Barn Quilt

I was able to take several pictures of my barn quilt that is on the side of our RV shed. It looks great from the road and in our pasture. Here are a few pictures of my Barn Quilt.

MQX West Quilt Show

MQX West Quilt Show

MQX West

I took several pictures of all the beautiful quilts at the MQX Quilt Show. I really enjoyed the classes and the Quilt Show. I found a new quilt friend, my roommate Cindy. She was able to come over to my house before she went home on Thurs. She has family in Keizer. We have alot in common and enjoy computerized quilt. When I got home I put a new practice fabric on the machine. Here are several pictures of the MQX Quilt Show in the 2 postings.

MQX West

Last week I attended the Machine Quilting Expo(MQX)from Wed to Sat in Portland. I stayed at the Red Lion Inn near the convention center. That was great to be close to the convention center so after class you could go back to your room. I was able find a roommate from MQX. Cindy was a great roommate. She is from Alpine, Utah and has a longarm business. I have a new quilt friend plus she has family in Oregon too. I took several classes on how to start a quilting business and computerized quilting. I was disappointed that Wenda Coburn had to cancel her classes due to low enrollment. I took several classes from her in Tacoma(Innovations)several years ago on short arm. She has a mid arm with Quilt Motion which she was going to teach classes on it at MQX. I took 2 classes from Sally Terry about websites and starting a business. She was super and full of energy. MQX has classes plus a Quilt Show/Vendors. The quilts were fabulous. I will post a few pictures of Quilt Show. I really enjoyed going to MQX and my new friend Cindy. I got alot of great ideas for the business. This week I'm working on my quilting machine with a plain piece of cloth for practice.

Barn Quilt

I have always wanted a Barn Quilt to place on our RV Shed or Shop. It is very popular to place the Barn Quilts on barns in the Midwest(Iowa) and East. We have several in Tillamook, OR on their dairy farms. I finished making my Barn Quilt with plywood, paint and a quilt design. I found a design in a book with traditional blocks from the 18th century and liked the Star Shadow. It was popular in 1860-1880. I liked using 2 colors for it. Wayne placed on the side of the RV shed that has 2 brown stars which are for good luck last week. I will take a picture of it soon. I have a few pictures of it after I finisned it. It was alot of fun painting it and may do another

soon. Here are pictures of Star Shadow Barn Quilt

Rain

The rain has finally come back to Oregon yesterday. We have over 80 days or more of little or no rain. Everything was very dry with low humidity was a receipe for FIRES. We got a good rain yesterday with 1/2" by evening. I'm so happy to see and hear the rain to make Oregon Green again. We are transplants from Colorado. It is fun to hear people complain of the rain but why move here if you don't like the RAIN and GREEN. That was one of the reason we moved here was because it was GREEN most of the year. It was so BROWN in CO during the winter but here it will be a beautiful GREEN. We love Oregon and are so glad we moved here 11 1/2 years ago.