Box Kite in Bedford, Group 2!

Take a look, take a close look!

These sweet quilters from Group 2 came wheeling their stuff in to set up for class and I stopped them in their tracks – LOOK at these chairs!

It’s a “regular” folding chair, but the seats and the backs are cushioned and covered with sevlages.  Oh, oh, oh, I was drawn in right away!

But don’t just look at the chairs, look at the little wooden platforms they are sitting on.  There are holes for the legs to rest down into so they are sturdy.

Whoowhooo!

The platforms are on castors, and these little “go to class” chairs are comfy, the platforms raise them to the right table height for comfortable sewing, and they ROLL!!  So you can easily twist and turn to your ironing station, scoot to reach what you need to reach, and hey – you can have rolling chair races all around the classroom!

I admit it, I sat down and spun a few circles myself.  Just great!  And the best part is that they take up very little room in the back of your car for transportation.

I have no information on these other than the ladies said they picked them up from a guy at a show.  But it’s a fun idea! 

Box Kite from the Addicted to Scraps book!

Unless I’ve taught this as a workshop, and hung it in front of you in class, you’d likely never notice that there was something a bit strange about the way this quilt is hanging.  Do you see it?

I had to ask in class, and it took a bit for someone to pipe up and say “It’s hanging SIDEWAYS!”  

Yes.  Yes, it is.

I finished the quilt, sent it off for photography, received the quilts back after the book was published, and it wasn’t until I hung it for our first Box Kite workshop that I realized, quite to my dismay, that I had put the hanging sleeve on the SIDE, not the top.  OOPS.

No wonder it seemed like that sleeve went on forever!

But you know what?  There are just days like that.  Days when you have to laugh and smile with yourself and just leave it as a reminder that even when life goes sideways, it still turns out to be beautiful in the end.  Or something like that.

The selvage chair girls!

Beautiful blocks ladies!

This crowd has got it going on all scrap happy!

Getting busy with a group layout!

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The slide show below includes not only our workshop photos, but our after-lunch show & share as well!  They brought some beautiful finishes – enjoy!


It was not just a workshop day, but a lecture day as well. And not only a workshop-lecture duo day, but I had a special pick up of some precious cargo to boot:

Me, Sue & Missy!

Missy Molino is the head honcho for Quilt Odyssey in Hershey Pennsylvania and the show happens next weekend. She and her sidekick Sue came over to Bedford to pick up 3 tubs of quilts that will be hanging at the show as my very first exhibit.

I'm like a nervous mama sending her babies away!

Several of the quilts have never been seen in public before - they have been worked on behind the scenes and are destined for my next book. I have also included several of our Quiltville Mysteries, and other favorites. 

The show happens while I am teaching in Utah so I won't be able to attend. If you are anywhere near Hershey Pennsylvania, don't miss this show!

Another lecture, another cake!

The lecture was well attended, and we had a great time.  The funniest bit came when Mary was at the front of the room, holding up the piece of cake with my face on it, saying “Bonnie’s face is going to the highest bidder, and all proceeds are going towards the pillowcases for kids with cancer fund!”  It was a hard running cut-throat auction, but Sherry won out offering $20.00 toward the purchase of novelty fabrics for kid’s pillow cases.  And then she didn’t even want to eat my face after all!  LOL!

A beautiful house in Bedford

I took this photo yesterday afternoon between the workshop and setting up for the lecture.  It’s just GORGEOUS. And huge.  And it kind of reminds me of the Munster’s house.  Or maybe “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.”  But I love it.  All of it.  From lawn and gate to the trees on either side, to the blue blue sky and the cloud bank just beyond.  This is what I think of when I think of Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Today is our last workshop – it’s a Wonky Wishes day for Group 2!  I’m just as excited to be teaching it for this batch as I am for last weekend’s bunch.

Home tomorrow ---

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Vintage diamond braid quilt shared by Siobhan.

If you open your eyes, the wondrous little things are all around you.

Have a lovely Sunday, everyone!

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