Jessica's Visit

Santa Monica Pier

Rock Sculpture at Getty

Another rock sculpture at the Getty

Jessica and the 4 fabrics (all Robert Kaufman's) and the pattern that she selected from my newest quilt magazine.

Carnell and I had a lovely visit with Jessica.  She came for a week and it was too short a time but we fit in lots of fun things with lunch out every day!  This morning, the day of her departure we traveled to M & L Fabric Warehouse in Anaheim so that she could select the fabrics for her and Tim's bedroom.  She has a great eye for color and it will be an amazing quilt, I think I will try a wool batting as they live in Seattle and the weather is damp and 

cool for a lot of the year. 

Wanda's Washington Redskins Quilt

Our niece, Wanda in Virginia is an avid Redskins fan.  She called me up in January and asked it I could please make her a blanket (quilt) for her bed using Washington Redskins fabric.  So like the good Auntie I am, I ordered some official NFL fabric from Joann's (best price around), once I saw the fabric I thought what the heck can I do with this.  Thank goodness for the Quilting Board forum - someone there had made a quilt that also featured a large uncannily print using the Garden Maze pattern from the Quilt Cache website.  I knew right then and there that this was the pattern to use.  Below you will see how nicely the quilt did turn out.  I made 2 pillowcase to coordinate in the wine with black and a bit or Redskins fabric. 

Thus, another quilt is ticked off this years to do list!

Economical Spray Glue for basting from stuff you have at home :)

I have tweaked a recipe from a member of the Quilting Board forum that I follow.  Mrs. Beasley posted a recipe that I finally got around to trying yesterday, I modified the recipe to keep in step with my cooking style.  The spray glue mixture sprayed easily out of the bottle and had a nice adhesion to it.
So here we go!

3 cups of water
1/2 tsp salt
8 ounces or rubbing alcohol
clean spray bottle


- In a pot place 2 cups of water and 1/2 tsp of salt bring to a boil and reduce to a gentle boil.
- In a gravy shaker (or a jam jar) put 1 cup of cold water and 3 tbsp of flour - shake until the flour and water are combined.
- Whisk the flour mixture into the gently boiling water like you are making gravy and let it cook until the consistency of gravy/egg whites/ thin gruel.
- Remove from the heat and let it cool down to room temperature.
- In a clean spray bottle add 8 ounces of rubbing alcohol and the cooled flour mixture, gently shake and go sandwich a quilt.

*** There was one posting that someone had sprayed a quilt and left for a few months and they had some mold grow.  Since I am not going to leave my two quilts that I sandwiched yesterday that long I can't say for certain that this does or does not happen.  I just wanted everyone to know that this had been reported.