Another Quilt done!!

So after a nice relaxing weekend out at K and G's house in Willow. I got home and got back to work after a day with a migrane. But I did finish a couple things...
K and I finished 2 quilt samples that will be shown as a mystery for our upcoming retreat with the Mom's and I also finished Allies quilt. I know its about time huh!!!
Here's the front!!

Here's the back

He's 18

Well reality has hit me hard today.. Didnt think that I really was that old but my son is 18 today. It has been some fun and challenging years but we did it!!! here are some pics of growing up along the way. Happy Birthday Son may all your dreams come true!!! I love you!!!

Happy Easter Quilty Weekend

Happy Easter everyone.... I had a great quilty weekend. Mom,I and about 7 other ladies got together here at the Tern Lake Inn for a wonderful weekend of sewing and chatting. The place is beautiful and I cant wait to go back and sew there again. The owners are so inviting and such great cooks too. I got a few pics but they are on mom's camera so I will have to wait to post those but this was the room I stayed in for the weekend....

Isn't it beautiful and so relaxing out there. I will be meeting up tonight for the first time with a sewing group I found in Anchorage, I cant wait. I really need some sewing buddies to play with.
I have a couple quilts that I need to get done so I am going to load one on tonight after work and get some of it done before I head to sewing.
We had a great easter dinner over at France's and Aden just loved the cute tonka truck basket the easter bunny dropped off for him.
Allie is doing great she had a wonderful weekend too. I think she might even sew with out group tonight. I hope so. It would be nice to get her back sewing with me again. Well Happy Monday everyone.. I have to get back to work.

Making Progress

Ok after a long day at work, I came home and finish up some of the cleaning and rearranging of my quilting studio... here are some updated picture.

Disclaimer: This is just what I have accomplished so far.. There is plenty more to do...

This is half of the garage. You can scroll down to the previous post and see that the cutting table and the guest table were in a diffrent area. I cleaned and rearranged and opened up the room alot.


This is my cutting table with storage underneath it. The boxes have scraps in them for paperpiecing projects.

Here is my sewing area...

and here is the picture of the accuquilt system and a guest sewing area if anyone decides to come over and sew with me. Ok well back to the dungeon for me... Happy Quilting!!!

Quilting Challenge 101

OK this is a bit embarrasing but I have decided to join in the Pat Sloan Quilting group on Facebook... We are doing an Organizing Challenge so here I go.... The before pictures of my quilting studio. I will post my progress as I go
Here is my list of things I need to do to get organized... Feel free to comment and add some ideas if you think I have missed something in my list.

color code fabric stash and place in correct bins
organize and list all UFO's
make UFO goal list deadlines
go thru and organize pattern books
place all tools in the places that are used the most.
Hang batting roll up for easy access to cutting table
organize and store unused yarn and knitting patterns.

Here is my cutting table and my messy guest sewing area. Haven't really decided where to put the Accuquilt system yet so it sits on the guest sewing area.


here is my fabric stash bins... I got the bins from a gift shop that was remodeling and they were going to throw them away....


More fabric and stash to be put away


This is the guest sewing area


My Sewing Area


Quilting Table

I didnt get any pictures of under the quilting table but that is where I normally organize the UFO's.. That is on my list to clean and organize too...

Its been a while

Sorry for being gone so long. I have been very busy. I am almost finished with the 18 quilts for the elementary school that I have been working on... 2 left!!! 18 in one month thats alot of quilting. Here is a picture of what a couple of them look like. They are all done by the classes at the school and will be put up on the wall in the lunch room on display for the schools 50th anniversary





There are 18 of these all together.
As those were quilting out I had the chance to start and finish some quilts of my own.
This one has the borders on it now and is a lap size now too. But it is made for my BFF for her first grandchild that is due in June.

I cut all of these quilts out with my new AccuQuilt system. I am so happy I ordered this product. I really like being able to cut a bunch of fabric all at the same time.
Here is a pic of the "Wishing for Spring" quilt that I started yesterday.

I saw a picture of this quilt on another bloggers site and decided to make it. So I pulled out my batiks and my accuquilt and started cutting. Its very easy and goes together pretty fast. While I was working on that this is what was falling outside. No thats not snow...... Is ASH from the Mt. Redoubt eruption...

the ash gave me a good excuse to stay inside and just sew and quilt......
Happy Quilting!!!

Finished Stuff

Ok so I finished the second Texas Flag quilt for my boss last week and then decided to take a couple days off of sewing. But I got back at it on Wednesday and finished this brown one for A. the pattern that was quilted on it is called Almost Paisley and I used a brown and tan varigated thread.
Here is the whole quilt.

and here is a close up of the quilting.