Make a Boob at the Breast cancer association

The next workshop at October 12 was more successful and I had a great time with these five ladies.

They sure made some brilliant boobs. I have set them aside to include them in the quilt that is going to the local Breast cancer association.

Table of One

It’s about time I’d update the blog with pictures from last fall. I am so sorry about the delay; please know that the project is still going on with workshops set up for April and the backgrounds are being quilted!

The workshop on October 4th was very quiet as I was alone. I had set up a few dates for the members of the Breast cancer organization to choose from, and there was one person who did sign up for this date. You know how it is, things happens, you don’t make it to a meeting, that’s ok.

As I started spreading my stuff out on the table I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to tidy up the bling containers. What a mess!

I’m using a white quilted background and a few boobs to show how they will be assembled. They will be gorgeous with all the different colours and bling!

Liz of Kaktus Quilts has started quilting the backgrounds on her longarm machine. The order was solid light backgrounds and matching threads as I don’t want them to compete with the boobs. Other than that – anything goes quilting wise. When it comes to sizes, I have given approx measurements, keeping in mind that they will hang different places. I’m thinking appropriate size for wall hangings would be approx 30”*40”. Tall skinny ones would work well too as they can easily be hung together.

Make a Boob at Rogaland Quiltelag, Part 2

After doing a few workshops I’m getting better at setting up my Make a Boob stash;

knowing what goes where does help.

The content of the ribbon basket was a bit tangled

and the bead boxes a bit of a mess when I set up

and even worse when I packed everything up.

This was my second workshop at my guild, Rogaland Quiltelag. We were not that many at the meeting

but all these lovely boobs got decorated for the project.

Thanks for having me. Again!

Boob Mail; The ladies at Quilte Huset/Vestlandsdrakten

I received a call a while back from a group that meets at Quilte Huset/ Vestlandsdrakten in Bergen, asking if they could make boobs for this project, and of course I said Yes, please do.

Last week they arrived; 60 glorious boobs from Bergen:
Appliquéd ones,
pieced ones
and plain ones (not so plain are they!)
Thank you so much to all you ladies who have made these boobs; they are beautiful!

Happy boobs at Craftretreat

Having fun working on Make a Smile boobs.

Workshop at Craftretreat

Yesterday’s all day workshop was fun with lots of lovely ladies of all ages. Doll house, embroidery and teddy bear people from all over the country gather here once a year and take classes, watch exhibitions and shop.

We set up our tables in the morning.
Almost ready to go

with my impromptu sign perfectly imperfect on the wall
and a rainbow of colours on the table.

My stand had lots of visitors all day, and people took their time to sit down, talk and sew.
Half an hour goes by quickly when you’re doing handwork so I was very pleased with the turnout on a day like this.
Thank you to each and everyone who participated!

Bling Drive, textart

I came home from last week’s guild meeting with 1m each of all these glorious ribbons from textart which was the shop of the day at our meeting. I tried very hard not to get greedy when the owner generously said I could pick as many ribbons as I’d like to, but as you see, I didn’t succeed very well.

Thank you so much; these will look wonderful on boobs!