Another Baby Quilt

I went to my friend Suzie's Baby shower. Here is the beautiful lady,
holding the quilt I made her. She is in a wheel chair because she
survived her mother's attempt to abort her. She has cerebral palsy
because of it, but here she is having her fourth baby! Hurrah! Baby
Isaac will be born some time this week. I cannot wait to meet him.


Love, Moorea

Color Wheel

I have been thinking about painting my front door
a fabulously bright color- but I thought I'd do
some research on the net before going to Home Depot.
I found THIS site about color theory, and I hope it
helps me to make a good decision. Crimson is the
color I was thinking of- so I want to be sure!

Love, Moorea

Mother's Day Fabric

Look at the fabric my mom and dad gave me for Mother's Day!
They went to Nevada City for the weekend and happened upon the
Pine Tree Quilt Guild's 25th Annual Quilt Show. Some of the
quilters were selling remnants and my mom and dad picked all
these out for me! Can't wait to add these to my stash.


They also found a 14" platter that matches my Johnson Brothers set!
I have never even seen this large of a platter! They got it for $8.50
and it is probably about a $50- platter at the china replacement co.
I am so tickled, as none of us have been able to find any for a while.

Love, Moorea

Sutter's Fort Quilts

Here is one of the Sutter's Fort quilts. Princess Buttercup will have
to give the details in a comment. I know she did draft this pattern
off of one she saw on the cover of a quilt magazine. Beautiful!
Here is pattern info: The pattern for the star quilt was on the cover
& inside the Australian Quilting and Patchwork Magazine, Vol 13, No 5.


Here is quilt #2. I cannot decide which one I like the best!
They will be raffled off with-in the group that participated in the
program.


She had enough to make table runners for the gals who run the program.


Look at my Amaryllis! Some one gave me a large "just about dead"
bulb last year. I planted it in faith- and it revived, but only
grew leaves. I stuck it out on the front steps in April-low and
behold it has bloomed! I do not think I had ever seen and amaryllis.
They sure are beautiful!

Have a great weekend. Hubbs is taking me to Panda Express- Orange
Chiken here I come! and to see the new "Star Trek."

Love, Moorea

Quilt Stash Song

Quilt Stash Song
Listen HERE

Thanks Wendy!

Love, Moorea

Focus

I am ignoring this mess to work on...


the binding and label for Ronica's baby quilt. I love
quilting. It helps me focus on the really important thing
in my life... sewing!


My mom worked very hard this week to get the quilting done-
good job mom!

Love, Moorea

Old Fashioned Quilting Bee

This is SUTTER"S FORT in Sacramento, CA. It is reenactment day,
but not just any reenactment day, it was the Sacramento Area
Homeschoolers reenactment day! This group does it up so well,
you might think you are really back in time, except for the
fact that bus loads of kids on school field trips are smashing
in around you to see the stations.


Here is Princess Buttercup, hand quilting one of the quilts
she researched and designed for the kids in the program to
work on. She chose period fabric, cut and sent kits of four
patches to be hand sewn by each child and then placed them
in the quilt, with the brown and white triangle setting blocks.
It is gorgeous. There is another with stars, I will get a pic
of that as they will be and quilting these for a while.


Here are all three ladies in the quilt group doing the
hand quilting.


It was close to 100' F at the fort. Yikes! To see more photos-
look at my homeschool blog post HERE.

Love, Moorea