A Soul Soothing Experience

Tonight the South Dakota Symphony and the Porcupine Singers performed a concert at the University's Multi-Purpose Center entitled The Lakota Music Project. The symphony was simply beautiful.....at the beginning they performed classical music and Lakota music alternately, then the last portion of the concert combined the Lakota singers as one part of the orchestra. It was simply awe-inspiring. It touched me to the core of my spirit and soothed my soul, especially the last selection entitled Black Hills Olowan.

New Fabric, new space

Sammie gave me a Pat Sloan pattern book for Mother's Day because I love Pat Sloan's patterns. In the back of the book was a process for creating new fabric from scraps. I didn't follow the process exactly, which was to put together strips to make 8" or 12" blocks. I took all the scraps from cutting out Katie's star quilt (which were on my cutting mat) and sewed them together. Since there were mostly diamonds and triangles, I sewed those together to make new fabric. As you can see in the picture, I still have more scraps to sew before I'm done. This will create space in my scrap box and I am going to make a pillow from the "new fabric".

Katie's Graduation Quilt

I finally finished Katie's graduation quilt and it is in Arizona for her Graduation Day, which is today. I made the top and Sammie quilted it for me. Before I added the binding, I staystitched it and washed it. Even tho, I washed it in cold water and dried it on Delicate, it puckered. It looks like an antique quilt. I was really disappointed. We figured out that the puckering was caused by the thread. Sammie used Star quilting thread and it shrank more than the fabric and batting, which caused the puckering. I steam pressed really bad areas, so it looked better.