Monday(What's on your Wall?)

Another Monday has arrived! In the Spirit of Judy's What's on Your Wall Monday here is my post. I started working on the last row of my braided quilt and would have had that completed if it wasn't for a slight distraction that ate up most of my sewing time this weekend. I am also considering tearing off a little of the middle row and making it a little longer rather than cutting the quilt down to size.I am hoping to have this top down minus the borders by next Monday. Not much sewing time for me this week so we shall see.

The quilt that was on the frame is now quilted and the binding is almost completed. Just 1 and 1/2 more sides of hand tacking left to go. This picture does not do the colors justice. This is really a very vibrant quilt. Almost to vibrant but my little vet loves it and it is her quilt so that is all that matters.

Here is the back. I used a panto from Willow Leaf . I really like using this panto on children's quilts. It has such a happy feel to it.

I am trying to get more organized in my sewing room and love to keep my projects in these totes but I only had a couple. Joannes had a sale going so I stocked up and it did not take me long to fill them with projects. In fact I had to make a second trip for more. I now have two empty ones and am trying to decide which projects are important enough to go in the totes.

Back to my distractions from the other day. Here are all the blocks done from my girl's friend. Next time she comes over we will have here put them together and then pick out a border. She seemed to have a lot of fun picking out her fabric and did not shy away from mixing colors and prints.LOL

When things don't go as planned

I got the best call at work on Tues. The boss(well I'm the boss) but the owner of the company calls and tells me to put a note on the machine that we are closed on Friday(today) Woohoo!!! My thoughts are I get to sew all night Thursday as I don't have to get up Friday. I know all that I want to do. First get the binding on the quilt I just quilted so I get hand sew at the camp this weekend! And then oh so much more. Now how do I do this and not feel bad about being in the basement all night. Easy I got it I will let my kids have sleepovers so they won't need me. What a great plan!!!!! I rush home and clean(yes I can clean sometimes) so that my husband won't mind be spending the night sewing and all the kids arrive. My son the little whirlwind goes off and plays with his friend PERFECT. But then the girls well the girls are a different story. I am downstairs about three seconds before they decide they want to sew as well.

I pull out their machines. I find my old machine for their friend and then we are off to Joanne Fabrics as we do not have enough thread for us all. And I let their friend get some fabric to make a stash and slash. I will do a lot for my kids but they are not allowed to touch my quilt shop fabric. My girls are all set but their friend has never sewed before. so the lessons begin.

They are all having a great time making their quilts. The girls are excited that they have advanced to more difficult quilts and they can now use the iron. I was able to get the binding on my quilt but that was all between running back and forth help all the girls out. They are getting ready now to go back and spend the rest of today sewing as well until we leave for camp. Here are the results. This is the posie my little artist has started. She has a bunch of blocks done but here are a few.

Here is the posie my little vet has started. As you can see they do NOT have the same taste in fabric! Or anything else for that matter. They may be identical twins but it ends at the DNA.LOL

And here is the Stack and Slash their friend has started. She has half the blocks done and will now start on the other fabrics. There is a leopard and a zebra print making its way into this quilt.

Well my night did not go as planned but I think it turned out much better! I did have to put my foot down at 2:00 A.M. and say bed time! Now I am off to sew before they notice I am down there.

Monday Again

Wow hard to believe it is Monday again! This week sure flew. Was very excited to have one whole day of sun this week. This rain has to stop soon we already missed June! I am enjoying Judy's What 's on your wall Monday so here is my Wall. I know it looks the same as last week but there are a couple of changes. For one there is an extra BOM done so I have four done now. And at the bottom is 12 log cabin blocks for my cousin Susan Quilt. That makes that quilt half done.

And the top that was laying on the machine is now loaded on. We spent that weekend up at the lake so that took away a big chunk of my sewing time. I did finishing binding the cancer quilt and hope to deliver that this week.

We will be spending the Holiday weekend up at the lake again so I am hoping to get the above quilt quilted so I can work on my binding while we are at the camp.

Goals for this week.

Quilt and bind quilt on the machine

Continue working on Susan Quilt

Have fun with the kids at the lake!

Hope everyone has a happy fourth of July!

Fun with Friends

Neen and I hit the road after work to head to N.H. to have fun sewing with friends. Well okay I might have left work a tensie bit early for this but it was worth it. We headed to our favorite quilt shop The Quilt Patch For her Friday Frenzy. We sewed and then left for dinner then sewed some more. I'm not sure if I did more shopping or sewing though. My poor credit card is all worn out but look at these great fabrics I got for a swap I am in. I am doing a wall hanging for "Good Ol; Summertime Mini swap". I hope these fabrics read summer and who ever I get for a swap partner likes them.

If the fabrics above don't read summer the fabric I picked out for the backing sure does. Doesn't that fabric just make you want to go jump in the lake. Either that or go run on a treadmill for a few hours.LOL

And one goal done for the week. I did get one of my BOM blocks done. Not sure why the pic came out so light. Sure does not do this fabric justice at all.

What's on your Wall Monday

After checking out Judy's site and seeing What's on your wall Monday I thought I would post. I reminds me of Motivation Friday that used to be on a prior site in a past life. I hope that this will motivate me to work on some of these. The colors on all of these are brighter in person. The quilt on the left just needs one more row and then the borders. The middle is a BOM called Butterfly Kisses which ended last year. I have three blocks down and hopefully will have another one by next Monday. The right is a double Irish chain. This got put on hold when I realized I had to redo all of the center blue blocks. They are all about 1/4 inch to small.sigh

I also pulled out a quilt top that needed to be quilted about two years ago. I hope that having this out will remind me to quilt it.

This week I want to get the binding on the quilt I finished yesterday and continue sewing on my cousins quilt which isn't big enough for the design wall and of course one BOM block. I am not seeing any cooking or cleaning in my future.

I just discovered a new quilt shop in my area. Well I noticed it a while ago but it is near my gym and I am always sweaty when I am near it. Finally went in yesterday and noticed a kids sewing class. I signed up all three for this yep even my little whirlwind is going to take it. I told him if any of the projects are to girlish he can always make it as a gift for Mommy.

Something Accomplished

I decided it was about time I got back into the sewing room. I never even unpacked my sewing machine from MQX in April. I made a promise though that no sewing until I got this quilt done. The top has been loaded on the machine for over a month. This is the quilt I made for my husband's friend who has cancer. He is a cop and very proud of it. The blue fabric is cop fabric. I got the back loaded night before last and started quilting it today.

And yeah I also finished quilting it today as well. I did an all over panto of swirls which I love. Now all I need to do is get the binding on this. I will get that sewed on this week and do the hand sewing Friday night at Friday Frenzy.

Here is a close up of the fabric. I really like how this quilt turned out. I was nervous with my fabric choices. I never know what to use when making a quilt for a guy. Most of my fabrics are either for females or kids.

To bribe myself to get the above quilt done I let myself start a new quilt. This quilt is on my UFO list so I don't feel guilty about starting it. I would alternate cutting the kit and attaching the other quilt to the frame.

Of course once you start cutting you just have to get a little sewing done. So I did start on this but I promise I will get the binding done on the other quilt this week. I just need to sew a little more on the new quilt first.

On the non quilt front I got myself a new treadmill this week. The old treadmill has a new home at the RV. It is over 9 years old and needed to retire to a place where it would not get used as much. I am so excited about the new machine. It has auto incline and the tension on it is amazing plus built in speakers that my Ipod plugs into. Tomorrow is my first run on the new treadmill. The question is do I get up early or do it after work. Or do I get up early hit my snooze button and then run after work anyway.

Oh and the best part do you see the pretty red buttons. Well apparently the manufactures prefer blue buttons so this machine was $500.00 off because it has the old red buttons instead of the new blue buttons. I can live with red for the price difference and I prefer the read anyways!

New Member to Our Family

I would like you all to meet the newest member of our family. His name is Cookie. He took about 4 seconds to get use to our house and our dogs and then he took charge. He caught two field mice his first two days at our house and we haven't seen any mice since. He likes to take showers and lay in the sink. We found out he was at the pound for over a year before we got him. Not sure why because he seems perfect to us. He even likes the kids!

Have not had any quilty updates because well I haven't been quilting. I do miss it and am itching to get back in my basement and sew. I do have a friend that just informed me that she is pregnant at 40!!!!! So glad it is not be but she is very excited. So i just ordered THIS It is cross stitch not quilting but I think it is something I can do up to the lake this summer. Easier than trying to plug a sewing machine into the sand.

I have also wanted to sign up for the Four Seasons quilt swap forever but never see the new one until it is to late. Really want to swap with someone overseas. If anyone knows of any other swaps like this please let me know!

Got so many UFO's to work on so want to start on one of those as well. I have had a top loaded on the machine forever just need to square up the back and load that. Should try to do that first. Hope everyone has a great summer. Am really gonna try to post more honest!