Here’s the mini quilt for my friend, inspired by John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars.

Drumroll…. Here is my Twilter pic for this episode, made by @EngrSandi.

Sandi is now entered in my drawing for the end of this year. The prize will be a completed quilt, made by Me. Each episode, I will choose my favourite Twilter’s picture from twitter and that person will be entered in the drawing. To become a member of the Twilter Brigade, all you have to do is follow me on twitter, and I will follow you back. You don’t have to do anything special. Just keep chatting about quilting, and sharing pics with us quilters.. You can use the hashtag #twilter when posting a pic if you want to be extra sure I catch it.

Enjoy this page about the Bad Sue quilt I talked about. Naughty, naughty Sue!!! Make sure you look at the close ups and read the descriptions of the blocks.. Hilarious stuff!

A note about blog comments : Thank you to all who take the time to comment. I love hearing from you! I seem to be having technical difficulties. Although I see your comments in my email and in my dashboard when I log in to edit and whatnot, the comments don’t seem to be appearing on the blog page itself. This happened once before and I can’t remember what I did that time to fix it. Any ideas? email me. In the meantime, please continue to comment if you can, I can still read them.

Notes From The VooDoo Lounge

Bashful British Quilter aka Carolyn!

Happy Quilting, my sweet Twilters!

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Howdy! Hola! Greetings and Salutations! yeah.. I’m done. My voice held out long enough to record a quickish podcast episode. I rambled about all the usual stuff, but that’s why you love me.

My brother and his lovely, and sweet bride. He was singing to her. awww

A shot of them before the ceremony

And the cake I made..

The pictures of Easy Street, the batik HSTs, and Feelin’ Froggy are in the previous blog post.

The ratatouille recipe I mentioned is here

Here is my row that I made and passed on to work its way through the ranks of the list. I won’t see it again until December! Special thanks to Susan aka HQSuz for the wonderfully funky fabrics. I decided the “theme” for this quilt will be Funky Traditional.. as in traditional blocks, made with funky fabrics.

I know there’s something else I said I would put up a link to.. or a picture of.. when I think of it, I shall edit

Happy Quilting!

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This is an extra long episode (either I’m sorry, or you’re welcome.. whichever way you feel about that) because I’ve recorded some segments all week and edited it all together for a big ol’ dollop o’ daisy.

There’s the usual quilt updates, some talk about motor life, and bobbin winding, Downton Abbey praise, Easy Street whining, and a couple book suggestions.

Enjoy!

Scroll down to yesterday’s post for a couple pics of things I mentioned in the show.

Intro and Outro music played on guitar, by my very talented 15 year old son.

Happy Quilting~

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Ah, the long awaited episode 21! Don’t expect too much exciting content! I talk mostly about quilting, I complain a little about Christmas, and I give a weight loss update.

Here’s something I forgot to talk about.. what I gave my mom for Christmas.

Here’s the quilt I made for our church pianist.. Mrs. Ruth. I have a better picture somewhere, but I gave up looking for it (I’m lazy)

I’m loving making these circles!

AND… the progress so far on Easy Street Detour, which I think I may call Cherry Bomb.

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In this episode, I give the usual rundown of my recent quilting projects, talk about how my stagefright is getting better with each performance, and a little storm preparation talk..

See a post below for pics of the Pink Lemonade quilt.

Here’s Flip ~ Girl

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Hey y’all!! I’m back! yay! The kids are in school and my routine is returning to normal. I’m glad to be back in the podcast saddle, and I hope to be talking to you on Mondays again. In this episode, I give a rundown of all the quilts I got done this summer. I finished most of the to do list. I have one left, the quilt for our school secretary.  And then of course the Zelda quilt for my son. I still need to start on that one.

Here’s the pics of the ones I hadn’t posted yet… The Music quilt, and the Saints quilt.

The WWII Museum in New Orleans was amazing. We had a very educational, and (for me) emotional experience. After all the information overload, we enjoyed The Soda Shop and I had the best ice cream I have ever put in my mouth. I have never been a big ice cream lover, but this stuff, Creole Cream Cheese and Red Velvet in a fresh waffle cone,  was TO DIE FOR! I would drive back to NOLA just for another double scoop of this stuff.

I will do another post about the museum, with pictures soon. (yeah, my camera is still in the glove box of the car.. SLACKER!)

Here is the blog where I found the tute on the quilt I will be starting today, for our school secretary. Patchwork of Mini-Grey. My white sashing between will be much bigger than hers, because I want lots of negative space between the colours. Doesn’t it look like fun to make?

This episode was not highly edited so excuse my ums.. yet again, please. I am easing myself back into the podcasting routine and next time I will talk about my extreme stage fright and how my singing performance went at church.. Since I got several people asking after the last episode.

Thanks for reading and listening! I love when you leave comments!

Keep Quilting!

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In this episode I talk about the progress I’ve made on the big to-do list of quilts from episode 16. My fingers are bleeding but I am rockin it like a boss, having finished 4 quilts in the past couple weeks, three of which are hand finished bindings.

Purple Mountains Majesty!

1930s Chain

Andrew

Joshua

The baby name quilts are made with a variety of neutral scraps for the background. I love the soft look of all the various whites and beiges mixed together. For Andrew, I used many different blue squares, all finishing at 2″. For Joshua, I was getting tired, so I used a different green for each letter. This allowed me to utilize some strips and cut down just a bit on the piecing time. I love the yellow stars, and I know the baby and his family will be happy with it. It came out a little bit smaller than the Andrew quilt, because I used 1.5″ finished squares and strips. I also threw in some bigger chunks where I could on the background, just to get it done a little bit faster.

I have a few books to recommend, and a new-to-me podcast to check out.

This Old Quilt, edited by Margret Aldrich. 2001, String Quilt Revival. 2011 by Virginia Baker & Barbara Sanders. DVD by Nancy Zieman, Two From One Jelly Roll Quilts, Layer Cake, Jelly Roll, and Charm Quilts, & Jelly Roll Dreams, all by Pam and Nicky Lintott.

The podcast I’m enjoying this week is called A Damn Movie Podcast, and you can find them through itunes, and facebook, and also HERE

I also talked a little about my crippling stage fright, and it’s a little hard to listen to.. wah wah wah.

Not my best episode ever, a bit boring, but I know I’ll get better because, I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!

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These are the two purple quilts I spoke about.. and why I named the episode Purple Week.. There was much more purple in my week than there normally is..

I really should have pressed these tops before taking pics.. SORRY! I am such a slacker. Bad blogger.. bad bad blogger..

More (better)  pics to come as I get them quilted. The Purple Mountains Majesty will be quilted this week, but I have no idea when I will get to the Louisiana one.. Which still needs a name.. any ideas?