Granny has some Granny's

Tanya and I had the privileged this weekend to visit her family down in Southern Utah about 300 miles from our house in Salt Lake City, Utah.  This was the first opportunity for Tanya's brothers and sisters to see and hold the baby.  But most importantly for us is Grandma Shakespear Julia's oldest living Great Grandmother was able to hold her.  We also took this opportunity to deliver Grandma her quilt we made for her which I named Granny's Gone Wild

She loved her Quilt but Julia stole the show.  Grandma held her for more then an hour.  I wish she was closer so that she could see her more often.  Sadly with being gone for 3 days I am behind on getting every thing done for the Traveling Stash.  I will pull the name tonight before going to bed and email the winner.  And I will post in the morning the winners name and maybe if I have figured it out by then what I am taking and what I am putting in it.  And depending how fast i get a response for the winner can get it shipped off in the next couple days.

Link a Finish Friday #12

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!!

The most popular link by a large margin last week was Flower Fairy 3 finished Thank you to all that linked up last week.

I finished up 2 quilts this week including my favorite to day Granny's Gone Wild.  Which I went all out (for me) and quilted it in a Circle or rather a spiral going out from the middle.  I will be delivering this quilt to my Wife's Grandmother this weekend when we go to show her her great grand daughter (not even her newest its been 3 weeks since our baby was born and its been replaced by another baby as her newest great grand child we will just have to hold out for cutest.

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.

WIP Wednesday #10

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

Completed Projects:

2 completes this week  and I got the Traveling Stash.

Ready To Quilt:
4 Quilt tops ready to quilt here are 2 of them

Ongoing Projects:
1 Quilt 5 X 5 blocks.  Also Jeans for Jared, 3 new baby quilts 1 more John Deer Quilt. Oh and Rebecca's sampler and Tanya's Hearts that are recently floating to the top of the pile.

Planned Quilts:

2 Bug Jar Quilts for nephews.

Tanya's Lap quilts from her fat quarters.
Rose Fabric for Mother In Law's Quilt.

Totals:
Finished: 6 April, 10 March, 10 February, 7 January
33 Total for Year
Ready to Quilt: 4
On Going Projects: 8
Planned: 4 (though I keep thinking I am missing a couple)

One new thing this week is I started a Etsy store at  http://www.etsy.com/shop/rhealey101 and offered my first of many quilts for sell.

Black and Red and Case all over

If you are looking for the giveaway go here. For Link A Finish Friday Go Here.

My wife tells me Julia looks tinted red?  While I still think she looks cute.

This is a quilt for my brother in law another quilt made for Christmas.   I bought some material to make this Rag Quilt and then my wife decided to make it bigger then original plan so we did not have enough of one material to do what was originally planned.  So we added the lighter red (its actually squiggles a cute material)

The back we did half gray and half red.  I love the pattern that turned out.

Again tonight I tried the FMQ.  This time I took one of my summer fun hot pads (I have 3 more to practice with after this one) I did a lot of weird things not trying to do any design just trying to get the feel for how the thread sews.  It was funny about 2/3 done and I turned it over and had giant hoops all over the back of thread.  I am having troubles with this FMQ but did watch a few video's today and need to watch more.  I think I finally got kind of an idea of what I am doing.

Here is the back you can see more of my ugly squiggles.  Now to learn some of these patterns.  I have hear the word stippling and I don't know what it is so I guess I should go figure that out and give it a try.  Any way today was better then yesterdays disaster at FMQ.

linking to 2nd Quarter Finish Party As listed on  My 2nd Quarter todo list

Granny's Gone Wild

It's been a little bit since I have shown off my Granny Squares.  We are going soon to take and show Baby Julia her Great Grand Mothers she has 2 of them alive both in the mid to late 80's and we are making them each a quilt.  I am sure they will love seeing the baby more then the quilt but they get to keep the quilt I am taking the baby home with me.

I had debated many times how to quilt this quilt.  I have tried FMQ a few times and all I end up with is a mess.  I took one of the many fugly runners yet to be quilted and for about an hour tried to FMQ it and then just gave up.

I asked my daughter to bring me a plate and she kept asking what I wanted on it.  I did not want any thing finally in puzzlement she brought me a plate.

I had seen a tutorial for Baptist Fans and thought maybe that could be done.  So using the plate I traced a pattern on the back of my fugly runner and ran 5 rings around the center (just small to big circles)  I showed my wife and her response was can you do spirals?

So I gave a spiral a try I did not want to do any more of my fugly runners wanted to save them for other FMQ tires (I am going to figure out how its done, but it might kill me)  So I started.  I realized soon after that it was a 2 man job.  I did not have any more men around so I let Tanya help!

I think my spirals turned out pretty good just don't look to hard at the center picked it out after the try to the right was done and did it again (and it looked worse the 2nd time) So I kept it.  You know men don't tell them something is wrong they don't care.

Here are some close ups of the twirls you can see the center in the light blue pictures (you will have to look at them large though to see my terrible spiral start)

You might be able to see some of the detail better here on the backs.

linking to 2nd Quarter Finish Party As listed on  My 2nd Quarter todo list