The Wedding Quilter Quilts

The Wedding Tables

 

With a big THANK YOU! to MK, 

my daughter's best friend and maid of honor,

who was the lovely person at the wedding

who took this lovely photo of her table.

This also shows the beautiful paper rose bouquets

that they made together for the bridesmaids.

and

 

 

 The Wedding Cake Table and Quilt

 The beautiful and delicious cake itself 

was a gift of the Maid of Honor's cousin.

 

 

By the big day, "The Wedding Quilter" made 12 quilts:

 

 

8 of the large flower "Marissa" quilts for the guests' tables,

 

 

1 of the hexagon flower "Patricia" quilts for the escort card table,

 

 

 

1 small flower "Emeline" quilt for the pretty little flower girl,

the Bride and Groom's 4 year old niece.

This photo was taken before the binding was sewn to the back.

I actually brought the last three quilts with me the day before the wedding and finished hand sewing the bindings to the back that evening

to keep my hands busy. 

 

 

"Dance of the Blessed Spirits"

The Sweetheart's Table Quilt (center)

 

and

 

 

"The Wedding Quilt"

which my daughter plans to use as a wall hanging.

 

Unfortunately, I do not have good photos of just the table quilts at the reception.  I did take some pictures at the start, but then I had a memory card failure in my camera and lost all the ones I had already taken at the ceremony and reception.  Fortunately, I did have a second memory card and was able to take the videos of the first dances that my daughter was hoping to have and a few more pictures.  

 

Mostly, though, I just enjoyed this wonderful day with my family and friends and forgot that I had a camera.

 

I received many lovely compliments from the guests on my quilts and

there were many photos taken and I am sure a few will surface in the coming weeks and I will find some to post later.

 

For now these will have to do ...

 

 

 The Best Man, my oldest son Jonathan, Toast.

 

Centerpiece made by my daughter and her bridesmaids and me

visible in the center of the closest table.

 

The Bride and Groom at their Sweetheart Table

 

 

"Dance of the Blessed Spirits"

The Sweetheart Table Runner

 

 

Close up of center "True Love Knot"

 

Thanks to all who have followed along and supported me and sent well wishes to my Daughter and Son-In Law while I have ventured down

"Wedding Quilter Lane."

 

Time to turn my quilty attention to new ventures.

 

I have a Christmas Quiltyness to sew!

 

I am posting in the fabulously festive

Ho Ho Ho! Hop

on Friday!

 

My quilt is in pieces right now!

 

Time to sew!!

 

:-)

 

The Wedding

Cathedral of the Pines

 

August 2, 2013

4:00pm

 



 

The Bride and Her Dad

 

 The Vows

 

The Kiss

 



 

The Bride and Groom

 

 *~*~* Happiness *~*~*

 

 

For photos of "The Wedding Quilter" quilts

at the reception, click Here!

~

<3 ~

 

May Peace Be With You

and

may joy follow you all the days of your lives.

 

May God Bless

 

~ <3 ~

 



Random 5 Feline Friday

Lovers Knot Block

(1) My Girl and Her Groom are getting married one week from today! 

I am working on the Wedding Table Quilt
for their Sweetheart Table at the reception. 
It is the last one I need to make!

The pieces to the puzzle.

 (2) All the other table quilts for their reception are done!

Flower Wedding Table Quilts

 

 

(3) Butterfly was a big help by making sure all the quilts

passed quilty kitty inspection for Our Girl.

 

The Butterfly

 

 (4) There was also the making of a Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Cheesecake

for my future son-in-law for a welcome home from LDAC training,

belated birthday for a pre-wedding gathering and pool party to celebrate The Happy Couple. 



Ingredients

 

Vanilla Bean Frozen Mousse and Ice Cream Cake 

 

(5) Katiniss has been helping by spending as much time outdoors on her leash as is humanly possible.

 

Katniss

 

Katniss loves to sit on this crumbling woodpile in our backyard.

Linking up with the interesting people at

 

A Rural Journal
 

 and

the interesting kitties at

Feline Friday
 

See you again soon ...

 

(after the wedding)

 

... just keep sewing ...

 

~ <3 ~



Pin It!

My Ice Cream Cone Pin Cushion   I made this for the "Shake Your Pom Poms" Blog Hop Tutorial Here   Now I will be making a new pincushion for a new blog hop that is all about Pin Cushions!         Sign Up Now!   All the info here @   Sew We Quilt   The cheerleader for this hop will be   Kristen @ Meadowbrook   Looking forward to the parade of pretty pincushions!   How to see you joining in the fun!   :-)    

Quilty Christmas in July

A Merry Hexie Quilty in July!

My quilty corner has been enveloped in the longest, hottest heat wave of the summer.  While I have been staying inside in the breeze of the AC and quilting the table quilts for My Girl and Her Groom, I have been enjoying my breaks by cooling off with all the Christmas in July quiltiness in blogland.

While I am quilting I am dreaming of a Quilty Christmas.

Visions of my project for the ...

 

are dancing in my head!

I am posting on August 9th!

To get into the spirit I took a picture of the

 

 

 Hexie Quilty Trivet that I made last year.

 

It was made as a quilt test project from a sample block I made for the

 

 

Tumbling Christmas Blocks Quilt

featured in my Quilty Christmas Open House post.

Tutorials for the "no y seams" easy piecing of this traditional pattern

may be found in My Tutorials.

 

Here is a pictorial of how I made the Hexie Trivet:

 

 

2 diamonds and 2 triangles to make this block

The triangles are sewn to the top of the diamonds and then

the seams are nested and the two units are sewn together

to make the third diamond.

Sewn into strips, these make tumbling blocks with no "y" seams.

 

 

quilted onto batting and backing

 

 QAYG borders added

 

more quilting

trimmed to hexagon shape

 

 

ready to finish

 

 

flannel backing and binding.

 

 

I used this last on my holiday table.

I am planning to make more quilty trivets this year.

 

Have you been following these cool and Christmasy blog hops?

 

 

 Christmas in July Blog Hop

 or

Modern Holiday Blog Tour

or

 

my personal favorite blog hop for this month ...

 

 

31 Days Of Holiday Gifts

 

from one of my LQS, Quilter's Way

 

Lots of great ideas and tutorials to get you in the

Christmas in July spirit!

 

Enjoy!

 

Happy Christmas in July!

:o)