Beaded tapestry denim jacket

Beaded tapestry denim jacket
Originally uploaded by Stormeejean

When I received a box from my aunt containing some of the sewing items of my grandmother's, I was thrilled. It contained lots of items that Grandmother had collected through the years. I will blog some of these later.
One of the items in particular was what looked like a work in progress. It was a shirt all cut out and ready to sew. The back of the shirt had this beautiful tapestry (I did not know what else to call it) on the back. Grandmother had beaded parts of the jacket, I thought it was so beautiful, at first I tried to finish the shirt, but the tapestry was a little heavy and it made the shirt hang funny. So I cut the tapestry from the materiel and created this jean jacket which holds the tapestry well. I decided not to trim the shirt fabric because it was so pretty. I added some more trim and not this jacket is ready to wear.

More from the Q.U.I.L.T Guild

We had our monthly Q.U.I.L.T (Quilters United In Lasting Tradition)It was a good meeting. We worked on the quilt that we are making for one of the members. I helped to cut some of the strips. I did learn how to get my pieces cut very straight. That is the one thing that I love about this group and that is everyone is very generous with information. I brought a cuddle quilt for show and tell and for donation to the children's hospital the only thing is I got a couple of places underneath that buckled and one of the members gave me a hint on how to keep that from happening. Then I learned how to join my binding on the bias that is a wonderful hint that I have been using in a lot of my garment sewing. This is the quilt that I made for the children's hospital.

Also in the guild we all wear name tags and we made our own tags. At this meeting I decided to take some photos of some of the name tags because they are so interesting the different ideas that each person had for the name tag.







Also last weekend I had the opportunity to watch my friend Mary make this beautiful wedding cake for her son that got married. Mary makes delicious cakes and this cake was sooo good. I have so many talented friends.

Prayer Bag

I started making these little drawstring prayer bags a few years ago, I also made little books to go inside them. Then I would give them to people and ask them to pray for each of the people whose names were in the book. Then I asked them to add names if they wanted to or words of encouragement or their favorite scripture then pass the bag on to another prayer warrior. The idea was that you would be praying for people and situations that you know nothing about and someone you did not know would be praying for you.
Well a couple of weeks ago I received a package in the mail, it was a little beat up but guess what was in it---one of the prayer bags, it had been in circulation since 2005 it had been as far as California. I was so excited. I have decided to begin my prayer bag ministry again.

Pretty Flowers

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Originally uploaded by Stormeejean

I just posted some new pictures of my little home on flickr. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I also have pictures there of my house before the flowers and the trees bloomed. What a difference a season makes.

The Q.U.I.L.T Guild (Quilters United In Lasting Tradition)

I joined this group of quilters last December. After the first meeting I was hooked. Not only on the group but also hooked on the idea of quilting. I say "idea" of quilting only because I have not really dug in made a quilt yet. But I have helped with a couple of the projects that the group has done. One of the on-going projects that the guild has is the Cuddle Quilt Project, the guild donates about 100 quilts a year to Labana and St. Judes Childrens Hospitals for children with cancer. Some of the quilts that are made by the members are also donated to the hospital here in Paris, Tn.

We have some other fun events also, like our May birthday party, where we celebrate the quilds' anniversary and all the members' birthdays. On May 7th we celebrated by drawing names and each of the members bought the person whose name was drawn $15 worth of fabric. We each wrote down the colors we wanted and the person we drew was supposed to get the color they wanted. There was a lot of wonderful color combinations given.

Also at this same meeting we ooooed and ahhhhed the beautiful batik fabrics and quilts that Diane of Batiks by Design brought in to show. She had totes and totes of fabric and quilts that were delightful and inspiring. You can go to her website for more information and to see her beautiful fabrics and quilts.