TV & quilts for the June GVQC show

The call came last Wed. from the delivery people that are going to deliver our new HDTV. When do we get it? The next day? No, Tues. What? After the Oscars? So we wait. Next year those wonderful outfits will look lovely.

But I have gotten a few projects done. I'm just finishing up a bit of hand quilting on the "Northern Neighbors" wall hanging I started in Alaska. I'm quite happy with it. I used a pattern from a magazine and machine pieced and appliquéd it. Then I took the sections with animals in them with us on our Alaskan adventure and did the hand quilting. I bought the border fabric in Alaska ... they have some WONDERFUL quilt shops. Chuck will tell you I didn't miss seeing any of them nor did I pass up the wonderful opportunities they offered. This is Chuck patiently waiting outside one of them.

When I got home I pieced the other blocks and after putting it together tried my hand at machine quilting parts of it using rayon thread and also metallic threads. I used some old table linens from my grandfather and my mother. They are thread bare, so are great for the occasional laundering and preserve the monogram. They feel good when doing the hand quilting!

I bought a pattern for a small wallhanging of a dog sled team that I thought Cindy would like and she now has it hanging in her office at work. I'm going to show it, too.

Oh, whew! The power just went off for a couple of minutes and I was afraid all was lost. It wasn't!

And the other entry I'm putting in the quilt show is the reversible picnic tablecloth I made using food on one side and red & blue prints on the other for patriotic holiday picnics.