Happy Veterans Day

Quilt Top Finishes

Thought I would share these quilt top's as I'll be sending them out to be quilted & I most likely won't see them again until spring. Sorry about my picture quality, I'll do better next time.
The 1st top is # 6 of 8 of my mother's unfinished projects. I'm calling it Plaid Monkey Wrench. It's 77x97". The blocks were a friendship exchange with the Lemhi Piecemakers quilt guild. This one is going to my daughter #2.
Autumn Bears Tracks (my name for it) was an Internet project I started earlier in the spring. Judy Laquidara at Patchwork Times designed it. I believe she is selling the pattern now as "Bears in the Farmhouse". I enlarged it to 90x90 & slightly changed to a pieced border. This one is going in my guest room.

And the 3rd top I'm calling The Rose Sampler, was another of Mom's UFO's. This was a Block of the Month from a quilt shop. Mom started it 10 years ago. It came with all the fabric. It originally had 12 blocks But I redesigned it to better fit a queen bed. It's 97" square. This one is going to daughter #1.
I'm working on the last of Mom's UFO's, quilt # 8, now. I really want all Mom's tops done this year so next year I can work on my own UFO's... I used Electric Quilt to design the layouts on all Moms quilts. I just love that program!

Quilt tops & Internet headaches!

Hope you all had a enjoyable Halloween. We don't get any Trick or Treaters were we live, so we hopped in the car & went looking for the wild mustang herds. We found several but they were to far away to get pictures. Maybe next time...
I've been working on several quilt tops & finished 3 of them last week. I have to get pictures, then I'll get them posted. I'm hoping to get 1 more top finished before we go to California to visit hubbies Mom. Which is in the same town my cousin, the quilter, lives in...
I've been fighting with the internet service again. They say I'm over my bandwidth & I say not a chance. Of course I lost because there's no way to prove that someones been helping themselves to it. So we pass coded the router which should have been done long ago & guess what usage dropped overnight. So finally after 9 days everything seems to be working again.
Anyway - Quilt top pictures coming up soon...

?'s about the Big Board Ironing Board

I had a few ? about the big board we made... Here is a good tutorial on it. It was very easy to make. Materials we used: 5/8"piece of chip board, 1x2's, 3 layers cotton batt, a heavy cotton fabric & a heavy duty staple gun with 1/2" staples, drill, screw gun & screws.. Oh & a saw to cut the broad all though a lot off times you can get the lumber yard to cut it for you! We made a rectangle of 1x2's around the ironing board instead of following it like in the picture on the tutorial. Everything else is pretty much the same. You can make it whatever size fits your needs. These are wonderful. Don't know how I got along without it!! Happy Saturday...

Quick & Easy & Finished!

Sunday was my 32 wedding anniversary! And it was the 1st time ever that I forgot. Good thing my husband was on the ball. We went out to a nice dinner in a cell block at the Jailhouse Restaurant here in town.
Then I talked my husband into helping me make a Big Broad for ironing my quilt tops. It's wonderful & I'm not sure I could ever lived without it again. It measures 22"x 62". Comes off easily for storage & when the fabric starts looking bad it's easily recovered!! Did I mention I love it!!
Halloween is almost here & this little treat bag tutorial came out just in time. It's the Itty Bitty Poochie bag on Moda Bakeshop & it was so quick & easy to make. I did these 3 in about 1/2 an hour! I think I'll pull out the christmas fabric box & make some more!! Thank you Happy Zombie for a great little bag. Happy Quilting!!

Mail Lady came bearing Gifts

I got a wonderful surprise in the mail yesterday! The Lemhi Piecemakers quilt guild of Salmon ID. which I was a member of for several years & my Mom was a long standing member sent me this wonderful set of signature blocks & an iron on patch of the guild logo the my Mom had designed. Thank you all , I love them. Your all missed very much...

Not sure if it's Fall or Winter!

One day the top temp was in the low teens to 20's & 2 days later it's 40 to 60! We had a snowstorm just a few days ago... Defiantly the start of Quilting Season! If you look real close you can see the 3 horses huddling under the awning.

Here is another of my Mom's UFO's in progress. This one is going to my oldest daughter Shana. I'm hoping to have this one & the Plaid Hole in the Barn door quilt to the machine quilter soon. Then only 1 more to go. You can bet I'll be doing the biggest happy dance you've ever seen. That is if you could see it because I sure won't be taking pictures!! I'm making it a life time goal to either finish what I start or donate it to someone that will. I feel really good about finishing all Mom's quilts but I not passing my UFO's on to my kids. Now the unused fabric, thread & quilt books they will just have to deal with (:

This is a EQ version showing the borders & here are the blocks. It will finish just under 100".

And here is my niece Tiffany with her quilt!! This was the 1st of Mom's UFO's that I finished. Happy Fall

Were has the month gone?

I'm not sure how a whole month just kind of past me by. I've done some quilting, not a lot but some. I've went for several nice weekend drives. I went to all day Saturday quilting. I've had several Dr. appointments but there is a lot of time not accounted for.
Oh well Oct. will be better! I love the fall. It's my favorite season. I love to colors, the cooler nights, the birds looking for seeds, sunflowers & scarecrows & pumpkins! Last weekend


we drove over whats called Success Loop. It's about 30 miles long & just beautiful any time of the year but now the leaves are changing color & there are lots of deer out. So I'll stop talking & share some pictures...
And what have I been working on in the quilt studio?
I've almost got 2 more of my Mom's UFO tops finished. The plaid Monkey Wrench will go to my middle daughter Hannah. And the other is a sampler, but I don't have pictures yet so I'll add them later. It will be for my oldest daughter Shana. That leave's just one quilt more to finish. I feel like I should be throwing a party!!!

The 1st is the quilt designed in EQ the 2nd is the quilt center! What do you think?
Hope your all enjoying the cooler fall weather! Happy Quilting