Monday again

First some randomness.

Could this be the reason Otis has been diagnosed with 

hip dysplasia? 

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I was making a new name tag for the first quilt guild meeting of the year last night.  Meghan came down with a cup of tea. 

She started to mess with my dry erase board and I said, not seeing what she was doing, "don't leave anything on there-those markers are hard to erase after awhile."

Later when I was done, she had already gone back upstairs; 

this is what I found.

(I added the "grrrrr" at the top)

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I had lunch with a dear friend last week and as I was getting ready to meet her I had this thought pop into my head that I needed to give her a quilt.

She loved it.  I'm so glad.  

We're been friends since the 4th grade.

I was the new girl in the class.  

My family moved into our newly built house before the carpet was installed and other 'finishes' so us kids could start in the new school district.  

I was terribly shy.  Susan and I somehow, I can't remember exactly, started talking about horses.  We are both horse crazy. Susan still rides, takes event lessons and horse riding vacations with some of her riding friends --Spain, Ireland; how cool is that.

Anyway, with any luck we'll still be getting together for lunch for another 40 years. 

 The quilt gift was overdue.

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Here is the customer quilt I gave a peek at a post of two ago.

Concentric circles looks really good on this quilt.

This lady brings me a top and always already knows the thread colors she wants and the quilting design! 

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I made this quilt in just a few days.  It's from Mary.  I made mine a little wider (had to piece the strips) but it's for a baby who's already 5 months old so I wanted it a bit bigger.

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the beginnings or a baby quilt for MY SOON TO BE GRANDDAUGHTER!

I am a wee bit excited.

I am doing the blanket stitching now.  I really need to take my machine in for servicing afterwards, the stitch length is messed up. It has been but I've been just adjusting and adjusting.  It's going to bite me in the butt one of these days and soon I'm afraid.  

The thoughts of getting the older machine out and set up, oiled and refresh myself with it keeps me procrastinating.  Why oh why?

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And the Gees Bend style quilt I spoke of last week.

I will be swapping it for another top that needs quilted.  

It's so nice to quilt it and pass it along for someone else to bind.

Saturday I went to the monthly meeting of the "Mod Squad". It's a spin off group from my guild.  

It was started last March.  

They've met during the summer but I had to take time off from meeting since there were too many other things going on.

I volunteered to demo the Quick Curve Ruler at our next meeting in October.

Yikes!

Is anyone else amazed that the first week of September is gone??

I did finally get my CW Desden top together.

But I forgot to take a 'flimsy' picture before folding it up.  I do have the above picture, which was for a blog post that never happened.  

The rouge light blue block up on the wall is a string pieced anvil block from Bumble Beans I just happened on her post and thought I would try one. I wish I would have used a lighter background or darker...ohhh must stop thinking like this--it's how new projects happen.

I'm quilting a donation quilt right now.  It's for a new shelter that is scheduled to open in Nov.  

The shelter will have 50 beds and they want a quilt for each bed.  I believe they have enough pieced but are getting down to the wire on the quilting and binding.

Some have been pieced in the Gees Bend style, which is the one I have to work on so I'm quilting modern designs in the large areas-- will take and post a picture soon. 

as they say 

"I owe, I owe...it's off to work I go..."

happy Friday

I am super happy to show that my two stitcheries are finished. Stitchin Annie now hangs in my sewing room.  The pillow doesn't know where it's going to live yet.

They were on my 2013 Goals list--not anymore.  yea!

X's is together.

It is 72 x 96 right now.  I may call it done but I have a HUGE bag of strip scraps and think a scrappy string border would be good.  I would want to put a narrow blue stop border on first and not sure if I have enough blue to do it. I'm at a point here with projects (?) that the thoughts of buying more fabric just to make it bigger seems wrong, weird...a waste...I don't know.

Maybe I just need another cup of coffee!

Another fun quilt by Libby that I quilted up for her. 

The dinosaur print she used for the backing is soo adorable!

The start of another customer quilt-concentric circles ala Angela Walters.

I just l.o.v.e the texture this pattern makes.  It's a big quilt 89x89 so I'll be 'circling it' for a few days.

And here is the start (OMGOSH what am I doing) shame on me 

of MetroHoops.

I used a partially used Jellyroll and some 2.5" strips from the stash.  I'm laying these out right now with four matching 'hoops' in each block, but I know a few blocks are going to be a mishmash so I hope I can control myself and NOT start to sew the blocks together until I have them all made.

Don't these look a bit labor intensive???  

They are so stinkin' quick it just amazes me every time I make one. 

Since one of my favorite things is watching a quilt 'grow' on the design wall, it's going to be hard for me to not keep making these hoops instead of finishing up other projects first...