Relay for Life and a Quilt

Remember this quilt? Well, when my daughter-in-law was in the other night and mentioned that our local high school was going to have a "Relay for Life" event and asked if I wanted to donate something to be raffled. "Of course!" I said and this is what I gave her. Yesterday she sent home raffle tickets with my husband to start selling. :D

This is the reason I make quilts, to help other people in some way, shape, or form.

Wonderful Color!

It was so nice out yesterday afternoon when I got home from work I just had to go outside and
take some pix of a few of the colors in my backyard!

I also got the binding on my Christmas quilt finished and thought it would be a great time to take a pix of it too. What a gorgeous day yesterday and I love my new Christmas quilt! I have a couple of table toppers made out of the same fabrics I hope to get quilted soon, or at least by this coming Christmas. :D

Hope your springtime is colorful where you are!

Crabapple Quilt

My Crabapple quilt is finally all pieced, yeah!! I absolutely love it and this will not be a gift, it will be a keeper!! All the different scrap pieces have alot of meaning , being in other special quilts, and I could never bear to part with them.
Now comes the quilting, but first I have to finish quilting one of our baby quilts from church.
I hope to finish sewing down the binding on my Christmas quilt this evening and then get a pix taken of it soon to post. I am loving getting some of my quilts done, what a joy it is!

Thanks!

Thank you all for leaving me a comment! It was great this morning to go do some shopping after church and not worry about getting home to finish someone's quilt. LOL
Hubby and I just got home, planted more in the garden, and now I am going to quilt away on my "Gallery Of Stars" quilt! The one thing that would make this all perfect would be retired from my real job!!!! LOL That won't happen for a while yet, so for now I will enjoy the quilting time I do have. Hope you all are having a wonderful Sunday!

IT IS OFFICIAL!!

It is definately official, I have closed my machine quilting business as of yesterday! After 10 of quilting for others I am now going to finish all my quilts. I will still quilt for friends and myself but that is all. YEAH!!!
The first thing I put in was my Christmas quilt. I love this fabric and besides this quilt, I have 2 table runners made from the same fabrics and my "Trick or Treat" baskets by Backbird Designs. It is so bright and cheery, it just makes me smile. :D

Have a great Sunday everyone! I just wanted to say, I am so looking forward to the first day of the rest of my life!

Monday-Monday!

It is Monday morning and it seems like summer has arrived here in Indiana! Easter Sunday was wonderful and after lunch finished up quilting a customer quilt. I have one more quilt to do for this customer and then I am officially done quilting for customers! I have been doing this now for 10 years, besides working full time, and I think it is time to get all my unfinished quilts quilted. I will still quilt for a few friends, have been trading piecing for quilting and it is working out great, so tht won't change. I am so looking forward to "no deadlines" and things of that nature! I can't believe it has been 10 years, where did it go? I am also finding that the older one gets the faster the time goes. Now I am really feeling old but it is true!
Hope everyone has a great week ahead, the weather sounds like it is going to be great!

Quilting Again!

I have had so much fun quilting again now that my machine is working great again, just like brand new! One of my PIF gals and I have been trading our talents, she has pieced a few quilt kits for me and I am quilting some quilts for her. This one is for one of her daughters, itsn't it great! It makes me smile just looking at it. The other quilt I did for her was all in floral fabrics in pinks and browns, it was gorgeous! I have one to do for her son, it is in Boy Scout fabrics, it is cool too. Not quite sure how I will quilt it yet, am still thinking about it while I continue to quilt other quilts. I know it will come to me, it always does. :D
Another spring day ahead at the elevator, it won't be long before planting season will start and another farming year will begin. Have a great spring day wherever you may be!

Where has this last week gone??

It is Sunday again and I don't understand where this last week has gone to?
I have had a customer quilt that I had almost all quilted when there was a problem with the fabric that was used in the quilt. Needless to say I have been ripping out all the quilting this last week in the evenings and all this weekend. Good thing there was basketball to watch. I had to call and tell my customer about it and she agreed never to use this particular fabric ever again. Taking a break to rest my scissor hand I put together the center of my "Crabapple" quilt to help my sanity and to feel like I was making some progress on something.
Hopefully I will get the next steps done to this quilt in the coming week, that is if I get all my ripping done. :D Wish me luck!

IT'S MONDAY AGAIN!

Where did the weekend go? It is Monday again and back to work. I want to thank you all for the nice comments on my "Crabapples"! I spent the weekend on the couch with a box of kleenex and my blankie. Every year at this time, NCAA tourney time, I get sick. This year, thank heaven, it was just a bad cold and not the flu. I think I will live :D and off to work I go shortly.
I have a customer quilt to finish quilting this week and then I want to finish up "Crabapples". It is taking me alot of time to put this one together but I just love it more and more.
Happy Monday to one and all and happy quilting!!

Almost Done!

I almost have my "Crabapples" together and I am lovin' it! I have not been feeling good all day with this cold I have, so I have been sewing and napping off and on. I hope I will be able to get the borders done tomorrow and then I can put it in line to get it quilted. I already have my next project picked out, that I did while I was resting on the couch with my quilt books. :D
Hope you all have a wonderful quilty day tomorrow!

Looking for Fabric

Good Morning! I need some help here and I pray someone out in blogland can help. I am making the "Crabapples" quilt and am using this "Flower Market" fabric as my setting squares. I was cutting it last night and finally figured out I didn't have enough, YIKES!! If anyone has some of this and would like to sell it please leave me a comment. I will find something different if I have to but you know how it is when it IS the perfect match. Have a great day everyone and happy quilting! :D