Sisters Show- Part 2

House quilts seemed to be popular this year and they were all so charming! My photos and labels got a bit scrambled so if there isn't a label shown here, then I do not have more info.

One of my favorite teachers is Tonye Belinda Phillips and her quilts really make me smile!

 This is one of them!

This is another one of hers too.

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I'm not sure who made the rest of these.

 Can you believe this one was a round robin?!

The 2 quilts below were found as vintage tops and the owner finished them. 

Love, love, loved this one!

If you look carefully you can see the 4 footed visitor looking for a handout at the farm stand!

You never know what you'll find in Sisters, Oregon!! 

Take care. I hope you all are having a fantastic week. 

Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show

I look forward to the quilt show every year. When I volunteer it helps get me ready to see all the great quilts and "Many Hands make light work".  Sisters has many big events all through the year and this is one of the top events. The whole community gets involved.
The first 4 photos are ones I get of the town every year. They are trying to spread the quilts out and I don't think it is as effective as having many hanging close together

It's a darling town and we've been coming here for years. When we lived in Seattle and would come and visit my mom in Central Oregon we would make a day of visiting Sisters. It seems kind of funny now, but for a city kid this was a western town highlight!

Next are a few of my favorite quilts from the show.

 The quilting was phenomenal on this quilt!

This was perfectly pieced! I was blown away by it! You can see this one in the video I posted on my facebook group

 I'm not sure what drew me into this one.

This was made by Lawry Thorn who happened to teach the 2nd quilt class I ever took over 25 years ago!

I'll show a few more later this week.  Have a wonderful day.

Fun on a Friday!

It would be way more fun if I would have had a chance to sew this week, but I am grateful our business is staying busy and putting food on the table for several families.
 I've been enjoying the outside more too now that the weather is summery!! I may switch to posting 2x week for the next couple of months.

 Little bits and pieces of the Sweet Land of Liberty quilt. 

This is a quilt by Country Threads I made in 2001 and was quilted by Bonnie Hunter (when she still quilted as a business) It is a favorite quilt of mine. And I found the book the other day and it will be for sale next week, right here on my blog. with some others.

Here is a generous stack of goodies that  Donna sent to me for my next mission trip. It won't be until 2019 but I'll be ready! That is also why I'm starting early with the book sale as a fundraiser. Thank you so much Donna!!

See what I mean by summery weather? The one thing I appreciate is we have very low humidity in Central Oregon. The Sisters show will be a hot one, but that is pretty normal for mid July. Most of the time it is in the 90's. Just need to cover up and drink lots of water. I'm so excited!

Here's my Instagram feed for this week. It's been a good week!

And here is my son in Alaska showing us a biggy king salmon. He is working setting nets for Kenai Cannery until the end of the month. 

Have a wonderful weekend my dear friends!!

Garments and Hiking

Here is one of the fabrics I chose to make my education dept garment. I'm making a shift dress, more like a tunic. Do I pre-wash garment fabric? I'm assuming I would since my whole dress will shrink if I don't! Thoughts?

Another adventurous weekend for me. 

 We did our first backpacking trip. It was supposed to be a somewhat "easy" loop that would give us a chance to check our equipment and test out packs/sleeping bags/ bodies.

 Our packs were about 30-35 pounds- we hiked about 6.7 miles the first day, set up camp.

And hiked about 7.6 yesterday including hiking through this barren hot burn area from a fire last year. 

It was amazing, but the trail wasn't an "easy" loop by any means!

No sewing was done this weekend as I didn't bring anything that wasn't completely necessary. 

Stay cool and have a great week!

Dear Daughter blocks 17-20

Gay at Sentimental Stiches has another set of Dear Daughter blocks up. More fun ones! Get them HERE.

I thought this would be a fun one to make on the 4th of July. Looks like my piecing skills need work! LOL I think it may make a fun center to a small quilt.

Here's my instagram feed for the week. It really has been lovely. Mother nature has turned up the dial and now summer is really here!

Have a lovely weekend!