Quilting Bees 10th anniversary

Our guild is celebrating 10th anniversary of its foundation this year!

The preparations for this event started long time ago, last year, right after our quilt show in August.
Our first president Susan Emory was also invited to the celebration, but unfortunately she passed away this spring.
We are so proud of our oldest lady in a guild Edith Brophy, who is one of the founders of our guild. We celebrated her 90th birthday last September and she is always with us, taking part in every event and activity in our guild! I wish I was like her when I am 90. She is a great example to follow! Wishing her all the best and stay with us as long as possible !

We also decided to invite some famous quilters to our anniversary and we voted for several of them So, the winners were Tim Latimer and Pat Sloan!
When we went to Paducah Quilt show in April,

 Pat Sloan was there, so we stopped by at the end of her class and had a chance to introduce ourselves in person and to talk about our event and how much we all are excited about it and looking forward to see her in Murfreesboro.

And here she is! Such a talented lady!

Great lecture, beautiful quilts, interesting presentation!

And here's our crowd!

Tim Latimer is amazing! He can do unbelievable renovation with any quilt! He is hand quilting, machine quilting and all he is doing is just quilting, 14 hours a day - that's what he said!!!! Here are some of his amazing works:

You can learn more about Tim Latimer and Pat Sloan, find them on Facebook and join the conversation!
Enjoy!

And I am going to the Applique class with Pat sloan!

Happy sewing!

Natalie Quiltessa

Quilters Organizer Bag, now in polka dot!

Now this lady in red polka dot dress. Quilters Organizer Bag, made one more to order.

You can find this pattern in my QuiltessaNatalie Craftsy pattern store.
Use tag "Quilters organizer bag" in my blog and find more of these and other bags made by my patterns.
If you are on Facebook, find me there as Natalie Patton and find them all in my album "Quilters Organizer Bags"

Do you like these additional Vinyl clear bags? They are in my Quiltess.com store. Quantity discount available.

You can custom order this bag: place your order in my Quiltess.com store or in my Etsy store Quiltessence.

You can also use this bag for organizing your jewelry and beading supplies, adding repositioning detachable beading mat to it.

Special thanks for sharing tрis post and links with your sewing, quilting and beading or jewelry making friends!

Happy sewing, quilting and beading!

Natalie Quiltessa

Quilts in the Boro 2016

Well, here's why I was beading my sunflowers:

This year I decided to make me a Ukrainian costume for our local quilt show "Quilts in the Boro". I am still managing our "General store",  so I think this outfit was quite appropriate for this event and brought some colors and character to it.

 We had 65 quilts displayed in 6 different categories. More than 600 people visited our show last weekend and we had many positive remarks. All our vendors were also very pleased.

I got the Second pace for my "Sailboats"

and third place for my "Birdhouses, ivy and lilac"

We also had Crayons challenge this year!!  All 20 quilts were displayed in the classroom at the quilt show and we let the public vote.   Every one that was displayed received multiple votes.  My colors were "Wild strawberry" and "Peach", and this is my "Strawberry patch" challenge quilt:

You can find this pattern in my Craftsy store as Twisted log cabin triangular in a square.
As our vice-president said after all: "Congratulations to Natalie P. for receiving the most votes!!" Yay!!!

And here are some quilts which are well deserved ribbons and just being seen one more time - .
You are welcome to join my Facebook group "Quilting unlimited" and like my pages Natalie Patton and Quiltessa.

You might like to visit my Craftsy pattern store "QuiltessaNatalie" as well as my Quiltess.com store, where you can find everything for quilting, sewing, making bags, handmade stuff etc., etc... and my Etsy store Quiltessence.

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Happy sewing!

Natalie Quiltessa