Tribute to a Great Man

My Father in law Nolan Button (Tanya's Father) passed away this last Sunday after complications after surgery to remove some cancer they found.  I had a complicated relationship with my Father in law he was a man use to toiling with his hands running heavy equipment from a small town (Kanab) in southern Utah and I was a city boy from the large city in the north (Salt Lake City).  From the day I asked his permission to marry his oldest daughter to the last day I saw him (this last fathers day) walking around we never understood each other.  We were from different planets or at least as close as we could be to that.  I with my fancy computers and web development and his digging in the dirt with his equipment.  But we did share one thing in common and that is that we both truly loved the same girl, my wife Tanya.

Nolan will be missed not only by my wife, but by me.  I always wanted to know and understand him more and for him to understand me.  But that will have to wait tell another time now.  I loved him and was able to sit by his side and hold his hand while he passed from this earth.  He will be missed and is love by the Healey family.  His funeral will be held this 7/3/2014

Life and some Bento Box Blocks

Richard has been attending a new guild called My Sister's 'N Stitches Quilt Guild. They do a block swap every other month.  For this month they are trading Red, White, and Blue Bento Box Blocks.   Here are some of the blocks he did.  The finished blocks will be cut in quarters and 2 of the solid white sold blocks will be swamped with the white solid white blocks.

 They didn't want them cut, so here they are pre-cut. He did 16 blocks for the swap with 8 extras for home.  This should make a fun patriotic quilt and maybe a table runner or two.  The mix at this guild is pretty good, some old, some young, mostly traditional with some modern.  So far he is really liking it. It is held at a quilt shop a few miles from his work.

The past two weekends have been spent in Cedar City, Utah.  We spend Father's Day with my (Tanya's) family.  The following Sunday we went down, because my Dad had surgery and wasn't doing well.  We were afraid we were going to be planning a funeral for this weekend, but he is slowly starting to make a little progress.  He is starting to move his arms and legs and at least open his eyes.  He still isn't doing great, but seems to making a little progress each day.  At this point we are thinking he will at least make it. The trick is to get him better and then to start the fun of chemotherapy.

A while back we won some fabric in a giveaway from Simple Sew

It has been sitting on a desk to take picture of, but life has kind of got in the way. Richard's machine has been working great after it's trip to the Dr., just been too busy to sew much.  With any luck, Saturday we will get a little sewing done and some pictures taken to put some of our newer quilts on Etsy.

This little one keeps us going when the world looks bleak.  

Link A Finish Friday # 124

Here are some great linked up items from last week.

Limeade - Sewy Stuff by Paula

Goodbye to the 30's - Quilting is more fun then housework

Annabelle's quilt - Quilt Stitch Knit

Denmark - Jeni B Quilts

Now it is time to share what you have been working on.

Monthly Giveaway of $15 Gift Card from our sponsor Fat Quarter Shop. Please thank them and visit them for your quilting needs here are some of the places you can find them.

Their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

Link A Finish Friday #123

Here are some great linked up items from last week.

Kaleidoscope Quilt - Quilting Story's

Art to wear - Gene Black Alabama Artist

Birthday Quilt - Simply Pieced

Quilt 4 - Meine Kleine Welt

Hope Takes Flight - Sue Daurio's Quilting Adventure

Now it is time to share what you have been working on.

Monthly Giveaway of $15 Gift Card from our sponsor Fat Quarter Shop. Please thank them and visit them for your quilting needs here are some of the places you can find them.

Their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

Purple and Gray 25 Squared Quilt

This quilt was finished weeks ago and I can't believe I am barely getting around to taking pictures of it and getting it posted.  I went though a circle kick and decided to quilt giant circles across this quilt.  This quilt is made using my 25 Squared quilt pattern.  I am a huge fan of chopping things up into tiny pieces and then putting them back together.  For those that have followed for a long time this is the same pattern that I made my all lap quilt out of orange and gray.  I wanted to do one for my bed in orange and gray, but Tanya vetoed it.  Lucky for me, she does not hate purple and gray and now I have a pretty quilt out of that.

I love to piece my back, but for this quilt I used a fabric that had its own design it had gray dots (hence my decision to do circles) and they are dropping from both sides towards the middle.  My circles that I quilted all over started at their center with a cup I found in the kitchen and then just echoed outwards using my quilting arm on my machine.  After I got about 1/3 of the way done, I was tired of going round and round and remember why I don't do it a lot.

If you are interested in a free copy of this quilt pattern simply visit my pattern page on Craftsy and leave a nice comment their about the pattern and then come back here and leave me a message letting me know you did so.  Make sure to leave your email.  I have ran into a huge amount of people lately that are no reply bloggers making it hard to reply and give them their free patterns.