Apple Quilt

Little by little working on my apple quilt.  Here is 1 apple slice for a border. thirty-five more to go.  LOL

                                  SUPERQUILTER

Retreat Fabric Challenge Time

The August retreat is coming up pretty quick so I decided I better get busy. The challenge fabric is the small blue flowers.  The pattern is called "Blue on White" and it is found in Fons and Porter's Easy Quilts Summer 2014 issue.  Now that the top is finished, the next step is to quilt it.  I will post again when I finish the quilting phase.  Until then happy quilting.

SUPERQUILTER

Time to Clean Sewing Room

I decided to take time to clean the sewing room.  I still need to to organize under the ironing board. You can see Joy my Boxer guarding my current project on the floor.  She would have preferred laying on it, but I would not let her.

                                      SUPERQUILTER

A Quilt Done

As I have posted previously I am new to longarm quilting.  Last weekend I rented the longarm at my local quilt shop Beth's.  This quilt is 83 x 83. I am happy to have it done and I hope to get better at the longarm.  I will try to get another quilt top quilted next month ( I have a lot of them to do).  But, in the mean time I will work on UFO's.

I went to a garage sale yesterday and got a real bargain.  Heard about it through word of mouth.  A lady from another State was closing her quilt shop.  I bought 6 different fabrics for $3 a yard (good quality quilt fabric).  I could not resist and knowing I love and collect fabric I bought 4 yards of each. I bought plenty of yardage as I don't know what I will make with it yet.  Here's my bargain:

Well that's about it for now.  I'm off to either work on a UFO  or start something new.  In the mean time I hope all quilter's have fun with their projects.

                                      SUPERQUILTER

First Longarm Try

I took a longarm class at my local quilt shop.  I now have a binding on it.  I completed this quilt with my 2 hour practice time for taking the class.  I call this quilt "Santa Fe Logs", I think because of the colors.   Next Saturday I have scheduled time to start quilting another quilt top at Beth's Quilt Shop. Just trying to decided which of my many quilt tops I want to do.

Today I am piecing a quilt called "Apple Harvest". I have also posted a picture of our Princess Gracie who will be 9 months this month.  She is truly the apple of my eye.

                    Superquilter

Keeping Busy

I am still here and enjoy reading other blogs.  I stay busy babysitting about 3 days a week with my beautiful Granddaughter, Gracie.  She is almost 8 months now and everyday she changes.  She does the Army crawl on moves forward and backwards, plus going in circles. I think she will be walking before accomplishing the crawl.  Shown here is her pushup trying so very hard to stand up. We play patty cake and learning where our nose is. 

 Gracie and I did a selfie.  LOL

 One of the projects I did was to make a bag.  It was for a retreat the beginning of March and we had challenge fabric which is the pink/black,  It is always fun to see what others have done with the challenge fabric

I finally broke and bought the AccuQuilt. I was nervous about buying it because of the cost.   However, my scraps have become overwhelming and with the AccuQuilt maybe I can get a handle on the scraps and be more organized.  I emptied one tote bag of scraps since last night and I am feeling good. Little by little I think I can do this and make more room  for yardage (LOL).

I took a longarm class in January and in March I finally got around to do my free 2 hour practice time.  I was able to get a lap top quilted.  Now for the label and binding. Right now I am trying to decide on the fabric for the binding.  I will take a picture when it is done.  I made the top from scraps.

That's a little catch up on what I have been up to.  Keep on quilting and enjoy all the days you can.



                                                                SUPERQUILTER

Exploding Block

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all

Our most precious gift is 4 month old Princess Gracie.  She is the joy of our lives.

                                                                               Superquilter

Christmas Stocking

Today I finish the Christmas stocking for princess Gracie's Mama.

Now I can move on to finish a Christmas table topper for me.

Superquilter

Gracie's Christmas Stocking

My Granddaughter is 4 months now and this will be her first Christmas.  I am so excited about it.  I made her a Christmas stocking in honor of her first Christmas.

I am also working on one for her Mama.  I made one for her Daddy several years ago (he was single then). So now everyone in the family will have a stocking.


Superquilter

More Mug Rugs

I made a couple more mug rugs for family

And now I am off to make Gracie her Christmas stocking for her first Christmas.


                                                                                             SUPERQUILTER

Very Long Time Posting

I know it has been many months since I last posted.  I have been busy and haven't taken the time to blog. First and foremost Our first Granddaughter, Gracie, was born in August.  She is a blessing for sure.  I have two Grandsons that are in their 20's and two Great Grandsons that are five.  As you probably can tell it has been all boys.  This includes my two sons.  I keep busy playing with Gracie (I don't call it babysitting.)  Gracie makes my each and every day a joy.

I haven't quilted much, but that mini quilt I posted with the flower--well I won a 2nd place ribbon in the Grady County Fair. I really enjoyed making it. 

I made a mug rug for Gracie.  In fact it is my first mug rug.

In between I started knitting socks again.  I have one sock done and have to do the other one to make the pair.

Thanksgiving was wonderful as there were eight of us and the food was good (I made most it, LOL) .
Others brought food and oh my gosh did we fill up and then some.  It was a wonderful visit with family.

I do have to sew a couple of Christmas stockings for Gracie and her Mama.

It's pretty cold here in Oklahoma with some ice and snow.  We are hibernating in the house this weekend watching college football.

Until next time stay warm and safe during this winter season

Upcoming August Retreat

I finally came up with a project for the challenge fabric in August.   I was doing a monthly BOM with my Renegade Quilters small group and decided on this sunflower shown here.  So I am happy to be a step ahead on my monthly BOM. I almost forgot to mention that the challenge fabric are the petals of the flower and it does not even look like flames.

                                                      SUPERQUILTER

Happy July 4th

Happy July 4th to all.  I have progressed very well with my fractured pelvis and I am feeling more energy each day.  Getting back to my quilting slowly.  Right now I am working on a challenge for the quilt retreat in August.  May not make it though as our first girl Granddaughter is due to be born about the same time.  I do not want to miss her being born as there are mostly boys in our family.  But I will get the challenge done to send with someone.  The fabric is orange "flames" and I still don't have a clue as what to make with.  Any ideas out there are welcome.  So I am back to putting my thinking cap on.  Enjoy your 4th of July everyone.

                                                                                            Superquilter