Nice Quiet Sunday

Nice quiet Sunday here - Kasey decided that JD made an excellent pillow. That's one thing she absolutely loves is to sleep with her 'brothers and sister' - but awake she is a terror on 4 paws.

We ventured out today and drove down to Tanger Outlet to make a return and do a little shopping, not much though. I picked up probably a half year supply of body wash at Bath and Body Works - love their after Christmas sale and Jody found a pair of shoes at the Rack Room. Not much for us but the puppies made a haul at PetSmart.

One of my favorite quilting websites is Quiltville.com and Bonnie Hunter has started a new Mystery Quilt the day after Thanksgiving. I pulled all my fabrics together but I needed to finish a few quilts before I started it. This past week I finally got to start and I am almost finished with Step #2. I am doing it in Christmas fabric/colors so I will have plenty of time to complete it before next Christmas (hopefully). I'm not too far behind - I think she just posted Step #6.

Well, laundry is done and tomorrow back to work.

Mary

Meet Kasey Cay

.....and Herbert her giraffe. Kasey is our newest addition and now there are 4 (again). We adopted Kasey on Thanksgiving day and has been running the house ever since. She is real small and 15 weeks old now, our Vet said that she probably won't weigh much more that 15 lbs grown. She's been my quilting partner of late, easier to keep an eye on her and now since she has been in with me so often I can't go quilt without her coming to the gate of the room wanting in.


I have the last of my customer quilts ready to send out tomorrow - that is the last of the ones to do before Christmas. Thought I would sneak one of mine in before I load the next one. This is a bargello that I had done from a on line class I took. Was always interested in the way these quilts were designed and thought I would give it a try. I made this quite awhile ago and thought I would finish for a wall hanging, but I also wanted to try out a new panto I had purchased. I like the way it looks on this quilt and it stitched out rather quickly.

Well tomorrow is another work day and unfortunately it comes early - all for now hopefully more soon.

Mary

Tomato Soup Quilt

Well at least the color reminds me of it. Mom had ask me for a lap quilt, she said something soft and not too big. I found the fabrics at Hobby Lobby, I was looking for and collection that had a stripe since I wanted that for the sashing stripes. I was able to assemble it pretty quickly and get it ready to be quilted - which may happen next week when I get in between customer quilts.

Last month I did complete my challenge of quilting 3 of my quilts over the long weekend, 2 still need binding attached - but yet closer to be completed.

Mary

Another One Done

I finished quilting this one this afternoon. The pattern is called My Blue Heaven - great scrappy blue and beige quilt. I used a polyester batting and the edge to edge pattern is called Billowy - next thing to do is bind it (next week). I have the backing for #3 ready to load and will probably start quilting later tonite or tomorrow morning.

JD has been my quilting buddy today - which he usually is when he is allowed in, if not he is laying outside of the gate. He has become quite vocal, a noisy little guy, not a barker but makes some of the oddest noises I have ever heard a dog make. He has definitely grown up to be a good boy.

Ok - break over.

Mary

A Long Time Since My Last Post

Once again I have taken a long break from any type of posting - not sure if this posting will start anything.

Since my original plans changed for this weekend, husband sick and storms are coming in I have decided to finish up some unfinished quilts and catch up on other things. I started with this lap quilt I just finished sewing together this week and did the quilting today - plans for this one are to be sent to the shop in Wisconsin that sells my quilts along with another that I am binding now. I just finished loading quilt #2 on the frame and will quilt that one tomorrow and then on to #3 to be quilted. And then in between these I need to pull fabrics to make my mom a lap quilt, I have the pattern but I still need to figure out the fabrics. I love that I added the computer to my machine, it frees up so much time that I can get others things together while its doing all the work.

Obviously Sophie has found the comfort of sleeping with her head on a pillow. I was busy working on a customer quilt yesterday and thought things were a little quiet in the house. Looked down the hall and there she was sound asleep, not sure where she found the pillow but certainly looks comfortable. I did get quite the look from her when I took her picture - the flash disturbed her. The other day she grabbed a pair of shorts from the laundry basket and was caught trying to put them in her toy basket - now I thought she only knew how to take things out of the toy basket not put things in it - I wonder if I could get her to pick up after herself and her brothers - humm.

Maybe tomorrow I will post again - humm!

Mary

Meet Sophie

Sophie is hard to get a picture of - she never sits still. Jody took this picture while she was eating today - not really happy about being interrupted. Sophie is now 14 weeks old and growing so fast. Had her to the Vet on Friday for her third round of shots and she weighs in at 13.8lbs. When we first got her we were a little worried about her eating - no a problem now. Not afraid of anything not even the pool, when we are in the pool she will get down on the first step - hopefully she wouldn't get in without us. She has twice now cut JD off when they are running around it and JD has ended up in the water - Jody has at least been close by when he went in to grab him out.

I completed the quilting on this quilt yesterday and its ready for the binding to go on. The pattern is Christian Cross and the panto I used to quilt it is Bountiful Feathers. So one UFO almost complete - yippee! Next quilt is a customers quilt to be done - its loaded on the frame just waiting on the final decision on which panto to use.


Unfortunately back to work tomorrow - had a nice little 3 day weekend, wish it were 4!

Mary

It's Been A Long Time

Allot has gone on for me in the past couple of months.

1st - Quilted Comfort has moved all the way to the other bedroom. Should have done that
when we first moved here 3 years ago. This room is 11 x 15 with double closets - prefect for storage - plus in the other room I was crawling thru the closet to get around my quilting frame, if I were a young thing it would be ok but I'm not.

2nd - Quilted Comfort has gone computerized. I have added the ProStitcher to my HQ16 machine - it sure has freed up some of my time. As I take on more quilting jobs I also am able to work on other things while it is doing the quilting - like blogging! Its kind of like multitasking made easy.

Here are my newest quilting buddies, Sophie and JD - not sure if quilting is that tiring or that boring of a process. Usually they bring me toys, chews, food bowls and anything else they can drag in here. They're not too happy when they get banned from the room when I'm working on a quilt that is not mine.

The past couple of days I have been playing with new blog layouts and a new header for my blog - probably more changes are ahead - seems like I'm into changing things lately.

With the move I have discovered some unfinished projects like this one - Christian Cross. I made this several years ago - not sure why I never finished it but I have a feeling I ran out of fabric for the binding.
I has lucky to find a fabric at Hobby Lobby that matched the green so this will become a finished UFO. I also found another top where I had the center put together and the blocks for the border and I do remember I needed more fabric for the inner border but never remembered to pick it up. That one is a double pinwheel quilt - pictures on another day - but playing around in EQ6 with the quilt I decided on a totally different color and in the program it made the quilt come alive but we'll see what real life does for it.

Wow this post has gotten lengthy - more later.

Mary