A Twist of Red - A Giveaway Quilt

Today's quilt is the 3 of 4 of our giveaway quilts.  We are on the home stretch now and our giveaway is almost ready to end.  Or at least Tanya hopes that it will end soon.  That will  means Julia is out and she can sleep with out her back hurting and not able to get comfortable.

 A Twist of Red is a twist on my Man Quilts.  If you look at the squares the only real pattern is the paisley blocks with red behind them.  All of the black and white squares go in a dark, then light pattern but none of them have more then 6 or so of the same print going across the quilt.  I was able to use up all of the left over blocks from my quilt.  I still have in the Man Quilt box squares in 6 different colors to make 1 more quilt.

 The kids took the pictures this morning while we tried to get ready on the day after daylight savings time. All of us are tired, so sorry for the slightly blurry pictures.  My son says tonight in the sun after school he will take some more pictures.

Tanya thought I was funny when I wanted the red behind the paisley with the gray behind the black and white blocks, but I think it turned out wonderful.  What do you think?

Healey Family Giveaway Guesses

Not a recent picture of us, but this is the Healey family as of the summer of 2009 on vacation (taken some where on the Pacific Cost highway in California).  We are now waiting on a baby to pop magically out of Tanya.
We are having a contest to give away 2 quilts to 2 lucky people.  I have made 2 quilts and have 2 more almost completed as the choice for the winner.

These are the 4 quilts the 2 on the left are completed the 2 on the right are almost.  The rag quilt is now in the wash and should be posted Monday. The 5 X 5 color um what ever (name not yet decided on the not complete ones yet) has all but the green and purple blocks quilted and will finish those tonight and maybe bindings.  So looking like a Tuesday complete.  But before its too late, I wanted to give the 5 of our family the chance to make guesses as to the due date.

Jared's Guess is that Julia will be born March 20th at 2:02 pm.  And that she would weight a few small watermelons.  He has said this a few times now and I still laugh each time.

Rebecca says Julia will be born March 25th at 5 pm and weight in at 8 pounds even.

James Say's Julia will be born March 23 at 7:05 pm and weight 8 pounds 9 ounces.

Richard's Guess is Julia will be born March 23rd at 4:15 pm and weigh in at 8 pounds and 6 ounces.

And not to be last, but the very best, my own personal baby incubator.

I swear she was smiling when I took this that is not a scowl I promise.

Any way Tanya thinks Julia will be born March 22nd at 5:15 pm and weigh in at 8 pounds 6 ounces.  It seems that Tanya and I are in tune with the weight and just 1 day 1 hour in time.

 

Unless we go into labor sooner, you still have time to make your guess so stop waiting. 

Yes I am working hard to get these last 2 quilts done here is a picture to end the post to prove it.

Whats Black and White and Red All Over?

When I think of that question my first thoughts are grade school and the first thing that comes to mind is a Skunk in a blender.  But my wife does not approve of that one so I guess a News Paper will work for a more safe answer.  When I asked Jared the same thing he came running into the room with this item on the left.  So today's teaser is my newest rag quilt.  It will be another giveaway choice.  So now 2 of our giveaway quilts are finished and 2 of them are on the home stretch.  After making this post and making a post on Julia's blog (oh did I mention the cute little one has her own blog?)  Tanya had a baby shower and with in an half hour of this post, I should have a baby shower post up there.  There are some cute posts from my kids to their yet to be born sister.  For those that will later want to see pictures of Julia I will put some here but most of the pictures will go there.  So you may want to book mark it.

My newest rag quilt (name not quite decided, but close) will have our red paisleys.  As I hinted yesterday while at Joann's I finally found more of that fabric and I bought every inch they had, which was just shy of 2 yards.  They also had flannel on sale and bought some red for one of the other projects still sitting on hold.  Its the Case Equipment quilt, but before I got home from work had the bright idea to combine the paisleys and the red as a sandwich and then random light's and dark's from my Man Quilt stash (figure we can spruce up them a little) after all Paisley Parade was a popular quilt.

While writing this post my sons cat Chubby Wubby decided to knock something off the dresser and that just deserved a picture.

At the baby shower one of the many things Tanya got were these 2 burp cloths.  Not that my wife's were not wonderful but these are amazing.  I am not a hand sewer or crocheter but these are just fantastic.

These are the back's and front's of both of them.

Both are frogs and both are very cute cant believe I cant wait for them to be thrown up on.  The joys of parenthood.

One last reminder http://juliadawnhealey.blogspot.com/ is Julia's blog and I will post the pile of gifts and a couple pictures of my wife over there in just a bit.






Linking Too

Giveaway Quilt Top Finished

The original plan was to make 3 granny quilts and 1 5 X 5 quilt for myself.  In my zeal to make blocks, I well did not think far enough ahead and/or calculate the size of the blocks versus the size of the quilt.  My wife, Tanya and I sat down the other night and went though the huge pile of blocks and realized that I was 2 colors short of making 1 5 X 5 block quilt for me.  We then sorted though the Granny Blocks and realized if I did 2 blocks of each color group (20 blocks in quilt so 2 of each of 10 different colors)  that I was 4 reds short, and 1 purple and 1 green of making my 2 Grandmothers their quilts.  Then I realized I was 17 blocks shy of making my give away quilt

 At about this time, Tanya pointed out the huge pile of extra 5 X 5 blocks.  Making 2 more red blocks would give me my 12 color for my quilt. The 12th leftover block and enough blocks for 2 instead of 1 quilts. Since I have now totally lost the Granny love (To complete the 4 quilts that will be 1000 2 1/2 inch blocks for the Granny's and 600 2 1/2 inch blocks I sewed for the 5X5).  The 1600 blocks that I have sewed  is enough, I am done.

 Granny's are out of my system.  I have 2 blocks left to make, the green and purple that I was short and I am done. Now that the end is in sight, its time to start sewing these things all together.  Tanya and I went shopping today and bought 2 types of white fabric for the borders and the back.  Then I bought, some while I'm going to keep it a secret for now, binding fabric to bind my 4 quilts.  The plan is Saturday to quilt and maybe bind the quilt top here, for one of the 4 quilts in the Giveaway for Julia's B-Day and Birth Weight.  That will leave 1 quilt to do.

   Not to be out done, my wife has been sewing up blocks for rag quilts that took a creative turn today when I found something in Joann's. The Man Quilt with a huge twist, for the 4th quilt will also get done this weekend.  All four of the giveaway quilts should be ready before the baby gets here.  Tanya has been counting down the days, 20 days from now (OK 19 by the time most of you read this) until her official due date.

For any one who has not yet put your guess in, please go now and put your guess in to win one of these 4 wonderful quilts.

Oh and here is the red set of blocks and 4 more extra granny's that I completed. I will have I think 8 spare granny blocks when all is said and done. I may have to do a give away or something to get some one to take this obsession away from me, because I am done with it for this month.

Link A Finish Friday #7

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!!

This week I am proud to show off my wife's 2 finishes on my link a finish Friday.  She can not believe I am so excited about this but I am she made them with out me prodding or prompting her at all this quilting stuff is my passion and it seems to be tempting her some to do which is fun.

This week the most popular link was to Sherbet Pips Quillow which Is a fold up quilt/pillow what a cute idea.

What have you finished this week link it up

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.