Author: Wild Rose Quilter

I’m a simple woman…at least that what my DH (Dear Husband) used to say about me…I was a wife, I am now a widow, mother, step-mother & step-grandmother, quilter, and have a full time job in criminal justice. I lost my DH on May 22nd, 2011. I live in a small town in Texas. I love piecing quilts, I love quilting quilts. I have a serious addiction to fabric. I’ve been quilting since 1998, and purchased my first longarm, a Gammill Premier, in 2004. I upgraded to an A-1 Elite, named Corky, in March, 2007. I am in the process of rebuilding my life after losing my spouse. All photos and content in this blog are my own, and I request that you not download, copy or otherwise use anything here without my permission. I hope you enjoy visiting my blog and would love to hear your comments. Thanks for stopping by!
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Thank you!!!!

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The Circle Lord contest winners have been announced! My quilt, For the Love of Eleanor, is a winner!! Thank you so much to everyone that voted for it.  I’m so excited about it.  It won the Viewer’s Choice award, as well as a 4th place prize in it’s category.  My congratulations to all the other winners, as well! I’m in such great company! There were some really awesome quilts posted.  I can’t tell you all how much I appreciate it! And, thank you to Michael, for throwing this contest and for his amazingly generous prizes!

You can see the list of winners here:

Circle Lord Challenge Blog

daily life · family · longarm quilting · machine quilting

Been Busy, Busy…and Sick

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Meant to get another blog post up before now, but life had other plans.  Of course, there was district golf, and traveling for that.  I happily and proudly present the 2010 District Champs!

The first one on the left is MY golfer.  Hopefully, I will be on the road to Lubbock Sunday, for the regional tournament, Monday and Tuesday.  I say hopefully, because I have been down for the count since Wednesday evening with some nasty flu.  I managed to get out of bed around 11:00 this morning.  I was up and down all night with a horrid headache.  I tried ice, I tried hot bath water…nothing would ease what felt like a vice squeezing my brain.  And the nausea.  Yuk.  My poor DH has even been home with it since mid-afternoon Wednesday.  I am praying that Derek does not get it.  At least not til AFTER regionals.  That would not be good.

I finished the quilting for the guild’s donation quilt.  The pattern is Lucky Stars, by Terry Atkinson, with an added applique border.  I think the guild members were happy with it.  I used Quilter’s Dream blend batting, Superior’s Rainbows thread on top, and Superior’s So Fine thread on back.  The top is all batiks, and the backing is a wide batik backing from Sew Batik.  It was wonderful to quilt.  I was worried about using a fussier thread with all those batiks, but I didn’t have any troubles.  I started out with a larger needle…a size 20 titanium from Groz-Beckert, and that seemed to work very well.  I had fantastic tension, top and bottom.  I was very happy with the way the quilting looks on the back.

Here are some block close-ups so you can see how lovely this Rainbows variegated thread looked on this.  I was using the color Rain Forest, in the stars and borders, and Sand Castle in the background.  The Rain Forest blended so nicely with all the different colors in this quilt.  I love it!  The Sand Castle was a perfect match for the range of colors in the batik background fabric.

The ladies at the guild did a great job putting this together and it was a pleasure to work on it.  I fell totally in love with it, and it sure was hard to give it back! Just a couple more…

It will be a lucky person that gets to take this Lucky Stars home with them!

On a final note, thanks to everyone that took time to vote in the Circle Lord Challenge contest, whether you voted for my quilt or not! And thanks to those that have sent me good wishes and words of encouragement, and did vote for mine.  Now, we just have to wait til the winners are announced.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.  Think I will go lay back down for awhile.

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Voting has begun in the Circle Lord Challenge!

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It is now time to vote for your favorite quilts in the Circle Lord Challenge.  I have one entry in the contest, my nine patch and stripe quilt, “For the Love of Eleanor”.  The pattern is from Eleanor Burns Still Stripping book.

This link will take you to the site and the voting instructions.

Circle Lord Challenge

There are lots of awesome quilts there, so do take a few minutes to go pick some favorites to vote for, even if it’s not mine! My quilt is in category D, #147 .  There is also a category “V”, to vote for overall Viewer’s Choice.

Here are some photos I took after I finished the quilting.

Of course, I would be most appreciative of any votes you care to throw my way, if you feel my quilt is deserving! 🙂

embroidery · family · favorite things

I have a real treat for y’all!

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Soon, I will be finished with the DWR on the machine, and will have the finished pics of that to share with you.  I have quite a little backlog of customer quilts waiting right now, so I have put aside my own projects for the moment, to stay up with that, as best as I can.  But, in the meantime, I have some yummy, yummy eye candy to share with you.  I want to show off some beautiful handwork, done by a woman that I never had a chance to know in this life.  These lovely items were all done by my husband’s grandmother, Clara Woods Allen.  I do not know when she made them…they are many years old.  They have been stored in my husband’s parents  house, in a cedar chest.  My husband, his sister and brother worked on sorting through the items still left in the house, in order to get it emptied in preparation for selling.  These are things they picked out for me to take home.  I am so in love with them and feel so blessed to be able to enjoy these TREASURES.  I love to look at the stitching, and imagine “Grandma Allen” working on them, and at times I am moved to tears by them.  That might sound kind of silly, but that is how deeply I appreciate and value her handwork.  I will love and enjoy them until it is time to pass them down to my stepdaughter, who will love them just as much.  I am so thankful that I have been given the chance to love and treasure them in my life! And, I feel honored to be trusted with their safekeeping. Enjoy the show…and remember you can click the pictures to make them even bigger, and really see the details.  I have several pieces to share, and will space them out over a few posts, rather than all at once, as posting takes me quite a bit of time, and I’m kind of short on that right now.

Actually, the first couple of items are ones that we brought home after Greg’s mom passed, about nine years ago, but I don’t think I have shown them before, so I am including them in the show.  Even if I have, they are worth seeing again.

Her work is so neat and pretty on the backs, as well…just like it is supposed to be, but mine never is!

A pretty table runner.

Another pretty back.

A very pretty three piece set.  Can anyone tell me what the purpose of these was? My mom thought maybe it was for a chair.

And another pretty back.

That’s all for this post…but stay tuned for more! I hope you enjoy the pics.  I’m going to grab a bite of lunch and get back to work on Erma’s DWR.

daily life · family

We won!

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The Perryton Rangers won first place! And my  baby boy won 1st place individual.  In fact, it was a medal sweep with the Rangers taking 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th individual, as well as 1st place team.

the whole team
my kid!

Finishing out with a birdie putt to finish with an even par score of 72.

I must mention that it is his last tournament on his home course as a high school golfer.  Mama was a little teary eyed. What a great day!

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DWR Update

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I got to work on it for two hours this afternoon, after not being able to do anything on it since Sunday, when I finally finished all the CC’ing.  I got one row of feathering completed.  Only eight more to go…lol.

It’s been a crazy, crazy week.  Lots of things going on in my life right now.  Big changes coming at my place of employment.  Lots of unknowns right now.  Tomorrow will be mostly spent on the golf course, cheering on the Ranger golf team.  And that reminds me…I am supposed to be baking a couple dozen cookies for that, as well!  TTYL! Have a great weekend!

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A little preview….

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I am still doing the stabilizing (the continuous curve stitching) on Erma’s DWR, but I had to take a break from it and try out some feathers.  The large feather motif is not a stencil.  I drew it in and stitched it out, and am hopeful that I will be able to replicate it closely, over and over, as I go.  I like it.  I have two rows of the CC stitching done, seven more to go…so it will be a few days before I get back to feathers, or have anything exciting to share.  🙂  TTFN