Link up and more quilty stuff

It is time to link up your finished UFOs that you worked on this month. Remember you had to link up at the beginning of the month. I am working on a quilt top. My goal is to definitely finish it this month so that I can get it to Laura who will quilt it for me. Laura changed the name of her blog and she might have lost some of you that followed her blog. Here is her new blog: http://tanderwenquilts.blogspot.com/

So when I was in Illinois I also got to visit my friend, Judy, who used to live near by me and attended the same guild several years ago. We just clicked as friends. She moved back to her childhood home and has really updated the house. When we pulled up to her garage she had a barn block which I noticed right away.

When you walk into her house she has this really cute goat wall hanging.

She loves pumpkins. When she moved back to Illinios a group of us made these pumpkin blocks for her.

More pumpkins!

Judy has two guest rooms. This quilt was on one bed in the "red" room.

This quilt was hanging on the wall.

The "green" room where we slept had this ladder with quilts hanging on it.

This is the quilt we slept under that night.

This was an old blocked framed and hanging on the wall.

Judy took me to her favorite quilt shop. It is called The Clothesline Quilt Shop at 102 N. Main in Avon, Illinois. Now I will tell you this is a very small town and if you blink while passing through you will miss it.

If you live in northern Illinois it is worth a day trip to check it out. This quilt shop has lots of fabrics.

The old wooden floor had quilt blocks painted on it all through the store. Cute idea.

They have a great selection of flannels too.

Maybe if you make the trip you can look for the Avon water tower as your marker for the town.

Look what Judy showed me outside of the town. Camels! In corn country of all places.

Later that day we met Judy's husband for lunch. We ate at this little restaurant.

Here are photos of the inside of the restaurant.

I made Judy a little gift for her hospitality. A wooden hoop with this saying in it. You can get your free pattern here at the Sew Mama Sew blog. I also made her a pincushion with a white pumpkin on it. This pattern is in one of the first issues of the Primitive Quilts and Projects magazine.

It was great fun to see my friend Judy. We just didn't have enough time to visit with each other.

Thanks Judy and Jim for your hospitality. Hope to see you in couple years when you come down our way. :0)

Now be sure to link up your UFOs.

With Passion,

Carrie P.