Back again

Well, I will apologize again for being gone so long, It's been a bit crazy. To start off I have moved from Anchorage down to living in Moose Pass, it's a nice quiet little town, and I am really enjoying life down here. The house I have moved into is a lot smaller but it's just me and the animals all summer so it really is fine and the price is right. The down side is that I don't really have a dedicated room now for quilting, I have my long arm in the living room but it fits perfect there, I am blogging from my iPad right now since there is no Internet connection yet!

I do have to say that now that I am getting settled I have been able to get back into the swing of things and really get some quilting done! Here are some pictures of some of the client quilts that I have finished down here. I am going to try to figure out how to post pics in the blog so you can see what I have been working on. Between work and quilting I have been pretty busy but having fun too!

Happy sewing!
Enjoy the photos!

Testing

Ok so we are checking to see if I can actually blog with the iPad. If this works then you will all see more of my work on here soon

UFO Challenge 2011 Update

So UFO Challenge 2011 is off to a good start,
This is what project number 6 looked like on Sunday when I opened the bag!
As of today I have 1 border left to put on it then I can squeeze it onto the quilting table and get it finished.

Sunday Stash Reports Week 1

Ok I am hoping to keep up with this one this year. Judy does a stash report every sunday to keep track and be more aware of the fabric that is coming and going out of our stash, So I decided I would participate this year. So here is my stash report!
Used this Week: 7.30 yards
Used year to Date: 7.30 yards
Added this Week: 0
Added Year to Date: 0
Net Used for 2011: 7.30 yards

Here is where it went!
On Saturday I taught 2 teens how to sew, while I was working on a yellow brick road quilt so they made one along with me, I let them pull the fabric from my stash so this is how I got the numbers up there.
The Quilt Jerry Made, he just needs to finish the side borders

The Quilt Harmony Made, Finished

The Quilt I made

I know its not a very good picture, the colors are so rich and pretty, I will try to get a better pic of it soon.

2011 UFO Challenge!

Judy over at Patchwork Times is doing a Year long UFO Challenge and I have decided to participate. I know I have more then 12 UFO's but I think this will be a good start to getting some accomplished. Here is a pic of all 12 UFO's


and here is my list of UFO's in their numbered order
1. 2010 Homer Retreat Mystery
2. Maple Leaf Hill Halloween Quilt
3. Neptune Quilt
4. Martinique Quilt
5. BQ Salmon Quilt
6. Blue Orange and Brown Strip Quilt
7. Oriental Bay Window Quilt
8. Wolf Song Quilt
9. Fractured Star Quilt
10. Spring into Christmas Quilt
11. Teal Dragonfly Quilt
12. Ryan's Blue Quilt

All of these are in various stages of being finished but my goal is each month to have one of them completely finished including quilting and binding!

So if your interested in doing this challenge too go on over to Judy's Blog and sign up

Finished projects

Well got some quilts finished this weekend

My french braid from a class a couple years ago got some snowflakes, We are working on the binding now

This is a picture of the snowflakes on the top in the braid part of the quilt.

This is the quilt on the table being quilted

and here is a view of the backing and the little snowflakes that are going in between the rows.

So another quilt I got finished this weekend was Kim's Racecar quilt for her grandson.






And for the Finale I finished my Tree Skirt, This was a class I took last year and finally got it quilted and the binding all finished.


I have 6 more client quilts to get done before Christmas, I will get another loaded tonight after work and then hopefully work on some more quilts of my own. I would love more client quilts to come in too!

Happy Sewing

Welcome Back to Quilting!

Well after a busy summer of the quilting table being working and not working and working then now and 3 new motherboards later, I am back up and quilting. I did have a pretty good summer.. Lots of Halibut fishing and clam digging and camping, and a whole lot of relaxing to get me ready for the quilting system to be working again. So this weekend was very productive and I have some great pics to share with you from my summer. so here we go!
Clam Digging Pic!

Halibut Fishing!

Camping!

I am finally home to do some quilting so this is a sneak of what I got finished this weekend!

and I finished this too!

Ohhh It feels so good to be quilting again!