Thursday, November 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving

It is Thanksgiving Day here in the US. I didn't realize other countries celebrated it on different days until I started reading blogs. My son's family is bringing the turkey and I am fixing a lot of the other stuff and the sun is shining this morning. We didn't get any snow overnight, just quite a bit of rain. It was only in the 20's this morning and it sounds like mid 30's is all we can hope for.

This quilt is one that I made in a Mary Ellen Hopkins consumer seminar in Chicago in 1989. That was the only time she did one near here, most were held in LasVegas. She didn't care for the union tactics in Chicago.

She sold us the large floral print for one of the background fabrics and it was used in hers in her book "Connecting Up". This pattern is bow ties and was really fun to make. She was writing the book when we did the seminar so we were her test people.
Here is a closeup of some of the fabrics of the day. There is a lot of Jinny Beyer's early fabric line in this one.
Have a great day everyone!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Thanksgiving Wanda,
Hope this day doesn't stress you out to much, you have to be ready for that shower ! How come you haven't shown us (art quilters) that quilt ? I love it, and hope to see it on the 3rd ! The picture came out so beautifuly clear and the colors are great! See you soon!
Louise

Joyce said...

Happy Thanksgiving. Love the bowties. I like the way you've used big and small ones.

meggie said...

Happy Thanksgiving.
Those fabrics look lovely with that large floral as background.
I love studying the fabrics.