A month has gone by with no blog posts! Lots was going on! The kids were both home at the beginning of the month and so the house was full of family and friends. The quilt studio reverted to a guest bedroom for a few weeks! After our company left, we found a pair of little sister shelter cats, and decided to bring them home. It has been a year since we have had a cat in the house. They have similar coloring to our dear old Chester, but they are young and peppy. Holy moly! They are Judy & Betty - named after the Haynes Sisters from the old movie White Christmas.
Chester the Cat |
The quilts all rolled up to go to the Fair! |
I also got a top finished last year sandwiched and quilted. This was the sampler I did with solid colors, making each Block of the Month from one of my quilt guilds. This is a nice size for snuggling while watching TV, so I wanted to get it done before winter arrives. While I like the look of the brights against the black fabric - that black fabric gets really linty looking!
I also have been playing around with the EQ8 software I finally purchased. My progress is slow, but it is certainly easier than coloring in graph paper, and there are lots of helpful blogs and videos to supplement the instructional books! Today I entered an EQ design challenge. This involved designing a quilt on EQ, using Christa Watson's new fabric line. I spent a few hours, learned more EQ, and actually really like my design, which uses 6 of the fabrics in the Fandangle line. You can see all the entries on the EQ Challenge page, here.
So, that's the update of all my July fun.
Enjoy the rest of the summer!
Take care,
Gretchen
Chester reminds me of my Mama that I dearly miss. You have been productive. That is my goal this summer is to finish some of those tops I have. MQ is starting a website-blog, I'm pretty excited to be part of. We may have an August get together - still up in the air. Good post!
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