Local Modern Quilting Scene Almost As Hip As It Gets

Local Modern Quilting Scene Almost As Hip As It Gets  Blogging from my Samsung Galaxy II while recooperating from surgery will keep me happily occupied.  This is my first attempt...hope it works!    I am feeling much better than anticipated and am so thankful!!   Hope you enjoy this article!

Camping Checkers quilt finish for Mother's Day!

Set up your game - the attached zippered pouch makes this a breeze!

My DS and I couldn't wait for a camping trip to play our on our new camping checkers quilt - guess who won?!?

:-)

Later in the day, my DH started a fire for s'mores in the chimnea and we enjoyed 

games of checkers and yummy dessert together!  

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The Camping Checkers AccuQuilt was created from 

32 white 2" scrappy squares

and

32 dark blue 2" scrappy squares

Four 2 1/4" x 8" red strips for inside border

Eight 3.5" various scrappy squares for second border

Four 4" white scrappy strips for largest outside border, cut to fit for square corners

2.25" wof scrappy strips cut to fit for binding

back:  scrappy strips of denim sewn together to fit

A scrappy binding with attached, zippered bag for checkers picture tutorial:

Recycled zippered pencil bag from 2nd grade

Great grandma Block's buttons - a set of brown and a set of white

Pinch and then snip to mark

Draw a line diagonally from where you snipped

Sew with right sides together (this scrappyquilt has a scrappy binding, too)

Sew along the edge to finish.

(Scrappy jeans backing, too!)

Two buttons in one space for the king.

This will be great for Mother's Day!

This Mom needs to brush up on her strategic moves :-)

Have fun and happy sewing,

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FMQ Challenge results for May (SewCalGal)

Here's my results from May's SewCalGal FMQ Challenge 2012 with guest Leah Day:

Personally, I found straight line quilting to be very challenging - how about you?

For full post, please visit:  http://rocknquilts.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-fmq-challenge-2012-results.html
(I'm having challenges with blogger and attempts to post.  Is anyone else experiencing difficulties posting?)

The finished Camping Checkers Quilt post HERE.

Happy FMQing,

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May FMQ Challenge 2012 results

Leah Day is the May guest FMQ featured this month at SewCalGal.blogspot.com - come on over to see how everyone's work is progressing!

Personally, straight line quilting was very challenging for me - how did you do?  I like the 'train track' look, though!

Angela Walter's is releasing a new free motion quilting book on July 16th, 2012 and she will be our 2012 July Challenge expert!  Here's a 'sneak peek review' of her upcoming book for you!

When I'm recooperating from minor surgery at the end of May, it will be nice to play checkers with my family members on the scrappy quilt I created this week - my ten-year-old DS and I chose brown and ivory buttons to play with from great-grandma's button stash:

And here's the almost finished product (binding tomorrow!)

I added the hearts/leaves from January in the scrappy 3.5" border and the feathers from February in the outside border for another chance to improve.

Hope you're finding the time to participate in SewCalGal's FMQ Challenge 2012 - the prizes being given away look really wonderful!  

Happy Sewing to all,

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