My Sister's Quilt and Harvest Season

A friend of mine had a quilt show in Toledo this past weekend and I took a few of our family and friend's treasures for her to share. I wanted to feature my sister Kay's Button Up Shoe quilt on my blog because it is a unique item. She appliqued the shoes on to the top and then added buttons that belonged to our Great Grandmothers and Grandmothers. Kay also had quilted blocks and her quilting is outstanding. Thanks for letting me share Kay!

It has been a busy few weeks. I have been helping my husband with harvesting. Yes I don't mind driving the combine:) I got all the grain in the wagons and no dents can be found in the machinery so I did okay. Here are a few pictures I took this past weekend.


Last week Mom and I participated in the Amish Country Quilt Shop Hop in Northeast Ohio. Oh what fun we had. I will share some of our goodies in the next few posts...and a few more of my music blocks. Lots of things are happening these days.
Happy Harvest Blessings!
Thanks for stopping in:)
Jenna Louise

Fun projects from Quilting Arts Gifts

I absolutely love Quilting Arts magazine and every fall I look forward to their Quilting Arts Gifts issue. Every page is full of fun projects to make for the holidays. This past weekend I made these wonderful holiday Hot Pads by Kathy Mack. They can be found on page 16.

Thank you everyone at Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors for publishing such wonderful and inspirational magazines and for Make It University. Every year when I travel to the International Quilt Show in Chicago I search for your display first:) Be sure and visit their new website community, you will be hooked instantly!

Time to reveal a few more blocks from our challenge...


The first picture shows a close up of my "Black Magic" block and the second photo is "Catch A Falling Star". I have the blocks to the song I was chosen for displayed in my kitchen so everyday I see them and think about what I want to create...so many possibilities.

Tonight my 4-H quilters are meeting to celebrate their successful year:) We are having a yummy potluck, show and tell and planning a program for our local quilt guild. I am so proud of their accomplishments, I think I will show them off one more time...


Happy Fall everyone!
Jenna Louise

My Art Friends

Last night I met with my Art Friends from our Art Quilt Group at The Quilt Foundary in Maumee. I just had to post this BEAUTIFUL Art Quilt made by Ellen Leonard. It is made with ceramics, beads, fabrics...it is breathtaking! Thank you Ellen for letting me share your masterpiece.

I thought it was time to share some of my "secret work" from our music block exchange from The Blackswamp Quilt Guild. Last February, members signed up to make a block each month from a song we were assigned. In October at our retreat we would come together, share our blocks and draw names for a song title and recieve those blocks. I will first share with you two of my creations to start...

The one on the left is "Where have all the flowers gone?". I pictured them hiding in the snow:) The one on the right is "The Twlight Zone". I just had to use this crazy chicken fabric. Don't you just love it? I will share some more on my next post. We made eight total. I will then reveal the blocks I recieved:) What fun I am having!
Blessings and happy stitching to you,
Jenna Louise

More quilts, presentations and family time

I recently gave a presentation on my fiber art postcards, art cards and photo quilts to a guild in North Baltimore. What a fun evening we had and I think the quilters enjoyed my quilts and embellishments:)

I'm still on a sewing cloud nine since our retreat. It was great fun and I'm thrilled to spend time with Mom sewing, laughing and creating!

I had a chance to enjoy some of the fall weather recently with my neice Maddi. We had a great time on our local bike trail. I also had a meeting in Columbus at The Ohio State University Campus and who did I run into but my nephew, Maddi's brother Jayme:)



It has been so beautiful these past few days, it's great to see the sunshine. I hope it is shining on you wherever you are!

Blessings,

Jenna Louise

A quilt weekend retreat

There is nothing better than spending an entire weekend sewing, laughing and spending time with creative friends from my quilt guild:) Friday, Saturday and Sunday were filled with creativity, happy times and just plain fun.

Some of my sewing friends...thanks for all the fun!

My Challenge Block

Quilts under construction
What a wonderful weekend. Seventy quilters spent lots of hours behind machines and lots of time just being together. I will share more pictures this week. Thanks Mom for going along!
Happy stitches,
Jenna Louise

A Fun Presentation

Last week Mom and I presented at our Blackswamp Quilt Guild meeting. We had a great time sharing quilts from Grandma Dolores, my sisters Kay and Emily, quilts from our past, and many other projects that have influenced our lives.

Quilts by Grandma Dolores, all constructed by hand. She was a brilliant hand quilter:)

A few quilts from Mom's collection. She is such a talent!

Jenna Louise, Kay and Mom after the program:)

Our guild members also bring many quilts for donation and I just had to post a few. What wonderful talented quilters we have among us:)

Another sneak peak at some more of my blocks I made for our secret contest. Oh I can't wait to share the end project...it's going to be spectacular!

Tis' the season of quilting:) This week I am presenting my fiber arts program to another guild in North Baltimore and this weekend is a quilting retreat with the Blackswamp Quilters. Oh I love it all. I wish I could quilt full-time:) Do make time for the things you enjoy, it makes your life so happy!

Blessings to All!

Jenna Louise

One last flower....

My friend Deb at work brought in flowers for everyone because of the threat of frost. I wanted to share a picture of mine with my blogging friends. One last flower of summer..

Speaking of summer, my friend Donna recently sent me this photo she took at 4-H Camp of me and my nieces. I would love to spend another week at camp, but I guess it will have to wait until next June:)

Tomorrow night Mom and I are presenting a program at our local quilt guild "The Blackswamp Quilters". It is titled "Quilting with Mom and Me". I can't wait to share all our goodies with the group. They have given so much to us, now it is our turn to share with them. I will post some highlights of the evening.

Happy Fall!

Jenna Louise