Tammy's Quilt.

Tammy received her "pink and blue" baby quilt on Thursday and as you can see she seems delighted with it!

I have two more baby quilts to deliver but one is awaiting baby's name and the other goes to Aus. with me next month.

Wednesday, Not Wordless!

Probably it would be better if I were wordless today because I am feeling, as I told a friend, like the dog's breakfast! What I hoped was allergies and asthma has evolved into a full- fledged URTI, you know, "The Works" ! While I am not sick enough to stay in bed and sleep I feel poorly enough that I don't want to tackle anything major, but I am so bored! There's only so much reading and the telly-watching that is tolerable then I have to be actually doing something.

Monday night before this nasty virus hit me full on, I quilted up this little baby panel with the fast and effective peacock feathers.

Friend Loretta gave it to me for baby Matthew months ago and I just now got it made up.

Then for some mindless sewing I made a few more pot-holders.

There are enough tops awaiting quilting that I really want to be at the long-arm machine so this illness is really aggravating, hence the whining!

If I can do something productive it keeps me a little distracted from the symptoms and from feeling sorry for myself, so I need to go find a project I can handle, something that doesn't require enormous amounts of energy and brainpower since I am somewhat depleted of both!

Back To The Basics

I have been distracted by babies[well just one] & sunsets & purses & VTT & I need to get back to blogging about what I do nearly every day, quilting !
I have quilted 6 tops on the LA the past week since I came down from the mountains. However, none of them is bound as yet, my Guild here in Montrose, CO. will help me out with binding the QOV's.

The only one of these that I actually pieced was the baby quilt below, the others were all put together by my generous friends in the Huggy Bunch quilt group.

They never lay or hang totally flat it seems until the binding is attached so I will show you a photo of the whole of this quilt once I get the binding on in a few days.
This is the pink D9P baby girl quilt, I have cut the bright pink fabric for the binding. The baby is due this coming week so I need to get this bound & labeled pronto! The fabrics all came from my stash.

These next two are freehand quilted with square spirals to fill each block- Nancy pieced these & I think they are scrap quilts.

They are two of the latest four QOV's for wounded warriors

These next two QOV quilts were made by Meredith from a "twofer" pattern where you sew the blocks for both quilts at the same time & end up with two very different looking quilts
I think this is a very clever idea so I am looking forward to trying this method myself-it's on my list!
These last two did give me bit of a fit-they are beautiful batiks & after all my bragging about how I have no trouble quilting batiks it came back & bit me you know where!
I had constant struggles with thread breaks, skipped stitches & so on & I had to go painfully slowly & anyone who knows me will tell you that's not my speed. I spent a lot of time trying to solve my problems, umpteen different needles, speeds, re-threadings, bobbin & thread changes, checking timing[ugh], adjusting the needle bar height, ad nauseum until I was pretty cranky! Even ordered a new bobbin, ouch, $$$$-wise that hurt. The batik quilts are done, PTL, & I hope not to have these issues again. The only thing I didn't try [only because I didn't have a can of it] was to spray the fabric with silicon, some of the LA quilters on one of my groups say this helps, guess I need to get a can. I did however use "Sewer's Aid" [a liquid silicon] on the spool of thread & the thread path but I'm not sure it helped, I just struggled on through the process until they were finished.

This last one is a donation for a charitable group's auction, quilted with meandering flowers & leaves.

So it's now Saturday but the date on the post still shows Thursday & although there has to be a way to change that I don't know how!

I drove the 500 plus miles to the CO. mountains today, 9 hours across a lot of desert. It was 60 degrees when I arrived at 9,000 ft. this evening, Phx. hasn't seen 60 degrees since January I think!

Baby Matthew's Cuddle Quilt

The first quilt I made for this soon- to- be- baby boy was quite large so I thought I'd make a second, a "cuddle " quilt & the larger one can stay in the crib. I used some of the bits left over from the original then purchased other pieces to make enough for this 44" square "Scrappy Twist" design from Bonnie Hunter & I even scrapped the binding. I now have it quilted, bound & labeled & ready to go to the new nursery.

Kind of eye popping isn't it?!


The back is minkeee and a lot calmer & you can see I quilted it with an all-over freehand swirl.

And just so there can be no mistaking the purpose of this little quilt here is the label!


My other finish this weekend was another little Koala quilt-the quilt that I gave away on the blog was mailed to Pat from Iowa & sent First class mail on March 19th. & still has not arrived. I will be mailing this off to Pat in the next day or so, but this time it will go Priority with delivery confirmation, I have had very good results that way. I had thought that this small packet would be fine First Class, see what I get for thinking?! Maybe it will show up before I can get this in the mail...............hmmmmmmmm.