That time of year

The Southern Comforters Quilt Guild of Bowie is having their annual quilt show this weekend.

So if you're local stop by and check us out.

The Guilds Lovely Raffle Quilt is "Friends In My Garden"
by Jane McKinley and Guild members

Dates:
Saturday, March 25th - 10am - 5pm & Sunday, March 26th - 11am - 4pm
Location:
Samuel Ogle Middle School
4111 Chelmont Lane - Bowie, MD 20715

Admission: $10, $1 off with canned good donation

Appraiser: Phyllis Hatcher - AQS certified quilt appraiser. Phyllis appraises new, vintage, antique and art quilts; and offers lectures and workshops.

Vendors: - AtMyOwnPaceCreations - Hoppin Bobbin - Aberdeen, MD - Lavender Lane Farm of Maryland - Mad Mud Studio - Bowie, MD - Monarch Scents - Crofton, MD - National Junior Honor Society at Samuel Ogle Middle School - Bowie, MD - Quilting Affection Designs - Waldorf, MD - Say it With Applique - Westminster, MD - SESART and Design - Aberdeen, MD - SpringWater Designs - Columbia, MD - Superb Sharpening - Huntingtown, MD - Sweet Pea & Roses - The Cloth Peddler, Stephens City, VA - The Fabric Peddler, Upper Marlboro, MD - Undiscovered Treasures - Burke, VA

Demonstrations: Saturday: - 11:00 Misty Cole - Innovative Applique - 12:00 Debbi Carter - T-Shirt Quilt - 1:00 Barbara Dahlberg - Art Quilting 101 - 2:00 Charlotte Kielszek - 10 Things Your Longarm Quilter Wants You to Know - 3:00 Pat Scully - Leaders and Enders: Never Break the Chain Sunday: - 12:00 Margy Hill - Correcting Paper Pieced Mistakes - 1:00 Karen Todd - How School Glue Can Help with Your Quilting - 2:00 Trish Rader - Thread Painting

Happy piecing, happy sewing,

Sheila

Test Quilting

Sew I'm helping out a friend, piecing a quilt top from batiks.  She has an Etsy shop, and is offering customer's who buy a yard of fabric each month, pieces of batiks to complete a quilt top.  I agreed to piece a top for her to have a sample to show her customer's on her blog.
https://pinkyscotton.wordpress.com

Pinky's Cotton Pattern

On my design wall Sunflower

I'm not sure about this, but it's what I came up with.  I think I'll add a wide 6inch border, and maybe some appliqué leaves to make it look like a sunflower.  The picture below is what I originally had on my design wall.

The pattern was looking like a question mark? 

Anyway, the pattern says "Our pattern is one example for the layout of your quilt blocks.  If you want to stray from this pattern layout and form your own placement pattern, your quilt will be fine".  So that's my Sunflower, and I hope Marcia likes what I came up with.  Until next time, happy piecing, happy sewing,

Sheila

3/12/17: Adding a link to Marcia's Etsy Shop  

https://www.etsy.com/shop/PinkysCotton