Time to catch up a bit!

Life has been pretty crazy.  Haven't gotten a lot of quilting done lately, but thought I would post some pics of the progress I have made.

My wonderful new neighbor and I spent an afternoon making ottomans out of styrofoam coolers.  Mine is the smaller one and it is from an Omaha Steaks order and hers is from a Nutri System delivery.  We had a great time and I think they turned out great!

 I have also been working on a quilt for my husband.  In all these years I have never made one specially for him.  It was time.  I have the top finished.  I didn't get a picture of the whole thing but this is the bottom part.  Hope to get it pinned and quilted soon.

I am also working on a swap quilt with 4 very special friends from Kansas.  We swap blocks every month.  They all get together for dinner and I just send mine and wish I was there with them.   This is our second swap.  The first one is my favorite quilt to date.  This is a picture of what I have put together so far.

Well I guess that gets my caught up for now.  I have learned how to update from my iPad so I anticipate more postings in the future.  Please leave a comment if you visit.  I love to read them and visit your blogs also!

Finally finished!

Just needs a label.  Finally got totally moved, just need to complete the sale of the house in Kansas.  I hope after this I don't have to deal with a realtor for a really long time!

Here are a couple pics of the finished quilt

.  I am glad I am able to move on to another project.  Hope the next one doesn't take so long!

Wow! It sure has been a while since I posted.  Have been really busy. We made our final move to New Mexico and finally have my new sewing room set up to the point I can do some free motion quilting on a quilt that I hope to have completed by Christmas.  I am really enjoying the new room.  I have indoor outdoor carpet and the room is all finished.  This is a big change from my concrete floor basement with stud walls that was my last sewing space.  The best change is that I have 2 sky lights and a window that looks over the mountains.  This is where I got the name for my blog.
This is a picture of what I have done so far on the free motion quilting.  Hope you are all enjoying your preparations for the holidays.

Finally making some progress

I know it has been a great while since I have posted.  This blog is about quilting and I just haven't done anything quilt related.  Oh I guess I did sell some quilt books and fabrics at my garage sale but that didn't seem very interesting, I have finally pinned a quilt and have it ready for quilting.  Hopefully will get to it soon.  I am making a back for the plus quilt but I thought I would quilt this one first for some practice before I start on the plus quilt.  I saw some beautiful quilting on a blog called Quilts of a Feather  She did some really cool paisley designs and I would so love to learn how to sew that design.  I have always been a fan of paisley.  Will have to see if I can learn that and use it on this quilt.  I have one picture of it on the design wall and another on the table all pinned and ready to quilt.  This pattern was from a tutorial by Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Company  The contrast on my background square if very subtle.  It does look better in person than in the pictures.

Squirrels

We enjoy watching the squirrels in our back yard.  Yesterday morning I looked out and one squirrel was slumped over a branch and another was laying on a branch below it.  I thought the one over the branch was dead.  It didn't move for a long time.  I got out the camera, took the screen off and opened the window to take pictures and still no movement.  Maybe 20 minutes after I first noticed it they both finally woke up and ran off.  Strangest thing I have seen them do yet.  It was quite interesting.  

Here are the pics.

1 Hour Basket

Since I have been doing more starting than finishing of anything lately I thought I would jump on the band wagon and make the 1 Hour Basket that everyone is talking and blogging about.  Here is the link to the tutorial   1 Hour Basket


Here are a couple of pictures of the basket I made.

I am sure I will make more of these in the future.  So many ideas floating around in my head.  The would be great for managing fabric scraps.

Plus Quilt

I have been wanting to make a plus quilt for some time.  Every time I looked at the internet for ideas there were so many I had a hard time choosing.  I started one with the small plus in darker fabrics with the low volume background and I really like it.  Then I decided I wanted to do one with just the pluses and no background so I started one of those too.  Hopefully I will finish both of these as they are really cute.

Here are pictures of what I have finished on each of them.  The first one I just put the elephants in there just playing around but I kind of like them in there so they just might stay.