WIP Wednesday #4

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

Completed Projects:

4 completes Wife's Burp Cloth, Fug Runner's Prettier Cousion, Dot's and Flowers, and Daytons Quilt

Ready To Quilt:

I realized this last week that I had a butterfly top that I bought from Walmart that I have yet to quilt.  I bought this before I really figured out how to make my own quilt.  I pulled it out this last week and found a back just need to baste it.

Ongoing Projects:

Granny squares and 5 X 5 square blocks.  I have 30 ish  Granny's done and some where around 20 of the 5 X 5 blocks.  Plan is to make  2-3 granny quilts and 1 or 2 of the 5 x 5 quilts.  Yes I cant seem to make only one thing at a time.

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

2 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.

Kathy's Jelly Roll Quilt.  I sewed all the strips together this week and now just need to find the fabric that will be spacers between blocks and then top will be done.

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.
Tanya's Lap quilts from her fat quarters.
Autism Quilt for My sons school Silent Auction.
Rose Fabric for Mother In Law's Quilt.

Totals:
Finished: 4 March, 10 February, 7 January 21 total for year
On Going Projects: 8 ish
Planned: 7 (though I keep thinking I am missing a couple)

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Burrrrp!!!!

It was bound to happen.  I came home from work to find Tanya sewing.  OK she was not actually sewing, when I came home more like crying.  Tanya made us a burp cloth.  She sewed the outside edge flipped it inside out and then was going to put a decorative trim around it.

 She set the machine to the decorative stitch hit the peddle and SNAP! She broke a needle.  Not to be set back, she quickly swapped the needle and SNAP!  This is of course where I come in with her crying.  Last night when sewing I put my 1/4 inch foot on.  She not even knowing what that thing is.  She did not know that if she did a stitch that the needle moved back and forth would have to put the normal foot back in.

Needless to say I came to the rescue, such a good husband I am (yes I am sucking up for every ones love) and swapped her foot and helped her sew.

 We are now the proud owner of a burp cloth with a pretty little edge around it.

 I tried to convince my wife that I could slap one of my cool labels on it and she explained to me that I don't need it thrown up on so no label.

 Not to be totally out done I did get some brown granny squares in and some 5 X 5 blocks done.

If you look close though at the top right block on the bottom left corner I messed up the out side edge making one of my lighter tans end up on the out side edge.  Oh well.  I do have 4 more piles of squares to sew up tonight so once I get done posting this off to work I go.

Blog Hop Party and past winnings

I had so much fun with the last giveaway that I have decided I am going to join a up coming blog hop sponsored by Quilting Gallery it will run from March 17-23 and is destined to be a big one.  The interesting thing is that will be close to when the baby is born, I am trying to decide what to give away and how to do it.  For those that have fun at giveaways leave me a message about what you like or don't like about giveaways.  If you have a blog think about joining up.

Today I had a prize show up that I won from SewCalGal I won this prize back on January 20th.  The prize I won was a roll of various fabrics from Hoffman Fabrics, they are wonderful and can't wait to use them.

 One of the things I liked the most about the fabric in this roll is that they are ones that I don't often pick. My wife likes conservative things and steers me away from some of the more bold things in this grouping.  I am looking forward to finding a good project to put these in.

 While I was musing over my win, I have been thinking a lot about how to get sponsors for my blog.  Is their any one out their that has advice on this subject?  I enjoy doing giveaways, but I am some what limited on what I can afford to give away.

One last thing the other day I was going though blogs I follow and found a great recipe.  It is for the most wonderful breakfast treat.  Please go check out my post about this on Becca Cooks my little girls cooking site.http://blog.beccacooks.com/2012/03/bacon-egg-cheese-breakfast-cups.html

Fug Runners Prettier Cousin

 I have finished another runner.  This one is 2 blocks and a strip left over from the quilt I posted yesterday.  I have had so much fun working with this material I got from In The Boon Docks that I won in the fugly giveaway.  I have 2 more runners that will be made.  I had planned to do them yesterday but I ran out of umph.  I did get the larger quilt quilted and bound.  I got this one quilted and bound about 9:30 last night so it took over the night to make it though the wash and I pulled it out this morning to take pictures.  

This one is going to go to work with me today and go on my desk.  Fug Runner is already there with 3 plants on it.  This one will have a picture of my kids and some nick knacks sitting on it.  Again thanks to http://www.intheboondocks.blogspot.com  for making this all possible.

Dot's and Flowers - A Giveaway Quilt

 Dots and Flowers is my newest complete.  It is created with the same material fug runner was from some of the winnings i got from the fugly giveaway.  It is any thing but fugly though.  I for the first time took my quilt out side for some pictures.  The first shot on the right was with flash on the others was with it off.  The sun was not high in the sky so I was too much in the shadows better luck next time.  Any way this quilt will be one of 4 choices for the winner of our giveaway we are having in conjunction with the birth of Julia Dawn our 4th child.

 If you are new to my blog or just not yet gotten around to making a guess now is the time.  We have roughly 3 or so weeks tell the baby is born.

Below you you will find links to both of the giveaways.  4 chances to win.  Make sure you put your guesses in now before its too late.

Thanks again to http://www.intheboondocks.blogspot.com who gave me this wonderful fabric.