"FAN"tastics Table Topper DONE!! Casey and more

This has been a Crazy, Busy, Everything Week!!

I had to start this post with a picture of My most "Favorite" Cross Country Runner. This is Casey about half way thru the course. They run about 1 1/2 -2 miles at their meets. He has one more meet left for this school year. "Go Casey Go"

This next picture is Carl and one of our this years bottle calves. We shipped calves yesterday, now normally we don't get toooooo attatched well as you see by this picture somebody did!But look at the next picture........

Yes , Carl had her halterbroke and he could sit on her she would carry him around. A little insight in to the calf. She came to us after her mother had died due to prolapse (long story short, her insides came out), the first couple of days was touch and go with baby. One day she was just laid out all but alive. A friend of ours came and gave her a shot (we had tried everything we could think of) and was down to just keeping her moving to keep her body parts working. Well the day she was given the shot, we really did not think she was going to survive the next hour let alone the next 5 that she did. 5 pm that night my hubby and I were out on the hill raking pine cones( every so often we'd go pick her up get her to take a step up until this point) Carl came out of the house ran down to her she jumped up and chased him....... and never stopped from that point. ......

Soooooo........ shipping day yesterday was tough on these two but as we all know you can't keep them all.(I'm going to surprise him with a blow up of this picture and put it on a tshirt and give it to him when he gets home tonight....

LOVE.......Buddies.......

After a couple of weeks working, disposing of and reclaiming, this table topper is totally done. I have to admitt I do like it and love how the brown binding just really adds to it. Thank you everybody that gave me an opinion on it!

For the quilting I did lots of Stitch in the Ditch from the center of each star out and then knocked the background down with some micro meander all over puzzle.

The back looks pretty cool too, but didn't seem to show up well in my photo.

Here also is my #32 Project Warmth Quilt. I also out the binding on this one.

The back of #32

I have a few more PW's to get loaded and done, but this week is promising to be another BUSY one! Between meets, meetings, sales, and calves....school and more....... Oh.. and the Tahoe is taking a break and being looked into.(it's dashboard lights decided they were tired somethimes)

Such is life,

May your week be full, fun, joyful and peaceful!!

Quilty Days and more-Bug Jars,"Fan"tastics Star, Project Warmth, Farmers Wife

This has been a Busy Quilty Week and a Half!
but, I have also managed to get tons more done around the house too. Including painting the Facial Board, Trim, and Soffits all around the house and three doors. I still need to paint the door jams but figure this afternoon I will wonder out and do that little chore.

As for Quilty things here......... are a few I have been working on.......

These are my 4 1/2" and 3 1/2" Farmers Wife Blocks # 14 Butterfly of the Crossroads Week 7
(please excuse the blurry picture)

Then I loaded and quilted this project Warmth Quilt and is my number 30th! Whew hew!

This is Pat's Block, She is in the Hot Springs Quilt Guild that I belong to and won the monthly block drawing. She requested a "Thimble Block" in blue's or Maroon. I paperpieced this block, it is the only one I could come up with that even looked close to a thimble.

These top blocks are another block of the Farmers Wife and in the 4 1/2" and 3 1/2"Sizes they are # 16 and called the Calico Puzzle.

These two are also Farmers Wife Blocks and are #15 and are called Buzzards Roost, and also in the 3 1/2" and 4 1/2" sizes.

Here is my "Fan"tastics Table Topper. You may remember this from when I thought I was going to put in a pile for the FUFO list "Forever Unfinished Object"(actually it was for a day).Well, I put it on the longarm Monday and this is what it came off looking like. I really wanted the stars to stand out, so I stitched in the ditch around the diamond shapes and then did a freehand very small meander puzzle type thing to knock down the background. I think I want to try putting one more stitch on it(to get rid of the poofy part of the star) so will use my smaller machine. Then I need to decide whether to go with brown binding or the dark teal print for binding?? So any suggestions on what you think the color of Binding should be, feel free to mention your thoughts!!

I have decide that I really like this top so am anxious to get it done and bound to put on my table.

Then this one I actually had on the long arm before the one above. It is my project Warmth #31.

With this one I stitched in the Ditch around the bug jars and then did a Freehand big loopy thing all over. I have another one of these to quilt and am planning on doing an allover bug design on it. I think they are just adorable!

Here is the back of the Bug Jar Quilt.

And a close up view of the loops and stitch in the ditch.

(Don't look to close at the Stitch in the Ditch is was my first Time on the Longarm of this magnitude and it was kicking my Butt!) (I have been avoiding SID like the plague) It had a very thick batting too! My seam ripper really had a workout!!

All in all It has been a busy Week and a half, but full of Fun!

I am SO ADDICTED TO THIS QUILTING!!

Well, I better get going and get some more things done. I hope this finds all happy, at peace and just enjoying LIFE....................

Judy

Whew hew!! Two 2nd Places at Nuts and Bolts Fabric Shops Edgemont Fall Festival Quilt Show!!

WOW!! TWO -2nd PLACE WINNERS!!
How Exciting!! This last weekend I entered 2-tops and quilts in the Quilt Show at the Edgemont Fall Festival put on by Nuts and Bolts Fabric Shop.

If you've never been there or haven't been there in a while and you get the chance you really should! I just love Earleene's store, her and her husband Jerry are such wonderful people!! Be sure and check out her site.
http://www..nutsandboltsfabric.com/

This is the top I entered, it is my Mccommas the pattern is a paperpieced one by Karen Stone. I finished the top but am "still" unsure how I wanted to quilt it, so haven't done that part. It Won 2nd Place in the TOPS Division!


Following are pictures of the 2nd-SECOND Place Winner.
This I entered under Misc. and is a Kitchen Set including: Table Topper Piece, Reversible Placemats, Pot holder(2 kinds)and Napkin set. With this set I also made chair pads and cup/glass mats (but didn't enter them)

This is the Center Stage Pattern By:Pieced Tree Patterns and then I added an the additional Border of the Brown Brands.
This is the quilting around the center fabric of the horses, Then did a round the brand loops on the outer brand border Fabric, with a lot of Stitch in the Ditch.
Another picture with the Reversible Placemats. The fabric with the horse heads are one that I also made matching Chair covers with and reversible cup/glass holders.

This picture includes the potholders and Napkins that I entered.

Close up of the Running Wild Placemat.

Close up of the Reversed side of the above Placemat.

Chair pad also made for matching set (looks like my chairs need refinished) he hee
Another shot of the chair pad.(lighting is different same chair)
They were are such fun to make! (you can't tell what I like hmmm)
"Stars and horses" Both favorites of mine.

Which reminds me Have you seen the new pattern coming out in Dec/Jan of Judy Niemeyer's called "Glacier Star" It is definetly going to be on my TO DO LIST! Absolutely beautiful!! and Just Amazing!! WOW! I tried to post a picture but need to repaste it. Be sure and Google it, I Believe it is worth the effort it is STUNNING!! You will not be disappointed.

Well hope this finds all well and happy stitching!
Take Care,
Judy

Rollin' Rollin'Rollin'

Wowser!
Rollin' Rollin'

I have just been Rollin' right along on these little guy's today. Here are a couple more of the Wisconsin Quilt Blocks on Barns.



This one is # 38 and is called the Interwoven Star from Green County


This one is # 39, called 54-40 or Fight and is from Racine County

They were both really easy to piece together and as you've heard before I love stars!
It's still rainy and chilly out so guess I will go find some more blocks or something to do.
Have a WONDERFUL EVENING ALL!!

Wisconsin Quilt Block On Barn # 35

Here is my Block #35 of the Wisconsin Quilts Blocks on Barns that Jen is posting from Creative Quilter. I think this one is really pretty (but then I LOVE stars) so might be a little prejudice. I had 4 set in points on this one, I don't know if that's the way it was suppose to be, but that's how I ended up doing them. I had one point that gave me a problem but the other three turned out GREAT!

Today it is cool and rainy out, so since I got the garden stuff taken care of yesterday thought I would work on some blocks today. All 3 of them are star blocks so am pretty excited!!
Hope this finds all well and Happy Stitchin'.

Wisconsin Quilt Blocks on Barns #37

I finished the Wisconsin Quilt Block on Barn #37, Queens Jewels the colors I used are actually an aqua, creme, and brown but they show up pretty green. Will try and get another picture. This is sure a pretty block with lots of pieces.

Ohio Quilt Blocks on Barns & "Fan"tastics Class Results "Maybe"

Here is My #6 Ohio Barn Block " Grandmothers Garden" that is being done by the "Golden Thimble". This one has an inset of Englich Paperpiecing of Grandmothers Flower.

Here is another one, and it is #8 and is called Crowns. We are getting close to putting all of these together, but I am thinking I will be adding a couple more to make the finished quilt a little bigger.

Last Saturday I took a class using the 60 degree ruler, the class was called "Fan"tastic, we had a Wonderful group of gals! We sewed strips of fabric in groups of 4 strips and then cuts them using the 60 degree ruler. Then we were to lay them out in "fan" shapes making our own design as we went. Try as I might, I could not like what my fabrics and the shapes were designing, in fact so much that it was and had been (for a day) banished as a "FUFO" (a Forever Unfinished Object). Well I dug it out again ((I hate giving up) but remember this one just wasn't working for me!) Hey, I can do this! I decided all wasn't lost, maybe I could make them into lots of little Star table Toppers, then I started putting the star sections together and below is what I have come up with so far. Hmmm...... maybe it will work after all. It is slowly growing on me.

So, I will keep playing with it and see what happens, but I do believe it has been taken out of the Forever Undone section.(I really didn't want to start one of those anyways)

It just goes to show, hang in there, something good may come of it after all.......