Winter Snowball Quilt is a Winner

 

                 Snowball Quilt

I taught this at my second beginner class project in abt February of 2025 at the NE Wellness & Community Center - OKC.   

I changed the HST to meet and greet.... as a quilter I knew I'd have to re-do the blocks to get this effect.   So near the end.... but it took a minute!

pieced and machine stitched:    size 64” x 78                                     

Beverly Huggins Kirk                  OKC, OK                   bquiltin Studio

Side-Line Quilt Start-up

 When have you missed a day of quilting?   Well, I fought the 3-day flu bug (longer) and I did not quilt.  OH MY!!

But my inspiration is still kicking.    I want to SIDELINE-START … the exploding heart quilt….   And another take on the Disappearing Nine Patch!    In fact it’s a Missouri Star…. But I REFUSE to pay pdf.  I’m thinking I’m good enuf (hmnnnn)😄😄😄 to recreate this beauty

I visited my longarm lady(I’m loving her!!!) and her design wall was my show n tell!  Then a couple of YouTube videos.   

I went ahead and///cheated in biting a 10” cake for $40!!

X's & O's Just for you ~ Hugs and Kisses

This,  

My darling -- measures 60" x 60" as a square.  

This quilt trip ---  began back in January 2024 @ the NE Community Wellness Center, NE OKC as I taught my (I'm possessive of this ladies....)... this wonderful group of first-time quilters.   Oh and did they ever learn!

The age-old Hugs and Kisses pattern was adaptable starting with the 7" square and the 4" squares being made into HST's.  

I worked at OK Quiltworks and the bolted fabric had several rows of varied oranges.... so it was a cinch to use.  The individual X/O's made a 13" block four across and four down.  

So here I am... a year later teaching a new SNOWBALL beginner quilt pattern for a new group of ladies!

Thus, I decided to take this quilt top and add the batting and backing!

The backing was my inspiration!!!!!  It was a gift of six yards of YARDSALE African fabric stash-give away!   Dropped off at my front door last month.

The Lord has a really really nifty way of bringing all things together.... for good, for joy and comfort!

African Elephants and Masked-Women ( I imagine) all with just the right tinge of orange   

Now... I'm pulling out my heart strings..... 

I love Ann.   

I love the quilt!   

PERFECT MATCH!   

Keep Stitchin' My friend!

 

Love quilt Triumphs Every Time

 “The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.” — bell hooks

UNTIRING As A Quilter

I’m reading… and I Found A New word …befitting me as a quilt artisan!

ˌin-di-ˌfa-ti-gə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

 noun

incapable of being fatigued : UNTIRING

I Feel the Quilt Story In Me

 Some late pm’s… I just have to cut and piece together one of my To-do wish list!

Well my intensity in learning this curvy log cabin!  I’m NOT buying a pattern-pdf-nada!  This was hung in a quilt show… and boy oh boy—- I studied it’’’’’ I took close pictures to count the rows, placement and center block—looked around online…

I love me!!!!!

Wha’ do ya think….  First four for the center.  Oddly… it’s a traditional quilt!

Mind you—-I have a “hankering” to go deep into African prints—into faces—and protest messages via hope n survival….    

But right now it’s structure and precision—-JUST HOLD STEADY GIRLFRIEND.  QUILT ON!!!

Quiltin' the Bible Road to Ecclestiastes 3:7

I'm an old girl, yet applying Scripture to every part of my life. I often cut and paste "Good Thoughts" and this is a reminder of what was said by some good writer years ago.

In the Old Testament, the writer states in Ecclestiastes 3:7 that there is “ a time to tear apart and a time to sew together…..a time to be silent and a time to speak”.  

Making a quilt is indeed a combination of tearing apart and piecing fabric back together. We use and re-use fabric so that nothing is really wasted or forgotten in the back of our closet. That old dress or pair of jeans is cut-away at the seams and we add new textures, buttons or lace so as to re-fashion it. So it is, the old remains familiar and yet brand new.

In this way, my quilted objects let me embrace the memory of yesterday - the kids, my mom, my father-in-law, my veteran.... A time and a season for everything...

This is authentic African or maybe Morocco... being hand quilted in the hoop by my sister-friend!

Below.... is Transcendence......  at least 2012 -- old and still shining!

Dear Friends....  I'm gonna post on that UFO quilt top... long unfinished black and white in the background...... exciting completion 2024

Oklahoma's New York Gorgeous Quiltin'

The next teaching session that I'm teaching is CURVED PIECING !   

Grouping of 12-14 ladies are now at the intermediate stage.  They've mastered strip piecing on a foundation of a String Quilt.   Learned and at ease with HST.   They love flying geese... 4 at a time.  They added the One-Seam Flying geese from a tutorial.  

First quilts were beautiful as a Hugs & Kisses quilt..... onto a Snowball beginner quilt.

CURVED PIECING

CURVED ARCs via paper piecing perfect points!  

This wonderful group that I quilt with two days a week for several hours..... Well it was my birthday.... and they gloriously CROWNED me.... as their QUEEN QUILTIN B  

 

Why We Luv To Quilt

I often ask myself “What is it that I really, really love about the process of making a quilt?

The making of a quilt is a way to straighten out the ragged edges in my life. I can't wait to awake and start again.... piecing. Peace. It's the combination of taking apart yardages of fabric and putting this into MY WAY of handling life.... forming a new thing. A thing can be tumultuous and look mixed up but it is now organized and squared-up. It may be humorous and silly. But the formation of a new thing and the quilted feel and colors sink deep into my soul! Now... it probably time to cook, clean, teach, hug and talk, read and write...... I sleep well. I look forward to another day of quiltin.....

Bquiltin' in my Studio.

Quilters around the globe..... now it's your turn. Wake up, Quilt a square, take a stitch of yard, or paint with your brush, or play you piano...... Sleep well. REPEAT

MLK Day 2025 for Organizing

 I spent some (a lot) of really productive time on detail and dates of upcoming quilt projects… exhibits and UFO projects today

Even-my heart felt Bio … CV … photos and the works!!

Bits and Peace

 

I have lots of HST’s.   And I bet you do too!

So this is in my future.  I notice that I’m NOT buying patterns… I’m improvising on what I SEE….

I clip pictures from far and near——so this is the formatting for me next UgRR

Bquiltin Studio

 This is the remake.  Lots of space.   Ooohhhh the calm-window view!

Bass Reeves ~ Forever the Oklahoma Legend !

 
When I say LEGENDARY.....   I mean just that.   My dad always looked back to remember his roots..... LEST WE FORGET.    I took that to mean... keeping the story alive.

So, although Bass Reeves was an Arkansas native, he superbly served justice throughout Indian Territory (the land prior to Oklahoma Statehood 1907) .... as one of the first Black lawmen west of the Mississippi River. Again, he was a respected lawmen standing 6’2″ and weighing about 180 pounds who could shoot a pistol or rifle accurately with his right or left hand and could whip any two men with his bare hands. Reeves became a legend during his lifetime for his ability to catch criminals under trying circumstances. He brought fugitives by the dozen into the Fort Smith federal jail.

I share the portrait quilt I sewed and built into a collage story of Bass and his dear wife Jenny.

Remember -- I told you admire THE WOMAN ... Who is the backbone of her man....!!! ????   See my Jenny riding on the horse, headwrap and handling the reins!

Here is a really outstanding brother names RAMSES.... who I met again in Sacramento, CA last year... and his portrayal of Bass Reeves is stunnning!

Simple stitchin’ Storm At Sea