The Future and Past

Younger people see a future that older people can’t see 

but older people have seen a past that younger people haven’t seen

Heritage Bed-Turning of Quilts

 Oklahoma Home Community & Education presented a fulll fledged exhibit this week.  So glad I attended

Say It Loud! Quilt Blaster

 Is there ever such a thing as toooooo much color n energy in a quilter voice?

Vivacious Girl ~ Violette's Heirloom Keepsake

 Hello today - Good Quilt Friends!

It's a great Tuesday.... really because it follows my day off.... my day on of free time to quilt.  The weather is still moody.... so good.  I'll go outside if its good for March... if Oklahoma wants to rain and try for storms.. then I'll quilt!

I like to eat, sleep, and breathe quilts, quilt blocks, magazines and quilting.  I check in weekly with my friends and family and I teach a quilt class two days a week.  I am truly inspired by fabric and a fabric sale.  Inspiration is everywhere and I smile daily.  

I'm sharing a bit more after my best friends welcomed their first granddaughter last year.

I'll let a few more pictures showoff my design process..... Go to my FB page to do a double-take journey!  

I knew I'd have to change courses in order to use the HEAT N BOND to cut out the applique letters for this little girl's name!!!!   So -- a few more days.   I really believe I'll be able to deliver this on Sunday to my friends.   

Layout, Layout, Layout.... oh the possibilities!   I switched out the green blouse with HST's

Thanks for sharing my quilt life.....   Be Well !

Finishing Glorious Snow Ball Quilt

 I added a pieced/// really wonderful backing!    Own ward Christian Quilter —-to my friend inspired L-Armer

Violette’s Quilt of Love

This has come along!  How?  

My longarm said her friend was having a fabric stash sale

Heresy where I make my HST line up

My magic is soul pleasing…. The hues of blue and teal.  Then the bold setting of RED … no less!

 I’ve been tasked as a method of friends who ask and joyously send a first grandchild’s tiny booties and clothing to me in a brown box!!!!

Well. I’ve been a year in finding a rhythm… I prepped several items.. but couldn’t get to a layout   So I never miss a sale and she has WORD panels!!

Perfect 

Winter Snowball Quilt is a Winner

 

                 Snowball Quilt

I taught this at my second beginner class project in abt February of 2025 at the NE Wellness & Community Center - OKC.   

I changed the HST to meet and greet.... as a quilter I knew I'd have to re-do the blocks to get this effect.   So near the end.... but it took a minute!

pieced and machine stitched:    size 64” x 78                                     

Beverly Huggins Kirk                  OKC, OK                   bquiltin Studio

Side-Line Quilt Start-up

 When have you missed a day of quilting?   Well, I fought the 3-day flu bug (longer) and I did not quilt.  OH MY!!

But my inspiration is still kicking.    I want to SIDELINE-START … the exploding heart quilt….   And another take on the Disappearing Nine Patch!    In fact it’s a Missouri Star…. But I REFUSE to pay pdf.  I’m thinking I’m good enuf (hmnnnn)😄😄😄 to recreate this beauty

I visited my longarm lady(I’m loving her!!!) and her design wall was my show n tell!  Then a couple of YouTube videos.   

I went ahead and///cheated in biting a 10” cake for $40!!

X's & O's Just for you ~ Hugs and Kisses

This,  

My darling -- measures 60" x 60" as a square.  

This quilt trip ---  began back in January 2024 @ the NE Community Wellness Center, NE OKC as I taught my (I'm possessive of this ladies....)... this wonderful group of first-time quilters.   Oh and did they ever learn!

The age-old Hugs and Kisses pattern was adaptable starting with the 7" square and the 4" squares being made into HST's.  

I worked at OK Quiltworks and the bolted fabric had several rows of varied oranges.... so it was a cinch to use.  The individual X/O's made a 13" block four across and four down.  

So here I am... a year later teaching a new SNOWBALL beginner quilt pattern for a new group of ladies!

Thus, I decided to take this quilt top and add the batting and backing!

The backing was my inspiration!!!!!  It was a gift of six yards of YARDSALE African fabric stash-give away!   Dropped off at my front door last month.

The Lord has a really really nifty way of bringing all things together.... for good, for joy and comfort!

African Elephants and Masked-Women ( I imagine) all with just the right tinge of orange   

Now... I'm pulling out my heart strings..... 

I love Ann.   

I love the quilt!   

PERFECT MATCH!   

Keep Stitchin' My friend!

 

Love quilt Triumphs Every Time

 “The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.” — bell hooks

UNTIRING As A Quilter

I’m reading… and I Found A New word …befitting me as a quilt artisan!

ˌin-di-ˌfa-ti-gə-ˈbi-lə-tē 

 noun

incapable of being fatigued : UNTIRING

I Feel the Quilt Story In Me

 Some late pm’s… I just have to cut and piece together one of my To-do wish list!

Well my intensity in learning this curvy log cabin!  I’m NOT buying a pattern-pdf-nada!  This was hung in a quilt show… and boy oh boy—- I studied it’’’’’ I took close pictures to count the rows, placement and center block—looked around online…

I love me!!!!!

Wha’ do ya think….  First four for the center.  Oddly… it’s a traditional quilt!

Mind you—-I have a “hankering” to go deep into African prints—into faces—and protest messages via hope n survival….    

But right now it’s structure and precision—-JUST HOLD STEADY GIRLFRIEND.  QUILT ON!!!

Quiltin' the Bible Road to Ecclestiastes 3:7

I'm an old girl, yet applying Scripture to every part of my life. I often cut and paste "Good Thoughts" and this is a reminder of what was said by some good writer years ago.

In the Old Testament, the writer states in Ecclestiastes 3:7 that there is “ a time to tear apart and a time to sew together…..a time to be silent and a time to speak”.  

Making a quilt is indeed a combination of tearing apart and piecing fabric back together. We use and re-use fabric so that nothing is really wasted or forgotten in the back of our closet. That old dress or pair of jeans is cut-away at the seams and we add new textures, buttons or lace so as to re-fashion it. So it is, the old remains familiar and yet brand new.

In this way, my quilted objects let me embrace the memory of yesterday - the kids, my mom, my father-in-law, my veteran.... A time and a season for everything...

This is authentic African or maybe Morocco... being hand quilted in the hoop by my sister-friend!

Below.... is Transcendence......  at least 2012 -- old and still shining!

Dear Friends....  I'm gonna post on that UFO quilt top... long unfinished black and white in the background...... exciting completion 2024

Oklahoma's New York Gorgeous Quiltin'

The next teaching session that I'm teaching is CURVED PIECING !   

Grouping of 12-14 ladies are now at the intermediate stage.  They've mastered strip piecing on a foundation of a String Quilt.   Learned and at ease with HST.   They love flying geese... 4 at a time.  They added the One-Seam Flying geese from a tutorial.  

First quilts were beautiful as a Hugs & Kisses quilt..... onto a Snowball beginner quilt.

CURVED PIECING

CURVED ARCs via paper piecing perfect points!  

This wonderful group that I quilt with two days a week for several hours..... Well it was my birthday.... and they gloriously CROWNED me.... as their QUEEN QUILTIN B