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As promised, with a quilt cave that is clean and organized, time to make a mess! Picking just the right red scrap for a cherry... Since I like to work on a few things as a time, I needed to start something to have some satisfying hand applique prep and hand stitching to do while watching Alabama and Auburn Football and other TV shows. This original design has been on my mind for a while, and it was fun to take the rough sketches and turn them into nine blocks this week.  Every time I finished a block, I just giggled to myself. Can you imagine these glue prepped motifs in the same project?!?  A hint: they won't all be in the same block.  Above they are just positioned on a piece of paper for a picture. Making the French fries isn't really that hard.  Just two rows with a little overlapping.  NO CALORIES! I'm trying not to have the fries and burger look like a particular brand. All of the colors in these pictures are darker and duller than they really are.  ...

Yippee, I think I am finally comfortable in the quilt cave!  It's all clean, shiny, and ready to drag all kinds of stuff out to play and make a mess!  It was a good time for pictures before I destroyed it, LOL! It's still sort of a stained glass studio.  My cutting station is over the glass work table, there is glass equipment stuff behind the shelves at the end of the room, and all the larger pieces of glass are in their rolling wooden containers under where I rotary cut. The wooden door connects my room to the walkout family room, the metal door goes outside.  I have to close the wooden door to get to my "desk" to pick bits for applique or dig through patterns in my filing cabinets.  Having the door closed makes it harder to find me, hee hee. The lighting was designed for doing stained glass, so the room is definitely bright enough.  I can open the blinds to a big picture window to let in natural light.  That softens things a bit. I did buy the black...

It was a quick trip to the AQS Fall Paducah Quilt Show in Kentucky, but my first time to visit Paducah. I was blown away by the number of quilts on display, in multiple buildings, both contest and exhibition.  What I saw and could take pictures of was merely a drop in the proverbial quilt bucket.  I currently have a bit of a gimpy foot, so my viewing was limited. Next time I need to stay more than one night! I managed to get pictures of 40 quilts to share.   One of the most impressive quilts was one I couldn't get anywhere near for even one picture..."Hawaiian Improv," by Cheryl See.  It won in the large quilts, hand quilted category.   (She also won a first prize in a second category.)    Beautiful hand quilting!  It was one of the first place category winners which is involved in the voting for the super huge money prizes tonight.  You can see it on the AQS Fall Paducah web site.  The maker was giving detailed tours of her quilt to sma...