Another Hot Pad day! -N- Giveaway Reminder!

 Before doing the binding on the flight of the dragonfly quilt I did 2 more hot pad bindings.  I did such a crappy job of it, I finally realized what I was doing wrong.  Flight of the Dragonfly benefited well from this disaster.

As you can see in the pictures, I did not even mange to keep them the same size.  I cant quite figure out what I did to make the one so much smaller then the other.  I guess they will work out well for lopsided pots.

On a good note I only have like 8 or so more hot pads to bind which means they should look a lot better then these 2 worked out.  I am giving them away as gifts (hum who too?) So I labeled them with my new boring label.  Tonight my wife had a stack of my black and white rag quilt blocks so I sewed them up. At the same time I noticed she is stealing some of my blocks and putting them aside to make a lap quilt for her sister.  So yet another project is started I think that's like 10 irons in the fire.  This quilting is serious to the addicting point.

Please do not forget if you have not yet, please use the 2 buttons on the top right of the blog to register you guesses for Julia's B-day and Birth Weight.  There are 4 diffident ways to get a guess so you can make 4 different predictions. Please get them in.  I am quite enjoying them.  I do prefer to be done with the delivery in the morning or early afternoon so all this guessing to have it like 3am is just plain bad luck.  Any way, don't hesitate you never know when this contest will end.  Though you can definitely make a guess or 3 of when that will be.

Linking too.
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Dance of the Dragonfly

Last night I completed my biggest pieced project yet.  Dance of the dragonfly, I have talked about this quilt before it is for either Rebecca my daughter or Samantha her cousin.  I told Rebecca she can pick between the 2 when they are done. This is the first quilt that I have stressed over.  I have created a lot of Rag Quilts and they do not stress me in the least.  When you screw up a edge on them you just fray it and wash it.  On this quilt, I had to machine sew it (and don't look at it up close its terrible).    It has puckers bad down near one of the corners and there is a sizable overlap. Its not the best work ever, but I learned from it.  I learned that the batting that I have been using stinks and I will never buy it again.   I learned what the word basting is (sadly I machined quilted it before fully grasping the concept). I can proudly say though that the machine binding on it is FANTASTIC! OK maybe not that good but the best that I have done to date.  You can see I zig zaged my label on it, not perfect but its mine.  You can also see the mitered corners turned out well thank you to http://www.redpepperquilts.com/ where I found a great tutorial for binding (its on her right bar half way down, got distracted once when noticed it making a comment). Sunday my wife was kind enough to finally pose for a picture my first official picture of her (not censored) on the blog to date. I am sure I will get more as you can see she has caught the bug (literally) in the last picture of her tonight.   I came home and she proudly showed off the bug material she bought today for her bug jar quilt.  I found one I loved on a blog and pinned it on my pintrest quilt board http://pinterest.com/rhealey101/quilts/ where I have been pinning projects I want to try.  She is catching the bug, still not willing to sew, but she is now cutting out stuff for 2 quilts she wants me to sew up for her.  You will note from my tag that I had faith in her all along helping on our projects together.  18 years of marriage and we finally find a hobby we both can deal with.









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Green Quilt of Awesomeness!

Awesomeness Jared's Lap quilt is done.  I started a Large quilt for Jared in the post Jeans for Jared, it is far from complete.  He not being the most patient child and wanting to cut every ones jeans up for his quilt. We decided to get him a lap quilt so that he would give dad just a little more time.  I am sure by the quilt that no one could possibly guess what might be his favorite color?

Don't forget to put your guess in for our quilt giveaway.  You have 2 separate guesses to make Guess Birth Day and Guess Birth Weight You can enter up to 4 guesses each by following the rules listed on the post.  Make sure to let every one know I want to make it hard for me and the kids to sort out all the guesses.










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Just another Monday Picture #2

You will notice today's wordless post comes with a site re-design.  My 16 year old son James did not like the boring template that I started with and has given me a face lift.  Please also note that my 2 giveaway pages can be found on the right side each page has its own button also provided by James.  Please go make your guesses now.


Ironing


Rating the image will give you the chance to rate other pictures I have taken on my family picture site.  This is my version of a Word less Post Day Happy Quilting.  As for me I will be spending the day with the family.

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Guess the Birth Date/Birth Weight Giveaway!

My wife is pregnant with our 4th child, she is due March 29. Julia Dawn (that will be her name) is what got me so stir crazy to start this quilting stuff.  My wife and I are both full into nesting mode, getting ready for the baby to come.  To have some fun and to giveaway some love, I want to offer the chance for 2 lucky people to get something handmade by me (and wife will help some too I would guess).  The exact item to win is not yet set in stone yet.  We are thinking a Lap quilt for one prize and a baby quilt for the other but that could change (maybe a runner up prize?) Who knows, any way I am creating 2 pages on my blog, one page you can guess the Birth Date (and my wife thinks we should add time to narrow out the people) and the birth weight of the baby on the other page.

I should point out that the baby on the top right is mine.  That is Rebecca Jean our first daughter, she is now 13 years old and you can see more of her on her blog http://blog.beccacooks.com  All of our kids are excited about the baby joining us in our family.  Once I get more on Julia's Blog page I will link that, but if your interested in knowing something about the family to make your guessing better you can check out Jared (7 now) website I created for his birth 7 years ago it is http://jared.richardhealey.com.

Please use these 2 links to post your guesses

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/p/guess-julia-dawns-b-day.html

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/p/guess-julia-dawns-birth-weight.html


Remember you can comment here all you want, but to win the comments must be on the correct page.  There are 4 ways to enter each (and yes that means 4 guesses so you can widen your odds of winning).