Quilts For Quilt Show in October

I have been busy getting lots of quilts finished for the show in October, some new ones for etsy, and some to give to Hospice House and Sally House.

At this time, I want to show the ones I'm putting in the Show.

The Mariner's Compass is at last quilted. I taught myself to do fre mothin feather's before I tried it on the actual quilt. It has a feather border and feathers around the compass.

I am also showing a paper foundation pieced heart quilt, The pattern is from Feb 2008 Quiltmaker magazine. I got the magazine in Dec 2007-when I was in the middle of sewing Chritmas gifts. It motivated me to get them done so I could make this quit!

Backyard Birdhouses is another one that is paper foundation pieced. The pattern is from a book I checked out at the wsq library. It was alot of fun to make.

The Pines and Vines Sampler is from a pattern of the month club I belong to. I love the varitey of patterns and techniques it has.

New Pictures,2

Time for New Pictures again. First, the memory quilt of Brindle is done. We do miss him and there will never be another dog like him. We do enjoy shring the memories. I was not able to get puppy pictures on the quilt of him. The quality of the ones I had was not too good as they were pre-digital. (How did we survive without a digital camera?).

Here is the quilt and some detailed pictures. The one at the top of the quilt is my very favorite of him.

I want to include some pictures of the other two dogs in our lives-Boxer, who is an 8 year old Akita. He seems to miss Brindle, but is enjoying his new companion. Walter is the new dog we got after Brindle died. He is sure alot of fun, and we love him. He is an Aussie/Springer mix. We miss Brindle, and the two we have now are appreciated all the more because of our loss.

The first picture here os of Boxer-he is about 85 lbs.

The next picture os of Walter-he is around 45 lbs

Busy start for May

Another month come and gone! This month, we went through some changes-a loss and a new member of the family. Our 10yr old dog Brindle was ill, so we took him to the vet. He was found to have a tumor with mets to the liver. After several days of agonizing whether to let him have surgery or not, we decided to let him go. We put him to sleep on may 7th.
We also got another dog that same week. This one is an Aussie mix like the older one. He's alot of fun and definately a puppy! I'll post some pictures some time soon.
Of course, quilting always gets involved one way or another, so I started a memory quilt of Brindle. I'll post a pix when it is done.
My finished quilts have been slowed down now for awhile, but I hope to have the angel cat one done and on the etsy site for sale soon. Also finishe the paper pieced dragon one.
Well peace out until later!
Mary

New Pictures!

Ok! I have some new pictures to share.

First, a look at a work in progress. It is from the book "Cute as a Button Quilts".

Since I'm on a cat quilt phase, I'm making Purr-fect Angels

Second, a crumb quilt I plan to donate to Sallie House-the home for children who are displaced from their homes as a result of abuse. I try to donate one or two quilts for this at each of my guild's meetings.

Third, I have my turquoise strings quilt done at last. Now I have to figure out who to give it to. I'll look locally first, but I can always give to Heartstrings Project for them to decide where it should go.

Last, I have my Dog and Cat Scrappy quilt done, and I'm posting it and another quilt on etsy today.

Wow...I've been busy since my machine was fixed!

Mary

April Already!!!

I had not visited my own blog for awhile, and I realized I had not posted since early March!
I have my dog/cat quilt done and quilted. I will post a pix on etsy, and here as well today or wens. I'm at work with a little down time right now.
At work, we moved our surgical unit to a different floor, so it has been very hectic lately. We have had some very sick, confused, and psychotic patients lately since the move. I don't know if it is worse than usual, or it just seems that way because we are not used to the new unit.
I do know one thing, quilting is my haven. I had to take a critical patient to ICU last week. He was intubated as soon as he got there, so if I had waited on labs to get done or another test the dr wanted, I would hve had to code him on the way down. (I'm not sure how these italics got here!) Any way, as I said, quilting is my haven-over my days off, I had that to think about instead of what I could have done different for the patient.
I'mworking on a new cat applique project, veery cute and fun. I'll have to post a work in progress picture soon. I also just finished a paper pieced birdhouse quilt that is on the frame and I hope to quilt it tomorrow or even after work today...if I have the energy! Looking forward to two more days off to work on projects!

New Quilt Pictures

Well, now that Bailey is up and running again, I am able to finish some quilts. I finished quilting the one that was on the frame, plus two others. I posted a picture of one of them on my etsy web site. After the other two are bound, I will post pictures as well.

I have pix today of a quilt I gave to Liz, the young mom who is fostering those three kids mentioned in december. It was her b-day, and I thought she deserved a quilt of her own! She loves the colors, they are her favorite. That quilt was ment for her!

The other pix is of the Dogs and Cats quilt I made the blocks for. I have them on my design wall waiting to be sewn together. I got busy finishing other projects, but soon I will sew them together and once quilted, it will be on etsy.

Bailey saga continues

After taking Bailey down to a repair place I know, she is working just fine now. Thank the Lord. Apparently, one of her gears had shifted out of place. As soon as I got her home, I put her back on the frame and threaded her up-stitches a few inches and somehting went bang...again!
I was standing there nearly in tears when Shara came into the room. Then I discovered it was just a broken needle. After I fixed that, she ran fine. I finished one quilt and started on another. It took me awhile to relax with my stitching, kind of gun shy now. I've also determined that I have to slow down, not drive Bailey so hard. My dear partner hung a sign above the quilting frma to remind me to slow down-it's very cute.