At the Richmond Area Quilter’s Guild next meeting we will be playing bingo. Here is the bingo card that I made:

Richmond Area Quilter's Guild bingo "card" Permission is granted by Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting to copy these instructions.

For one 10.5? card

(Each fabric must be chosen from one of the following categories: batik, floral, geometric, heart, leaf, metallic, holiday, novelty, paisley, plaid, solid, star, stripe, or 1930s print. Use a black print for the centre square.)

5 (2.5?) squares assorted yellow and orange prints

5 (2.5?) squares assorted red prints

5 (2.5?) squares assorted blue prints

5 (2.5?) squares assorted green prints

4 (2.5?) squares pink and purple prints

1 (2.5?) square black print

Block assembly:

1. Referring to photo, join 5 yellow/orange print squares to make 1 row. In the same manner, make 1 red, 1 blue, and 1 green row.

2. Join 2 pink/purple squares. Make 2 pink/purple pairs. Join one pink/purple pair to each side of black square to complete pink/purple row.

3. Join rows, placing the pink/purple row in centre, to complete 1 Bingo Game Card Block.

Don’t forget to bring buttons or beans for your markers!

Summer Frolic

I LOVE Australian Country Threads magazine! Getting subscribed to it from Canada is a cinch, considering that their North American Distributor is Stonehouse Publications located in Toronto. Vol. 9 No. 2 has a nice stitchery pillow called “summer frolic” that I am adapting to make a totebag. Initially, I thought it would be for an on the go knitting project, but now I’m thinking it may become a purse….

Hey Diddle Diddle

At the Country Quilter retreat in January I started making a baby quilt for friends Jen & John (from Burnaby, BC). I finally got around to finishing it, and the baby is not even born yet!  The flannel fabric is a kit — Hey Diddle Diddle — from Connecting Threads, and on their website I found a matching label. Sweet! Now, just to get it packed up and mailed to them.

quilt label for Hey Diddle Diddle

Back of baby quilt

Thimbleberries Vacation Houses

This is a terrific pattern from Thimbleberries called Vacation Houses. I first saw this pattern in a quilting magazine and found it at Ericas and purchased it along with the Subtle Solids fabric.  Even though I have never been to Tuscany, the look of these colourful houses make me think of Tuscany.

I got most of it pieced while at the country quilter retreat Jan 22-25, FORGOT to bring the border fabric(!) - but now I’ve got the borders on and am in the process of hand quilting it.

This quilt will be for either our house or my office at work.

This year VQF is June 19-21 in Essex Junction, Vermont.

I went to this festival last June and it was FANTASTIC!!! I did a lot of damage shopping — King Tut Threads had a booth (got lots of thread there), and the redwork ladies were there, some primitive stuff, etc. etc.