Thursday Girls tour in Minnesota!

It was an exciting September day for the Thursday Girls when we traveled to Shakopee, MN for a tour of the Hunt farm home & woodworking shop.   This outing was Eagle Creek Quilt Shop's annual quilted house tour.  The shop is an experience in itself of fabric & history as it is sheltered in the old railroad depot of the town.  Don't you just love old depots!! 

So thanks to Lori & Becky, owners of the shop, 11 of us enjoyed their shop first, then toured the beautiful home in the country.

We were first greeted with quilts hanging on the fences & on an old crib on the farm.

And here is the house from the front --

 

 

 

 

And from the side entry!

Inside the front door hangs one of the quilts from Country Threads new book "The Blue & The Gray." 

Isn't it sweet - album blocks with pinwheels - Remember Me!

In fact, the whole trunk show was featured in the house -

what a treat!

 

 

 The dining room leads into . . .

 Of course, the kitchen.  Old - but modernized!

How do they say that?

 

The old is new again!

 

 

 

And at the back door - the perfect boot & shoe collector - an old feed bunk!

And this beautiful quilt graced

the sunroom;

wouldn't it be the

perfect reading spot!

 

 Another beautiful quilt in the sunroom; that must be my favorite room in the house! 

 

The high ceilings make it perfect for the large pieces of furniture.

And this is the old barn converted into the woodworker's shop!  Many woodworkers would love this much room to work in, I am sure! 

A beautiful use of an old building! 

The Hunt's have done a superb

 job with this homestead from the early 1900's.

  

Hope you enjoyed this quick little tour.  Have a great weekend!

 

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Jo Morton's Savannah (& others) make an awesome new quilt!

Don't you just love the mornings when you can clean the cutting table off & begin an entirely new project!  That's what I was doing the last time we visited!  
 

I was cutting some of Jo Morton's fabrics into a new design that is destined for Quilt Market in Houston the end of October!
 



Well, here are the steps that followed that first cutting! 

 

And voila - stars!

Stars for a new quilt for the Civil War Generals Series!  I am loving it & it's coming together fabulously!  An awesome sashing - but I can't tell it all just yet!

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Piles of Projects!

I keep asking myself "How do I get all these piles?"  I have piles of fabrics all over my table for projects only in my mind at this point, piles in the process of making it to new patterns, piles for redoes of older patterns, piles of fat quarters, piles of threads, piles of books, piles of patterns, & on & on it goes.  Here are a few of my present piles -

Still just love those Aunt Grace's; I have to pull a project or two out once in a while just to have a little handwork, I guess.  I think it's just an excuse to work with the sweet colors of the 30's fabrics.

Here I have a pile of fabrics for blocks of 100 patches; it is great fun & I'm trying to do a couple blocks every week. just mindless sewing which is very nice at times.  Think I'm a few behind since I started new quilts for Houston market coming up this fall.

This is a pile of beginnings for a possible quilt to commemorate our club's 100th anniversary next year.  That will have to go on the back burner for a few more months. . . Don't you just love that red floral !

This is a pile of Jo's reds - fat quarters - again, planning for a new pattern that has only made it to the beginning stages.

Then, of course, there are piles of Jo's latest two fabric lines, Madison Manor & Savannah; have you seen them? 







The colors & patterns are just simply beautiful; in fact, that is what usually starts most of my piles. 


But that is good!

I really am working on new quilts for the market booth this fall.

I have two new generals patterns in the works at this time. 




So this is my new pile that just moved to the cutting table this morning. 

Sewing is going good, so I'd better get back to it.  How about you - do you have any piles on your cutting table??