Bliss!!!

My new Bliss system has arrived. I am very excited to give it a try. Well I guess I won't be trying it tonight. My job is cheerleader while my husband's friend puts it together. Thank God for friends. Don't think I would have been able to do this myself. It looks kinds of scary at the moment.

August Goals

Here are my August goals for the Charming Girls and will probably be my Design Wall Monday as well even though it is not yet Monday. But I am commuting between work and camp this week and will not get much done.

Here is a quilt I am making for a dear friend of mine. I am hoping to make two quilts one for her and one for me. "Sigh" I am so tired of never having a quilt that I make so I am thinking if I start making two of everything I can give one away and keep one. So my goal for this is to get three more blocks made this month. I am going to try to keep my goals in the attainable range. These blocks are just sooo pretty though I really love them. Mine will be in a more Christmas tone of fabric.

Sorry for the blurry picture. But i am at work and can't get another. I have been working on this quilt FOREVER and really want it done. I just need two more blocks which are almost done and the borders. I am bringing this with me this weekend to a friends where we will sew and go to the Augusta quilt show. I think I just might finally get this quilt done YEA!!!! Well then I have to quilt it. I will sneak it in between a couple of customer quilts and get this done by my September goal!!!!!

I want to get some of these put together with sashing. I have 25 made so far and want them all sashed then I will make some more. I would like to get it big enough to be a sample so that I can teach this for a class at my LQS. I just love this fabric. This quilt makes me happy. I am doing this as my starter and ender blocks so this quilt will take a while to be completed.

This is my hand work for when I am sitting outside of oboe lessons and clarinet lessons and Dr. appts. I again am making two for the same reasons as before. I really hope to keep one when done. I am almost done with one of the snow angel blocks and want both done by the end of the month. I already have two of the skiing blocks done. I am doing one in light blue thread and one in dark blue thread so they will be a little different.

Now that they are posted maybe that will give me the motivation to get some things done! I can't wait to see what everyone else is working on.

Sending her to live with Judy!

See this. This nice wall belongs in the room of my little vet. This is a nice white wall. Well a nice white wall with a lot of spackle. It is amazing how many holes a teenager can put in a wall. But still a nice white wall. Think how pretty this wall will look with a nice fresh coat of white paint.

First we spackle the walls. There are holes in every wall! It is amazing that when the house needs to be cleaned they disappear. But pull out spackle or paint and they are glued to your side. Somewhere in the sick minds of teens this is fun work. I will never try to understand them.

Then I tell them to go put on clothes that it is okay to wreck with paint. So they go and grab their Dads t-shirts. Hmmm good thing he doesn't read my blog and well they are not MY t-shirts so I will plead ignorance when he notices. And then we paint the nice white walls. WAIT this is NOT white paint. This is far from nice WHITE paint. Who in the world would let a 12 yr old pick out what color to paint her room! Oh wait that was me. But I really did not expect her to pick lime green! It is a lot more lime in 3d! So here is my little vet painting her room (sigh) green.

And of course her older sister(by 1 1/2 hours) is right there to help. Did I mention teens think this is fun?

And here is the new green wall. It still need one more coat and the other three walls are waiting until Daddy gets the edging done on them. I did NOT like edging and while the teens volunteered I thought it best to have Daddy do a little painting just to be safe. Now for some strange reason I thought of Judy over at Patchwork Times the whole time we painted this wall.

My Students

I have been having a lot of fun teaching. I think my favorite part is seeing how the same block can look so different when made with different fabrics. Here are some of the hunter star blocks that my students made using Deb Tuckers Rapid Fire technique. Now if I can just finish up some more of my quilts to show.

Another Monday and a Quilt Along

It is time for another Design Wall Monday over at Judy's site. If you need some motivation head on over to Judy's site and check out all the quilting going on in Blog Land. I have made some progress on both quilts. I went from not liking the quilt on the wall on the left at all to loving it. The pinks and creams really made a big difference. It is not done and still has some rearranging to do. The quilt on the right only needs two more blocks and then the borders. It is called Oklahoma Twister from American Patchwork & Quilting February 2006 Issue 78. Gosh I have been working on this quilt for a long time. My niece wanted it in the exact colors as the one in the magazine. I think I came very close.

I am going to participate in another CGGQC quilt along. I had a blast on the first quilt along so even though I have way to many project I am going to do this one as well. I have so much fabric left over from the last quilt along that I am going to use the same fabric. Here is a pic of the fabric from the last quilt along. Easier than taking another pic.

Finally have my sample done and hung for the quilt class that I am teaching here. I love how this turned out. This will head to my sister in law as soon as I get it back and get it quilted. this was a fun class to teach. Can't wait to teach it again.

Here is another sample I had to make up as I am also teaching the class here. It is hard to keep up with samples when you are teaching at two different locations. I really love how different they both look.

And I am so proud of this next quilt. I did NOT make this quilt. This was from on of my students from my first class. Didn't she do a great job! I quilted the cutest panto into it. Dragonfly Pond from Willow leaf.

And I actually finished one of my own quilts! It is so hard to make time to put one of my quilts on the machine when I know I have customer quilts to do. This was a one day mystery quilt. it is so soft looking. The binding is all machine attached and just waiting for me to have the time to hand stitch it down. This will give me something to do this week during clarinet and oboe lessons.

Another Monday

And that means another Design Wall Monday over at Judy's site. If you need inspiration that is the place to go to check out what tons of others quilters are working on! I started a new quilt call Hot Spot. I am not in love with it yet but I think once I add some of the pinks and yellows and creams it will pop and I will love it. I hope I will love it because I really love the fabric! The quilt on the right is the one I have been working on FOREVER for my niece. She has been so patient. I did get two more blocks done and only have four more to go. There is an end in site. But then again it has five borders and you all know how I feel about borders!

I do love the fabrics on this. I can't wait to get some time to add the other colors and see if it helps. Maybe by next Monday. Good thing my EQ 7 won't be here for a while. That could really use up some of my sewing time.

Now I'm off to spend a great day with the family at York Animal Kingdom. I just love feeding the deer.

I really DON'T need this but...

I ordered it anyways. This is why you don't play with the computer at night. It is way to easy to order things that you would normally talk yourself out of during the day. So when this comes out in June it will be coming my way.

I have so many patterns that I want to make laying around as it is. I don't know when I would even open the box. Anyone else order this?