isn't this the coolest quilt? i LOVE LOVE LOVE this quilt. i know i say that alot, but i mean it this time :) it belongs to the lovely laura t. and i'm sure it came from dianne s. hire's "quilter's playtime" i know this, cause i have the book. 
today's quilt that got quilted belongs to laura t. i LOVE LOVE it! (i get to do another one tomorrow- i LOVE LOVE it too!) it's a lap quilt and i quilted my signature design i call 'cotton candy'
these are detail shots of the back....isn't it pretty? i'm pleased and very happy with it. i just hope karen likes it.
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photos are of the entire 5th grade class scanned and printed on fabric. there were some CUTE pics in there. the burgundy/gold (school colors) checker board border is all hand drawn self portraits by the students. the paw prints are from the school's mascot- a wolverine.
i like this one. it's a couple years old. the camera just doesn't capture the depth of this one. i was telling someone the other day that i was happy to see kaufman's batiks last year. they used a complicated (i'm assuming) process for dying that gave such depth to the pattern, especially for a batik. but, it must of not been economical because nothing like it is being seen this year. 
the jenny beyer quilt is DONE! *happy pants dance*
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ok, so we rushed to the vet friday afternoon. he seemed to have developed a red 'halo' around his incision and from what i remembered that means infection- so i called the vet they said to bring him in, so we did. turns out it was a false alarm- all normal, just some bruising. so that's that...
i've had these jars for quite a while. i found them in a recycling bin outside a bar while i was in college (i only got two, because i have two hands and my friend wouldn't carry one for me). i just like their shapes. one was my change jar for years! the other just keep it company. then i started quilting 'full time' and i was saving all my scraps of batiks not knowing what to do with them. so i saw these jars sitting empty, so i started stuffing my batik scraps in them. i thought they made nice avant garde art pieces. flash forward couple years and i was at home depot looking around (one of my thinking-outside-the-box excursions) and i saw they have "bottle lamp kits" i immediately thought of my fabric jars. i bought two kits and came home and this is what happened. and with energy efficient fluorescent bulbs, they truly are 'eco-friendly'.
this is a true neutrals quilt. it is beige, black, gray, and creams. it was made by jean w and measures 70" square. i did a light custom on it. i liked the way the stripe fabric is used in the setting, so i just SID all the stripes, including the border. this is the quilt that i had on the frame that i was doing this in the border, so i took that design and tweaked it to fit in the corners of the star blocks.
i think it looks better on the back. it has a wholecloth feel to it. the backing was pieced from all the scraps left from the top, but i would of wished for a solid black. there was a small piece of a tone-on-tone black, so i photoed it. see that new border design...i think i found a new staple in my group of go-to designs....
so me and davis went to the dollar store last night (i LOVE the dollar store) and they had these really cool looking tea towels. now i'm not a tea towel fan, they tend to be wussy at absorbing water, so i appreciated them and walked on down the aisle.
so what can you do with 3 tea towels? make curtains for the kitchen. get this- including the price of the tension rod- it cost me under $5! it took me longer to clean the sink for the photo than it did to actually sew them. if you were to buy something like this at ikea or pottery barn, you'd probably spend close to $20-$25 dollars. 
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it is 5:00 and lucky is in his crate relaxing after his surgery. whew...what a day. i want to thank everyone for the well wishes and emails. i now concede that i was being over dramatic with the whole idea, but Lucky is my first baby to have to go through this with. not many know this- but lucky is my first pooch. i wasn't raised with dogs, so all this canine stuff is new territory for me.
first i finished the third block for vicky's group quilt.
then i finished this large block. i have No idea what to do with it, and i can't remember what i had planned for it...maybe it would like to be a pillow. or i could put some pieced borders around it and make a wallhanging. *shrug* i dunno, but i promise to keep you up to date.
then i decided to work on my tulip blocks (again) this has to be one of my longest applique UFOs ever. i started this back in (?) 2004. the quilt has 9 of these blocks, and i have 4 done....hey- that's almost a block a year...i keep chugging along. i think what happened was i got into hand applique, then realized that i didn't have the skills learned to LA them and got fizzled out. now that i feel more confident, i'm up to finishing my applique UFOs and turning them into quilts!
so i'll start this post by saying i'm a HUGE Tennessee Volunteers fan. GO VOLS! GO BIG ORANGE! but, i'm living in GA and i get alot of UGA themed quilts, so i saw this thread and thought it would be a good addition to the thread stash. unfortunately, no orange and white thread *pout* i will persevere tho. you know a thread company could run with that idea and make a killing: variegated thread in team colors....think of the possibilities! 
first my t-shirt quilt. i made it to show customers that quilting through the t-shirt didn't detract from the design. i originally had other plans for the design of the quilt, but they changed. i had cut out the shirts already, so they were all different sizes (bad,bad idea in hindsight) and sewn a 2" finished border to each. well, needless to say, i realized that wasn't going to work. so i had to do the math to sew another frame to each shirt to make them all the same size. (some were in 16ths of an inch) i did my curvy thing for the sashings, and opted for no border. i love this quilt. i have t-shirts collected for two more quilts. i need another WIP like another hole in the head.
now for davis's. i made it for him for christmas and i was very proud of myself- he didn't find out about it! that's a story in of itself. so keeping in mind all the lessons learned from my tshirt quilt, i planned a bit better on davis's. what i didn't count in for was how big the designs of the shirts were. thank goodness i had bought more fabric than i really needed, cause i ended up needing it. the shirts ended up being cut at 20 1/2" (i had figured on 16 1/2") i sewed a 2 1/2" cut border around each shirt, then cut my sashings at 2 1/2", that's why i think the quilt looks more complicated than it really is. i found a wood grain fabric, used that as the outer border and mitered the corners giving it a picture framed look. he loves it. he took it to work to show everybody. 
i admit, i read my spam emails. i have found out some interesting things by doing it. today i was reading my local bookstore's 'newsletter' and i something caught my eye just as i was about to hit delete (no coupon). dan brown has a new book coming out in september (the 15th). YEAH! dan brown wrote 'the da vinci code' and 'angels and demons'. (i have seen the movie- it was spectacular, totally worth $10) the new book is 'the lost symbol' and he has brought back robert langdon (tom hank's character). i found this description:
i quilted it in an E2E that is my original freehand design called 'cotton candy' with a jewel toned variegated thread. it was hard to do a E2E on this quilt because it was speaking to me for a simple custom, that's okay, i took good pictures and will probably be making this quilt one day and we'll see if that one wants custom quilting. :)
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