Las Vegas Trip

I had a fun Las Vegas trip last weekend.  My oldest grandson, Stefan and I met up with my siblings there over Super Bowl weekend. 

Here is Stefan, I was snapping his picture and he got distracted by a slot machine bonus.

We stayed one night on the strip, and then two out at Red Rock.  This is a view from our window at Red Rock.


I also loved the carpet in our room looks like it would make a good background fill for quilting.

Haven't been sewing much....

I haven't sewn much and haven't posted since July 2014 so I will try and catch up.  I got busy with a move to Dallas and longer commute to work.  I have postponed my retirement for a year so I probably won't get a lot accomplished in 2015 but I plan to be a better blogger.

A woman visited Bear Creek Guild and she showed her first quilt.  Pattern is Daybreak by Cosy Quilt Designs.  She had a lost a friend to a disease and wanted to make a quilt for a fund raiser.  Sorry, I don't have all the details.  This was May or June of 2014.  I kept getting a feeling to volunteer to quilt it for her.  This is the last quilt I quilted last summer.  I hope it did well in the fund raiser.

Rally Day

I went to TAQG Rally Day last Saturday.  (Texas Association of Quilt Guilds)  I had never attended before because it usually conflicts with family vacation.

Pat Speth of Nickel Quilt fame was the speaker and she gave two very interesting and informative lectures.  She will be lecturing at Bear Creek Guild in Sept and I am going to take her workshop.

We received a goodie bag with contributions from the different guilds when we arrived.  Below are the  fabrics (fatquarter, fat sixteenths, and nickels)  I received.  There were other items in the goodie bag but I didn't snap a picture.

what a lot of scrappy goodness!

I used these fabrics to add new life to my 1.5 inch strips as I finished up my pineapple blocks.  It is so fun to add a new fabric.  I now have 90 blocks and I have been trying to decide whether to make more or add borders.  I think I have an idea for a border and am anxious to get this to a completed top stage.

It's Reversible

I was home early from work today because of a leak in the kitchen.  After that was dealt with, I put the table runner on the frame and quickly quilted it.  The backing is a shiny piece of brown that I don't remember when or where I acquired.  It was just barely big enough. I used Glide cream thread top and bottom.

It was windy when I took the pictures but I am pleased with both sides.

Full Size Donation Quilt

I finished quilting this today.  I just played with various free motion designs.  Glide thread - cream and 80/20 batting.

WAYWO

WAYWO = what are you working on.

I am quilting a donation top.  It is almost done.  No pictures until I can find my charger and get my camera battery charged.

Color Study top is done.  It kept evolving because I would sew the pieces onto the oposite side off the quilt quite by accident.  It is very much improvisational which would be easier if I had a big design wall.

I turned in the donation quilt I finished at Retreat finally last Tues at guild.  The binding is the machine binding sometimes called magic binding.  I first saw this quilt shop demoing it with their ruler at Houston.  I like it a lot.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sts4TvP8plI

Color Study UFO

I had these star blocks from a color study my bee did years ago.  Then after Hurricane Sandy I was putting them together to make a donation quilt but never finished (though I took home two other tops and quilted them for the guild to give to Sandy victims).

I wanted to finish it up and now the Community Service Chair is collecting twin and full size quilts for a donation so I am trying to make it big enough for a twin.

At this point, I am adding one more row to the bottom and then I think a piano key border in black and white prints......maybe some color in the border in the lower right to balance it out?