Tag Archive | Brown Sugar Stitchers
Going Crazy Trying to Make a Crazy Quilt
This week, I must take a short break from everything else and make a crazy quilt. The 2012 challenge of the annual Tri-Guild meeting was to make a crazy quilt. Although traditional crazy quilts were similar to the one shown here, we are allowed to interpret our crazy quilt as we see fit. The quilts [...]
Reflections On A Perfect Day
Some days it just seems that all is right with the world. Yesterday was such a day. My baby/roommate India arrived home safely from the University of Pittsburgh. I spent the morning enjoying holiday potluck with the inspirational women of the Brown Sugar Stitcher’s Quilt Guild. I shopped and found special gifts for special people. [...]
Jazzy Stars Wins Blue Ribbon
Jazzy Stars earned a Blue Ribbon from the judges at the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild bi-annual exhibit. The exhibit is at the Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, GA. The quilts will be on display through December 11, 2011.
Dreaming of Being a Michigan Man
Dreaming of Being a Michigan Man, 53 x 64 inches, by O.V. Brantley, 2010. Dreaming of Being a Michigan Man, my latest creation, was made for a young man who lives at the Carrie Steele Pitts Home For Children in Atlanta. Each year, the members of the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild make quilts for the [...]
Brown Sugar Stitchers Block of the Month Underway
The Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild block-of-the-month (BOM) is underway for 2010-11. Because I love Christmas, I decided to make my blocks out of Christmas fabrics with a black and white background. This seems like a painless way to get another Christmas quilt to add to my growing collection. Shown here is the August block [...]
I Believe in Angels
Angels have been all around me this week as I began creating a new series of quilts. All of these quilts will feature angels. I have not placed a limit on the number of quilts in this series because angels should be unlimited. When I moved into my new home in 1999, my mother gave me [...]
My Heart’s Desire Gets a Special New Home
As is our custom, yesterday, the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Guild gathered at the Carrie Steele Pitts Home for Children to present quilts to the children. This is always the highlight of my quilting year. It puts everything in perspective when you are able to give something special to someone who has so little. My quilt [...]
Uncommon Legacy Part of Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show
Uncommon Legacy will be part of the 150 quilts on display at the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show. The show opens August 1, 2009 at 10 a.m. and continues through August 7, 2009 at the South Fulton Arts Center, 4645 Butner Road, College Park, GA. Admission is free. Uncommon Legacy is appliquéd by [...]
Fulton County Commissioner Bill Edwards Will Cut the Ribbon at the Quilt Show
Once again all facets of my life collide. Commissioner Bill Edwards, one of my bosses while I was Fulton County Attorney, will cut the ribbon at the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show August 1, 2009 at 10 a.m. Always, more than just a boss, Commissioner Edwards is my personal commissioner, a friend and a lover of [...]
See “Live Love Laugh, (Even While Camping)” at the Brown Sugar Stitchers Quilt Show
When the Brown Sugar Stitchers announced the challenge for the quilt show, it seemed simple enough. The goal of the challenge was to show that African American quilters are diverse. In keeping with the theme of the quilt show The Many Facets of African American Quilting, the challenge was to make a small quilt that [...]
