Stitching the pieces together

GORGEOUS!!!!! Well worth the effort, sweetie!!!! What was the first colour of flower your DD wanted on the back of her dress? Where were all the hearts you crocheted? Did I miss them in the pics??

Chrissy beautiful! So happy for you all that the day was stunning all around L&H's sassy

More!! We want more!!! (I think she made the right choice of tulle and flower!!!)

Here's one of my latest projects

Weird, it rotated the image. The blocks are set on point. The backing is the blue paisley. Need to get some binding on it now.

my paper pieced center for my class project will have multiple borders, appliquéd leaves & compass roses. The dark blue will be outside border and the braids will be a middle border. I need to fix one segment of yhe compass.

i just love the fabric Chrissy. I hope I have enough left over to make a tree skirt for my small christmas tree or something.

it's just a wall hanging. My sadistic teacher couldn't make us make anything very big because she crams so many hard techniques into six classes. I just love her, but man, does she ever make us stretch. I'm doing better. I think I cried over something on my beginners class quilt.

Melissa, I'm just amazed at your work.

Look on the news for the winner of the art quilt contest. It would be a good painting, but it's really a quilt. The first prize was $200,000. Like any quilter, she's going to use the money to buy a new sewing machine, more fabric, and enlarge her studio.

Wren what news service is that on as I would like to check it out on the net.

Melissa you have nice choice of color. Can you tell us what is the fabric in the pinwheels quilt on point?

Thanks, Mary

Wow! That art quilt is spectacular!!!! It does look like a painting rather than a quilt.

Thanks Melissa, your quilt is great.

Mel, your work is AMAZING!!! You are truly bitten!! You will learn a technique that you love and that will be your "thing"....well done, sweetie!!!

That $200,000 quilt makes me ill. I've done many, many wall quilts like that and never won $200,000!!! The most I've ever been paid is $1,200!!!! The trick is to do it in one piece and then cut it apart. Thus the unity. The pieces are probably just torn and then free-motioned on. Good for her, though! (There was a time when regular artists would draw on fabric and then quilt it and try to submit it as a quilted piece. Caused quite a rucus!!) I'll try to find some of what I've done. I like to find stone houses or churches on mls.com and then print the picture out and make up the wall art. There used to be fabulous "stained glass" fabric that I used for the church windows.

i'll bet the koi show is a lot of work. My cousin shows dogs and I know how much goes into that.

Here's the top, almost completed, but the applique is not fused down. I finished that, and we sandwiched and started quilting in class last night.

Thanks Chrissy. I'm having so much fun! The fabric really makes this but doesn't photograph very well. It really is pretty. I'm going to have to use dark blue thread to quilt down the lighter leaves so they'll show up on the background.