National Quilting Day!

Saturday was National Quilting Day and what a blast we had at the JaM Patch celebrating "Stars in Our Backyard"! Pam Post (another of our local stars) gave a great lecture on how to prepare your quilt for a longarmer and was a wealth of fantastic information. She was way organized and very informative! Then, the disorganized chaos known as me... with a trunk show in no particular order. And I am so bad at talking in front of groups, but I think I did okay. As long as everyone is talking and its more question and answers I do much better. And everyone did tell me I did a great job -- I don't think they would lie?? Anyway, here's just a few of the quilts:

And, of course, a big thanks to Joey and Margy, owners of the JaM Patch!!!

Mother's Day Weekend

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day. I, indeed, had another fantastic weekend! On Saturday I found new fabric at the JaM Patch...

This fabric has FL sunset written all over it. I bought it already knowing that it will be a border fabric for a quilt.... perhaps another "sunset" quilt. For those of you that don't know me, I am a photo junkie, especially sunsets.

This photo from 2005 inspired this quilt, "November Sunset":

So I can't wait to see what inspires me for the new border fabric. Perhaps my latest sunset...

This was from friday evening. Around the corner from the house. I must apologize again, did not have the good camera with me, only the phone. What a beautiful sunset peeking from behind that cloud!

Sunday was a wonderful breakfast and then we spent some time poking around the river looking for bait... another great Marchetti family afternoon!