Long Island Quilt Shop Hop

This weekend is the first Long Island Quilt shop hop. I signed up for the bus that left "Pieceful Quilting" in Riverhead at 9 am on Saturday. All I had to do was sit back and relax as I went from quilt shop to quilt shop. What's not to like.?

Here was our itinerary:

PIECEFUL QUILTING, RIVERHEAD, NY (631) 727-5909
CLOSE TO HOME, SELDEN, NY (631) 732-3342
112 SEWING SUPPLIES, PATCHOGUE, NY (631) 475-8282
SEW WHATS NEW, ISLIP, NY (631) 277-4215
THE QUILTING BUG, MASSAPEQUA, NY (516) 541-8600
SENTIMENTAL STITCHES, COLD SPRING HARBOR, NY (631) 692-4145

I bought my "Passport" from Angie at Pieceful qulting





I had to get it stamped at every store. They are drawing for prizes on Tuesday, so I'll let you know if I win anything!


Colleen was my "seat mate". She has a wonderful color sense and shared her food with me!







Of course I bought something in every store. First on my list was interfacing and "Fray Check" so I could start work on the bridal fabric quilt. Working with Satin is going to be interesting.

Many fat quarters jumped into my shopping bag as well. With all the wonderful fabric to choose from, who could blame me?















Each store had a pattern to give out and if you combined them you could make the "Shop Hop Quilt". The quilting bug had their sample sewn in beautiful batiks (my favorite), so I took a picture of that one:









What is nice about the quilt is the variety of blocks. There is paper-piecing, applique and real simple stuff. It was fun to see the same quilt done up so differently. Here is what the one at Pieceful quilting looks like:





Completely different (also out of focus - sorry).

So I had a good day.


Kim

Sunbonnet Sue fights Breast Cancer

So I volunteered for a charity project. I'm hoping to recruit Sunbonnet Sue fans to make and donate a block for a charity quilt. The quilt will go to support the group "Brides Against Breast Cancer". http://www.makingmemories.org/ is the URL for the group.
Here is the quilt design that I worked up.

Each of the pink squares is a Sunbonnet Sue block. The sashing and borders will be sewn with the donated Brides' dresses. I'm excited about it. Right now I've recruited 8 people, so I hope more sign up. You can read about the project here: http://sunbonnetsue.com/badsuegetsmarried.htm

I'll be recruiting for the next month or so. It should be a fun project.

Trip Into NYC

National Quilting Day

My guild had their celebration of National Quilting day Yesterday. I didn't teach this year and my husband wanted me to skip the day to go into NYC with our church group to hand out groceries and food. So National Quilting Day went on without me and I went into the city with my 13, 12 and 8 year old children.

Three vans arrived at Tompkins Square Park. It was a bit of work unloading the trucks, but handing out the food was rewarding. My kids really got to see the variety of people that came. I think it was a bit of an eye opener for them. My oldest son wouldn't come, but managed to call me in the middle of the food distribution.

My 8 year old did a good job too. It was a good day. I'm back to quilting today.