Richard and Tanya Quilts

Friday, January 11, 2013

Link a Finish Friday #49

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday. Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes. This month's winner (January) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend on Fat Quarter Shop.

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First Friday Finish from Bungalow Bay Quilts

A Finish from Domestic Defict Disorder

First Friday Finish from Quilting & Other Craft Therapy

Are 3 of the quilts linked up last week.

So for the rules.

1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.

2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Color Blast Quilt

I have created a pattern for my Color Blast Quilt. I would like those that are interested to download it and then let me know what they either like or dislike about it. One of my New Year goals is to make more pattern so this is a first try and I need all the advice I could get. Any way keeping it simple.

Download it here.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Winter Quilting Challenge

Today I finished the center of my Winter Challange Quilt This is for the SLMQG or rather the parent guild, but I am participating. We plan to add 2 borders to this to make it a smaller lap quilt. I was able to cut it all out yesterday and assemble 8 of the rows at Sewing Saturday. Tanya helped design this quilt and picked the solids (black and yellow) that we added to the challenge fabric.

After getting the center done, Tanya insisted I start quilting on Rebecca's Christmas quilt (yes its late, maybe by February I can finish it. It is HUGE so it will take me some time. I guess twin size to most is not huge, but it is the biggest things I have yet tried to quilt on my machine.

Lastly today its time to announce the winner of Link a Finish Friday I also added a easy link at the top to have a easy way to find the current linky.

Last month we had 118 link up

dec 27th 29 entrys
dec 20th 33 entrys NUMBER 11
dec 14th 29 entrys
dec 6th 27 entrys

I used my sql skills and my son clicking the button to pick the winner

set @maxRandomValue = 29 + 33 + 29 + 27
set @minRandomValue = 1;

Select Cast(((@maxRandomValue + 1) - @minRandomValue)
* Rand() + @minRandomValue As tinyint) As 'randomNumber';

Winner was 67/118 which worked out to number 11 on the 20th. Or A Friday Finish by Jo's Country Junction. Below is a picture of the winning quilt. We will contact them and get their prize out. Thank you to all that linked up last month. Note the linky is always open for you to enter on.

Friday, January 4, 2013

A Cowboy Kid

Tanya has our first quilt finish for 2013. This is a baby quilt that she made out of fabric that was given to us (I think most of these were in a bag I got at the November Quilt guild meeting). The front is a simple plus quilt. The quilt I made for James's Christmas was quite popular. As such we have a few Plus Plus (as Jared keeps calling all of them) quilts in the works for this year.

Here are some close ups of a couple of the Pluses. We have made fewer baby boy quilts so this is a great addition to our quilt stash.

The back of the quilt has some cream flannel, which will make it soft and fun for a baby to play with.

Speaking of babies, our daughter Rebecca has finally started on our Raggedy Ann and Andy. This first doll is Raggedy Ann, her hair and clothing are not yet done, but she is stuffed and created. Rebecca is slow, but accurate with her sewing. I can't wait until they are done. The plan is for her to be done by Julia's First Birthday so she can get them for her birthday from her sister. Below is the pattern/material for the dolls. I got these patterns from one of our followers Mary Jacob of Made With Love by Mary. I got these back in May and you can read more about it on this post.

Just so you don't think I have been doing nothing the last few days, I am now 16 rows into my Orange/Gray plus quilt. I designed this out in EQ7. I think there are 9 rows left? I have had a lot of fun with this one and can't wait until its done. Though Jared has been telling me that he wants it. Maybe I will have to make a "Green" version of this for him? What goes well as a background to green, any suggestions?

Any way congrats to Tanya, today's finish was her first fully pieced and quilted quilt. Only help she had was the Binding Fairy did help just a tad.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Link A Finish Friday #48

James and I have been working on a Sword and Shield quilt that still needs help. This week I will start by showing off these 2 made by Fun Threads Designs Follow that link to see the post about these. If you would like to join in and help make these see this post here.

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