Sewing/ Quilting Merrily Along

This is the quilt for the dad of the family I'm making the love quilts for. It's one of Bonnie's patterns.My dad wants one just like it. Bonnie is coming to my guild 3 weeks from tomorrow!!! I'm so excited. I have to finish the last quilt for the middle daughter. Top is almost done- hoping to finish it today and load it for quilting tomorrow. Maybe, just maybe I can get these quilts out by Monday. Wouldn't that be great???


Last year I did the first quilt along with Amanda Jean. I finally figured out something to do with half the blocks- I used the setting blocks from the second quilt along-lol. I'm sending it to a friend after I finish these love quilts. It's now hanging in que for it's turn in quilting.


I was more than 75% done with the hand quilting on Buffalo Troubles when the fabric ran in the love quilt. All the bonus hsts from that quilt are in Buffalo Troubles. I got a very helpful email yesterday saying I should baste a color catcher right to the 2 hsts that ran in the other quilt. Thank You Rose Marie
I hope it works.



Here's a pic of the label *S* Now to get the binding and this label sewn down.

Another Love Quilt.

Mr Juki is home and purring like he should be :)
This is the second of four love quilts for my friend's family.
I used 2 blocks that Cindy designed.
The third one I'll be sewing the binding down tonight and washing it.
Tonight or tomorrow I'll be making the binding for the fourth quilt -trimming and sewing binding on to stitch down during Grey's Anotomy tomorrow night.

Back from the missing

What a week. I can't even blame hubby he didn't come home last weekend. I've been FINALLY getting the love quilts for my friend, Robin's family pieced and quilted.
Of course last week the back hall way looked like this:

Scarey huh? And that's not including the one I was still piecing at the time.
I found fabric in my closet- I never put fabric in my closet of the girl's favorite colors yellow,pink and purple....here it is with the alternating blocks I'm using for the quilt along project with Amanda Jean last year.



To me, the fabric looks like Peeps Colors:


I had the yellow ones for breakfast while on the phone with Mel.

Anyhow I got 2 of the 3 quilts quilted and Mr Juki decided to act up- here's the sick Juki waiting to go to the Spa for a tuneup:
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Lucky for me Katie has a new Juki and let me break hers in for her :)
I got the binding on one of the quilts- this is the youngest ones. Her favorite color is pink:)
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So my goal for tomorrow is to get a second quilt trimmed and binding attached and then at night I can sew them down. Hopefully I can pick up the juki Wednesday and quilt the father's quilt and get that one bound also and maybe - just maybe deliver all 4 this weekend. Then is the push to finish the hand quilting on Buffalo Troubles for hubby......

I'll Say it again, BREAST CANCER SUCKS!!

I found out this morning that the wonderful woman I made this quilt for died yesterday after a terribly long battle with breast cancer. I've known the family for 11 years, Robin had cancer probably 8 of them . The last few years she was in clinical trials. While I know how proud she was of her daughter that was in my Girl Scout troop, it breaks my heart to know she will miss seeing the younger two graduate high school.
God Speed my friend....

Second love quilt done

Love Quilt is Done :)

Another one is half quilted on the frame and I think I'm going to try and do alittle more and call it a night. Binidng is made for that one and the Vet quilt that will get loaded tomorrow :)

Tonight I need to grate some carrots for Carrot Cake for tomorrow's dessert yummmmm

Have a Blessed Easter

Tah Dah

I did manage to work slowly on the binding and get it all done :)
The trick there was to do a block's worth, put it down and go do something else. Like trim another 90 3 1/2 " hsts for the depression block quilts I need to start after school gets going again for the kiddies.

So now I have all the hsts I need in 2 of 16 colors so I guess I'll do some of the red today or at least get it cut out and ready to sew.

I have a small mountain of laundry that needs to be sorted and put away :( that I really really should be doing......I think playing wins for now.....