FMQ Nov Challenge Spirals, Sarah Vedeler

The Free Motion Quilt Challenge sure has lived up to its name ~ A Challenge!  SewCAlGal, Thank you, it sure has been fun learning more about FMQ, and meeting women all around the world who enjoy this Art/craft/skill. 

This months challenge was led by Sarah Vedeler.  I first became acquainted with Sarah's work on the Quilt Show where she has taught and shared a few projects.  Thank you Sarah for sharing this spiral challenge for us to enjoy.

This is my sample of spirals ~

Merry Christmas Everyone
Godspeed,
mary

Quilt Along #41 Pods

Quilt Along # 41 Pods

Love the titles of some of the FMQ designs.   They make me smile!   Pods stirs images in my mind of islands of aliens, can you tell I have been spending much time with my grandsons :)  

Here is my go around with Pods...  My journal page, if you look closely, you may see butterfly pods on the paper.

If time allows, will give this another go around, as they definitely don't look like Leahs :)  

Merry Christmas Everyone :)
Thanks Leah!
Godspeed,
Mary

Quilt Along # 40 Quilt Busting Flower Power

Quilt Along #40   Quilt Busting Flower Power

Had fun doodling this design all week.  Brought back many memories of Spirograph days of doodling!   He is my little daisy with an open center ~

Here you see my daisy with the flower petals all meeting in the center

 

It's Christmas season, I love Christmas, so here my petals all have a point to them giving the illusion of a poinsettia flower :)

Merry Christmas Everyone :)

Thanks Leah!
Godspeed,
mary

Quilt Along # 39 Matrix

Matrix... Now doesn't that sound interesting ~ Well it lived up to its name.   I really enjoyed working on Matrix and look forward to applying this pattern to some quilts in the future!  Not only was it fun, but it was Fast and best of all this time of year, busy with Christmas crafting, it was easy to do!

Thanks Leah!
Godspeed,
mary

Quilt Along #38 Lost Data

~ Happy Veterans Day ~

Thank-you to all who have served! 

I believe the best place to live on the this planet is

The United States of America!

Quilt Along # 38 Lost Data

Quilt Along # 38 is called lost Data..  It is an edge to edge design with large areas of what some call "negative space" where you may incorporate other FMQ  patterns.   In this negative space Lost Data created quilt along #38 used a pattern called Zippling..  Zippling is a great pattern if  you wanted to make people... If you use your imagination you can almost see a little girl running (upside down) at the top of the mountain in the middle.

Thank you Leah for your faithfulness to the project.  Learning so much from you!
Godspeed,
mary

Thank you for your prayer

Thank you to all who were praying for us in New England.   Although many towns in our area were more than 90 % without power in the aftermath of the storm, more than 7 million in the country, by Wednesday morning we (in my town) awoke to having access to power, water, telephone and internet :)  

While New England is north of NJ where Sandy made her entry to the country, the winds north of the storm were quite harsh, and it was early on Monday that I heard that resounding "snap" of a Red Maple coming down!  Ever so grateful it fell in a southern direction over a old stone wall, rather than on our home.  Soon after, we lost power.  We are now back to routine in our area.

Thank you all for your prayers, and I especially ask if you are willing to continue to pray for those who have been devastated by this natural disaster.

Godspeed,
mary