Wallies and a Card

Dragonfly Dreams

I donated 3 wallies [wall hangings] to the PTA auction at one of the elementary schools 2, almost 3, of my granddaughters attend. I have no idea if they were sold or not. But I felt good giving them.

Cherry Red

Gus-tache

I finally figured out a way to finish them, and even added the stick.

None of them are actually finished...until they leave home.

 I even signed them!

This is a little bitty thing I made up for a thank you to Sue for returning the 

Harry Potter Quilt. The 'felt' is actually cotton [?] batt. I add some to any dye pots I do up for my t-shirts. 

A close up of an added bit to Dragonfly Dreams. 

Can you see the dippy stars?

The HP Quilt

Just before opening the box...that thought....what if it's the wrong one?

Upon seeing the backing fabric, I knew it wasn't the wrong one.

My Harry Potter Quilt is back home from it's adventures in Wyoming.

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The labels tell the first chapters of it's story.

This is a really lousy picture, but I had to snap it!

We will hang it somewhere around here...it's large.

It's all explained in past blog posts.

No sense me repeating myself.

Where will it go next? 

It's Been Found....

Sort of....

Today I contacted the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermolopis, again.  Hoping they would be able to help me find more info on the Harry Potter quilt you see above. I also decided to contact the local newspaper.  

(The people at the dino center were very kind, and I really think a few of my granddaughters would love to go there!)

Bingo!!  

An email from Lara Love, from the paper, said she had contacted Sue about my quilt inquiry.  I couldn't remember Sue's last name, but Lara knew who I was referring to.

Sue emailed me less than an hour later, and yes she knew where the quilt was!!

Except...it is in a box, one of many, simply marked "quilts'. 

The Dancing Bear Folk Center had been given 3 days notice to leave the space they were...renting(??) at the time. In the ensuing chaos of moving, not all the items were paired up with their owner/makers/???  

At least it's in a box that was marked.  

I cannot imagine how it was all accomplished. 

Bravo Sue!

Two of my granddaughters will be excited to see it!

When it gets here.  That part, I am not worried about. Wasn't actually worried about it at all, just curious.

Trying To Organize

EDIT to ADD  I think the first swap was in 2000 when the 4th book was published,  "Harry Potter  And The Goblet Of Fire"..[edited on 9/11/2017]

I have been trying to organize all my quilts and quilt parts and other quilty things.  I would like to have a "page" of just quilts that you all can go to and see how MANY I have MADE!  I am astounded by the amount.  I have made many from block swaps over at "quilting.about.com".  I even started some of the swaps!  Like the Buffalo Postage Stamp swap, started from a small 5 cent stamp!  The Planets block swap, involving all the planets and some other starry things.  That was a tricky swap because I had to assign each person to a planet!

Some I was part of even though they weren't a 'love' of mine, like the Chicken block swap, where all the blocks were chicken related.  I made that quilt up and gave to my sister in law since she had raised chickens, "Les Girls" as she called them.

One swap became 2 swaps....the Harry Potter swap was a popular one, so we made 2 swaps of it, but made sure everyone made something different for each swap.  We, us at about.com. decided to do this on the cusp of the release of Book 4 [i never did hang onto the names, just the number order]  At the time, Hollywood was getting itself all geared up to make movies of the books.  But we wanted to make things from the books before Hollywood 'told' us what they looked like....like the death mask, the dementors, even Harry's broken glasses!  So everyone picked what they wanted to make and the swap was launched.  Each person made as many blocks of their one item, as there were people in the swap to swap with.  We tried to keep the number of people in the swaps to less than 20...or something like that.

The whole quilt. A look at Harry's side of the 'dorm room'. Shelf, bulletin board and beside table.

Dumbledore's Pheonix

The broom Harry flew on in the Quidditch matches, I made it to look like a brochure.

The Invisibility Cloak

The swap particulars printed up on fabric.

A few of the items that went on the 'bulletin' board.

The Death Mask and the Mirror....cant remember what it did to you...

Of course Harry's Lightening Bolt!

The 'bulletin board'

The bookshelf.

Below is the quilt as it was displayed on the wall at the museum/folk center in Thermopolis WY 

with my daughters, of course. This picture was taken....long time ago!  Can't find the right date on the picture in my flickr albums.