June 8 2015

Lots of quilting going on here!

I don't think I've shared this one yet.

i would like to share more but my computer is being a pain.

toodles

Life is Good!

November and December

Lots of customer quilting went on

I spent the day with my granddaughter and she pieced her first quilt top!!

I made three "Jingle Pillows" 

One for me...

two were gifted!

We celebrated Jo's first birthday!

And Paul was home for his Candidacy Mass.

He will be ordained a Deacon in May.

and the quilting continued 

helped Meghan make a snowman tree!!

-I made the nose out of felt

 and painted the 3 button ornaments while she was as work-

she did the rest!

It is so cute.

 Finally the hair grew long enough to donate.

10 1/2 inches--that was a bit scary.

The new me...my neck was cold for days ha ha!

Jo is walking now though she still crawls when she really wants to get somewhere fast!

**notice the chair blocking the hallway...we now have a gate**

We spent Christmas morning with the grands and had brunch at their house too.

CW Dresden

I am so happy to finally have this quilt loaded.  

There's no turning back now.

The cornerstones are getting this little flowery design.

I'm really liking using rulers and templates...imagine that!

stitch in the ditch around all the setting squares and the Dresden blades.

I'm still not sure about the background behind the Dresden's-hopefully inspiration will hit me at some point. I have time as this is a big one-94 wide by 112.  It should fit our bed nicely.

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I finished a customer quilt last week.  She wanted all custom and I had a great time working on it.

The backing hides the quilting...sorta wish I could see it.

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Urban Birthday

I made Urban Birthday for a wedding quilt for my niece.  The shower was on Sunday.

I had it folded with the label on the top, so it would be seen when she opened the box.

She was so excited to see the label and that I had scanned in their wedding invitation too.

She thought it was the front of the quilt.  

I finally had to yell out "that's the BACK"!

I think she likes the front too --ha :)

There is something so very satisfying about a making a special quilt for someone you love and how appreciatively it was received that makes all the stressing over fabrics, patterns, quilting, deadlines-just fade away.

If only I could remember that for the next time. 

*smile*

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I also finished a cool customer quilt. 

It's a gift for a young lady who works in theater.

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Carol's quilt: feathers, feathers, feathers!

Concentric Circles with a yellow/gold thread.

I do love this pattern-love the texture.

Nancy's T-shirt quilt. 

Lois' 2 picnic quilts.  

She made them just to use of the fabric and will be used for summer picnics with her family.

All-over loops, squiggles and stars.

I quilted this one with a swirl hook and flames.

(The Pajama quilter calls it 'woodgrain')

Heather's quilt. I did E's and 3's on it. 

And two identical baby panel quilts.  I quilted each differently.

This one has swirls.

This one little loops.

And another one of Nancy's. 

I did the wood grain all-over on this one too and a C-hook in the border.

In addition to all these. I finished Happy Jack (see previous post). And quilted and finished, yes even the dreaded binding, on these two baby quilts; finished the binding yesterday as a matter of fact.

I have a customer baby quilt loaded now and halfway done. I'm going to finish it today and then I can say. 

I'm all caught up! 

whew!

Except for the 7-8 personal quilt tops that are waiting to be done....

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Meg and I got season tickets for the Pittsburgh CLO's summer series. 

It starts tonight with Singin' in the Rain-can't wait. 

I finished the quilting on this quilt yesterday.

I haven't quilted a feather border for a while.  I really enjoyed it.

The pink border  is just  a "c" hook.  The middle border I did the same as the center; an all over echo swirl.

The back is a solid pink fabric, really shows the quilting.

The weather was nice so I could take the photos outside.

Earlier in the day there was snow on the deck.  

Today it's in the high 60's.

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Three Rivers Quilters annual show was last weekend.

 This was my entry. 

I didn't take too many pictures the show was quite crowded.  They have a slide show of the winners here.  The Best of Show quilt is amazing.

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I finished this customer quilt yesterday afternoon. It's all flannels top and back.
I did a swirl echo on it (from the Pajama Quilter), it gave it really nice texture, especially with it being flannel fabric!

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I loaded my little Swoon block sample and got that quilted before I load the next customer one.
I'm going to make this into a pillow...so my first Christmas gift is about done!

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Urban Birthday is a flimsy.

On the design wall now is this one from Sunday Morning Quilts.
 I am going to try to just take my time with this
 and piece the rows s-l-o-w-l-y.
(ha-ha --I did say "try")  
I don't need another baby quilt (right this second anyway) nor do I need another flimsy.

This pattern uses the cut off triangles from piecing binding. I use 2 1/4 inch strips for binding rather than the 2 1/2 strips most people use. I didn't have enough of them so I would say a good half of these I just cut from the 2 1/2 inch strip bin. 

After I got it all arranged on the wall, I thought perhaps I should make it bigger.
And then I smacked myself and came back to reality.