Hill Country Film Festival

Hill Country Film Festival has been our go to event this weekend--beginning on Thursday and ending Saturday night we have been engrossed in films, shorts, documentaries, panel discussions, visit with film makers--all of the independent variety.

Hill Country Schedule--includes many short blocks, major features and one night, the viewing of

"Goonies!"  

 

Here Come The Cowl........................

Skeinwalker (love that name!) which reminds me of 'skinwalkers'--

Anyway, she has some wonderful easy knit cowl patterns

and a bonus--she offers them free!

Explorers Newsletter is her outlet to give you news,

tidbits of knitting, test knits and promotions

This is my second Skeinwalker pattern to knit.

This one is Kalasi--Crescent of the Wave--

I'm using stash malabrigo yarn--

we're on our way to another addiction!

Oh Yes, I DO!

It's not a secret--I like Wine!  It's my

hobby along with my fiber activities.

This past weekend we celebrated all Rose' wines

at Texas Wine Revolution--

so many to taste so little time!

The event was held at Horseshoe Bay Resort,

located in the heart of Texas Hill country--

what a good location!

Here is my Rose' shirt--I don't do Pink so

settled with gray with pink lettering--

got to have a shirt to go along with event

Yes, the wines are pink--or Rose'--some

peachy colored--depends on how long the skins are

allowed to sit on the juice.

Our large drinking vessel for those 'tiny' pours

from 45 different wineries

In the background is the main hotel and surrounding

area contains villas--so many amenities!

Tents! Tents! Tents!  Lots of Rose' wine to sample!

Behind the scenes look--this was a perfect

location--we're looking forward to 2019!

WIPs

WIP=Works In Progress

Always something ready to be sewn, cut out, 

stitched, bound, finish................

Here is my small stack of Tumblers left over from the quilt above

This is a leader-ender project from Quiltville.  I think there is 

plenty here to finish up a quilt

I traced the patterns to Fatcat Patterns for her whimiscal

Gnomes--a Christmas theme--haven't even printed off the

Halloween one

I do have some trees pressed on fabric just waiting for when

I sit to cut out.  I try to have several of these ready for the scissors

Pat Sloan has these small quilts for each month--

Button Club patterns--more fusible involved

Made in USA flag quilt is one that I would like to have

finished and bound by July 4th

Pat Sloan has this free flag pattern--although much

larger it is the same principal

And last to not least--this oversized block is just waiting for

me to complete the half blocks that will finish up this

Meadow Mist Quilt

There is always something to work on--when in the

mood

Year And Four Months.............

We all have those projects that linger in the stash bin...

some of mine seem "ancient"!  I was so excited to

finally finish this one..

An easy way to make a 

quilt is a block a month--but that does take a

whole year or longer to wrap it up

as a Quilt.  These blocks came from

A Quilting Life

She is hosting another BOM tis year

I don't do Pink but somehow I had these

fabrics in my stash--found some green too

and tried to use ALL the pink I could find.

Someone will like it---I hope!

One Tuesday in Magnolia

The sun finally came out to make our day even better!

On this Tuesday several of the expatcher group gathered

to share their projects--some ongoing, some

very much aged!

Annette was working on her small blocks, using

her birthday fat quarters of naturals. 

Judy found these trees in the bottom of her stash bin--

object--finish two small hangings

A close-up of Brenda's purple/green quilt that was 

just quilted--lovely!

Brenda decided to make a shamrock quilt, using a

table runner pattern--she added blocks!

The quilting of Brenda's Valentine quilt below

"Love" this!!

Judy is making baby blankets with flannel--

two pieces of 45" sandwiched and blanket

stitched by hand

This is the quilted pattern on Camilla's quilt

below

Nine Patch mixup, I call it!

Two nine patches, one with dark in the corners,

the other with light in the corners

cut across diagonally and vertically

and then mix up! 

what about a happy crayon quilt!!

Ready to go on Judy's long arm

Talk about complicated--oh whoa!

these will go into a table runner

Always a good day to spend with expatchers!

Handspun + Knitting = Satisfaction!

In these two year long endeavors, the joy of using handspun is 

shear satisfaction.  Delight through the fingertips

Shetland Lace patterns are a real treat to knit!

Alpaca/silk blend--two ply

some beads when I feel like it

no beads across these rows just

2 ply silk/polworth blend