Radiance Star Quilt Completed

You may remember that I posted about this quilt on September 3 and 5.  It was finished in October, but I was unable to photograph it until this week.  I found the perfect barn, in Canyon County, to use as a back-drop (actually hold it up while I take the photo).

I have made another Radiance Star quilt, which is at my long-arm quilter's for quilting.  It will have the same swirling pattern on it as the one pictured here.  I took a photo of the quilt top while it hung on my design wall.  Radiance II is for my cousin, who likes jewel-tone fabrics.  I used a fat-quarter bundle and three pieces of yardage to make her quilt top, below:

Radiance I is completed and laying on my table, as I took a photo of Radiance II on my design wall.  It makes for a nice reflection.  Don't mind the crap stacked on the hat tree to the right.

Typically, I don't buy patterns to make quilts, and typically, I don't make two of the same.  The bonus of using this pattern is it has instructions on how to make four identical flying geese blocks without wasting any fabric.  It rather blew my mind, when I first did that process.  Now I have a new skill in my set.  The one on the wall does not have the outer border on it yet.  I added tulip corner treatments to it in the aqua color that is in the center star.  The background fabric has dragon flies on it.  I am excited that it will be completed pretty soon.

Quilting Retreat in Cascade

On October 27, A and I drove up to Cascade with our sewing machines, rotary cutters, and our projects.  We had not been to this location before.  It was at Trinity Pines camp.  They sure had plenty of room!  They had a lovely view and it was snowing when we arrived.  I got to sit next to A and across from a couple other quilters that I knew.  We met some folks we had sewed with last year, when the retreat was at the Ashley Inn.

This photo shows the view of the mountains out our window.  This huge room had windows on three sides!  I shot this over the top of my machine (which is not in the photo).  That is Shannan's embroidery machine in the photo.  I counted 14 embroidery machines at our retreat.  I prefer doing my own thing.

Speaking of "my own thing," above is the beginnings of my shark quilt.  I love those shark fabrics!

This is a view of the great outdoors, from the safety of the covered balcony that wraps around that huge room we were all sewing in.

This is the view from our cabin, as the sun came up on Thursday.  Our cabin has three bedrooms down-stairs and two up-stairs.  Each bedroom has it's own "on-suite."  On-suite means bathroom.  A and I shared a bedroom. 

This view is from up in the balcony, inside that huge room.  We had a gal giving chair massages up there.  She was very good.  Each of has had a six-foot table to spread out on.  My table is the one in the lower left with the empty blue and white swivel chair.  You can see A to my right, working away, and Shannan and Marie across from us. 

After I finished my shark quilt top, I started on my Halloween wall-hanging.  I did not get it finished before our fun time was over.

We drove back to our valley on Sunday, Oct 30.  I did finish my Halloween wall-hanging on November 2nd.  

Tada!  It is done in time for next year!