Find our October/November schedule on the Cedar Key RV Resort website:http://www.cedarkeyrvresort.com/events.php

Little Landscapes/Seascapes

A class at the 

Cedar Key RV Resort

S.R. 24 west of Rosewood

Make a quilted rendition of a favorite photo or imagine a setting and put it into a window frame.

Materials will be supplied, or you may bring your own.

September 12, 2015

11am-3pm

$10

Register by calling

Bunny Hand (352) 378-2799 

Or

Cedar Key RV Resort

(352) 543-5097



It's almost time for classes to start at the Cedar Key RV Resort again!  Mermaid Song Quilts has been asked to teach again, and I'll be there!

But first, a link to a fascinating video about what happens to clothes recycled from all over the world and sent to India...

http://aeon.co/video/society/unravel-how-india-recasts-the-clothes-the-west-throws-away/

I was humbled by the joy on these women's faces.

One joyful thing I accomplished this summer was the design for the Row by Row Experience block given at the Salty Needle Quilt Shop here in Cedar Key.  Don't despair! If you can't get here for a copy, they'll be available for sale in November.  And there are even a couple of wall hangings available for sale.

Thanks for all your love and patience.  I look forward to seeing new and familiar faces around the island soon!

A new quilt group

At the Cedar Key RV Resort, 1st and 3rd Mondays, 9:30am til ??? First meeting/sewing session: March 16, 2015



For lack of a better word, we'll just say that a new quilt is forming in Cedar Key!  Stephanie, the owner of the Suwanee Valley Quilt Shop, has encouraged us to have a group/club and will allow us to exhibit in a room at the museum during the quilt show in 2016!  She's challenged us to make mermaid quilts; someone in the group may have a different idea!  Great!  All ideas are exciting!

Meeting/sewing sessions will be on the first and third Mondays starting at 9:30 am.  We'll meet at the Cedar Key RV Resort in their gorgeous clubhouse, where there really is space for everyone.  You can bring a machine or not and come and go as you please.  Here's a link to their website with a picture of their website:

http://www.cedarkeyrvresort.com/images/slide2.jpg

Come one, come all...snowbirds, locals, and friends from other areas! Stitchers just want to have fun!

Quilt show in Trenton!

Saturday, March 21 is National Quilting Day and the Suwanee Valley Quilt Shop in Trenton, FL is hosting its annual show.  The quilts will be hung all over US 129 around the shop and in buildings on Main St (US 129) from 9am-3pm.  Inside the shop and the new museum will be an exhibit of the original quilts from Kaffe Fassett's books!!  

                                                      You can read more about him here:

                                                    http://www.kaffefassett.com/Home.html

Here's a glimpse of the display in Trenton!  I could hardly stop smiling!  These quilts are so exciting.

For more information, and a look at quilts on display in the shop, here's their website:

http://www.suwanneeshops.com/newsletter.html

Hope to see you at the quilt show!

A couple more jackets...

We'll keep thinking about jacket through the summer, although the first class in jacket making won't be until fall. I hope it will be too warm for jackets really soon!  These 2 are of the "Dolphin Jacket".

It is backed with scrap fleece that I had lying around.  Used both embroidery quilting and free motion to finish it.  With no closures, it went pretty fast.  Fabric from the Salty Needle Quilt Shop in Cedar Key, FL.  When you see something you like, buy a yard.  It doesn't take much when you use other fabrics with your focus fabric.  Really, It's ALL ABOUT THE FABRIC!!!

More whenever I feel like it!

Thursday night at The Big Deck!

Just a quick note to say that my band, Shade Tree, will play at The Big Deck's open mic session on Thursday night, February 26, 2015.  That's in Cedar Key on Dock Street, sometime between 7 and 9 pm.  Just a few songs; Kate Talbott-Nagel and her band host it every week.  She's fantastic, got a voice like the young Stevie Nicks!

Oh, you didn't know I had a band?  Well, I like to say I was born to sew and sing!  Hence, Mermaid Song Quilts! We do have a not at all active Facebook Page, and a website that might still be available, I don't even know!  www.shadetreeband.com.  Here I am with Will Ellis, bass player, and David Norden on guitar and harmonicas.

See ya!

The Cedar Key Jacket, Take 1

So, having given up my space at the Salty Needle Quilt Shop to spend more time preparing classes and QUILTING!!!, I'm working on bettering my computer skills.  It's a mysterious world, but I'm willing to try!

Today's post is about the Cedar Key jacket.  I made the jacket in 2013.  Actually, I made 2 because Beth Davis had such great dolphin fabric at the shop.  Here's a little movie to see the jacket in construction.  More next week on the finished jacket and when we will offer the class!