August 25, 2009

I had to get started on my mini quilt for the Good Ol Summertime Quilt Swap the deadline is Sept. 21, Last time I was a week late in sending out my quilt….I don’t want that to happen again….so here is my start, what do you think….I really like it….my girlfriend wanted me to make something from the Southwest, like cactus and lizards but, I made the sun……and she sure is cute….it’s going to make it hard for me to give it up…..
I was able to put all my stuff away that I purchased while in MN……..Did I tell you that I made it to 40 quilt shops……..here is a picture of my sister Carol and I
with my trip to Texas and then on to Minnesota I think that I traveled around 4000 miles by car…….. I was getting a little tired of sitting in the cars…….but, I sure had a good time visiting with my family and the scenery was great…..One of the tourist things that we did was to go to the the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary to visit the Black Bears
You can read all about the place if you click on the link….it was pretty amazing….I got some really nice pictures…..I can’t believe that people walk around and feed these animals it’s amazing…….well it’s good to be home and back in my own bed and getting into the groove of things….until next time…..

July 21, 2009

I loaded Dakota’s quilt on my longarm on Saturday……..and finished it on Sunday morning……..
I sewed the binding on last night…….my goal was to have it finished by July 31st……….I made my goal………here is a picture of the back of the quilt
…….I used a pantograph called Feather Me for the quilting on this one………While I thought I would do some custom quilting on this one……I didn’t think that it would really add to the overall effect ………I keep thinking maybe if I wait a little while, I will get the nerve up to do something a little more creative…….. I know the Innova is up to the challenge… The question is, am I………in the end I decided that this pantograph would suit this quilt just fine…….or maybe I was taking the easy way out………I think that I’ll have to set another goal…………
Dakota will be getting this quilt a little sooner……….we had a death in the family…….I got the dreaded phone call on Sunday evening…….my sister called and her husband, her best friend had a massive heart attack and died……so I’ll be seeing Dakota along with the res of the family a little sooner than planned……I’m going to bring the quilt along and maybe it will bring a little sunshine to our days ahead ……..until next time…….

July 6, 2009
Today is the last day for registration sign ups in the Good Ol’ Summertime Mini Quilt Swap the stats so far are:
- Total participants: 170
- Total countries: 19
- Total provinces: 5
- Total states: 30
Just click on the link on my side bar it will take you to the registration……What are you waiting for!