Quilt Circle of Friends

Time for everyone's favorite monthly post! Quilt Circle of Friends.

Deb S showed us her version of the Barn Quilt Sign Blocks. Remember, this project started with Quilt Circle but they only received a block pattern each month. They chose their own fabrics and setting. We should have several of these on display at our Little Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show on June 16.

Deb is also part of an online group doing a panel challenge. This is the panel she was given to start with.

And here it is after she prettied it up!

Deb also shared this picture. Smitten by the Pinterest bug, she hopes to figure out this design on a future quilt.

Kathy H, never one to shy away from a challenge, is making this quilt - - - all set in seams. See how the blocks come together below. This will be a fun quilt to watch grow.

 

Nancy H showed us this little bag, made for her by a friend with an embroidery machine.

And this beautiful quilt top she recently finished!

Here is Jackie O's ugly panel conversion. This started as a panel of placemats and she made this great quilt from it.

Jackie also shared this adorable X's and O's quilt she made for a friend, complete with a wide rick rack trim.

 

Lonnie K shared her version of our Life on the Farm quilt. She added a 3rd row and then adorned the corners with flying geese units. Nice.

Another quilter never afraid of a challenge, Lonnie just finished Gypsy Wife. Very pretty.

And this is Lonnie's version of the Barn Quilt Sign quilt.

 Celia showed us another baby quilt she made for a new arrival coming to her church.

And this fun quilt, finished up recently on a trip to Missouri to stitch with her sister, and our friend, Rozetta. 

 

Kathy H is preparing for her first grandchild! She made this penguin wall quilt to hang over the baby bed. The theme of the nursery is penguins.

She also showed us this lovely teal and grey quilt, originally made to give away but she is so pleased with the way it turned out, it may just stay in her own home. Also, please notice the lovely name badge Kathy made. She whipped that up just moments before the meeting began!

Bonnie N. showed us this block made for the Perry Guild exchange. So bright and cheery!

Marty K made this quilt from 9-patch blocks donated to the shop. She trimmed the outside edge of each block off and then stitched  the trimmings to a different trimmed block. The blocks are set on point with a sashing and a little pink square for the corner stone. Isn't this cool? It will be for sale at our Little Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show library fund raiser.

Marti also converted these vintage knick knacks into pin cushions for our sale. Just adorable.

This is a quilt Marti bought for $1 when out rummaging. She is also donating it to our sale. Plan now to attend. We have several really nice quilted items for our annual library sale. 

This is a new shop sample made for us by Diana W called Cat Walk. Available in kit, of course.

We were very fortunate to have Karen Thompson visit us and do a program on temperature quilts and afghans. First she shared this bag she made from one of our panels.

---- featuring a key fob.

Temperature quilts start with assigning a range of temperatures to a color. Then chart the high of the day wherever you are and convert that to a quilt in cloth.  

 

Karen showed us this afghan she made. Each segment is a month and is reflective of her time spent in Iowa as well as traveling to India.

This is a temperature quilt Karen is working on using flying geese units. Each row represents one month.

Last month, we talked about temperature quilts in preparation
for our June speaker. Nancy took right up on it and made this quilt to share. Each 4-patch represents the high temperature of the day where she and each of her 3 daughters were for one month.

She organized her squares by sorting them into little baggies marked with the temperature range they represent.

So, are you intrigued now to make a temperature quilt?

As always, it was a lovely  evening spent with my Quilt Circle of Friends. Thank you to Jackie O, our volunteer photographer.

Our winner!!

Our winner from the Adel Chocolate Walk prize basket drawing, Dawn Svec from Earlham. Her basket included a nice assortment of our gift items. Plan to join us for this annual event next year, Mothers Day Weekend.

Visitors

This handsome group of friends visited last week from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Thanks for stopping by, ladies.

Family Fresh kits

This has been a popular kit, as you can imagine. It's an original pattern for our shop by Kathy Hamilton. We quickly ran out of the light colored panel, using for 4 squares on the front and 2 on the back. The panel in this color is no longer available to order from Moda. So we re-created the kits with the darker panel.

Back. - Another option is to follow Lonnie's tip and make a third row for the quilt front, using these two blocks.

Here is a look at the fabrics in the new kits. The barn board print is the border in this kit as it goes better with this panel than the cow print.

There are just 4 of these kits left and then we will be done with this shop sample as most of the fabrics used are now gone.

We Remember

Salute to all of our loved ones, present and past. You brought us to the place we are and paved the way for our future. Bless you.

We are closed on Memorial Day to spend time with family and friends.

New Stuff!

Lots of new stuff coming in as we prepare for the All Iowa Shop Hop, June 1 to 30.

Isn't this vibrant?

These bright coordinates go with. 

And another fun panel. We have plans to trim the top half of this panel and use the bottom half for backing. That will make it approximately 18" x 18"

Fall Retreat planning

Penny W. made this little quilt sample for our fall retreat, using the small version of the Quick Curve Ruler. This is one of the quilts we will be featuring, along with the rulers, at our fall retreats. 

Mothers Day Photo Shoot

Nailed it!

More Shop Hop fun plans

Every year, the All Iowa Shop Hop gets better and this year is no exception. Make your plans now - June 1 to 30.

We told you about the free fat quarters from shops in our region. Well, there will also be a free 6" block pattern to pick up at each participating shop, state wide.  Above are samples. Many shops will also cut kits from the new Iowa fabric to go with the free block pattern.

91 participating shop, 91 different patterns! Here's a glance.

A little Show and Tell

Nancy J shared this special theme T-Shirt quilt she made. Cute.

Bonnie N share this fun table runner made for her son. It started from a group that took a class to make this fish and then became a challenge to make something with this fish. Bonnie thought the background fabric resembled sea weed. Good call.

Flowers and Friends

Lonnie gave me these beautiful flowers, a birthday gift, to adorn our front porch, Double Impatiens. LOVE the color.

One of our favorite things around here this time of year are the bluebells. Friend Carol made this counted cross-stitch bluebell pillow for me as a gift. Isn't it sweet?

Winners!!

Thank you to everyone who came out for the Adel Chocolate Walk! What a fun time on a rainy day.

The business owners met following the event and drew names for our 6 gift baskets. The winners are:

From Salvage This: Derek Miller, Adel

From Brick Street Books and Cafe:  Dawn Stonehocker, Earlham

From Brick Street Bakery: Jen Crozier, DeSoto

From Studio Q 360: Beverly Hurt, Redfield

From Adel Quilting: Dawn Svec, Urbandale

From AdelHealthmart: Sue DeMouth, Adel

Congratulations to the winners. Stop by and pick up your gift basket and THANK YOU to all!

Need thread?

Happy Mother's Day!

Today in Adel!

Lots to do in Adel today and a rain day!

Chocolate Walk, 10 am to 3 pm

Adel Healthmart with gift botique

Adel Quilting & Dry Goods - gifts and gift certificates for mom

Brick Street Bakery - pastries and coffee

Brick Streert Books and Cafe - great lunch spot for soup and sandwich

Studio Q 360 - relax and shop for calming body lotions and oils - schedule a massage

Salavage This - new to our tour, repurposed and restored household decor and furniture

Enjoy a free chocolate sample at each shop and pick up the recipe. 

Hit all 6 shops today to be entered into the drawing for 6 gift baskets, each valued at $50! 

What else in Adel today?

Clay Festival at Penoach Winery

Me and Mommy painting at the yoga studio

Annual heirloom plant sale at Juffer Family Gardens

And in Perry - the Fiber Arts Fair.

See you in a few minutes!

Mothers Day Gift Ideas

Need a nice gift for mom? These small quilts will be for sale during the Adel Chocolate Walk, Saturday May 12. Proceeds will be donated to the Adel Public Library.

That's a double gift, a lovely decor for the home that benefits our local library!

Also, while they last, we have a hand-made Mother's Day card for each customer:

Vintage and Made Festival in Adel

Doesn't this sound fun?

Happy Birthday !

Happy Birthday to my favorite sister, born exactly 2 years before me!

Open Sew this week!!!!

Bring your machine and stitch with the passion of a kid!

Adel Library
Thursday and Friday this week
Open from 10 am until the last stitch is made each day
Room secured overnight
Option to bring a snack to share
Free and fun!

Parents Day gift

Here's a fun quilt the Grands and I made together. Each colored pictures of them self, their parents and the new family dog, Sven. We're calling this a picnic quilt.

With the scraps from the quilt, I made a new liner for this old basket.

Then filled it with fun snacks in one side and the picnic quilt in the other, a surprise for their parents. Since the gift is for both Mommy and Daddy, we called it a celebration of Parents Day.

The borders are on!

The Dallas County Fair auction quilt is almost done and it's a big one! With the 49 blocks that were donated, it came to 106" x 106" - a nice King size quilt top.

Always a trooper, Lonnie climbed over the railing to hold the quilt out as far as possible for the picture.

We'll get a better picture after quilting. Thanks to all the volunteers to help put this together, we were able to do the machine quilting right here.

New Stuff!

With all the fun shopping events coming, we have added several new bolts of fabric to our collection and moved several bolts to our bargain shelf to make room.

This piece of Fantasy is back in so we can get this fun quilt kitted up again.

Meraki by Basic Grey for Moda

 Fun animal print and coordinates by Thicket for Moda

Fun metallics for Halloween, Midnight Spell by First Blush Studio.

 A few more pieces by Kim Diehl. These fit in nicely with our Civil War themed fabrics.

Several new bolts of both Grunge and Grunge Dot.

Plus, you'll see several bolts of a new line of blenders called Echo spread throughout the shop.

It's here!

Every year, it gets a little better. I noticed Millie Kerhli wrote  a couple articles in this magazine. Millie is our guest speaker at our July Sisters of the Cloth!

Stop by for your magazine and start planning your June shopping!

AISH Special

New this year during the AISH, the SW Central Region (see list below) is collaborating to help you build this quilt top for just $2! It's bigger than it looks - abut 54" x 63".

Purchase one of these special issue patterns for $2 now. Present it with your proof of purchase during the All Iowa Shop Hop (June 1-30) and collect a free 1/4 yard cut from each shop - - Just what you need to make this quilt top.

Each shop has a designated color and it's all done in Grunge and Grunge Dots. Lonnie will be whipping up a shop sample for us soon. Our color is Eggplant Grunge Dot, used in the center of this quilt.

Here are the towns in the SW Central Region:
Adel
Ames
Ankeny
Bondurant
Chariton
Clive
Des Moines
Humeston
Jefferson
Lucas
Nevada
Newton
West Des Moines (2 shops)
Winterset (2 shops)

Doesn't this sound fun?  The AISH magazines will be in the shop soon and we hope you are as delighted as we are to see who's quilt is on the front cover!!