I have been busy

I call it Garden Bliss!
It is beautiful, I just love the fabric line California Girl by Fig Tree Quilts.









This is my new pattern. I am so lucky, I finished the design while I was sick, and I couldn't quilt on the longarm. But the minute I thought I stand and quilt, I couldn't get started soon enough. I knew exactly what I wanted to quilt on it. I think it is beautiful. But... I am a little bias.
My friend Lisa and I were talking and I didn't know what to call it, but I had an idea what I wanted to portray, she came up with the name and I couldn't be happier.
I should have the pattern finished and ready to sell in a couple weeks.
The quilt measures 56" x 72", it uses a layer cake and 2 yards of background fabric.
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Minnesota Hot Dish Quilt

This is my customers first quilt. I tried to get a photo where you could see the great background I did on this quilt.


I never like using the Rainbow or Lava thread. I am a total tone on tone kind of girl (I worked tone on tone into the the black background). But... I must say this looked pretty good in person and I am proud of how it turned out. I did the feather wreaths on all the colored squares. I then followed the long cross on the quilt with a whimsy little leaf. I think it probably looked better in person than these images show.


The feather was dependent on the size of the cross. I think it worked out in the end and I liked how it gave the blocks some attitude.


Then I had the piano keys that I just did a row of feathers on. I think the color of the thread worded out and I did get a little goofy in a couple places, but I think they still look good.


Another partial photo.


Here is the whole quilt. I can't wait for summer when I can get some better photos. I am totally not able to get the great background on this quilt.


Living the dream, one quilt at a time. Thanks for looking.
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Hot off the frame

Here is where I will start. ...


This is a customer quilt that took a little longer than I expected. I just kept going and going, before I knew it, I had been at it a week. I had a couple distractions but I worked on it pretty steady for a couple days.
The first photo is a picture of the quilt draped on the frame just after I finished it.
...and now for the best part...
Here are a couple of the blocks.


























Here is the border with piano keys. I just love the way a quilt looks with the piano keys added to the feathers.



This is my favorite block.



Here is a shot of the quilting in process. I always like taking these kind of pictures...let me see if I can find another one. It looks so cool to see the quilt in process. These blocks look so lofty because my customer requested wool batting.
This quilt just looks so good to me. I fully enjoyed making the quilting fit the quilt. I hope my customer likes the quilt as much as I do. I think this quilt is so nice, I am excited to get going on my "Love Letters" quilt that I have been sitting on for a couple months now. I better get busy...


I hope you enjoyed the pictures, I know I sure did enjoy the quilting.


thanks for looking.
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A bunch of quilts for my customers

This is going to be a pretty long post, mostly of just photos and slideshows. I feel like I have to tell you what I have been up to, here is a couple slide shows for a couple of the quilts I have been working on.

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This quilt was a charity quilt for a group of women that wanted to give a quilt to the little girl in Bremerton that was shot by her classmate.

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This is another quilt that was quilted for charity.

Slideshow design personalized with Smilebox

Thanks for looking. I need to get back to work, hopefully I will have a couple other quilts to post in the next couple days. thanks ....star

How long will this cone last?

Yes, I am wondering how long this 33,000 yards of Bottom Line, white thread will last?? This is one color of thread I use on almost all of my quilts? If I am not using "White" I use "Off White" so...


I guess I should show you how much off white thread I have used since October of last year.


I think the amount of thread used is more dramatic in person. But if you ask me It looks like about half of the off white spool has been used. I never thought I would use this much thread in my lifetime. Looks like about a years worth of thread. :) I better get busy quilting.

Now what I have been up to lately....


This is Lisa up front with this months block. She is giving the demo for how the block goes together. This was our first class for the "Redwork Revival" quilt. Lisa and I have been getting ready for this for a couple weeks, praying for red and white fabric to make a beautiful BOM with all the ladies that signed up for out class at the Parkland Parish Quilt Co. I have to say things went real well, and I think we had a good time.
So... why not peak at next block for the Redwork Revival Quilt (this is block two) ...


This is a block Lisa named Applesauce, Marti Michelle named it Applause. The story behind the new name is quite funny, I will save it for a slow day.
I have had the pleasure of making this block about 3 times now.. not counting the 2 times Lisa has been lucky enough to make this block. I am pretty sure I have all the directions down pretty good. I just have to rewrite a part so I can address the directional fabric that we had to use. At first I did not like this block, but the more I look at it from a distance, I think it has grown on me?? We shall see how I feel after a good nights sleep.

If I thought things were busy now, I am about to get a lot busier... I am not too sure how I will do it, but I have to get a few big quilts finished. I would also like to get a few of my quilts done, and I have to continue to sleep sometime?
At this time I am looking for a dog walker and a maid. I have given up cleaning and walking the dogs. Thank god for Dan or I would be in the marked for a cook or on a diet.

Well I have made this post while on the treadmill so. I have finished my walk and I need to go try to polish off some white thread.

thanks for following along...
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One busy weekend.

Where to start?
What a busy weekend I had....
I had so much to get done and so little time.
My Saturday started with a couple miles on the treadmill, then going to Seattle and getting my hair done. I'm lucky enough to have my hair dresser be my daughter but, that means you need to take her out to dinner afterwards. She and her boyfriend had tickets for the opening sounders game, but we found time to go to a nice Indian food restaurant in the U district. Then it was a quick road trip to the stadium, and we we dropped them off outside of the stadium.
We managed to get home at about 8:30 - 9:00 and I found time to finish up the cutest little cat appliqué quilt.



Then Sunday it was time to get ready for the red and white debut.
Block one is Ellis Island! block one of 12.
Lisa did all the homework and got the block ready.


I then finished two small baby quilts for charity. While... Dan drove to Bellingham pick up a cute little featherweight (I plan to paint it bright orange)
while I finished up another quilt for my customer.





And then to finish off the evening, I finished the cute little scrap basket that we plan to give away to one of the lucky recipients at our class monday night.



Okay that's enough I have to go and get ready for work.
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Friday was my lucky day!

Look what the fedex guy brought....
It is so cute, and little... and it has an 8 megapixel camera. Perfect for quit photos, I hope?

what packaging...apple has got it down.

I can hardly believe it. I hope the camera is worth it...

I insisted on getting it up, running and synchronized last night....

HERE WE GO...
The hope is that the photos are better than my old ipad (old? 1 year old?? really...) so here we go.

okay enough showing off. back to work.
Here is a customers appliqué quilt. It is so cute cats and mic. I have done bead board (piano keys) in the border do it looks like the mice are running next to the wall. It is dark in the room so I hope you can see it? (I may have to work on the lighting a bit, I think I can handle that?)

Here I hope you can see the cute background fill. I think the continuous swirl is perfect for this quilt. I couldn't imagine a heavier fill for this quilt.

I am in the process of figuring out the treatment for the log cabin blocks. I bet it is feathers?? what do you think? Definitely feathers, but I may do my feather meander? We shall see.

so the good news is this blog post was brought to you while I walked up an incline of 8 (a scale of 1-10) on my treadmill :) a perfect world, workout and blog :)
We shall see if the new ipad will keep me blogging?
stay tuned, and thanks for following.
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