Maddie and Sassy

Here are a few pictures of Maddie taking herself around the house with her leash. Sassy loves to get into my fresh picked green beans. She will take them out and then push them on to the floor to play green bean hockey.

Coneflower

I finished my quilt of the coneflower on Sunday. I really like it. It was fun to do the thread play. This is a pattern in Melinda Bula book called Cutting Garden Quilts. I have the zinnia that I made in her class to do the thread play. I will work on this project alittle at a time. I will start on some new projects. I took my quilt to the Pine Needle quilt shop in Lake Oswego on Saturday. The Northwest Quilt Expo is a month away. Here are some pictures of my Coneflower.

Northwest Quilting Expo

I have been working on my coneflower doing the thread play on it for the last several weeks. I'm almost done with the flowers so I can quilt the background. It looks great but is time consuming. I need to start another project but want to finish the quilt and bind it.
I decided not to enter a quilt in the state fair this year. I decided to enter my Old Hawaii quilt in the 11th Annual Northwest Quilting Expo in Portland on Sept 22-24. The judges in the past have been at our guild quilt show. There are 2 new judges this year. I enter in the small quilt category to be judged. I sent a picture of my quilt and got my acceptance letter on Saturday. There are about 450-500 quilts at the show so this will be the biggest show I have entered a quilt. There is prize money in each category(1st-$500,2nd-$250 and 3rd-$150. I'm very excited to have a quilt in the show. I have to take the quilt up to Portland by August 31( 2 quilt shops will take them). The Pine Needle in Lake Oswego is the one I will go to this Saturday. It is a great shop and will go to the farmers market there too.