New Year's Plans

What do you have planned for New Year's Day?? Will any of you be doing the Mystery Class put on by Cindy Roth of Longarm University or piecing the mystery quilt from Planet Patchwork? I'm planning to do both...at least, that's the plan for now. *fingers crossed* 

Every year, Cindy does a quilting mystery. You piece the pattern according to the instructions that you're given when you sign up. Starting New Year's Day morning, she posts quilting designs for each section of the pieced quilt. Its fun to try new things and it makes for a great sample to show your customers. This year's quilt is a cute little "Cabin in the Woods" artsy quilt. The instructions to piece this were very easy to follow. This is the class example, I'll post mine after its quilted.

Planet Patchwork is doing a "modern" mystery on New Year's Day. I have my fabrics chosen and ready to go. I really want to finish this one because I'm dying to quilt a modern quilt!

Let me know if you're doing either of these. It would be fun to check-in with each other as the day goes on.

Merry Christmas

I hope that you and those you love have a Merry Christmas...and if you were good, maybe Santa will put something quilty under your tree!!

Connie's Egg Money Quilt

This is the big one from a few days ago. She's made it home and Connie loves her.

This is a pic without the border. You can see some of the details a bit better.












Lots of pics from this one; hope you don't get bored. This is the fourth Egg Money quilt I've done and there's one more awaiting quilting. The biggest challenge with these is that these ladies all belong to the same guild. I don't want them to look like they have "cookie cutter" quilting, so thinking of new backgrounds and new ways to quilt the blocks is a must.

Those are pics of some of the blocks from the front. Below are pics of the back. It isn't as white as it appears in the first pic, nor is the blue as dark as it appears in the subsequent pics. The blue is much softer and really complements the quilt.

This pic is of the border. Shows up nicely in the background, but not so much on the front. Fabric was too busy. Lesson learned, busy fabric can have less ornate quilting, even if the border will eventually be scalloped!!

This is the corner quilting.

A block from the back.

Thanks for hanging in. Hope you enjoyed the "show"!!

Stunning Mornings

The mornings have been absolutely gorgeous here and I wanted to share a few pics. Yes, that is snow. But here in Sequim (or south of Sequim), it generally falls in inches--not feet. We LOVE the snow now!!

This view is from the room that will probably become my sewing studio. It will have a hide-a-bed couch and/or a Murphy bed in it for company, but will no longer be a dedicated sewing room.  More on that when/if it happens. This room looks out over the back of our house.  You can see the sun rising over the Olympics.

A couple showing our pond and the gazebo in back...the pond is starting to ice over.

I couldn't decide which one I liked better so you get them both. (I know, I know...they're practically identical)

The front while we were feeding this morning. This is our totem pole with the flag pole behind it. You can just barely see the color of the sun in the background.

Kate, enjoying her breakfast and wishing the sun would hurry up! A bit later, all the ponies were basking in the sun while they ate. 

Every day when I go outside I admire the Olympics and where we live and feel blessed to be here.

Thanks for looking. Sorry the pics aren't better quality, but I took them with my phone.

Another Log Cabin Quilt

The big one from the previous post is finished and on its way home. However, it hasn't arrived yet, so this one is next to post. It went home today!

Delores made the first Log Cabin for her son; her daughter saw it and wanted one of her own.  This is her quilt.

Same quilt (some different colors) and same quilting (leaf meander). Same thread color even, Glacier So Fine by Superior.

Now, here's the different part. Delores had a very difficult time adding the binding to her first quilt.  She brought me the binding for this one. I've never attached binding to a customer quilt. She wanted a complete finished quilt back with the binding attached front and back. She chose the decorative stitch on the front rather than hand sewing to the back...whew!! This is how it looked when finished.

I like how it turned out and plan on doing this with my personal quilts in the future.  Looks like I have a new service to offer my customers!