Happy National Quilting Day!

Tomorrow is National Quilting Day.  Our baby quilts are at the hospitals for the first baby born tomorrow and also we have our wonderful get together at the Town Hall for sewing, celebrating, learning a new technique and just the realization of how lucky we are to be together in the moment! Our passion for quilting brings us together and that is something special.  Laurie and I will try and get photos tomorrow so the "snowbirds" can  be with us in spirit.

We are also very lucky this weekend in that The Quilt Show is letting us see over 220 show for free for three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday!  So join if you haven't, you can set up a free account if you don't want a paid account and just pick out something you're interested in, get a cup of coffee and snuggle in or even better yet, set your laptop next to your sewing machine and keep sewing.

Remember, to bring your supplies for tomorrow.  A walking foot is important for the quilt as you go project and anything else, cutting supplies and pressing items and any food you signed up for and drinks.  Hopefully, the snow will stop.  

National Quilting Day

March 19 is officially National Quilting Day even though the month of March has been made into a quilting month.  Is there someone you can show the joy of quilting this month and pass on the traditions?  Can you get together with friends and just sew because you want to!?  Do you have an extra quilt that you can pass onto someone in need of a hug or just because you care about them?  How about finishing up a UFO or starting a project that you've looked forward to.  These are all ways to celebrate this day or month.

I know many of you sew with daughters or grandkids, how great is that.  Peg just recently sent me a photo of her granddaughter sewing on her first quilt, what a sweetheart!  (Both of them!)  It doesn't get better than that.  One of my granddaughters has a birthday this month and she told her dad to tell me that she wanted her own "sewing kit" for her birthday.  How fun will that be for me to buy...finally I'm getting her the real stuff, real scissors, needles, etc.  She likes to hand sew already and the girls fight over the Featherweight.  Quilting is a communicable disease!

There is also an official Quilting Day quilt pattern offered as a free download.  If you like log cabins you'll love this.  Its called Build Your Own Log Cabin and designed by Barbara Harrell.  Check it out.