Started a Christmas tablerunner...

My friend Carolyn shared a pattern for a table runner with me today at our Busy Bee meeting. We plan to finish it on Monday at her house. She got the pattern at a recent quilt show and we both have the ruler that makes the diamond pattern.

Just in case you missed him, here's Scotty looking very regal.

Handsome Chipper, trying to get a catnap.

More quilts from the Aiken County Historical Museum 31st annual Quilt Show...

These are just some of the quilts on display at the Aiken County Historical Museum. The show runs the whole month of November. If you are in the Aiken, South Carolina area please stop by to see the quilts at the museum.

Local Quilt Show...

This quilt was the winner of Best of Show and First for pieced bed size quilt. It was made by Nora May, who made it in a class I taught this year. It is the same pattern as the quilt I won a first place ribbon last year. I am so happy for Nora. Oh, we had a different judge this year.

 

This is my quilt that won a second place ribbon in the Pieced wall quilt category. It is a Bonnie Hunter pattern, called Crabapple Tree and was quilted by Betsi Dinger. My quilt was named Apples in the corner orchard, since I added the pieced apples to my checkerboard border.

Salley King's Perseverance quilt won a first place ribbon in the Pieced wall quilt category.

  This was my other entry in the show Cool Spice table runner. It won the second place ribbon in the Miscellaneous Category.

This face jug with flowers by Rachael Thomas won the first place ribbon in the Miscellaneous Category.

I'll post some more eye candy tomorrow. 

DH gets a new car...

I spent Saturday morning with DH picking out his new car. It is a 2011 Honda Insight. New to us it is a hybrid so time will tell if it was a good purchase. He traded in his eleven year old Dodge truck. The only thing I don't like about buying a car is the sales pitch that they seam to be obligated to pitch. They don't seem to like to talk actual numbers. They ask what car payment do you want to pay, not how much do you want to spend. We did it our way with a large down payment to make the payments smaller.

In the afternoon I was able to go to the end of the special one day sale that a local quilt shop was having. I got three one yard pieces at $2.50 per yard and the rest was 30% off. All but the Christmas fabric will go in my Camelot sampler.

Chipper wants to see what we are going to make with it and I bet you do too.