Another Direction, Easily Distracted

I never realized how exhausting it could be to just cut up little squares.  I have gone though about 2/3 of the scraps and left over stuff from other projects and made 2 1/2 inch blocks for my granny squares and also my 5x5 color blocks for 2 different quilts I want to make. 

 I don't have any where near enough variety yet to make a cool quilt but I have a ton of a few things (Green, Purple, Orange, Black/Gray's) I need a lot more of a few colors. 

 Good thing my wife has that huge FQ stack going to have to swipe some of it when she is not looking.  

My son Jared was trying to make a Fish with his wedgits and every time we went to take a picture it fell apart.  So just pretend that is a fish in the picture.  If you look over his left shoulder their is a sneak peak at Tosha's Rag quilt its a combo of purple and grays left over stuff from 3 previous quilts. 

Don't forget to stop by Friday and link up your finishes. I promise the Linky will work this week.

Also remember to put your guess in to win a quilt. 

WIP Wednesday #2

** Rebecca's First Quilt see her post on BeccaCooks blog **






Vote for me in the Valentines Showcase this is my entry.
I am number 42 on the list.
http://www.linkytools.com/like.aspx?entryid=3867417


Today is going to be a Work In Progress Wednesday.   And will be linking up with Freshly Pieced. 

OK this is my second WIP so I am looking at Freshly Pieced listing for some good advice.

Completed Projects:

2 recent finishes Fug Runner and Sweet Dreams (Giveaway Quilt)

Ongoing Projects:

Dayton's (My brother) Queen Sized Rag Quilt.  I have sewed together 10 rows long 14 wide (view-able block) about 7 1/2 inches so 105 inches wide by 75 Inches long.  I am running out of my 9 yards of material and realizing that um the with is too wide and the length is to um short.  He wanted a extra large queen size and I think I went a tad too wide.  I might have material for 2 more rows which would put me at 12 by 14 blocks (its going to be flipped on its side)

Man Quilts 2-3 more like Dad's Zag Zag and Paisley Parade I have enough X's sewed for 2 and half of these.

Tosha's Quilt (wife's sister) this is being mostly worked on by my wife.  This is now sewn together just waiting for wife to finish cutting it.  The flannel on the back will be the same as which is on Hearts and Flowers 2 Hum never took a picture of the back of that quilt interesting.

3 Secret Giveaway Quilt - Giveaway is not a secret but the quilt my wife is working on is.  You can enter now following the 2 links here make a separate guess for b-day and weight.  http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/p/guess-julia-dawns-b-day.html and http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/p/guess-julia-dawns-birth-weight.html

Tanya's Heart Quilt - This will be a queen size quilt and we have started making blocks but don't have a clear plan on a finish for it.

Jared's Levi Quilt - Jeans for Jared I am still shy material to finish have a couple people that said they would send me some to add too it and my mother just gave me a pile of my dads old levi's and then told me that I should make my dad a lap quilt out of them also.  So not sure on this one.

Planned Quilts:

2 John Deer Rag Lap Quilts one for a brother in law and one for my father in law.

1 Case Machinery Lap Quilt for a brother in law.

2 Bug Jar Quilts for nephews.
1 Granny Square quilt (one block made a million to go)
1 5x5 by color block quilt 3 squares made




Totals:
Finished: 9 February, 7 January 16 total for year
On Going Projects: 4-6
Planned: 7 (though I keep thinking i am missing a couple)

Biggest change for this week Is that I have started on my Granny Square quilt I really love these blocks.

Orange Blocks and More Hot Pads with a little extra

Today starts with 2 more of my Hot Pad Finishes these we will call Hearts and Stripes (only for lack of a better name) They will be for a gift to a family that I know from church.   My son and I are their home teachers and I have not visited recently and these and a cookie mix should make up for it a little. The hot pads were a lot of fun and I am glad they are done.  This holiday weekend also gave me a chance to let Rebecca my daughter spend some time quilting and she has finished sewing her first baby quilt.  It is a lap quilt I will not show a full shot so that she can show it off more when she is done cutting it and washing it.
She was so excited that I finally allowed her to use my sewing machine. This is a classic reason why I need to buy my self a second sewing machine. One of the big reasons I started to quilt is so that she could learn to sew. She will be starting High School next year and plans to take a sewing class my hope is that before it starts she can have at least some skill in it. In all of the quilts I have seen on the we their is 2 types that really stand out to me. One of them is one that uses I believe its called the Granny Square blocks.

Linked To
http://quiltstory.blogspot.com/2012/02/fat-quarter-shops-series.html
http://emsewandsew.blogspot.com/2012/02/stitch-in-time-february-finishes-linky.html
http://southernlovely.blogspot.com/2012/02/show-share-28.html

Sweet Dreams - A Giveaway Quilt

My wife is not so impressed with my pictures of this quilt.  It does look a lot prettier then the picture makes it out to look.  This quilt was made for the Quilt giveaway (links found on my main page for the giveaway on the top right) This quilt is a striped Rag quilt with a cupcake applique with Rick-Rack around it.  This was designed by my wife and I sewed it together.  The plan for our giveaway is to make 4 diffident quilts and then let the 2 winners each pick the one they want.  Any way I think this quilt turned out wonderful now I have 3 more choices to finish up before the baby is born. The full quilt and more closeups show below.











































Linking Too
http://emsewandsew.blogspot.com/
http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/
http://gapquilter.blogspot.com.au/
http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/
http://quiltedeuphoria.blogspot.com/

Tanya's Choice and Post 50!

Today (Yesterday by the time most will read this) I finally sat down after church and sewed together all of my hot pads.  I had made 12 (ok I could not count so actually made a bakers dozen) of these.  I created them so that I could practice Machine Quilting (wanted to try FMQ and also straight line or not so straitgh line machine quilting).  They are about 8 inches square I will show them all 2 at a time (ok 1 day 3 at a time) You have have to wait a week or 2 on some depending on what other things I end up showing.

But want to spread out the love so that you get some time to look at each of them.  These 2 out of the 12 that are still in my possession (I sent one to my swap partner Ank in The Netherlands) I am curious to see what she thinks of her crazy hot pad.  The other 12 I plan to give away 2 by 2 to 6 Lucky people.  That will first be my wife Tanya.  She gets to pick her 2 and here they are.

Along with these I did get other things done and will give you a sneak peak at what I will show off more in the morning when I have some more time to write it up but here is the cupcake quilt that will be one of 4 choices for my quilt giveaway. (Picking Julia's B-day and Birth weight links below)

2 Lucky people will get to chose from 4 quilts.  To enter to win please make sure that you get your guesses in.  You can make 4 total guesses if you follow the extra guess rules.  Here are the 2 links again for any one that has yet to guess.

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

Oh one last note this is my 50th post what a great month and a half of quilting I have had.  In the last 50 posts I have gotten 92 blog followers and had over 473 comments made and 19,622 page views.  That just boggles my mind.  I have enjoyed this a lot and here is too another 50 posts.

Linking too
http://piecefullife-elizabeth.blogspot.com/2012/02/little-quilt-mondayfinished-pinwheel.html
http://emsewandsew.blogspot.com/2012/02/stitch-in-time-february-finishes-linky.html
http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/2012/02/take-look-tuesday_20.html