Woolies inspiration

Our Woolies group had another VERY colorful and inspiring meeting yesterday at Pam's house. A lot of our projects that we've been working on for months are starting to come together into bigger pieces.

These first two photos are Bobbi's fanciful animal wool applique from a Sue Spargo pattern. So much detail!

Karen has been working on this summertime quilt for awhile, and she finally completed it. I love how the colors pop against the black background.

Here are some details:

She used green rickrack for the border vine.

Pam showed yet another bright quilt with a black background. Seems we all like bright color.

And another black background, this one in Linda's winter scene.

Donna and I bucked the black background trend. Donna put her "summer house" against a deep blue sky. She's designing a wool applique house for each season of the year. She also used rickrack, but this time just let half of it peek through along the roof line.

And I was still working on my pink background quilt, with not a speck of black anywhere in it.

I'm doing large seed stitch quilting that gives the effect of stippling.

Our group is also going to make and donate pin cushions to our local quilt guild for sale at its October show. These were made by Audrey -- I think.

Pam let all of us choose containers for our cushions from her very fun collection, and that bunny cried out for me to take it. I'll nestle a wool egg pin cushion in the bowl.

As usual, there was food! Pam provided angel food cake with ice cream and blueberries just picked from her garden. Yum!

Karen made a delicious carrot bread -- it's a vegetable serving! I skipped the croissants because I really am trying to lose weight, but I heard they were extra good.

As we sat and stitched for hours in Pam's living room, the sun shone outside on a glorious Pacific Northwest day, the kind we live for during the long rainy winters. 

 Have a colorful day