In the Spirit of Friends

Shew! It has been a busy week! Now I am happily sitting here updating my blog while drinking a nice steamy cup of coffee. I just devoured my Curated Quilts magazine. It was my first. I only ordered one to try it out to see if I enjoyed it and the answer is a big yes. I am definitely getting a subscription. This magazine was filled with beautiful quilts, a few patterns and lots of education. I will be looking at it and reading it over and over until my next one arrives.

Back to the busy week. I worked a few days at the quilting studio (my fun retirement job). I got to finish quilting the above quilt there as well. I am calling this quilt "In the Spirit of friends". I was inspired by a piece I found in a Quiltmania magazine called "The Sum of Us" by TOWRAGS group.

I was particularly drawn to the star like blocks and so that sent me on a study to see what those were called. Friendship blocks! I made quite a few of those types of blocks for this red, black and cream colored improv style quilt. That caused me to think of a lot of my friends from the past, from now and friends that I will make in the future. Like the towrags group, I used a lot of fabrics with words, symbols and markings. I enjoyed studying those fabrics up close.

I had to hustle on this because I have a deadline for May 25th to submit application for entry into an international quilt show. I have just started entering quilts and I know it probably takes a lot of no's to get to a yes. Oh and I wish someone would do a class or lecture on entering quilt shows and all the ins and outs on that. But maybe I will years later LOL.

This weekend, I will finish binding it and get some good photos of it! I hope you have a lovely weekend and experience joy, peace and creativity.

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