Pickleweed Quilts

Galleries added

2009-03-22T04:13:04+00:00

I have added many new Photo Galleries including one of the Jan Krentz lecture and workshop.
Just click on the galley links at the top of the page.
More about all the other news tomorrow.

Quilt Shows & Events

2009-03-20T22:44:19+00:00

This will be a list of Quilt Show that are located in Georgia as well as neighboring states and National Shows. The shows will be listed by date with the show dates listed from newest to oldest.
Please feel free to send me your links if you know of a show that is not listed by using the comments section for this category.

Each time this page is updated I will put an * next to the newly listed shows.

2009
See the winners of the 2008 American Legacy 2009 Quilt Show, UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center, 15 RDC Road, Tifton, Georgia

*April 22-25, 2009
AQS 25th Annual Quilt Show & Contest - Paducah, KY. Paducah Expo Center/Executive Inn

*May 1-29, 2009
Reach for the Stars (but don’t touch the quilts), Heart in Hand Quilt Exhibit, Bowen Art Center, 334 Highway 9, North Dawsonville, GA 30534
Show Hours: Tues-Friday: 10 am - 4 pm, Saturday: noon - 4 pm,

*June 11-13, 2009
Quilt Symposium of Alabama St. Bernard Retreat Center, Cullman, Alabama.

*June 19 - 20
Mountain Memories Quilt Show 2009 Cumberland County Piecemakers Quilt Guild Cumberland County Fairgrounds Crossville, TN. 9-6 Fri, 9-5 Sat. $4 show adm

*July 22-25, 2009
Knoxville Quilt Expo, Knoxville Convention Center. 701 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN

*October 8-18 2009
Georgia National Fair Quilt Show, 401 Larry Walker Parkway Exits 134 and 135 at I-75 Perry, Georgia 31069 1-800-987-3247 478-987-3247

*September 18 -20, 2009
East Cobb Quilters’ Guild presents Georgia Celebrates Quilts.
Cobb County Civic Center, 548 S. Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA, Fri and Sat - 10 to 6. Sunday - 10 to 4 Admission $8 daily

2010
Etowah Valley Quilt Guild in Cartersville, Show every 2 years. Exhibition, Vendors, Silent Auction and Raffle Quilt.
Chattahoochee Evening Stars Quilt Guild

July 14-17
Knoxville Quilt Expo, Knoxville Convention Center. 701 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN

*October 14-16 2009
Georgia Quilt Show, Exhibit Hall Hours Thursday & Friday: 10am - 6pm, Saturday 10am - 5:30pm
Gwinnett Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, GA 30097

Latest EQ6 Round Robin Project

2009-03-18T03:37:20+00:00

I joined in on another Electric Quilt Round Robin Swap. If you have EQ you can download the project by clicking on the photo of the finished project.

In case you don’t know what an Electric Quilt swap is, I will give a brief explanation.
Electric Quilt has a area on their website under Community then Club EQ where you can sign up and as soon as they get 3 other sign-ups they group you together.

They are pretty good about making sure that the others in your group are just as new or advanced as you are.

I am still a newbie swapper and so I am not being paired up with the advanced EQ6 users. Thank Goodness, this way I am not intimidated about messing up their superior designs. If you look on the website you can see previous swaps that were done and you can tell that some gals have been using this program a long time and probably every day. Me I just use it every once in a while, usually if I am trying to figure something out.

Once the group is formed it is up to the group to pick a leader. The leaders job is to make sure the group swaps on time etc. Then as a group you can choose a theme. The theme we decided on for this swap was Stars and the color scheme had to be all baby pastels or all monochromatic. As you can see I did the monochromatic center star piece.

I hope you enjoy the project. I have others to upload at a later date, including one that was going to be a mystery quilt.

Blank Fabric Sample Quilt with Duquesa II

2009-03-16T19:44:22+00:00

I just had to use this fabric in a quilt. Are you kidding, purples and browns. Yummy!!

I of course had to use the line so that it could be a sample to show my shops and I used most of the Duquesa II line and the black comes from another Blank fabric line called Dream Garden by Yolanda Fundora.

I just loved it. I only showed it to a couple of shops and then a shop borrowed it to show and help sell the fabric line. I didn’t mind since I will get it back completely quilted.

The pattern for the blocks comes from the Quilt Sampler Magazine Fall/Winter 2008 issue.

The inner border I designed myself by just playing with the fabrics, getting that light purple piece was the trickiest because it really was the zinger for the quilt, but too much and it really made the quilt look gaudy. I also have to say that once the main part was done, deciding on the borders took me about 2 weeks of just throwing stuff on the design wall and then taking a break and coming back and looking at it with fresh eyes.

I also used the fabric called Feather in the Bali Rain collection for the background and I really love that collection, it just adds even more to the quilt. It provides movement without being to over powering in the quilt. The jewel tones on that collection are wonderful.

I decided on the final black border because I knew that rest of the quilt was already pretty busy and I just wanted to frame it nicely. I picked out lots of black and browns and this is the one that just spoke to the quilt.

The Appliqué Society Newsletter now online

2009-03-15T13:34:00+00:00

The Appliqué Society now has their newsletters online. They are in color and you will absolutely want to read it if you are a member. Just seeing this in color is wonderful. They also have the last 2 Nancy Pearson patterns online as well.

You can go to this link and you will need your membership number in order to log in.

http://members.theappliquesociety.org/index.php?logout

Will be updating daily now

2009-03-15T01:07:21+00:00

Now that I have the graphics in line on all the pages, I can begin updating the photos as well as the other pages. I still don’t have a couple of functions working right such as the search function and the comments page but that will be done as I go.
I have been pretty busy with work and guilds and I am still finding some time to sew. I have been working on a project for my lecture that I am doing for Cherokee Rose and once that is finished a lot of pressure should be off for a bit. I am having to make many samples for this project and even though I am loving most of them, it is still a lot of sewing.
Tomorrow I will upload some photos and a couple of new EQ6 projects.
Will also be adding more pages with links to shops in several states that I now visit. If you know of any shops in LA, MS, AL, GA, FL and TN please let me know. If I haven’t been to that shop yet I will send you a quilty gift. Please wait until tomorrow when I get those pages up.
Have a wonderful evening. I am off to get some rest for my weary computer eyes.

Georgia Quilt and Fabric Shops

2008-12-01T17:12:53+00:00

This will be a list of Quilt and Fabric Shops that sell quality quilt fabric or embellishments that are located in Georgia. I will list some Sewing Machine shops as well. If they don’t sell fabric I will state that at the end of the row for the shops name. I will also try to keep you updated on shops that move. If you don’t see a shop here that was listed previously that means they have closed and no other contact information was available.

Please feel free to send me your links if you are a quilt, fabric or sewing machine store by using the comments section for this category.

Each time this page is updated I will put an * next to the newly listed shops.

Athens
For the Love of Stitches 2260 Barnett Shoals Rd 706-546-0960

Atlanta
Fiber On A Whim 404-705-9164 (Online Only)

Augusta
Jeff’s Sewing & Vacuum Center 3833 Washington Rd #C 706-863-00900
*Quilt Shop On The Corner 428 5th St. 706-721-1298 Owner

Blairsville
Corn Crib Quilt Shop 101-D Pat Haralson Memorial Dr 706-745-3426 (Closed)
Fabric Center 174 Cleveland St. Box 5 706-745-6918

Blue Ridge
Country Stitches, Inc. 30 W. Main St. 706-632-3070
Mountain Holly Quilters 801 E Main St. 706-258-1123

Boston
Boston Bobbin 101 N Main Street 229-498-1028

Bowden
Qwiltz Quilt Shop 112A W College St 770-258-3201

Buford
Georgia Sewing & Quilting 1651 Horizon Parkway, Suite 800 770-677-5779

Columbus
Sew Much Fun 7801 Veterans Pkwy 706-317-0024
Southern Sewing 2911 Airport Thruway, Suite 11A 706-327-1231
Sweet Treasures 3730 University Avenue 706-561-5500
*Sunday Best Quiltworks 4471 Harris Rd Ellerslie, GA. 706-888-4966 (New)

Conyers
Sweet Home Quilt Co 1004 Green St 678-413-1611

Covington
Patrick’s 770-786-3220 (Recently Moved)

Dahlonega
Magical Threads 315 Church St 706-867-8918
The Common Thread 598 Grove Street North 706-864-0740 (New)

Dawsonville
Sew Memorable 4055 Hwy 43, Suite 110 706-265-2121

Decatur
Intown Quilters, Inc. 1058 Mistletoe Road 404-634-6924

Douglasville
Cornerstone Sew and Vac 2866-D Chapel Hill Rd 770-949-5775 (New)

Flowery Branch
Betty Sue’s Quilt Shop 7419 Spout Springs Rd Bldg B #101 770-965-3380 (New)

Garden City
Sew Much More 5201 Augusta Rd 912-966-5626

Hiawassee
Log Cabin Patchworks 312 Big Sky Dr. 706-896-7275

Hogansville
1910 House Quilt Shop 104 High St 706-637-6556

Holly Springs
Quiltin’ Time 126 Barrett Road. 678-493-2112 (Moved)

Jackson
The Gardener’s Quilts 237 E Third St 770-504-8222

Jonesboro
Quilts and Fixins 7986 N Main St. 770-472-0015

Lavonia
Ola’s Quilt Shop 1178 E. Main Street 706-356-1562

Lawrenceville
*Stitch ‘N Quit Shoppe 2070 Sugarloaf Pkwy #1000 678-985-3456 (Closing Dec 2008)

Macon
Macon Sewing Center 3076 Riverside Dr 478-474-3042

Marietta
Ashby Sewing Machine Co. 2990 Canton Rd 770-427-9947 (Machines Only
Little Quilts 1450C Roswell Rd 770-578-6727
Red Hen Fabrics 305 Cherokee Street 770-794-8549 (Moved)
Tiny Stitches 2520 E Piedmont Rd #H 770-565-1113

Martinez
Branum’s Sewing & Vacuum Superstore 3230 Washington Road 706-860-5434

McDonough
A Scarlet Thread 3159 Jodeco Rd. 678-583-2296 (Moved)

Moultrie
Suzanne’s Quilt Shop 9 First St SE 888-798-0934

Nashville
Nana’s House Quilt Shop807 Adel Road 229-686-3378

Newnan
Heritage Quilts and Fabrics 22B West Court Square 770-683-9058

Ringgold
Sew Bee It 6103 Alabama Hwy 706-937-9142

Savannah
Colonial Quilts 11710A Largo Dr 912-925-0055
Let’s Sew Quilt Shop 361A Commercial Dr. 912-354-5200

Statesboro
Deb-Bee’s Creations 17943 Hwy 80 W 912-764-5423

St. Simons Island
Stepping Stones 301 Skylane Rd 912-638-7128

Tifton
Country Charm Quilt Shop 1239 US Hwy 82 E 229-238-2488

Watkinsville
Dragonfly Quilt Shop 1260 Mars Hill Road 706-769-0070

Something new to me, sounds like fun

2008-10-06T00:54:07+00:00

I was looking at some other Blog sites and I ran across one that was talking about a Free pattern doing something called “Quilt For An Hour”.
So I went to the site to read about it. The link to the site is here.
The site belongs to Judy Laquidara and the blog is called Patchwork Times. She has the fabric requirements for “Shine on Bayou Cane” on the site and the instructions will start postiing tomorrow, October 6th. This quilt is really cute and looks like a project that will help me use up some stash fabric.

I worked on the yard most of the day today but I did get some sewing done yesterday.

Here is a photo of what I have done so far.

Click Photo for Larger Image

I was working on another project and it just wasn’t grabbing me, so I started looking through project bins that I set aside to do later and pulled this one out.
It is about 65 by 65 when finished. I have one more row and then the borders. This is a free pattern called Tribeca II that was offered by Blank and the fabrics are all by Blank too. I just loved it in this color way when I saw it. I just love Fall colors that are rich and warm looking.

Tonight I am watching the Redsox in game 3 of the series and I am getting some more applique prepared so that I can have it when I travel and also when I watch TV.
I will post a photo of my basket blocks tomorrow as well. This project has been a challenge for me. I am not a sampler quilt person and their were 12 of these blocks but
I am improvising my project so that I don’t have something that bugs me, hopefully my friend Chere won’t kill me from deterring to much from the group project.

Happy Quilting and if you are planning on doing the Quilt for an hour project let me know.

New Book, Cathedral Windows

2008-10-02T03:01:02+00:00

I received a new book today called:
Cathedral Windows for Quilting by Lynne Edwards.

You can find out more about the book at this link. Cathedral Window Qulting

I had always wanted to make a Cathedral Windows quilt and never got around to trying to make one.
I did make a block a couple of times and didn’t find it to hard but didn’t really give it much more thought because I was so busy at the time doing other things.
Well I pre-ordered this book and I got it and looked at it tonight and the quilts are beautiful. I like that they aren’t the traditional blocks done with bleached or unbleached muslin fabric.
The quilts have a very soothing look to them. She also shows you how to make blocks and skew them in such a way that you get a different look.
like getting books that are different and not like all the other books out there, sometimes you just want something with a bit more of a challenge.

I hope you like the new Fall Graphics on the site, I wanted something that looked good on a white background. The graphics were made by a gal by the name of J. Rett. She designs some really cute stuff for all kinds of uses. I am sure scrap bookers just love her stuff. If you like making your own paper stuff or sending cute stuff in emails, I think you will like her graphics.

Happy Quilting Everyone, I will get more pictures up this weekend of my sewing room now and what is on my design wall. I also have a few more tops and a quilt to photograph for the website.
Pickleweed

Uploaded Many New Images

2008-10-01T01:53:26+00:00

Spent most of the evening uploading images to the gallery.
I uploaded all the pictures I could find so far to the SMAS section.
The rest of the images were added to the My Quilts section.
I will upload some more tomorrow night and hope to get these all updated by the weekend, then I will have more time to write.
Now I have to watched my Tivo of House.