Today I set myself up to post on the blog from my iPad instead of my laptop. I don’t think anything will look different but of course, one never knows with technology! I frequently have things I’d like to post about and then I don’t get around to sitting at my desk to write it. So armed with my ipad and keyboard, we’ll go with this for now.

Last night I attended my first quilt guild meeting of the year. I missed the September meeting so I was happy to get to this one. The guild has moved from Watertown to Waltham and is now being held at Bentley University (hubs alma mater). It takes me an hour and twenty minutes to get to the meeting during rush hour so I don’t always feel like making the trek, especially during the winter months. I have to say though, Bentley is such a gorgeous, spacious venue that I might make an extra effort this year! The speaker last night was Ann Shaw. She taught 2 days of workshops over the weekend and then gave a lecture at the guild meeting. I did not take her workshop but I will be attending Marge Tucker’s workshop in January with my mother.

Ann Shaw was fabulous! She had a great presentation on her process which is similar to Ruth McDowell’s with freezer paper templates and straight line piecing. She has taken many classes with Ruth and puts her own spin on the work she creates. Ann takes hundreds of photos and chooses one to work with as a quilt subject. Check out her website to see pictures of her quilts and read about her quilting career.

Today I completed the baby mat quilt top. Tomorrow I’ll layer and baste!

Last week I was happy to see the table runner I made to accompany my 100 Blocks block came home. It was in their gallery from Vol. 11 and now it looks great on my coffee table!

I also received back a block I made for vol. 13 that was being returned as they had too many floral applique blocks this time around. I was invited to resubmit and I did, I can’t tell you what I made instead but hopefully it will be  accepted and you’ll see it in vol. 13.

I really loved this block as a photo from my Hawaii trip was the inspiration.

At least I get to keep the block now! We dont’ get to keep the ones that are published.

That’s it for me today. What are you working on?