Amy Bradley

Monday, at Prairie Star Quilters Guild, we had Amy Bradley as  an instructor and  lecturer. What a great time we had. We  only had 9 ladies in the class.  It was so much fun.  She had lots of great information.

This is a closeup of my project.  I got lucky, as there were so few in the class.  For some  reason  I had a hard time with the concept of fusing all these pieces.  She prints her patterns so all the pieces are already reversed for you.  For some reason I just could not reason which side the fusing happened and then putting it to the wrong side of the fabric.
I am a visual person. Reading instructions does not always makes sense to me.

Here is one of the patterns being worked on.

Love the painter.

Here is the whole picture of what I was working on.  I have a lot of machine, blanket stitching to work on.

Here is one of Amy's patterns.  She has a wonderful sense of humor.

Amy   Click on her name, any you will go directly to her website.

Don't you just love the whimsy in this patterns?

Here is another one being worked on.  Halloween is a favorite  subject.

Okay, you bloggers in the "It's for the Birds" hop coming up in May.  Look what Amy has as a pattern!!

I have been a fan of Amy's for a long time.  I wore my "Proud to be a Quilter" t-shirt  to class and guild meeting.
What a great day!

Have a great rest of the week. Happy Easter, Happy Spring!
I hope there is a lot of sunshine in your days. Today was a beautiful day. Got up to 56 degrees!  Spring is coming.

Mary

Sunday in Atlanta

Look at these lovely blocks that members of the guild that Sandy belongs to made.

Sandy has her hand on the one that she made.

The blocks are gorgeous.

They are going to be made into a raffle quilt for their next fund raiser.

There is an Archivers store in the Atlanta area, and Sandy and her Mom go there a lot.  This pumpkin was one of the classes that was offered last year.

Mary, Sandy's Mom made this collage for each of her children.  Sandy has one sister  and 2 brothers.  Sandy's Mom lives in the next subdivision over.  She keeps all of their craft supplies in a spare room for their use.

Here is Mary with the cute turkey they made.

Check out these trees!  Aren't they adorable?  I said, if I lived near them, I would get into a heap of trouble trying to keep up with them and their projects.  Mary does not like to sew.  Sandy is always making  cute things for her Mom.

These are the two that got me started with iris folding cards!  Look at this cute one Mary made.  I love it. Can you see why it inspired me?

I took a bunch of washi tape down to show them what you can do with it for making some cute, quick cards.  These two Mary made.

They showed me how to make these cuts to make a card.  It is just like the bookmarks I made.

They were showing me how to paint with Turbow markers. Mary made these.

Sandy made these cards on Sunday.  We had so much fun playing .

Here is Sandy, Mary and Steve.  (Steve is Sandy's husband.)    He had our dinner ready each evening when we came back from shop hopping.  They are such wonderful friends.  Sandy's Mom is named Mary Agnes, which is my name.  She is the first person I have ever met with the same name.  In February she turned 90 years old.  Pretty good.  As many of their family that could got together in Atlanta to celebrate.  Sandy said it was so good to see everyone.

I flew home on Monday.  I hated to go.  We had such a great time. I miss being around them.  But it is time to move one to other things.  I, as usual, have lots of things to work on.
Have a great day.
Mary

It's for the Birds

Today Madm Samm has announced a new hop, "It's for the Birds" and I am going to be your cheerleader!

 I am so excited about this. This hop has been in the works for a long time, and now that "Spring" is supposed to be here, it's perfect.

I will need for you to send me your email with this information:

Your name

Your blog name if you have one

and a link to your blog

Also, please put in the subject line:

I will TWEET about BIRDS

(There are only going to be 10 spots for NON bloggers at the Other Blog.)

There are only 7 rules that must be followed,

1. if you commit, please commit
failure to do so within reason - wellllll let me say
 you do not want to be on THAT LIST...

2. YOU can make anything BIRDS but BIRDS
has to be somewhere in your projects...

3. Must have your post up by midnight the day before your
scheduled day! ( we will help if you do not know how to do this)

4. Please turn off your word verification ( remove anonymous, you will
not get any spam) we will have you here too!

5. Be a cheerleader for one another,  you have no idea
what it does for someone to see YOUR note
It lifts them well to the next hop....I KNOW
I hear about it all the time....wink...

6. Place button on your blog NOW, today, tomorrow...
not the day of....you will be discreetly eliminated if
buttons are not seen....The whole idea here is your PEEPS
will come and cheer you on during your day and you
will get even more visitors...Sponsors watch you know....
( it is up there on your right)
6b) YOU must add the list of fellow stitcher/quilters on your blog
on your day so everyone can find them as easily as they found you!

7. And please stay on theme of this hop...if you have
other projects going on, have them scheduled the day before
but not on the day of your hop...YOU won't have to try so hard
to get followers...they will follow you if they like what they
see the day you show your project!

I am so looking forward to hearing from you!

Saturday, Atlanta Shop Hop

Saturday, we started out a bit earlier, as we had a lot more ground to cover. First up was Stitch'n Quilt. Their theme , "Back to the Basics". Here is their log cabin quilt.

This lady was demoing a ruler, square in a square.

Here is the quilt that Sandy is going to work on next.

We picked up these cute, paper pieced, patterns and kits.

On to Quilts and Fixins in Jonesboro.

They were making up small scenes. This was the pirate, tropical area.

Their quilt was a spool theme.

Another barn quilt on the front of their store.

Here is the quilt at Sweet Home Quilt Co in  Conyers.  Love the bright colors that all the quilts used this time.

Check out the bathroom.  Love the little potty pots.

Naturally there were all out of these fabrics. Darn!  They were so cute.

I want to do this!  Tumblers are so cute. Did get the kit.

Looking into the shop.  So many things to see, so little time!

Intown Quilters is "Modern Meets Traditional."  There have a lot of Batiks and Kaffe fabric.

Here was one of their projects. Again bright colors, paired with Kaffe.

Intown's quilt.  They used Kaffe fabric in the log cabin  version they made.

Their shop is in Decatur, Georgia.

A Scarlet Thread, in McDonough had the them of "A solid Foundation".  Check out the Amy Bradley patterns.  I did get one for my workshop with her next week.

They are so big that they even advertise on the highway.

Here is their quilt.

Sandy in front of the solid fabrics they used in their quilt.

Patrick's in Covington, had the theme of "Stars & Scraps Forever".

Saturday we were all over the map.  It was a great day weather wise.  It got up to 80 degrees. I was loving it.  So many ideas.  We did start working on a project when that evening.  We had each purchased the pattern for the iron caddy.  Sandy got the one for the standard size iron, and I got the one for the travel iron.  We had purchased the shop hop fabric, which if you click on the picture above you can see.  It is a sewing theme.  If you purchased $30.00 at any of the shops you received a set of 10 bright colored strips to use.  Needless to say we did purchase at least $30.00 at several shops. If one of us could not get to the full $30. we combined our purchases.

Well that is it for the shop hop.  I will show you tomorrow some of the things Sandy and her Mom and I did on Sunday.
Have a good day.
Mary

Atlanta Shop Hop

Second stop was Red Hen Fabrics.  They were "Batty for Batiks".

Check out the twister quilts.  As always, if you make the larger quilt,  there are scraps that you can make into a miniature.

How do you like these yo yos.  They are 1 1/2 inch circles.  Now there is a challenge for me!

This is Red Hen Fabrics quilt.  Again we got the pattern and goodies for it.

Don't you love this quilt with the embroidered baskets.  This was at Tiny Stitches, our third stop.

Here we are.  Their theme was "Through the Eyes of a Child" .

Notice the game boards in the quilt behind the queen.

More inspiration.

At Georgia Sewing and Quilting, Inc. their theme was "Under Construction".

Notice the barn quilt blocks on the front and side of the shop.

Here is their fun quilt.

These were all the shops we got to on our first day out.  More to come on Saturday.  You  need to get up early top start this hop.  The miles for this shop  hop is long.    Sandy was trying out a new "Garmin" gps system.  It did a great job of getting us from one shop to another. It is always great to see shops in other areas, as each is unique in its choice of fabric.  With the exception of Little Quilts, you do not see much reproduction fabric in the Atlanta area.  It also give you a sense of how many fabric companies there are.  So many wonderful choices.
More tomorrow.
Mary