Quilt Fest at Ben Franklin of Oconomowoc 2011

Each year the Quilt Deptartment at Ben Franklin host a fabulous QUILT FEST! The are free demos, viewers choice contest, quilt challenge contest and special sale prices on lots of items.

If you haven't been to BF, you must. It is really a QUILT STORE inside of a store. The fabric selection is excellent!

I will be doing a demo on Saturday, Oct 1st at 10am, showing how to make fun Quilt Labels.

Pick up some tips on creating unique labels, see lots of samples, and of course quilts!

Be sure to check out the Quilt Challenge, I have an entry. The fabrics were certainly challenging, but it turned out to be a really fun project!

Ben Franklin Crafts - 1083 Summit Ave. - Oconomowoc, WI - 262-567-0271

Art and Craft Shows - 2011

Sept 10th & 11th Trimborn Farms Harvest of Art and Crafts
Sat & Sun, 10am - 4pm - located at 8881 W. Grange Ave. Greendale, WI

Sept 17th, HOLY HILL Arts & Craft Fair
Saturday, 10am - 5pm - located at 1525 Carmel Rd, Hubertus, WI

Sept 25th, Cheery Cherry Fall Fair
Sunday, 9am - 4pm - located at Village Park - Appleton Ave. at Garfield Dr., Menomonee Falls, WI

October
Sat Oct 8 9-4 & Sunday, Oct 9th, noon - 4 Book Sale & ART Show
Town Hall Library ~ N76 W31429 Hwy. VV, North Lake, WI

Sat. Oct 15th 8- noon - Brookfield Farmers Market & More
At corner of Calhoun and Gebhardt, in Brookfield, WI

Nov 11th & 12th, Christmas in the Grove
Fri 4pm - 8pm & Sat 10am - 4pm - located at 13855 Watertown Plank Rd, Elm Grove, WI

Nov 13th, Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair
Sunday, 10am - 4pm, located at Brookfield East HS 3305 N. Lilly Rd., Brookfield, WI

Nov 27th, St. Mary Craft Fair
Sunday, 8:30am - 3pm, located at 9520 W. Forest Home Ave., Hales Corners, WI

Dec 17th, Sat. 9am - 2pm Winter TYME
Tyme Out Youth Ministry and Retreat Center
W332 N6786 County Rd. C Nashotah, WI

Square In A Square Table Topper

These table toppers are 27 inches square. The technique that I used is the Square In A Square method. I like this method because the piecing is fast, easy and accurate. Possiblities are endless!

This is a great class, by the end of it, you'll feel comfortable with the SnS ruler and be ready to create other projects. I included a photo of a square in a square 'i spy' type of quilt, I used the same layout, just changed the size of block and size of the quilt. Totally different quilt, but same techniques. That's what classes are for, to teach you something you can use again and again!

Class locations, dates and times are listed in the right column.

Tulip Table Runner

I just designed this tulip table runner for classes at Ben Franklin and Frank's Sewing Center.

Fun to think spring when it's snowing and cold outside! The details for the classes are listed to the right.

Santa Candleholders

I always get to share my quilts and sewing (and of course grandkids) on this blog. But this time I want to share my husbands talents, as a carver. He does wonderful wood carvings! This photo shows the Santa Candleholders that he made as presents this past Christmas.

Bye to 2010, Hello to 2011

It's almost the middle of January, eeks! Welcome to 2011! I have to get better at taking time to update my blog! But first, I have to post some photos of our family time this past Christmas!

We were blessed to have our family all together for a week! Absolutely a wonderful time, so many fun memories, and just hanging out together!

Happy New Year, hope it's a healthy one, full of family and friendship!

Now, onto updating the blog!

Alegra having fun playing with FABRIC!

On our recent trip to Utah, I let Alegra and Cruz play with some quilt fabric leftover from a project. Alegra was really interested in it, good thing because she goes fabric shopping whenever we are visiting. I can't wait till I can teach her all about sewing. Cruz is curious about all my sewing things too. My grandsons Nick, Max and Caden often play in my sewing room. They drive trucks and cars under my tables. We give horses little 'blankets'. They like to play with the scraps too. I was going to make Nick a little reusable sandwich bag before school started this year. When I showed him a pile of fabric that he could choose from, he said, "Oh Grandma, you have too many, I like them all, you choose". So together we decided on some airplane fabric. I like having the boys see what's going on in my sewing room, they are so smart and they notice lots of things. One time I was talking to Max about my sewing machine, and I asked him if they had a sewing machine at his house, and he replied, "No, but we have a washing machine" They say the cutest things!