You have seen this quilt all over blogland. I made one before, but a few friends from my monthly bee decided that we should do it and “race”. Some called it the “Jelly Roll Stroll” – which was pretty good.
I finished first (though it took me the longest to prep before we all started) The flying geese made a nice touch I think.
Next came Maureen:
Then Kristin finished:
Then Susan:
Then Holly:
Then Wendy’s:
and a group shot of everyone’s:
I have seen the video. I love Jelly Rolls. So what was the problem with me making one? I don’t know. So I found this jelly roll in my stash that a friend made for me for my birthday last year.
I will be donating this to Quilter’s Dream ALS Quilts. My friend Susan will quilt it on her longarm.
Yesterday, I shared Super Secret project #3. Now on to Super Secret Projects 1 & 2.
A little background about these projects. It has become a tradition with my sewing bee that if someone leaves the group to go to the mainland, we give them a quilt to say “aloha”. We had one member leave this month and one that will be leaving next month… we wanted to throw one big “aloha” party and give them their quilts.
Project 1:
This one was for Linda. She has a “travel” wall at her house of all the places she has been. so we thought it fitting to give her a bit of Hawaii for her wall. A lot of the ladies made her a block and this was mine:
I used some of my hand dyes and made my pattern for the wonky pineapples a bit smaller…
Here is the whole quilt:
Super Secret Project #2:
Holly loves owls. For a while now, I have been sending her links to owl patterns, fabric, etc. because she just loves them. When she announced that she was moving back to California to help her parents out, it was a no-brainer as to what type of quilt we would make her…. an owl quilt.
I had the perfect block in mind. One from Bejeweled Quilts. I enlarged it a bit so that it would fit a bit nicer on an 8” block and gave everyone instructions to make owls in their own personalities:
Here was my block before stitching the edges down:
Yep. Those are prairie point blocks to make the feathers. So like me, it is a bit anal and a bit “fluffy”.
Here is the whole quilt:
Both ladies loved their quilts. They both cried a little. I am glad to have known both of them and will miss both of them immensely!
My trusty Kodak P880 has been having issues lately. It takes forever to take the photos and the manual zoom was having issues. Since it is 6 years old, I am not surprised.
My Fuji waterproof camera takes wonderful photos…. outside. I love taking it to the beach- and do whenever we go.
Looking for a new camera was not easy. I had to decide whether I wanted another “bridge” camera or just an easy point-and-shoot camera. I decided on a point-and-shoot; I never changed the settings to manual ones on the bridge camera I had before. It was just too much camera for me. I also wanted to have something to put in my purse easily so that I could take photos more easily.
I bought a Casio H5. It takes wonderful photos.
Since the hard drive that had all my digital photos on it from about 2000 on it crashed, I wanted to be able to take a lot of photos. I also got a 4GB memory stick. I should have bought two at the price they were ($9.99). I may just have to go back next week and get another. I also bought two extra batteries and an extra charger. You never know when you are going to go somewhere and need them!
I will leave you with a shot from the opening reception of my guild’s quilt show (taken with my new camera):
It was a wonderful time. If you are on Oahu for the next two weeks, stop by and see it. Information can be found here. There are three areas of quilts; the main gallery (shown above), the Entry (where the Featured artist’s quilts are), and the upstairs gallery (more featured artist qiults and the challenge quilts).
Wow, the time sure flies! I was going to write 4th, but nope, it is the 5th blogoversary today.
I am going to have a little giveaway to celebrate. I am giving away a 2012 calendar. I will use a random number generator to determine the winner on Friday, May 6th.
Since I despise having to jump through hoops to get entered into a giveaway (maybe that is why I never win anything… lol), you just have to enter below. I have only one rule… if you are a Hawaii Quilt Guild member, you are ineligible to win because you can pick up your own calendar at the quilt show that starts this week or at any meeting.
Many of my guild-mates are featured in this calendar. They are super-nice ladies and I have seen many of these quilts in person.
Good Luck!
