Kathy Delaney Applique Quilts

One of the most frustrating thing about all this wonderful social technology is keeping up with it! Whether its keeping up with all the various Internet group digests, Facebook postings or the various interesting Blogs, how does one keep up?!  Well, I just found out about the most interesting idea!   There is a place you can go online, FeedMyInbox.com, enter the URL of the Blog you want to keep track of, your email address, and this site will let you know when something new is posted. How cool is THAT?! I plan to enter in my favorite Blogs and I hope you add mine!  I can’t possibly post every day to this Blog. This seems like a great way for you to know when I do!

Recently I have been working on a Schirenschnitte type of Album quilt. Naturally it is applique! I’m hoping to debut the quilt at the end of the year. I’m beginning with a piece of freezer paper and folding it to make my appliqué “snowflake.” My what interesting results one can get! I’m adding a twist to the block and I’m using lots of red. (You know, red is my neutral.)  So, as I get this quilt put together I’ll post pictures here.

You know, when I came home from Baltimore on the Prairie I was flying high from the fun of the weekend! (And I’m still very excited!) But something else happened that was very cool.

I belong to a group of quilters who meet weekly to quilt in the Legler Barn Museum in Lenexa, KS.  We quilt for others and the fee paid goes to helping the Lenexa Historical Society.  Well, we were asked if we could bring quilts to Strong City, KS for a festival and quilt show they’d be having over the same weekend I was at Baltimore on the Prairie.  So I contributed 3 quilts for the show.

When I got the quilts back I discovered one of my quilts had won Viewers’ Choice!  This was quite a surprise!  I had begun the quilt in January of 1998 and had been hand quilting it since 1999.  (I know, I’m slow.)  I finally gave up and in 2008 asked the Legler Barn Quilters to help me get the second half finished already.

The pattern is from Piece O’ Cake and is called “Walk in the Mountains.”  If you’re anything like me, after working on something for 11 years, you no longer see the specialness of it – at least I don’t.  This “win” comes as a huge surprise to me!  There were some wonderful quilts in that show!  So for mine to win Viewers’ Choice is all the more special!  Here’s the quilt “in progress.”  I haven’t had a chance to take a finished picture yet.

Until next time…

Kathy

Walk in the Mountains

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