a moment and said, ' Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion.. ' So God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time. When the angel returned he went to God and said, ' Yes, it ' s true. The Earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good. ' God was not pleased. So He decided to e-mail the 5% that were good, because he wanted to encourage them, and give them a little something to help them keep going.. Do you know what the e-mail said?

OK, I was just wondering cuz I didn't get one either.

Another French Braid

This quilt was made by Lois Carlson of Nebraska. She brought it in to match backing. It's so pretty, we couldn't resist a photo op. This has been on the blog previously but, I thought it would be fun to run it along side Joyce's quilt to show two different interpretations of the same pattern.

Show N Tell

Joyce Stand brought in this version of a French Braid (above). The strips are cut from every piece of batik in her collection which looks to be a very nice collection indeed. It is even more stunning in person. Below, see two of Joyce's grandchildren - Harrison (Buddy) and Joycie. They are holding up a little quilt that Joyce just completed using dimensional attic window blocks. The center panel is a vintage pillow top her daughter found at a sale. The finished edge is just a perfect accent.

Below is one of our Charming Strip Club projects. One of the color choices was black and white with hot pink sashing. Audrey Stetzel brought this in to show. She made it for her teenage grand daughter. Isn't it pretty?

This is the back of Audrey's quilt. Marty Klatt machine quilted this with her Statler Stitcher, a long arm quilt machine programed by a lap top. The back is just as pretty as the front, making this a truly reversible quilt!

Thanks for sharing, gals!

Meet Jace Will Zeigler

Born today - 10#1oz baby boy of Josh and Jessie Zeigler. CONGRATULATIONS!

New Stuff!!

Today we received Jelly Rolls from 5 different Moda lines. Pre-cuts are wonderful because, for one reason, you get a great variety of colors and prints that work well together with out the cutting waste. And, with so many patterns out there now featuring pre-cut strips, it's a snap to make great looking quilts. It's actually a quite economical way to purchase fabric. The Fall print fabrics are also starting to come in. Below is Cinnamon Spice by Clothworks.

Strip Club

Our next strip club project starts in September! Wow, can you believe it's almost September?

Our project this time will be a Jewel Box pattern quilt. Pick up the pre-cut strips and squares once a month to build this quilt. No sashing or borders required to make a full size quilt. Project runs from Sept through March and is $15 a month. Personalize your quilt by choosing the color-way you prefer. The picture above shows the pattern. We will be doing a scrappy version of this. Choices are:

• Black/Brown/Tan


• Civil War Prints


• 1930 Reproductions or


• Pastels

What's coming you ask?

Here's a sneak preview at a couple projects we're working on. This first one will be our optional retreat project. Colleen will be teaching the flying geese x 4 and Easy Angle ruler to make this quilt.
This is a shop sample stripy quilt Colleen is working on. Red, black and tan with a real Civil War feel.

New business in town - - -

Opening tomorrow in Adel (Saturday, Aug 1) is Needful Things. I understand this is a consignment shop. Come check it out. It's located on Main Street, just west of the court house. Coolbeans is still serving up a great coffee bar and lunch menu, also on Main, plus they have added a bakery. Always a fun time in Adel - - Atherton House, Cameo Rose, Garden Gate Antiques, Healthmart (w/gift boutique) Harvey's Greenhouses and of course, the little quilt shop on Prairie - - --

It's Calendar Quilt Time!

This is Lori Belgarde's quilt. She took this photo for us at her farm.
Jessie Zeigler helped me get this photo. It's a Sunflower basket made by Jeni Osler. It won in the category of "not really a quilt but very creative and cute"

This quilt was pieced by Jan Mueller for her daughter and son-in-law. Her daughter, Meredith, took this photo for us near her home in Wisconsin.

More calendar pictures

These are all out-takes. You have to wait for the calendar to see the best photos. This first quilt is by Linda Koenig. We caught a picture of a helper in this one! We took pictures today at the Knuth home, Karla Janning's folks. Here is her dad trying to stay out of the way!
This is one by our own Colleen Tauke taken in her back yard.

And this last quilt was pieced by Karla Janning for her parents. This quilt was voted as Best of Show by our viewers.

It's true!

Calendar Quilts 2010

Jessie Zeigler and I started photographing quilts this week for the 2010 Calendar. These are quilts chosen by viewers choice at our annual spring outdoor show. Juanita Coulter

Marge Pearson

Margaret Beal

Cyndi Craigmile

Jackie Orton

New samples

Lots of new samples in the shop now. These photos were taken at our Ankeny Show booth.
We have a large trunk show from The Wooden Bear Designs in the shop now, Fall and Christmas fun stuff.

Jenny Osler made us a new Stars Over Adel in some glitzy Hoffman Christmas fabrics.

These are pre-cut, 10 1/2" squares. There are 4 each of 18 prints. Comes with pattern and binding. Stitch them all together to make a queen size quilt for just $59!

Colleen Tauke, Jenni Krohn and myself all had a hand on this quilt. It features Layer Cakes from Moda's Portabella line. The pinwheels are dimensional.

This towel pattern comes with several different Christmas embroider designs to choose from

Here is Colleen's Brown Bear baby quilt. Quick and easy. Add the book by the same title for a great baby gift.

And - - here comes fall. This pumpkin quilt is made with hand-dyed wool appliqued to cotton background. Wool is so easy to work with and looks great. Come see our new selection of hand dyed wools.

What a fabulous day!

Seth waits at the alter - - -

as the music plays

Our son, Gabe, escorts a maid - -

Our daughter, Brookly, is the Maid of Honor

Presenting Willow and Seth Hill!

My sister, Dawn and brothers Bill and Ben.

Here comes the bride!

Willow's wedding is Friday so, don't think I fell off the face of the earth if you don't hear from me for a couple days. We will be frantically and joyously celebrating!

Blog Tip

A customer told me about this today. You can go to www.Google.com/reader and build an account for yourself and enter all your favorite blog addresses, www.adelquilting.blogspot.com, for example. Each time that blog adds a post, it is automatically forwarded to your new Google Reader account so, you don't have to check each blog for new entries. Just go to your Google Reader account and view them all. Very cool, huh?

The quilts are hung!

The quilts are up! They are hanging from the porch, between the trees and at all spots in between. Come vote on your favorites which will be photographed for our 2010 calendar! We also have several small quilts and table runners for sale.
Thanks to the help of Laura Brenner and Lonnie Keeran, hanging and marking the quilts this morning was quick and efficient. The quilts will hang until 4 pm today and again tomorrow from 9 am to 4 pm unless it starts to rain. :)

A Black Squirrel???

Has anyone ever seen a black squirrel in central Iowa? We spotted this guy in our back yard last evening. We have the fattest squirrels in the three state area due to Frank's generous feedings. Guess word got out.

Our Annual Outdoor Quilt Show is this weekend - Grab a friend and come on out. Peruse the quilts, vote for your favorites, shop the gift shops and antique shops, swing through Harvey's Floral and Greenhouses for some back yard inspiration, and have a great little lunch at Coolbeans. See you Friday or Saturday - quilts will hang from 9 am to 4 pm.

Best Press by the gallon

Just in - - - Best Press has been so popular with our customers, they requested refill jugs by the gallon. If you have not tried Best Press, we also have it in the 12 oz size with the spray nozzle. Favorable comments include - - - "Does not leave a flaky residue on fabric" ---- "Does not gum on iron or ironing board" - - - - "Does not leave sticky residue on floor" - - - - "Smells great and goes on light" - - --

NEW! Hand Dyed Wool

We now carry a selection of hand dyed wools. These are cut in approximately fat 1/8th hard cuts and are just lovely for applique. Pre-shunk and color fast, wool adds warm, soft texture. Watch for our shop samples.

Here's our 2009 BOM - Bali Pop

Each year, we do a project where customers come in during one week out of the month to pick up a block pattern and fabric kit. During that one week, the block kit is free. Any other time of the month, the block kit is just $5. Here is our 2009 project. Made mostly from Hoffman batiks, this is a "must see" quilt. The colors are golden caramel and dark, rich teal blue with all shades of purple mixed in. We did not use curved piecing for this sample. We simply appliqued large arcs on to a background square. Either method is quite easy when doing large curves like these. Of course, we will show you how!
This quilt is made using a pre-cut package of Bali Pop strips. Registration is $15 and this quilt requires 1/2 pack of Bali Pops ($17.50). This sounds like a bigger investment up front than we usually have but, considering that these are 16" blocks, it really is not. There won't be as much finishing fabric required and the Bali Pop strips are all pre-cut for you!

This program will run for 13 months. Initially scheduled to begin in April, we have now moved it to May due to a back order of the Bali Pop packs.

Program Rules:

• $15 Registration
• Come in any day between the 3rd and 4th Saturdays of the month (We are including both Saturdays this year)
• Only registrants may pick up free blocks and only for themselves.
• Blocks are only free between the 3rd and 4th Saturdays.
• NEW THIS YEAR - we are not requiring that you show us your completed blocks. However, if you do bring in completed blocks to show us, we will enter your name in a drawing.
• Blocks not picked up during the open window are just $5 (still a bargain!)
• Blocks are available by mail for just $5 plus postage.
• This program will run for 13 months and includes 13 star blocks, shown in the picture. The quilt shown is a queen size quilt.
• We will provide instructions to set this quilt together, as well as an option for two smaller projects in lieu of one large quilt, at no extra charge.
• Setting fabric is sold separately

Please stop by or call soon to register.

Max got a hair cut

Before:

After:

I refuse to have a Grand Dog because I am afraid my children will get the wrong message. I am holding out for the two legged type of Grands. That said, however, isn't this little guy adorable?

Porch Quilt Show

Our 7th Annual outdoors quilt show is June 13 & 14. All are welcome to hang quilts in this show. The only requirement is that the quilt be finished!! Customers will vote for their favorites which will be photographed for our 2009 calendar of quilts and recipes - - - Please let me know if you plan to hang a quilt in this show. Remember, all quilts hang out doors and, based on past experience, Tide Pen removes mulberry bird droppings, our worst fear! - - Any suggestions on what kind of recipes to include? We have done cookies, casseroles and favorites in the past. Any clever ideas on how/where to photograph the quilts? We're always looking for new ideas. It's such fun. Please join in.
email me at adel.quilting@mchsi.com

Max's Easter outfit

We were invited to our daughter's home for Easter. Max greeted us in his new Easter outfit. He walked a little funny but, he sure was cute!

Our Shade Garden

We have too much shade for grass behind our shop and home so, this is what we have been working on. After three years, it's starting to come together.

Frank and Max

As we patiently await the arrival of grandchildren, we find comfort in Max, Willow's Yorkie. Willow is our youngest. Max is pictured here with Frank, my husband. The two are captured in this picture doing what they do best, watching TV and napping. As a footnote, none of our children are married yet so, - - - heavy on the "patiently" waiting.