The Parents' Quilt

(Batiks bought at our own Webfabrics.net booth!:)

While wandering around the Hampton Quilt Show I found this awesome seaglass fabric. Mom loved it and picked these batiks to go with it and thus began my year long adventure!

Made a bunch of big log cabin blocks cutting them into quarters and the agony of block placement began.  Had over ten different choices and settled on....

...this one!  Backed, basted and hand quilted it definitely needed to be bigger to fit on a queen sized bed!  Decided to put it on point and add corners...big corners!!

Once the front and back of the corners were on it was time to pop that batting in and do some more hand quilting! All this is using the Quilt as you Go (QAYG) method.  Love that!!

 (Color is wacky in all the photos because of the lack or abundance of sunshine!:)

A big old sun in each corner....but still not big enough!

Solution...borders.  Added one side at a time....pinned quilted part into our rug, pushed back top and taped down backing.

Added batting, smoothed down top and pin basted....easy peasy QAYG!!

Not very impressive on our double bed!

Much better hung over the back deck at my parents! 

The best place though is on their bed....one year after purchasing the fabric!

Hmmm....that stool needs recovering....there is leftover fabric!:0

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Granny is finally Squared...or umm...quilted!:)

About three and a half years ago (hanging my head in shame) Round 14 at the Old Red Barn Co. Quilt Along was a Granny Square quilt.  

 We were supposed to use 2.5" squares but you know me...I gotta go against the grain and....

 ...I had a stack of 4.5" Hoffman 1985 batik squares already for piecing.  Why not?

 So Mega Granny was born. I didn't have enough to make two more squares so  improvised with scraps in the center. I like it!

  Chunky quilting is my fav and this was easy.

Especially when you don't have to mark the quilting lines!

Yeah for the seventh finish!

At the shop we have a new service project...

"Donate a block, Donate an Organ"

It's all about making quilts to hang in dialysis centers to bring a little smile to the faces of patients while they wait.

Don't you think Batman can help with his awesome strength?:)

Some Batman strength is needed to finish this puppy. It will be following me to the last quarter of this year's Finish Along!

Protein helps too!

Oh...forgot to point out the button up there....I'm going to have a quilt at the

International Quilt Festival Houston 2015!

My Wind Cave landscape will be in the National Parks Special Exhibit AND I will be at the show working the Webfabrics booth!!  

Our shipping manager/pal Kerry has TWO quilts in the same exhibit!

Come say Hi...hugs gladly accepted too!:)

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Third quarter Finish Along list.

One Swap Done....Hex Part II and a Mystery!

Two weeks without the girl and we are surviving!:) Wanted to thank all of you who have asked how everything it going and share a bit...here is her blog...and here is her flickr photostream if you are curious. I wish she would label her photos better!:)Another reason why all is well is because I've just been busy. Now working 3 days a week at Webfabrics and of course working on swap commitments. Above is my finished DQS9...it is the one in the middle on the top. I have a pot holder hiding the center so my partner doesn't see what is there before it arrives. I didn't really know what I wanted to do so I made lots of squares and then just put them together. I was going to do bento boxes but they weren't going how I wanted so I just did square in square.

Here is a closer picture of the wee quilt....so do you want this one...or one of the other ones? The choice is yours!!!

I also finished a tablerunner using the leftover hex pieces from Round 6 at the
Old Red Barn Quilt-Along. The original is hanging above our bed.

We are having a lot of fun at work...check out this huge wall of rick rack! That stuff is over an inch wide...love it. I think I need to get some for this baby quilt I'm making Maria's former bosses...I'm going to use this farm fabric because they have pigs!:)

Another exciting thing happening at work is this Mystery Quilt. I'm in charge of it!:)
Customers pick 3 colors, Carly picks out the fabrics and I cut the yardage and make a kit. This month everyone is picking up their fabrics, cutting instructions and the 1st clue. They get a new clue each month for 10 months and what is amazing is they really won't know what it looks like until they get the 10th clue! Because this is my project Carly also generously gave me the fabric to make my own so I'll be able to answer any questions...I hope!:) That's my pile above...grey and brown batiks and the bottom fabric is my third color. If you look at the store's Facebook page you can see some of the other color combos customers have picked. This is going to be fun...now I just have to be brave and make the first cut!!

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Another Fun Day at Work...

The first thing we do at work is fill orders. I love that job, it is so fun to see what everyone is buying around the world and I do mean around the world because Webfabrics ships everywhere!! Well, the first order I was given was a rainbow bundle of batiks. We didn't have any more so I had to make one....of course while making one I had to make five more so we would have them in the shop! Needless to say I worked on that one order all morning.....

....but it was sooooo much fun!

Happiness in a rainbow bundle

of batiks!!:)

Here's a look at my lastest mini...this one is 6"-11" made for my partner Naomi in the Mini QT Swap....that's a new name, it was called the 6"-12"mini quilt trading swap...a bit of a mouthful so they changed it....get it? "QT"....cutie!;)

But I think I'll be resting my sewing hands for a few days....did some pruning for the first time this year...didn't wear gloves.

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