DISCOVERY: New Quild Friends in my City

 Little did I know back in September 2022 that my dream of setting up a GUILD....   The Scissor Tales Quilt Guild in the NE quadrant of Oklahoma City, Ok.........  I'm meeting a great group of lady-friends! 

Pillow Cover Swap

 I may get kicked out…..I’m eight days late

But lovely    The small HST worked my nerves.  But isn’t she lovely 

Sew Handy — my Singer!

 Oooohhhhhh my good fortune!  M back to collectibles! A jewel of a find inside my first ever stop into DECADES Vintage Shop.  NW OKC!   2024 oh my…. Quick EBay priced $347.00

Toys on the shelf.   Electric little machines 19.98 price

Now I’m satisfied

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. 

Learn as if you were to live forever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

 Hi quilty friends.  … video these few hours… hear the birds chirping furiously.. the chimes tinkling in the wind….  Soft waterfalls….  My plants are standing strong!  Some are hiding/germinating—gonna bloom on their own schedule 🌺🌺🌺 

I feel the mid morning breeze and the powerful sunshine on my backside.    My cuppa Java n biscuit.   Yes.  Thank you Lord -Monday Monday 

Ooohhhh the reason for picture is that I finished hand stitching the final binding this AM

Mrs. Harriet Powers ~ Ten Years ago!

 The Cloud /// Web /// truly keeps a record of everything!  I posted a blog in 2013....  On that post --- Krya Hicks commented a friendly hello! Such a smart-good woman!

So - since that initial fascination with the Afrono Quilters in NE OKC, I've been telling the story!  And I'm recreating my second Harriet Powers Bible Quilt!

This was the Pictorial Quilt that my friend Annette J. re-created in 2013 that I shared with my viewers.  

In just a few days, I'll share pictures of my own #1 and #2 Bible Quilt!

 I put my heart into in 2022-Metropolitan OKC Library adventure featuring this wonderful Folk-Art Quilter from Athens, GA.  Here's the outlandish story - true!  I've to date ... lost and/or totally misplaced this quilt following my lecture!  

Creativity Call: Online Streaming

 https://www.instagram.com/p/C51VPUmMbn2/?igsh=c2JocXMyY241cDRj

Click Link please to sign and join me …the Fascinating Life of Harriet Powers

Quick Tip ~ Quiltin Sizes

 Hey Quilt Buddies

Let’ Chat About Quilt Size 

Quilt  How big will your quilt be?  How many blocks will I layout?   Take a look at this Quilt Chart from the Sewing Loft to help choose a quilt that fits your bedding!!

Just remember that these are basic measurements!  The REAL finished quilt may vary 2-4 inches

Now.. for a quick mention about batting!

Batting.  vary. aka known as layers or sheets of raw cotton or wool or synthetic fiber materials—-used for lining quilts or for stuffing or packaging 

Batting can also be known as wadding or that soft middle layer of a quilt. It can be made from all types of fibers: cotton, wool, silk, bamboo, polyester, corn, alpaca, and recycled plastic bottles. Quilt batting comes in all different sizes, loft weights, and fibers

That’s my spill for today!!!

Keep Quiltin!

Tying My Heart Strings to Harriet Powers

 

I’m a waaaayyyy bit anxious to share

Phenomenal Harriet Angeline Powers #1 - YR 2022

 I’m thrilled and enthralled —-submersed in the simplify of one woman’s life.   A life well lived!  1837 - 1910

I have a brick wall in locating my family’s generation … I dived as deep as possible into census and genealogical records as possible.  Here—-10-11 years 2024 might have new leads!

So I reimagine——I lay claim to the revealed life of women who walked and quilted creative tangibles!  Harriet Powers

This will be my second lecture on her life —- a it’s getting more grounded!  Lo and behold—I really lost-misplaced——CANNOT FIND THE QUILT !!!   

So I’ve stepped up in a new arena to the my Lady’s BIBLE QUILT

 

Returning to my first LOVE!

Hello to my world of quilt friends!  I chose college major to become a business classroom teacher.  But instead of a practical practical nine month profession, I signed into a thirty-four years of a corporate, competitive and satisfying job which involved seminars and leadership training with a variety of people.   

When the quilting bug caught me twenty plus years ago; I learned anew what really satisfied by "innards" as my Big Mama might have said!  Thus I learned and grew and stretched far into innovative artwork in my quilt designs and narrative quilt styles.   Here's a TRUE LOVE Valentine's quilt that I gifted to an auction event last February.  

But hey—-I’m back to my first love! There's just something magical and precise and mind-relaxing about a perfect quarter inch stitch and seams that presses evenly and matches almost perfectly all through out a lap sized quilt!   And the mistakes and reversed blocks are hilarious to remind me of everyday life.   I bet it's like that for you to!  

I nick-name my friends.... these two ladybugs are first-time quilters showing off their X's and O'x (hugs and kisses) beginner quilt blocks.  

My most recent adventure as a retiree moved me BACK into teaching basic block construction to senior women at my community Wellness Center two days a week!   Wow to the excitement of looking over their shoulders with tips, tricks and how-to’s.

And my newest best friend invited me to teach a really broad range of college students, staff and faculty.  The Culture of the Quilt was a four-week workshop that included mostly first-time and never-before sewists.  The group chose African wax designed fabric and we reflected on messages that may have been hidden and translated into quilts by enslaved person in America.  Good conversations for all who left the sessions knowing how to rotary cut, ruler and mat measurements, stitch a quarter inch and what exactly can you do with half square triangles (HST's). 

I marvel at my first calling to teach business classes! This is so much more fun!   It's still the same striving to touch and encourage another persons life.  A craft, a hobby, a skill.  Quilting is much more that just that.  Lastly my Professor girlfriend wanted me to join her along with my own granddaughter to tap into their heritage and tap into the "innards"... the innermost part of their young minds and souls to talk, laugh and to quilt a block.  

We, as quilters and artisans, know how we can change and enliven and enlarge our world.  We know that just by dropping a pebble, or a button, or a needle tip into the pond of water we send forth ripples of cherished memories and inspiration to keep on quiltin!

Truly LuvYa

Beverly

Layered & Stitch: An Art Quilt Experience is a two-day live, virtual event with fourteen expert quilting instructors. Dive into a whirlwind of art quilting excitement with a lineup of engaging sessions covering quilt improvisation, techniques, tips, materials, and beyond. Learn about landscape quilts, surface design, how to use fabric scraps and silks, finding your creative voice, and so much more! 

May 18-2024

Quiltin’ the Soul of Harriet Powers

Harriet Angeline Powers speaks to us today as a legendary folk art quilter born into slavery but used her quilts to tell the story of her daily and spiritual life. Her most famous quilt, The Bible Quilt, depicts scenes of the Bible along with local folktales of her community. In this session, get inspired by an overview of Harriet Powers and The Bible Quilt. Learn from this appliqué how-to session using lace and cotton figures of a dove, a camel, a high-stepping elephant, and a serpent, as depicted in her beautiful narrative quilt.

Enchanting Girls

 

Reflecting Rainy Days

 I relished the stitching of this estate sale quilt!  Weather not yet warm on the patio.   Skies are gray and overcast!

Nevertheless and ….. all the more …. I spotted the first bloom of Spring 2024