SISTERS??

Sisters…or what?  Meet Doni…my long lost sister…well actually she is my BLOGGING SISTER!  I’m on the left and Doni is on the right…yikes!  We could be twins! 

Doni lives on the Oregon coast, writes a blog called Quilting and Life in General and she follows my blog!  About a month ago she wrote and said she would be in Palm Springs and would it be possible to come to ‘Quilting in the Clubhouse’  You betch’a! 

Yesterday was the day!!  SEW exciting!!  Of course the first thing I commented on was ‘the hair’…I mean really who has WHITE hair like THAT!! haha

Yes, Doni was full of surprises…like when I told her to bring something to work on, I wasn’t prepared for THIS…!!!

It took my breath away…GORGEOUS!  We are talking heirloom quilt in the making!!  I recognised it instantly…Blackbird Design..Birds of a Feather by Alma Allan and Barb Adams…love it… it’s on my ‘Live to Be 200 Bucket List’!  Yup, twins!

Doni’s workmanship is wonderful…all machine appliqued using a small, fine blanket stitch…

…and now Doni is in the process of hand quilting the quilt.  She has finished stitching around every applique piece and is now quilting inside all the pieces…see the stitching on the bird…

When she is finished this, Doni is planning on hand quilting a cross hatch over the whole entire quilt.  Yup…she planning on living to be 200 too!

Isn’t it simply breathtaking!

Ok… now let’s zoom in for a close-up of her hand quilting…perfect or what?!

And when Doni gets tired of working on her ‘Birds of a Feather’ she turns to her ‘Pies and Tarts’…again all hand appliqued…and made using mostly Civil War Fabrics!!  LOVE IT!!

Incredible isn’t it!!!

And when she is finished appliqueing she reduces the bulk by cutting away the backing…

Yup…Kindred Spirits for sure!  AND Doni  turned out to be really nice and fit right in with the Clubhouse Quilters!  In fact, next year she is coming for TWO Wednesday meetings!  We figure that will give us two days to convince her to stay for she at least THREE MONTHS the following year!  We didn’t even mention the Road to California Quilt Show, the trips to Temecula, The Spring Fling Quilt Shop Hop or the weekly runs to JoAnn’s…I mean really, we have some heavy duty artillery to use to convince quilters to stay!  :) 

SEW head on over to Doni’s Blog…see what she is up to and also see pictures of her beautiful Oregon coast…spectacular for sure!  Oh..and don’t forget to tell her that her twin sister sent you!

Have a thrilling Thursday and Happy Quilting!~P