Needless to say, I have been busy, busy, busy; I am sure you have been too. I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoyed a day with your family and friends. We had a lovely time. At was well worth the days of effort ahead of time and the cooking, cleaning, etc. We spent a long weekend just relaxing and enjoying the kids and grandkids.

I did get another quilt finished in the little spare time I had and it turned out Pretty and Pink. SSSShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It is supposed to be a suprise for Christmas, and I have several more quilts to finish before Christmas, so I will surely be busier than I would like to be, but having fun just the same.




I thought that you might like to see a picture of a quilt on the machine.




Here it is all finished and ready to return to the owner to be bound and wrapped for Christmas.


A picture of the back is always fun! It is always thrilling to have a quilt finished!

Christmas Holly

I've done two Christmas themed quilts in this last week. One was a Christmas tree skirt, which was really fun. I love, love, love doing "holly", and that just filled the bill for these two projects.



The back to this one was really fun!

Now I have to get busy and quilt several quilts that customers want ready for Christmas giving. It is a real thrill to quilt something beautiful for others to use and enjoy

Boy's Quilts

Well, finished another quilt for a grandchild. His mom wanted it done for Christmas. Actually she wanted it done earlier, but I have been a little slow getting it done, so now it is for Christmas. She has had a lot of fun piecing quilts this last year and a half, and as they have to be done between customer quilts, sometimes it takes me awhile to get them finished. This is another boy quilt and I thought she did an excellent job. Boys are not always the easiest to do a quilt for, but her color choices and design choices seem just right for a teenage boy.


It is always a challenge for me to know just how to take a picture of a quilt so that it looks nice and shows the features of the quilt, etc. The first picture was taken out on the rock wall. This picture was taken on the trimming table because I thought it did a nice job of showing off the puff of the shapes. It should look really nice on the bed.


This picture is over the screen door. Ok, so I was getting desperate. The closeup below shows some detail of the border from the back. The sunshine really cast some nice shadows so that you can see it pretty well.

Just in Time

At last! The canning is all finished for the year. The peaches are in the jar, the grape juice is done, and the applesauce is on the shelves. Just in time to start getting ready for Christmas! Where has the year gone! It has been a busy fall, but we are so grateful to have the shelves full and are ready to settle in by the fire with a good book and enjoy the winter. Boy, doesn't that sound peaceful! Too bad real life is never quite that simple. Oh well, we can always dream!

Happy Halloween

I have had a little wall hanging panel on hand for some time and decided that since Halloween is Sat. that the time had arrived to get it done. I had a lot of fun doing it and tried out some new metalic thread (spiderwebs) and a new binding technique with piping. No better place to try out something new than on my own quilt. Right? Right!




My Husband says he likes the back best. That's where the stitching really shows up!

Regrets!

Thinking about what to post on the blog next, I decided that quilts for the grandkids has not been covered fully. Early on I helped a granddaughter quilt her own quilt. She came to visit for a month in the summer, and we sure had fun. She knew before she came that she wanted to make a quilt, so she had already picked a pattern and material with her mother. We went to work right away picking a back to match all the fabrics and then on to the cutting out and the sewing. It was a work in patience for both of us. She had to slow down and learn that accuracy was important. We had a lot of fun working together, laughing together and enjoying a feeling of success together when she won a ribbon as a youth quilter in the state quilt quilt show.I regret that I didn't taken more pictures of the process, and especially a picture of Megan with her quilt. Alas, hind sight is always better than fore sight, and the only picture I have is one with her mom and me beside HER quilt. Darn!

A Busy Time of Year

What a busy time of year. Time to get the canning finished up and the garden put to bed. Everything seems to cut into my time to quilt and blog. Oh well, that's life I guess.





I did get this customer quilt finished. It was for a friend and she was really excited because it was her first quilt. Two days after she picked it up it was bound and on the bed. Good for her! There is nothing quite like the thrill of seeing your first quilt actually on the bed!