Professor Bear

This panda bear is rocking the top hat and looking super posh and classy; the only thing he's missing is a monocle!  The story behind this little guy is that the employee of the week gets to take him home and add something to it so that over time he acts a collage of everyone's good work.  Personality is a big part of this too, his name is Cheeseburger.  Personality is a big part of this.  The top hat is one I've used before, but this time I didn't add the extra rows (so it doesn't look like an Amish hat) and I added a little cardboard circle to the top of the hat to give it a little extra definition.  Also the little white stripe is actually from a pompom oh which I've snipped off a little--an excellent decision!

A Quilting Summer 2012

Over the summer, I spent a lot of time getting my quilt blocks all cut up and ready to go.  I even started sewing the blocks together!  Basically I lucked out and had an entire room to myself with enough space for a design wall, sewing machine, and a little ironing station... pretty sweet digs.

Previously in the blog, I've posted pictures of my quilt in progress with a target theme going on.  Well, this might have been what the pattern called for in the book, in actuality with my hand dyed fabrics this pattern just did not pan out aesthetically.  In the end, I packed it all up and sent it home for a couple of weeks just to my thoughts settle.  Thankfully my quilter's get-a-way is mid September so I could reorganize all of the blocks on my design wall with all of the support and opinions of about 30 quilters ranging between 40-90years old give or take.  So I was the youngest by far, which is hilarious because this is my third time going to the get-a-way!

Anyway, out at this 3 day Quilters' Get-A-Way in the middle of nowhere (aka no internet or cell reception), we quilted day and night.  A couple of the younger crowd and I worked from 8am to 3am every day; it was intense.  Thus, my newly organized quilt was born!!  Dadadadaaaaa!