I'm back

I got back on Monday about 10 PM (drove straight through from LA to Colorado--about 17 hours). Had a great time, went to work on Tuesday at 7:30 AM. I volunteered to do the newsletter for my quilt guild, and it went out via email yesterday, and today I made the copies that need to be mailed. All of this is to say, I haven't had much time to do anything else. I'll actually do some quilting soon...maybe Saturday. Joe is going to be gone, so I might have the time and inclination.

On Vacation

I'll be leaving tomorrow morning to see my family in California. We'll be camping, so I won't have access to a computer. I'll post some pictures when I get back.

Hope you all have a wonderful couple of weeks.

Two more tops quilted

Two more tops quilted. I've decided that I will work on getting as many tops as I can finished. Both of these have fleece backings. The greek keys top is meant to be a quilt of valor. It is 54 x 69. Not huge, but I think it will be a fine size. My only problem now, it to figure out how to attach a label to it. I didn't think of that before I put the fleece on the back.

The disapperaing 9-patch is much smaller. It is only 36x48, but a nice size for a baby blanket. I don't have a specific recipient in mind, but I'm sure there is someone in my future with a baby. I just gave away the 4-patch posy baby quilt I finished a while ago, so there is always another baby that will need a quilt.

The quilting on both is very simple. I just did concentric "rings" of quilting following the blocks on the greek keys. The baby blanket just has straight lines at varying intervals. Nothing hard...and I used the walking foot on both, so that made it even easier.

And the winner is...

Yay Debby, you're the winner. Congratulations. Let me know what fabric you would like, and which patterns and you'll have it very soon.

Just soyou all know, Debby is my sister. This really made me laugh!

I'll have to do this again, I really enjoyed all of your comments. Finding out why you quilt and how you began. Thanks for playing along.

Totally Tubular Quilt

Here us the quilt I am working on...

from this book...

...with these fabrics.

Unfortunately I worked about 4 hours yesterday and pinned every intersection...wrong. See the strip set in the center. The line of black and white squares go from upper left to lower right? That is the correct direction. See the strip set in the lower left...those go from upper right to lower left...that's the wrong direction. I only sewed one set correctly, and the rest, all wrong. So I have to un-sew every seam that I pinned so very carefully. I think this one is being put away for a while. I even took out one seam yesterday, and sewed it back, and that was wrong too. I'm only supposed to have 6 strips per set, and that one I have 8 strips. Guess I wasn't too focused.

Well, back to the old drawing board!

Frame Color

OK. Lindi had a great idea. Get pieces of paper and cover the frames with the different colors. I am a bit of a geek, so I used Paint to color the frames. Looking at them together, I'm leaning towards the original frames (but that may be laziness) or the green. Can I ask for your opinions one more time? Oh, I forgot, Sherry also reminded me to remind you that I do have wood floors, so the brown get's tied in from there. It's all so complicated.

Thank you all so much for your help. I think I need to sleep on it a while. I'm going away next week, so I'll live with it till then, and when I come back, if I feel inspired or the color comes to me in a dream, I'll paint them. Too many choice, just too many. My brain hurts.

Photos above the headboard

Here are the photos I chose to go above the bed. I decided on aspects of Hawaii: a rock on the sand, plumaria blossoms and a shell. OK, it's an abalone shell, but it's still a shell, right? I like the way they look. I was going to paint the frames white, but I just wanted to see them up. When I look at them this way, I think they really do stand out from the wall. If I painted them white, the mat wouldn't be distinct from the frame. What do you think...leave them brown or paint them white?