Five Shadows

So excited! I have finally added a design wall to my studio! Thanks to a friend who was cleaning out her sewing room, I have inherited a spaceboard™ which is about 33″ x 51″ and covered with black felt on one side and a grid on the other. The board folds in half on the 24″ line with the felt side facing out, and has attached handles for easy carrying. I’ve hung the design wall onto a hook over a closet door by one of the handles.

Up to this point I’ve been using the floor to lay out quilts. The spaceboard™ will work for small projects and I’ll keep using the floor for the larger projects. Their website has an iron in the photo, so I assume the gird side is also a pressing surface.

What I’ve been up to lately is preparing for and attending my son Luke’s wedding to lovely Kimberly. We had a house full with 10 out of town guests, friends and relatives. Who did jump right in and help with final details for the rehearsal dinner. Here are a few pictures of the event, rehearsal and wedding. It was lovely Fall weather.

Rehearsal dinner decorations. We served roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans, steamed carrots, dinner rolls & butter.

Bride – Kim, groom – Luke, followed by Kim’s parents and grandmothers.

Sugar Cookie Pizza Bar

Other goodies. Missed taking a picture of the Apple Crisp.

Pineapple Punch, coffee, citrus water.

The Big Day!

Me with all my girls! Left to right: youngest daughter Charis, new daughter Kim, middle daughter Anna, me, eldest daughter Janelle.

My two sons, Luke and Noel.

Cake made by a friend of Kim and Luke’s.

Cake topper – Legos! If you knew Luke – you would say “Of course!”

It was a pretty Fall Wedding! Congratulations Kim and Luke! Love you!

Here is a quick use of three Charm Packs. Using one Charm Pack as the background, cut the 5″ squares in half twice to make 168 2 1/2″ squares. Use this squares to sew triangles in two opposite diagonal corners of a coordinating Charm Pack. When these are placed together you get the X and O design. Missouri Quilters have a great youtube tutorial for the X’s & O’s quilt.

Here are two I have made for Fabrics and Friends Quilt Shoppe, Roanoke, IN. Using 5″ packs cut by Fabrics and Friends and a Moda solid. I used Moda Marbles for the  4 1/2″ borders.

and Craftsy Block of the Month.

Here is September’s Color Palette Challenge :

My block:

Joined at the Hip 2000 BOM pattern.

And one of two blocks for the Craftsy Free Block of the Month program:

I have the parts for the second block cut out, need to get them sewn together. September we used Marti Mitchell’s Drunkard’s Path Templates. She has a unique way to cut out the pieces, that I really like!