Erin Underwood Quilts

The Digital Story of the Nativity

Check out this amazing quilt!

http://killerbeedesigns.com/blog1/?p=314

I am honored to have my Diamond Star pattern be this year's raffle
quilt for the Friendship Quilters of Linthicum, Maryland. Take a 
moment to check out the pictures. The quilt is constructed in 
beautiful blues and the quilting! WOW!!!
www.friendshipquiltersoflinthicum.org
Click on the black box that says 2011 Raffle Quilt at the bottom 
of the page and enjoy the show!

The Alliance for American Quilts has in annual fund raiser going on right now!! Take time to check out the bidding for quilts on Ebay.

Ah, Thanksgiving – this family holiday…

Relatives come in  – how long will they stay?

Laundry and dishes pile up everywhere.

That’s not dirt on the floor, its really dog hair!

Lots of Food and Fun and Laughter we hear

But how the hell did I get left with this souvenir?!

As we clean and cook and put our quilting on hold for a few days to enjoy time with family and friends, keep this in mind and you’ll never look at turkey the same again! Happy Thanksgiving!

quilted turkey

This delicious turkey was sent to me by a friend on Facebook – Many thanks to International Quilt Festival and the New England Quilt Museum for posting it on their pages and bringing smiles to all the Facebook quilters!

I cut lots and lots of fabric wrong!!! Putting stripes in a triangle can be a bit confusing and to my dismay, I discovered I had half the stripes running in the wrong direction – hmmm. So after much contemplation, and fabric wrangling, I decided there was only one way to fix this… And off to My Favorite Quilt Shop I went to replenish my just recently purchased fabric. It is really nice to have a quilt shop so close  – although I’m not sure how my checkbook will feel about it if I get too comfortable with this little perk that comes with living in Elkton. Meanwhile, I’m thinking that Didi Salvatierra’s Bodacious Baskets might be just the ticket to use up these directionally challenged stripes!

Just finished the Mason-Dixon Quilt Professional Network Challenge “Two by Two”. The premise was to think about things that come in twos or pairs, etc… We all met today at G-Street Fabrics in Falls Church, VA, and turned in our interpretations of this theme.  Split Hairs, Peaches and Cream, Birds and the Bees and the Flowers and the Trees, Pairs of Pears are just a few of the  titles for the 15 submissions.  Here is my contribution. If you read my blog regularly, you will have noted that I said my long-arm machine went down in the middle of this project on Monday. My loving hubby fixed it right up while I was out canoodling with other quilters that night and I was right back in business  Tuesday morning. The last stitches went into the sleeve and binding at 5 pm on Wednesday and out the door it went first thing this morning – hopefully off to tour at many of the major quilt shows across the USA! Check it out in the gallery for a better view.

Got this one ready for the Ladybug guild meeting tonight – had to include the light fabric with the birds on it and use red and green – wish I had more of that bird fabric because I would have done the fabric placement much differently- not sure how many people really like black in their christmas quilts…

Meanwhile, the on-off button just died on my longarm right as I am pushing a deadline for a Challenge quilt… I have confidence though that my handy-dandy loving hubby will fix it while I’m enjoying myself at the guild meeting tonight. If not, this is all I’ve got…

So its going to be all about Geese this weekend – I’m off to the Heartland Quilt guild in Denton Maryland  and am looking forward to a fun weekend of quilting and retreating, good food, friends and fabric! We are doing my How Many Ways Can a Goose Fly? Block of the Month. Every one is sure to learn a new technique or trick to add to their quilting skills library. I enjoy this project so much – it is such fun to see the quilt come together in all the different fabric choices. Meanwhile, I wonder if there is enough left-overs in the fridge for my husband while I’m gone…