Bodega Bay

 Do you know where Bodega Bay is?  

It's in Northern California - a beautiful spot where the hills meet the Pacific.

It's also the place where the movie "The Birds"  was filmed.

So - when I began to work on this vintage tablecloth, i lived in California, and gave it this name because of the beautiful birds embroidered on the cloth.

Do you see the bird?  

I believe this tablecloth is a Madeira cloth, appr 50 inches square.  I have been working on it for 5 years, with lots of stops and starts.  

Next weekend it will be off in the mail to its first competition - the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza.   

Good luck, Bodega !!!

Kathleen

Tiny Houses

 oh friends, I am having fun !  😁

I must be honest...  a friend of mine said "I am making a mini quilt for the fair"...

and then someone at the guild mtg said "there never are many entried in the mini quilt section"

BAM - I was going to make a mini quilt ----  my competitive spirit just jumped up and seized the day !!

i found a pattern in a book on mini-quilts by Carol Doak.  

Easy Paper-Pieced Miniatures book by Carol Doak (thriftbooks.com)

you can see the tiny house quilt on the front cover.

So i made a tiny tree and a tiny house just to see how it went...

hmmm. not too hard, but a little boring..........

what if the houses were PINK????

oh THAT's better !!!!

Stay tuned... and we'll see if i can build a tiny village !!!

Kathleen