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Life as a Quilter — Julia Graber

My entry for …

 

Diamonds for Tina Sue.

 

 I found a tutorial on The Modern Quilt Guild’s blog to make the half rectangle triangle. By placing the dark side of the rectangles together the diamonds came to life.

 

 I really enjoyed sewing the wonky letters together to make her name.

 

 

Here’s the little sweetie pie!

 

 

Blogger’s Quilt Festival Stats
Finished Quilt Size – 57″ X 71″
Machine pieced, and machine quilted
Quilted by myself, Julia Graber
Best category – Throw Quilt, Two Color Quilt, Baby Quilt

I’m trying to make a quilt for each of our grandchildren. You can see them here. And now I have one more yet to make for Talya. 

I’m still working on Tina Sue’s crib quilt.

 

I have the straight lines quilted and now I’m working on the loop-dee-loops in the blue diamonds. The blue thread doesn’t show up much on some of the fabrics and it’s hard to see where I’ve quilted and where I need to quilt. I guess I should have picked a thread with higher contrast.

 

And today I practiced a little to put Paul’s name on his shirts. I used the coffee filter for stabelizer and it tears away very nice. The “Trucking” looks like “Tricking” and needs more practice.

 

This is our first year to plant cotton.

 

The fields are white unto harvest …

Cotton makes wonderful quilt fabric, don’t you think?

~~~ Parting Shot ~~~

Tonight we celebrated Paul’s folks 59th wedding anniversary.

Those of us from around here met at KFC for supper and fellowship.

 

Now say, aren’t Mom and …

 

… Daddy good sports? !!!

Yesterday we attended the wedding of Paul’s niece Vicki to Jed.

 

Then for supper we invited in all the Grabers and their company.

 

Our house was “buzzing” with people. We want our home to be open and everyone welcome, so our slogan is, “There’s alway’s room for one more.” We counted 90 guests! We had hoped to visit and eat outside, but alas the weather turned cold so we opted to fellowship inside.

 

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After working hard on the combine and …

 

… and fixing up the farm truck, …

 

… Perry bought Blue Bell ice cream and …

 

… treated the farm hands.

 

Miriam gave Kenneth this whopper of a unicycle for his birthday!

 

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Emily & I went to the Pine Belt Quilt Show in Hattiesburg where my “Climbing Higher — Jacob’s Ladder” quilt won an honorable mention ribbon.

 

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Gabriel showed me a few things he’s getting done on his Leagle Eagle ultralight.

I finished this quilt for The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Raising Awareness & Funding Research Through Art.

 

Stripped Bare

 

As a tree is stripped bare of it’s leaves, so my Father was stripped of his memory and often wanted Mother to finish the stories he would tell. He often asked “Now, (pause) how was it? I can’t quite remember.”

 

Detail

 

The back.