Fug Runner And a New Star

  Yesterday's Fugly Post  I showed the Fugly Fabric I won from In the Boon Docks and I showed how I had chopped it up into strips for a quilt.  No the strips were not created to be used in this Runner but this runner was the leftover scraps from the quilt top that I made.  Below you can see the quilt top I made it is finished.  I still need to cut the back, Quilt and Bind it, but the top is finished. Being the crazy quilter that I have become, I needed to have a Finish so I created this runner.  It will either go under the plants that I have on my desk at work (moving offices next week, so depends if it fits on the new desk where I am thinking) or it will go on top the washing machine to set all the crap that gathers.

 If you look at the top of the picture on the right or the bottom of the picture on the left those bunched up lines are the tops of all the blocks I made for the quilt top that I cut off to square up my 12 1/2 inch blocks.  And all the stuff on the bottom or top of picture on the left is the odd edges left over when I cut the 3 1/2 inch strips from my Fugly fat quarters.

 If you look too close at the back, you will see that  not even one of my straightt lines are straight.  Remind me that any important quilting should not be done at 11:45 at night as I can' sew straight when my eyes are half closed.  On a good not,e my binding looks FANTASTIC.  I have totally got the binding thing down.  I ordered a 1/4 inch foot today and a new walking foot (I refuse to use the one I have, as it gets jammed and stuck and makes too much noise for me to watch TV haha).

The new foot that I ordered has the ability to connect a seam guide, which I also ordered so that I can attempt to sew straight-er quilt lines in the future.

 The quilt top here on the right you can see the sash on the bottom the top also has one, I sorta stuffed it into the top of the cupboards to take the picture.  This quilt idea was taken from a picture my wife saw of a quilt made out of a layer cake.  She had me get a huge fat quarter bundle last week with the $50 I won from The Fat Quarter Shop and wants a quilt made that looks like this also.  So when she saw the fugly quilt she knew exactly what I was going to make.

Last, but not least, I got the first block swap block today I joined the http://quiltingblockswapsaustralia.blogspot.com/ which is a 12 1/2 inch block swap.  My first partner Ank from The Netherlands sent me this block.  She sent me a email after saying she did not like the block she sent me and will be sending me another.  If this she considers bad, I want to see what wonderful looks like because I love the block.  Rebecca came and grabbed it screaming MINE! so I think it passes her muster too, you can't see the color well but its purple and other pastels on a white background.  I can't seem to get good lighting today to take pictures.  It is way past bed time, so will see all the happy quilters in the morning.  Night!

Linking too.
http://piecefullife-elizabeth.blogspot.com
http://emsewandsew.blogspot.com
http://sewhappygeek.co.uk
http://conniekresin.blogspot.com
http://gapquilter.blogspot.com.au
http://piecefullife-elizabeth.blogspot.com

Not So Fugly, Linky fails, and Quilts in progress.

 The Fugly party is over.  But was some of the most fun I have had in a while the Fugly Party was put on by Charmed About You.  70 diffident sites ended up linking up and giving away the fuglys.  I was lucky enough to win a handful of fuglys. 2 of them have shown up so far the set from the right from http://www.intheboondocks.blogspot.com/ which was funny when my wife saw it she pipped in that those are not fugly and then proceeded to tell me the project I will make out of them.

 The second set of fuglys I received on the left are Christmas prints which my wife also could not believe some one called fugly came from Ella at http://throwawenchintheworks.blogspot.com Thank you both for these.  I believe that I won 3-4 more and will write more about those when they show up.

 My son Jared (7 years old) cat Cubby Wubby I found sitting on one of my newest quilts Flight of the Dragonfly and just had to take a picture of it as she is just a cute cat and she just will not approve any quilt so it must be pretty good.

Speaking of Finishes my Linky failed yesterday (I guess I was using a free Linky trial and it expired) its now up and working again please go link up your finishes for this last week mine will be linked up some time later today I have a couple blog posts for my various blogs to make first.
Link A Finish Friday #4

 This item to the left is a sneak peak of the center of one of the quilts we plan to offer for the Guess Julia's B-day and Birth weight giveaway.  My wife designed this quilt and created the center piece and I sewed it all together last night (it is a rag quilt and still needs to be cut up) will post a complete when its all washed up.  The plan as of right now is to make 3-4 quilts and then let the 2 winners pick the quilt they want as their win so that if you want a baby blanket you can have one if you would rather a lap quilt you can.  This quilt will be one of the choices.  I plan to make one of my Man Quilts as one choice also.  And possibly the quilt that I will be making the top today made from some of the Fugly wins above.  I have cut strips out and will be sewing them into blocks wife also designed this quilt and you will see more of it in a day or so.

Add your B-Day Guess for Julia here
Add your Birth Weight Guess for Julia here

To the right is my Fugly win stripped up my wife saw a quilt made out of a layer cake on The Fat Quarter Shop while she was buying her fat quarters last week.  I am taking loosely from that design and making a lap quilt out of these today.

Last but not least I posted a new entry today on my little girls blog.  BeccaCooks - Dutch Oven BBQ Chicken and Rice Scouting Style Please if you have time go check it out.  I created that blog so that my little girl could inspire and be inspired by others.  She would like to grow up and be a cook.

Link A Finish Friday #4

Being over ambitious as a new quilter and blogger, I have set a goal to finish at least 1 something a week.  Be that a quilt, a mug rug or if all else fails a good sandwich.  Wait that won't work.  Lets try it again.  1 quilt, a mug rug, a um well something sewn.  Any way that will be 52 finishes for the year.  My 2012 Finishes will be where I list them all.  But what I want to know is how many of you can keep up the pace with me and finish 52 things for the year.  What better way to keep up then to 1 work on your quilts, and 2 share those with others.  Being a web developer by trade, I know how important a link to another blog is (hint linking to me makes me happy) and I want you all to make sure you have at least 1 person look at your finish. (that's me). I will make a honorable attempt to look at every finish added to my list and try to make a comment on most of them. At the very least I will follow the blog of every one that links a finish.

So for the rules.

1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.
2) Add a link to your finish (blog, http://pinterest.com/, Pisca web album) or where every you store your pictures.
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.

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.

Flight of the Dragonfly

I have now completed my 2nd and last Dragonfly quilt.  Flight of the Dragonfly sister quilt to  Dance of the Dragonfly These quilts are for my Niece and Daughter.  For Christmas this year if your related your most likely getting a quilt.  I have done a mix of Rag Quilts and Pieced quilts.  The more Pieced quilts I make the more I love them.

It was funny yesterday I was showing my brother the progress I have made so far on his queen sized rag quilt and I was also showing him this quilt that I was getting ready to quilt (though he can not believe I stopped working on his quilt to work on this quilt.  Oh well his loss and my gain.  Any way he made the comment that he could afford more material and that he might want me to make him yet another quilt.  LOL I think I will make every one in the family's Christmas this year as we have not had new quilts in the family in years.

Today will also be one one the first times that I will have more then one post for the day I wanted to get this quilt in for my Friday Link up can not let you all think that I can go a week and only finish one quilt.  So here you have it I am not totally slacking for the week.  Don't look too close at my quilting the lines are not straight, but the puckering was less this time around.  I am learning each and every quilt what not too do and basting the quilt (yes trying to use the cool new words I have been learning) is not yet my specialty.












Linking too
http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2012/02/finish-it-up-friday-week-15.html
http://emsewandsew.blogspot.com/2012/02/stitch-in-time-february-finishes-linky.html
http://www.amylouwhosews.com/2012/02/sew-tell-v319-scrappy-fish-quilt.html

What I do while I Quilt

For any one that does not know, my name is Richard Healey. I am by day a Programmer and by night a Quilter.  My favorite thing to do is program, I know I should not admit that on a quilting blog but it is.

I have created dozens of websites and one of them I would like to show off a little tonight. (To shamelessly convince you to try it)  Today I am working on my 2nd Dragonfly quilt and while I was watching TV (yes the site I want to tell you about is about TV Tracking, my 2nd favorite hobby next to quilting is watching TV)  I have created a site called http://trackmyshows.com/ 

 It is a free website designed for you, can guess it, tracking the shows that you watch. The first and most important thing to do is on the top right of the main page is the Login page and for any one new to the site is the "Register" Link.  This will create you a account to track your own shows.  You can do some things on the site without this account ,but with it you can do so many more things.  When logged in you can use the "Set Following" page to list and set shows you like.  You can also mark a show to follow from the show pages.  


There are many ways to get to those show pages, the simplest of which is the "Show Search" Link. Once on the show search page put in any text you want and search for a show you can see. I did a search for quilt and found a quilting show.  One of the neat things about my site is if it does not already have the show in the database, it will auto add it if the show already exists it will say go to show.

Once you have shows in your listing (when logged in) you will see some of the images below.  You can see what shows you have not seen yet in a series when that show next shows.  There is a quick list that will show you shows for the last week or 2 that are on your follow list, but not marked off yet.  It also has a calendar of when the next showing should be.

Any way when I quilt I watch TV.  Because I don't watch the same shows over and over, I track them.  Any way I hope that this is of some use to you all and if you give it a try and like it, hate it or other wise let me know.  I want to improve it and need input.  Any way here I go back to quilting my Dragonfly quilt. (Yes I know my pictures look like crap that's what you get with the snippet tool).