Dayton's Quilt

 Dayton's Quilt for the lack of any other name I could think of is finally done.  I have decided I will never do a rag quilt this big again and I am going to be more picky about materials on the next one I do also.  This quilt ended up 12 blocks wide by 14 blocks long.  I did not want to do the 6 inch blocks (5 inches after the 1 inch in the seams) that I have done on all the other rag quilts I have done so I went out and bought new rulers I bought 8 1/2 inch wide square and long ruler and used to make these blocks.  My brother picked out boring black flannel for the back and he picked 3 fabrics.

 The black was a great material the other 2 not so great I don't think they were 100% cotton and not being all so skilled at this I did not know any better.  The blue material is quite stiff and even after washing 2 times never did fray at all the red material was a little better.  You can also see the white batting that my brother bought sticking out the seams on many of the squares.  Maybe because the quilt is so huge it did not wash and their for fray well.  But hey its done.  Any way this is a big one for me and I am happy to call it my first finish for March.  It measured in at 90 inches wide and 105 inches long.

James is home and we have more Granny's

 James is home and doing good.  They gave him all the good drugs and he does not even want to take them such a funny kid.  He is sore but doing well the bar does not show its size well in the image its about 1 1/2 feet long its way bigger then I expected.

 Now that leap day is behind us and all the give away's given away its time to march forward with the march of the Granny Squares.  Here are 2 that were sitting half sewn missing 4 white squares on the corners from the first group I sewed.

 And here are 4 yellow ones my wife kinda laughed at my yellow and pink flowers how they stick out. Oh well they are yellow and I like them.

 The black and white ones show up crappy in the light inside my house.  When these quilts get done I promise better pictures outside.  It actually snowed and I never seem to finish during the day to get pictures out side but will work on getting better pictures.  And last but not least I ended up with 2 of my 5 X 5 blocks one in yellow and one in back/white.  I am now up to 27 granny squares that is after giving away 2 to Elizabeth.  And I have I think 15 of the 5 X 5 blocks.  I have 2 more 5 X 5 blocks in blue on the table half sewn and I have 8 Granny's in blue half sewn that will put me over the amount I need for the 5 x 5 I figure 3 rows of blocks then some sashing around them for those and the granny's I figure 4 rows by 5 so at least 5 more blocks I need for them so I am getting close to the finish of my block fest to get 3 granny quilts and 1 5 X 5 quilt out of these.  I am sure some are sick of me working on these but they have been a lot of fun.

Link A Finish Friday #6

The Goal for me this year is 52 Finishes in 52 weeks help keep me honest and show off your own finishes at the same time its a Link A Finish Friday!!

I am cheating with this picture it is not a finish.  Though the quilt is finished I think it is in the dryer right now will need to take pictures today of it and post it and deliver it to my brother.  It is a rag quilt this picture is taken before it was washed.  It has now been washed 2 times and cut which it was not in this picture.

Don't forget to put your guesses in Julia's Quilt Giveaway as this finish this week will be one of 4 choices.

Most visited from last week was Drunkards Path Potholders From Piece full Life Who will be the most visited this 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.

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.

Leap Day Winner Choices

The choices have been made I heard back from Elizabeth of Such a Sew And Sew and Connie from Quilting By the River.

Elizabeth picked

And Connie Picked

I am off today because of my sons surgery so the winnings should be in the mail today.  Wife is right now getting envelopes ready and the items are stacked on the table.  You are maybe scratching your head that both are getting the hot pads but we have enough to give both (originally made 13 of them).

It was funny last night I don't think my wife Tanya slept she kept getting up to look for Elizabeth's email she is even more excited then me to give away the goods.  This was fun and we will have to do something again.


WAIT.....

We are giving something away already for any one that has not already done so we have a giveaway to pick the Birth Date and the Birth Weight of the baby that now resides inside my wife.  She is pregnant and due in about 3-4 weeks.

Winner Announced Leap Day Blog Hop

 OK today has been a long day, we have moved from one office to another at work and during the middle of our move we had a server outage on our live servers.  Busy exhausting day, did not expect to be doing this so late, but better late then never.  With the help of my wife Tanya we identified 12 names that had chances to win the first place prize.  If you notice the list here are those names from the post.  You will see that Irina had 2 entries because she got a 2nd guess for hosting a giveaway but did not name a 2nd quilt so she got 2 guesses on first quilt.

 

I folded up all the papers and put them in a bowl.  I mixed them around and then had my son Jared mix it again and pick one.

Here is the live action shot of Jared grabbing the piece of paper when I was editing the images I noticed how dirty his face was and I want to point out I am a good dad and normally wash his face.  So I went and looked at this mornings picture to verify that yes it was clean.  Then what do I notice his shirt is on backwards.  I check tonight's picture and yes dad dressed Jared funny sorry Tanya is pregnant and dad is taking up the slack and not doing so good.

So finally we get to show the picture.  Drum Roll .... The winner is Elizabeth of Such a Sew And Sew I was so happy to see her as the winner.  She was the host of this great day of giving and it is great that she won.  I will post the choices that the 2 winners gave after I get back answers from both of them.  Oh ya I never said the name of the 2nd place winner that would be a good thing to do.    Connie from Quilting By the River was our 2nd place winner as the only one to like Hearts and Flowers 2.  Congrats Connie.  I will make another post with the exact winnings when I get emails back from both of them.

One last note of the day my son James is having surgery tomorrow at Primary Children's Medical Center to remove a bar that has been in his chest for 3 years to fix a sunken chest that he had causing him to have difficulties when he exercised.  If any of you like minded people could keep him and my family in your prayers I would appreciate it.