Mini Bannier Quilting Complete

Our local quilt guild is putting together blocks painted by children at the Children's Network in our county.  The children paint the blocks and we make them into banners or wall hangings to hang there.  This is the first one that I quilted for the guild.  Another member will finish it with binding.

This agency helps children deal with a traumatic experience.  All of the legal people, counselors, medical personal, police (if necessary) social service workers... are all involved in the initial visit. The visits are taped and properly recorded so that the child involved doesn't have to be involved in more traumatic interviews and court appearances.  Future counseling sessions also take place in these offices.

A Customer Order is Complete

I finished this quilt for a customer this week while our son was in church camp.  The blocks are embroidered.  I quilted it with my giant template board from Circle Lord called Egyptian Eye.  It's an edge to edge design.

WIP Wednesday 6.28.17

With Mr. Sunshine at church camp this week I feel that I could tackle a few "bigger" things:

I quilted this guild basket quilt.  I had to work in a lot of fullness.  I hope to show the finish soon.  It will be a charity raffle quilt for a local charity from our guild.  Here it is on the frame:



This week I finished my guild swap D9P quilt.  It measures 56" x 81".

I loaded this one on the frame.  It is a customer quilt with beautiful embroidered blocks.

 

It measures 79" x 102 ".  Here's a picture of it before I started quilting it.

 

Here's a block:

 

I made four blocks for the Marvelous Mini Monday blocks at Temecula Quilt Company. 

 

My husband got this "thing".  It's a pan.  He'll be busy somewhere behind the garage with it for a while.  It's fun to see our son go back and forth between the quilting area and the garage area.

 

 

I had 20 minutes to stitch...in the parking lot while our son is with his speech therapist.

 

For the RSC17 I made some 4-patch blocks.  Yes, I know the red block with the polka dots is going the wrong direction.  I need to fix that.  The little 4-patch blocks make nice leaders and enders and add up quickly.  The pattern in this magazine (American Patchwork & Quilting, April 2015, is called GO FOUR IT! 2015 Quilt-Along.

 

 

I finished longarming this sampler quilt for a customer:

 

 

All five chicks are still doing great.  This little friend from church wanted to hold a baby chick.  Imagine her excitement when I asked her if she wanted to hold all five of them.

 

 

Linking up at Mama Spark's World for WIPS With Friends.

 

 

Linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River here.

 

 

Linking up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.  The linky party is here.

 

Linking up with Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social.  The linky party is here.

 

 

 

* * * * * * * Warning:  Boring List Ahead * * * * * * * *

2017 Finishes (listed by date)! 

1.   01.07.17  Country Roads, Humble Quilts Mystery 2015 here.

2.   01.13.17  Stars Stripes & Other Things quilt here.

3.   01.20.17  Candy Cane Mini quilt here.

4.   01.27.17  Sunbonnet Sue charity quilt here.

5.   02.17.17  Large Microwave Bowl Cozie

6.   02.17.17  Medium Microwave Bowl Cozie

7.   02.18-17  Small Microwave Bowl Cozie -- All Microwave bowl Cozies shown here.

8.   02.27.17  Sew Sweet Simplicity 2015 BOM by Jacquelynne Steves here.

9.   03.03.07  Allitare! 2015 Bonnie Hunter Mystery here.

10. 03.10.17  Celtic Solstice, 2013 Bonnie Hunter Mystery here.

11. 03.17.17  Denim Tumbler Rug #1 here.

12.  04.07.17 RSC15 Sawtooth Sampler design by Angela at SoScrappy here.

13.  4.14.17   My Heart Skips a Beat 2017 H2H Quilt

14.  4.21.17  Tumbler Rug #2 

15.  4.28.17  Shoo Fly (A charity quilt for my local quilt guild.)

16.  5.5.17    Scrappy Stars baby quilt

17.  5.12.17  The Underpants Project

18.  5.19.17  One House, Two House (pattern by Cheryl Wahl.)

19.  6.25.17  Guild Swap Christmas, 2016 D9P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

His New Toy

So my husband got this new toy.  It's a pan.  Other names for this piece of equipment are scraper or blade.  It shaves up pieces of earth into the big bucket thing that it pulls.  Then you move the earth (dirt) to where it needs to be dumped.  It can dump the whole load or it can tailgate dump slowly.

What does this mean to me?  Probably that our son will have a new jungle gym item to climb on.  I'll know where my husband will be for hours and hours (working on this thing).  It also means a new quilt template from Circle Lord.  I don't have any in my head right now that I will order... but know that one will be coming.  LOL.

Here's some pictures of what I call the "orange thing":

On the Frame -- Guild Basket Charity Quilt

Today I'm working on this charity quilt for our local quilt guild.  I am longarm quilting it with Circle Lord's Egyptian Eye giant template board.  There's a lot of fullness that needs worked in.  Let's see how this giant board can handle the little imperfections.

 

Oooh, la la!  So far so good!

 

I'm linking up for Fiber Tuesday #117 at The Quilting Room with Mel.

 

Temecula QA -- Moving it Forward Monday

Today I kept up with the Marvelous Mini Monday blocks at Temecula Quilt Company.  Hopefully I'll get some longarm quilting in today too!  Gotta take a bite out of those customer quilts!

There's so many fun linky parties on Mondays!  Linking up at Love Laugh Quilt for Monday Making.  The party is here.

 

 

Linking with Gosia for Quilter's Monday.  The party is here.

 

 

 Linking up with Show & Tell Monday with Bambi.  The party is here.

 

 

Em's Scrap Bag for Moving it Forward Monday.  This week's party is here.

 

 

Also checking in with Lynette for BOM's Away at What a Hoot Quilts.

The party this week is here.

 

 

 

Linking up with Cooking Up Quilts.  Beth's party is here today.

D9P -- A Friday Finish

In December, 2016, my local quilt guild swapped Disappearing 9-Patch blocks (D9P).  Each participant in the swap specified what colors they would like in the 9-patch blocks.  My colors were supposed to be eight grey blocks on the outside of the block and one scarlet block in the center (Ohio State -- OSU Bucks colors.)  It's interesting how some interpreted the colors.  Some chose to add white, light blue, extra red, and even sea foam green.  But somehow it all works.  Each block reminds me of the personalities of those in my local quilt guild.

This week I finished my guild swap D9P quilt.  It measures 56" x 81".

 

I backed it with a simple red flat sheet that I got at a thrift store for $3.  I quilted it with my Circle Lord giant template board called Egyptian Eye.  I did not complete the "eye" part of the design this time to make it look more like footballs without the lace.

 

I love Friday Finishes... I actually finished it Friday night, but it was dark and rainy...  I finally got a photo on Saturday and a blog post on Sunday... hence my Friday Finish.

 

This was one of the quilts that I had planned to finish this quarter.  I posted about it in my Finish-A-Long 2017 Q2 Goals Post here.

 

 

I'm happy to link up this finish here.

 

This was also my June OMG Goal.  I'm linking up at Elm Street Quilts for the June Finish Link-Up here.

 

 

Slow Sunday Stitching

My little embroidery project now has a face!  I'm learning as I go.  This is one of my favorite 20 minutes to stitch...in the parking lot while our son is with his speech therapist.

 

I'm linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Come join the fun!

 

Scrap Saturday

I started a new little scrap project since I've been having a lot of complete finishes this year.  I have a lot of 1.5" squares in little trays by my machine from working on my Garden Party quilt.  I have enough yellow for now in the current rows.  I don't want to go too crazy with yellow.  This little 4-patch project caught my eye:

 

The little 4-patch blocks make nice leaders and enders and add up quickly.  The pattern in this magazine (American Patchwork & Quilting, April 2015, is called GO FOUR IT! 2015 Quilt-Along.

 

 

The blocks are set on point in the quilt.

 

I'm linking up with Angela and the gang at SoScrappy for the RSC17 (Rainbow Scrap Challenge, 2017).  The linky party for today is here.  Check out all the fun projects.

 

Customer Sampler BOM Civil War Reproduction Fabrics

Here's a customer quilt that I finished longarm quilting this week.  It was a BOM from a local quilt store last year.  It is a sampler quilt.  She chose Civil War reproduction fabrics for it.  She wanted me to quilt it with my giant template board from Circle Lord called Egyptian Eye.

Linking up today with My Quilt Infatuation here.

It's not a very good photo of the back because of the shadow of the trees.  It's a solid grey (tone on tone) back.  It works great with the borders on the front.  Beautiful!

WIP Wednesday 6.21.17

Having a blast this summer, AND I'm still getting some quilting accomplished!

This week I put together my OMG (One Main Goal) quilt for June.  These blocks were swapped by my local quilt guild Christmas, 2016.  It's the D9P (Dissappearing 9-Patch).  My colors were supposed to be grey blocks with a scarlet center (Ohio State colors).  Interesting how some members interpreted this block request--some added white, some more scarlet, some pale blue some were so bold to add seafoam green!  But it is what it is and it all works...  I'm about 20 years younger than some of the members of the guild.  You just never know if they will all be here next year.  Never know...  I will always have their block. :)   I like the quilt.  It's a long twin.  Here's the flimsy in the wind.  I had to dodge some raindrops to get this picture.  I'm hoping for a Friday finish!

Remember I was telling everybody to link up at Pamela's blog -- Mama Sparks World here.  This is the prize pack I won!!  Whohoo!!!  Two charm packs and a fun pattern!!!  Thanks!!!  She is having another linky party today.  It's here.

 

We've been blessed with baby chicks!  One hatched Sunday, three Monday, and one Tuesday for a total of five baby chicks!

 

I made the third block for the Temecula Quilt Company Marvelous Monday Mini (the pinwheel).



I adopted a bunch of fun stuff from a garage sale to enhance my stash.  I REALLY need quantity so that I can make quilt backs for projects and guild quilts.  This fabric was mostly 50 cents a yard!  Here it is proudly displayed on my sorting trampoline.  Everyone has a 6' trampoline in their quilting room, right?  (It's awesome for my helper.)

 

My Garden Party quilt (pattern by Bonnie Hunter) grew another row.

 

 

I not only pieced another block, but embroidered it as well.  You can find the FREE pattern for this block at Q is for Quilter.The block is made from 2" squares.  The block pattern can be found at Q is for Quilter blog.

 

 

Since I finished all the embroidery of the kite girls, I started a new project in my to-go bag.  I chose this embroidery project.  I've never done anything like this before.  A friend gave me this package.  It didn't have any floss with it, but I got a few skeins from the two garbage bags donated to my guild.

 

Here's the two bear ears:

 

Linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River here.

 

 

Linking up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.  The linky party is here.

 

Linking up with Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social.  The linky party is here.

 

 

 

* * * * * * * Warning:  Boring List Ahead * * * * * * * *

2017 Finishes (listed by date)! 

1.   01.07.17  Country Roads, Humble Quilts Mystery 2015 here.

2.   01.13.17  Stars Stripes & Other Things quilt here.

3.   01.20.17  Candy Cane Mini quilt here.

4.   01.27.17  Sunbonnet Sue charity quilt here.

5.   02.17.17  Large Microwave Bowl Cozie

6.   02.17.17  Medium Microwave Bowl Cozie

7.   02.18-17  Small Microwave Bowl Cozie -- All Microwave bowl Cozies shown here.

8.   02.27.17  Sew Sweet Simplicity 2015 BOM by Jacquelynne Steves here.

9.   03.03.07  Allitare! 2015 Bonnie Hunter Mystery here.

10. 03.10.17  Celtic Solstice, 2013 Bonnie Hunter Mystery here.

11. 03.17.17  Denim Tumbler Rug #1 here.

12.  04.07.17 RSC15 Sawtooth Sampler design by Angela at SoScrappy here.

13.  4.14.17   My Heart Skips a Beat 2017 H2H Quilt

14.  4.21.17  Tumbler Rug #2 

15.  4.28.17  Shoo Fly (A charity quilt for my local quilt guild.)

16.  5.5.17    Scrappy Stars baby quilt

17.  5.12.17  The Underpants Project

18.  5.19.17  One House, Two House (pattern by Cheryl Wahl.)