Miss Poppy Crabapple

Miss Poppy

Miss Poppy is now completed just a few more embroidery stitches here and there and it will go in with the rest of the blocks... in waiting~

Three of us decided to make a bag together~ Rita made hers on the first week and we discovered the grommets were very difficult~

We watched as JoEllen make her purse:

We watched the YouTube demo and tried everything we could to get those sweet grommets to stay on!

They were pushing and pressing as hard as they could, going back and trimming more fabric away to help them fit easier!

After watching JoEllin and Rita struggle so much with getting those grommets on, I'm not so sure I want to try? My bag is cut and ready to sew together but I'm seriously thinking of switching to another type of pattern .. NO GROMMETS

She would get them on (with a struggle) and when she sat down they would pop, pop, pop off one at a time!

She was able (with her husbands help) to get them on all except one and I think they had to glue that one down~ As you can see she picked beautiful fabric.... from her stash!

This is our sweet friend Darlene, pin basting her quilt sitting in the middle of the table... nice to be so young and able to sit on her knees! I remember when I use to be able to do that! I was worried the tables might move, there were several card tables lined up, she was sitting almost in the middle. She's fairly new to quilt, but you'd never know it, her work and combinations of colors are so beautiful~

Last night I picked the fabrics for my Miss Bell from Delightful Quilts in Bloom~ Lynn do you think I'll ever get them all done? Eight completed and four more to do, at a snails speed! And then there's the border too~ WOW ... My work is cut out for me~

On August 7th four of us took a class at Thimble Creeks Quilt shop from Meg Hawkey ~ Crabapple Hill Studio ~ We worked on the sampler, like hers pictured here. The day was packed full all kinds of information and lessions, we were so excited and learned so much from her.

Rita is coloring and even thou it looks like JoEllen is stressed (she will kill me I'm sure) she's got it all together. The walls were lined with all kinds of Megs work and some ladies took all three of her classes from 10:00 in the morning until 5:00. We had a wonderful day together.

We are getting ready for a hot day, so every thing needs to be watered, then it's down to getting some sewing done. I hope ever body has a great weekend, if your traveling drive safe on this Holiday weekend. Have fun and enjoy....