My Row Robin Quilt

I like my rows. Lots of green, my 2nd favorite color next to red. My border fabric coordinates with all this fabric but it has chickens on it. This is looking more African to me. I think I'm going to rethink my border. Dorothea used real leaves for the patterns of the leave row from a trip Char made to Ohio when her 1st grandchild was born. If you click on any pic it will enlarge and you can see the rows better. Go to Barbara Winder's and look at the appliqued bird row. Thanks again to all the ladies that worked so hard on everyone's quilt. And thanks again to the Jerome Idaho Spudettes for this idea of a Round Robin Row Quilt. If anyone is thinking of doing this as a group activity I would suggest this over a round robin medallion quilt top. Rows are easier to get the measurements correct for a group.

Linda Hiatt's Row Robin Quilt

Linda used reproduction fabrics and has beautiful rows for her quilt. Her row of flowers are all her original design. Beautiful applique

Pat Kilpatrick's Row Robin Quilt

Pat has lots of great rows to work with.

Sandra Hadley's Row Robin Quilt

Sandra used left over fabric from another project and it's stunning. I really like the star row by Pat Kilpatrick

Dorothea Knight's Row Robin Quilt

Dorothea paper pieced her flower row. Dianah made the tree row and we decided it looks like popcicles and goes perfect with her quilt

cyndi natzke's row quilt

Cyndi said this is totally out of her comfort zone for colors. We all thought it was stunning and she really was pleased with it. Linda Hiatt's row of appliqued little houses is perfect. I also like the flying geese row.

Char Baker's Row Robin Quilt

Char paper pieced her flower row. This is a great quilt, so many things that are perfect for Char and great work by each quilter. Her 2nd row is baskets with a yo-yo and button in the middle by Cyndi Natzke, the next row is bright and beautiful stars by Dorothea Knight, the animal row by Barbara Winder ( I hope I got that right) is little appliqued squirrels and snails. Each has a charm hanging from their neck. Next is Sandra Hadley's appliqued cabin in the woods for the house row. Then is Janet Dyk's leaves, Pat Kilpatrick's trees with a little red bird on one tree, next I made canning jars, and two jars are canned frogs, because Char likes frogs. and last Dianah Pfiefle did hearts with Char's favorite fabric. I can't wait to see this one done.

Barbara Winder's Row Robin Quilt

The row of appliqued little birds is one of the best rows in all the quilts. Pat Kilpatrick did this row. She used ultra suede for the leaves.

Row Robin quilts

Dianah Pfiefle's Row Robin Quilt

These are all just put up on a design wall, row against row. They haven't been sewn together yet. Most will have some kind of spacer row between each row you see here. So done't panic yet.

Manteca Quilters Row Robin Revealed

I haven't posted pics in a long time and it seems my memory isn't going to be very helpful with my skill level tonight at almost midnight.
We had our Manteca Quilters' Row Robin Reveal tonight. First let me say Thank you to the Jerome, Idaho Quilting Spuds group for passing on the idea of a Row Robin quilt.
Each Row quilt was beautiful. It was like opening Christmas presents. You weren't sure what you were going to get but we were all happy with the results. We have some great quilters in our group, Dianah Pheifle, Linda Hiatt, Char Baker, Cyndi Natzke, Barbara Winder, Dorothea Knight, Janet Dyk, Sandra Hadley, Pat Kilpatrick and me, Liz Willis.
We had 10 quilters in our group and we ended up with 9 rows. Our guidelines were eight 6 1/2" blocks in each row, but that was expanded on when it came to several of our wonderul applique quilters. We started with our own row of flowers, and continued on with baskets, stars, animals, houses, trees, leaves, quilters choice and hearts.

Road To California 2011

I had a wonderful time and it was made possible by two good friends, Lue-Anne and Debbie. And we saw quilts that mostly overwhelmed us, and a few inspired us.

My New Red Corvette

We got a good deal on this 1989 red Corvette. We were told it doesn't run, but Jeff put the key in the ignition and it turned over. So tomorrow he is going to see what's running and not.

We actually bought it for the front and rear ends to put into his 1948 Chevy truck.

It still feels good haveing your dream car sitting outside, even if I know I'll never drive it.

Halloween

We had a quiet Halloween. That's what happens when you live in the country, 100 ft off the main road. Delaney and I decorated Halloween cookies. And then made Grandpa eat them.

Daphne was a Leopard. She isn't walking yet, but she can crawl faster than any baby we have had yet. She is like a flash, especially when she sees you coming after her.

And Delaney was the perfect Tinker Bell.

The girls

Natalie has always been a natural to any sport she tries and in a few days has mastered the Rip Stick that she won in a school contest. The band teacher at Summerville High in Tuolomne City was impressed that she knew what she was doing.

The other thing that Natalie is good at is patience and being able to teach someone else learn a new skill and make them think they did it all by their self.

And in a few short minutes, Allison had mastered the Rip Stick

U.S. Marine Corps Quilt

Dianah made a quilt for a friend of Scott's that is/was a Marine. She did a beautiful job and machine quilted it herself.
She let me quilt the Marine seal. There are four of them in the center with the stars.
I think it all came together rather well.

Good News/Bad News

Isn't that the way it seems to go, good news is always followed by bad news.
Our son-in-law Scott recieved a promotion today, as a construction foreman. It means he will now be paid what we know he is worth. Yay! more income. But.... good jobs are hard to walk away from, even when the job is in Badgad, Iraq. More good news, at least it isn't Afghanistan.

Kokanee Salmon Festival

Even in bad weather the Kokanee Salmon Festival is great. Grandpa Jeff and I took 4 of our 5 little lovelies to Taylor Creek at the South end of Lake Tahoe for a day trip. In the rain. And we still had a great time. But no pictures. To wet to take a really good camera outside. We had a great salmon BBQ lunch. And Allison and Delaney made short work of big hamburgers. Then Nikole, Allison, Delaney and I bundled up in coats and unbrella's and headed out on the trail to find fish. We found thousands and thousands of bright red Kokanee salmon doing their thing, while the ducks tried to find all the newly laid eggs and eat them. But the best part of the day was see two bears. We saw a black bear up a tree, to scared of all the people below to even think about coming down. Then up at the bridge we saw a big brown bear fishing for his dinner. All the girls were very good at traveling for 2 1/2 hours each way. Even 1 yr old Daphne and Grandpa who waited for us in the truck. He's a good guy. Can't wait to do it again next year, even in the rain.

Sonora Quilt Show

And finally, who ever thought about using beautiful red roses in a fall bouquet. This was outstanding. Plus is was perfect weather in the foothills. Allie and I took a picnic lunch and found a great spot to eat outside. Allie said the best part of her day was going up and over the hills (on Hwy 4) really fast and the 2nd part was riding the golf carts between buildings at the fairgrounds.

This is a vintage yo-yo quilt. They had about 4 on display. This was twice as tall as this picture. Everything was displayed nice and it was easy to get down rows and take pics. The ladies and their husbands were all nice and helpful.

This is the result of let the 6 yr old have the camera. This was a group effort with houses and barns with mini quilt blocks.

This one is for Lisa because she loves dolls and doll clothes. Some of these dresses were actually smocked.

Allison loved every quilt we looked at.

This is another beautiful quilt. The quilter did lots of machine embroidery and embellishment before putting each block together.

I went to the Sonora Quilt show today and saw all the lovely quilts. This was one of 3 of my real favorites. Allison the 6 yr old granddaughter went with me. Look at the ribbon and bows in the border.

Finished Project

This is the project I finished while on vacation. I call it Leaves in the Gutter. Just because it didn't come out the way I wanted it to. If you look close the pattern is Ricky Tims' Convergence. The class was quite some time ago because I know our friend Liz Faria taught it at Manteca Quilters. I didnt' use enough contrast in my fabrics and it seems like it all runs together. That's why I named it Leaves in the Gutter. To give it some detail I used raw edge applique with dupioni silk with large embroidery running stitches. It's not my favorite wallhanging, but now it's my most favorite finished project. I'm hoping to get one more finished before I go back to work. Next week I get to machine quilt on Dianah's "Always a Marine Quilt"

And finally watching the perfect end of our day.

Marcela found a fairy garden. Just her size.

I keep thinking it doesn't get better than this and then it does.

The cousins in the Dahlia garden at Menodcino Botanical Gardens. Steph, Marcela and Liz. 1st one missing is Grandma and next is Katherine. Wish you had been with us girl. there is always next time.

Dang, again. But this is the Dahlia gardens and they were getting ready for a wedding. The alter looked out over the ocean. Not a bad spot to spend a day.

Sorry.

Senora Marcela

Steph and Jeff enjoying a personal moment in the Begonias

'[Cheers. Yes it was really this relaxing.

This is Victor in Pie Heaven

The Presbeyterian Ladies Pie Sale. There were really several hundreds of pies. We retrained ourselves to two pies and just a few pieces.