Quilting On the Go

 my friend Jessica wrote a book....

..and i kindda helped!

if you've ever wanted to try english paper piecing (EPP) this is a good book to pick up!! it's like a bible for EPP. it's a GREAT book for the beginner as it covers everything you need to know, i mean everything!  

there's also a huge EPP online community- blogs, SALs, and Flickr groups.

i like to EPP cause it is such an easy take-along project. all the supplies will fit in a small make up bag sized pouch. i can throw it my purse and off i go.

i quilted two quilts for jess-
the Falling Stars baby quilt which i don't seem to have taken any pictures of *crap*

and her famous traveling star quilt.
it has lots of beauty shots in the book.
jess asked that the white stars be quilted to look like snowflakes. *DONE*

i also quilted lesly's star quilt.
go check out her blog post about it too!

it had the cutest yellow effiel tower print. i wish i could find some. anyone know a source?

i also pieced the little pacman-pill sample. i plan on hand quilting it so jess can use it for her trunk shows! in my haste to get it done, some of the angles of the diamonds went the wrong direction (see the the blue pill right under the spine of the book? *oops*), so they fixed it with PhotoShop for the book....oh, if only it was that easy to fix mistakes in the real world *giggle*

the book is available for preorder on Amazon. if you live in England, you're lucky- it's already available to purchase!
 

SAL 2012 Part 9


here's the latest and greatest installment in my Scrap Bash Stitch-A-Long....now that things have calmed down for me, we'll be moving to get this done soon!!

happy stitching!

don't forget to add photos of your blocks to the Flickr group. i like to see what and how yall are doing these :)

it's why you keep coming back

THANK YOU for all the kind emails and comments!! i'm healing well and have been working on getting back to a routine!! it's amazing all the puns and jokes the surgery has provided. i've had some FUN conversations :) my incision has that nasty healing purple/bruise look to it *yuck* 
so how bout some quilts?!!

madeline's christmas themed BOM
quilted with a loopy with holly leaves thrown in
pam's row quilt

(umm, why is it rotated??)
i had SO much fun quilting this one!!
laura's low volume beige log cabin
E2Eed with my signature 'Cotton Candy' design

it lives in England now....
kathy's floral 30s repro BOM
quilted with a free motion baptist fan design
kathie's sweet 16 applique quilt
custom quilted
i can't remember who's basket weave quilt
quilted with a paisley design



well, i'm back to it!! happy stitches!

 

things are getting back to normal

full disclosure here- no makeup *ack*
i've been quiet lately....i'm not apologizing- life's gotten/been busy! moving into the new house and Davis coming home for R&R.

there's one more thing that i've been quiet about til is was all said and done. i've been having issues with my thyroid which is nothing- i read somewhere that 1 in 5 women have thyroid issues, so i'm nothing special. but there for a while, before my diagnosis (hashimoto disease), i thought i was going crazy. lots of blood work, 4 different doctors, MIRs, biopsies were taken and tested. the "C" word came up....blah blah blah, you know the drill...

so yesterday i had my first ever surgery to remove the right side of my thyroid and it was test and *thankfully* it came back negative for cancer... *yay*

i'm resting and taking it easy. my dad is staying with me.  it's really sore, but the sore i can take- it's the itching under that tape that is driving me crazy :) swallowing feels like i'm trying to swallow a dry golf ball...yesterday was the worst- i keep coughing and burping up all that crap you get in your lungs from the anesthesia and it tasted HORRIBLE. i bet i brushed my teeth 16 times :)

so i promise once things heal up, i promise to get this blog back to quilty things. i do have some pictures to share of the last quilts i quilted before the big move, i'll post those later this week.


 

quilts and taxes

 do you have this calender????

mmmm?

this is the quilt you'll be looking at all week :)


and i quilted it!

and a side note-
today is Lucky's 14th birthday
 (that's 98 in dog years!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD MAN!

 

meeting the neighbors

it's official- we live in the country!!!

see it??



let me zoom in.... i happened to be on the phone and looking out the window and she flicked her tail...

all this time i thought Lucky was barking at the neighbor's cat...



settling in

 i'm getting there!! most of the boxes are unpacked...it's just a matter of deciding where stuff will live
Nemo's room is set up and functional...i've even loaded a quilt and finished it yesterday
the back bedroom will be my sewing area until the basement is finished. i just need to put my design wall on the wall behind my ironing board. i sewed in there last night. i made a couple more blocks for my selvage quilt.
the dogs are loving the sun spots. i'm loving all the windows.

more pictures later....

 

no place like it



HOME!





  


(we interrupt unpacking with access to the internet :) 

SAL 2012 Part 8


here's the latest and greatest installment in my Scrap Bash Stitch-A-Long....

happy stitching!

don't forget to add photos of your blocks to the Flickr group. i like to see what and how yall are doing these :)
 

the last stitch

i have had this vintage quilt for years!! i bought it a llllloooonnnggg time ago from Ebay back before vintage tops could be sold for millions of dollars :) i think i paid around $40 for it.

out of all my vintage tops, this would be a top contender of a favorite. it sat in my cabinet patiently waiting for me to build my LAing skills to quilt it. then, i was stumped. what to do? it's not traditional and i couldn't make feathers look good....

so a couple days before my bday, at three in the morning (isn't that the prime time for all great creative sparks?) i knew how i was going to quilt it!!

i loaded it and treated my self a day 'off' from client quilting to quilt my little favorite green vintage find....

it will get to decorate a prominent wall in the house.

i like to think the piecer is up in her heavenly studio and is nodding her approval at her quilt finally being finished.