Texas Weekend

THIS is who we all went to Denton to hear!  BONNIE!  She gives a great lecture and workshop.  After finally pinching myself I got to set on the front row and got a birds-eye-view of her quilts.

She gives lots of tips and re-inforcements of what and why her techniques work.  There were a couple of things that I really didn't "get" but maybe it was the setting so close that it bonked me in the head!

Of Course you have to show an Oklahoma Backroads quilt when you go to Texas!

 On Friday, She traved to Ft. Worth to another quilt group and I went to eat lunch with the ladies and spent the afternoon with her.  Traffic?  Oh my...like I've said, we have more cows than cars in my part of the country.

We visited Cabbage Rose and Quilt Country.  This is the mural outside their shop.  I was real impressed with both shops, but this mural...AND, there's a Braum's across the street.

The two of us.  Just remember the camera adds 100 lbs and turns my hair red.   Gotta work on both of those.

This describes Miss Bonnie for sure!

The workshop with the Denton Gals.  Everybody was so sweet.  Since I was doing strictly plaids, I got a lot of freebees when I left.  One gal even gave me four of her blocks because they didn't have enough variety in them.  Hey...I never turn down orphan blocks of plaid.

 This is a spiderweb quilt that one gal brought to show.  I need to get mine quilted.

Give her a sewing machine and the lady will sew!  While I was pressing and trimming she made a block for

me. 

You can see the first block I made over Bonnie's left shoulder.  I got a total of three blocks made!  Yes,  I'll take a picture and post later today.

Another Bonnie and Me photo with the fireman statue in the museum.  It was a 600 mile weekend trip and it was so worth it.  I met so many nice ladies..definitely no Red River rivalry when it comes to quilts!

Busy time in Denton!

If you've never seen Bonnie hunter in person, you'll never know how much energy this gal has.  I have to say YOUNG gal because she's 6 months younger than me!  I've drove 4 hours from west Okieland to Denton to absorb some inspiration from her.  Then today we've visited a few quilt shops, ate way too much food, and laughed so hard with some crazy quilt ladies in this area...yes, you know who you are!

There are pictures of the traffic on my camera.  How in the world does a farm gal from po-dunk Oklahoma drive thru Ft.Worth/Dallas rush hour traffic?  Or, is the traffic like this all the time?  Guess everybody is just trying to go home at the same time.  There are more cars than cows here!

Tomorrow is the Virginia Bound workshop and I hope I'm ready.  It's in the Scraps and Shirttails book--of course I have a signed copy.  I inherited my FIL's plaid shirts so I'm making this quilt strickly plaids.  It's hard finding light-colored ones, but they do sell FQ of them too in Texas quilt shops.

I am still in awe of this gal.  I still don't know when she sleeps.  But I hope I do tonight, 'cause tomorrow is going to be a long day. 

Guess who's car gets to haul the quilts?

We're at a balmy 27 degrees with a high expected in the mid 40's.  I can handle that.  We got about 4" of snow and since most of the countryside has the white stuff, I'll spare you the pictures.  It's white, cold and kinda powdery...and I'm sure most of you have seen it before.


Good news....I'm traveling to Denton, TX next week (thursday) to meet Bonnie Hunter.  She's giving a trunk show and then a workshop on Saturday.  DH hasn't decided if he wants to tag along or not.  I travel quite a bit with my job, so driving 4 hours alone isn't a big deal.  I told him that I was going with or without him.  I think he wants to go just so I won't spend my limit at any quilt shops around. 


SPEAKIN' of which...any quilt shops in the area that anybody would recommend?

what a forecast!

We live in Western Oklahoma. The weather changes constantly as seen in this 7-day planner from the local news channel

IF (and it's a big IF) we get 10" of snow, we'll still have to get out even tho a lot of the state gets to shut down. Cows still need food and water. I say the term "we'll" loosely. I'll keep the house warm and DH and boyz can go break ice.

Everybody stay warm and be safe. I'll be over there --------> in the sewing room working on that TIchain some more. WHO in the world got me started on this project anyway???

Lots of weather and a little sewing.

Oklahoma was bombarded with a snow-storm that the eastern states are now getting. When we get 4 to 6" of the white stuff, it also comes with 70mph winds. Further east in our state, there was a record snow storm. I actually think the rest of our snow went to south Texas somewhere the way the wind was howling.

Snow-days make for a good day to stay in the house and sew. Or what I did..sort scraps.
This is the progress made so-far on my triple irish chain. Don't forget that it's made from 1.5" strips. It's definitely a form of madness.
While searching for strips out of my scrap bins, I'm also sorting. There's a pile for plaids (do these multiply?), solids, reds and getting one 2" square from every piece that's wide enough. Oh, there's another bin for weird shapes for another scrappy spiderweb (someday maybe). Is anybody collecting any kind of scraps that they'd like me to make a pile of?


This was taken awhile back, but I still like seeing this poor starving cat (haha) setting inside. He just sets and smiles while I'm standing there cooking.


This is my gift to myself this year. It's a clear extension table from All-Brands. My original Bernina one finally broke, and Bonnie Hunter recommended this one to me. She also sews with a 1080 Bernina.

You can see my madness of strips underneath the table, and I think that is why I wanted one so bad. I'm also VERY messy and kinda keeps me knowing where things are....kinda.

It's a very balmy 2 degrees outside and we're hoping to get up to 6. Really glad I don't live any further north. Our calves all went to the sale barn the past two weeks and my fat Mama cows are tough enough to survive a day-long blizzard. They'll see the feed truck coming today and know they're going to get fed again.

Edit: I changed it from 1/5 to 1.5" strips. Just about an inch different in width!