Link A Finish Friday #14

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 last week was Green Donation Quilt which is a Queen/King size quilt.

I finished 4 quilts this week, I have 1 in the wash for a finish latter Friday night and 1 rag quilt that wife still needs to cut and was so I had a great and busy week.  I also am doing a giveaway which is open still for any one interested.  The giveaway is to help my Sister In Law grow her Etsy business even if you don't want to buy any thing go show support and go favorite her shop or one of her items.

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.

Mama's Little Monsters

 Tanya found this cute monster flannel the other day on our little shopping trip and she has been playing around trying to decide how to use them.

 She decided on a green flannel tie dye back

 And a rainbow of colors to match the monsters.  She wanted a orange but could not find a tie dye in that color.

 This quilt turned out adorable.  We ran out of one of the colors so the 2nd quilt we will be making will be similar with a different coordinated color.

 We have a young women's auction in a couple weeks and we are going to donate one of the two monster rag quilts  and the pink cupcake that was part of the Julia arrival giveaway.  It was one of the 2 left over quilts.

This quilt is so cute it will be hard to part with.  It will be listed on my http://www.etsy.com/shop/RichardQuilts store for $40 dollars.  I sure hope the young women's auction we can triple that.

Oh speaking of auctions the Autism Charity Quilt I made ended up going for $125 I was so pleased it was one of the highest amounts for single items in the silent auction.

WIP Wednesday #11

Today is going to be a Work In Progress Wednesday.   And will be linking up with Freshly Pieced.   I am late today as its afternoon and I am finally getting this posted.

Completed Projects:

4 completes the last 2 weeks I missed last wed with WIP Wednesday  and I sent the traveling stash on.

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

Ongoing Projects:
I am opening a Etsy store and my wife has tasked me to finish a bunch of my homeless projects and a couple new ones designed for the store.  This week and next I will focus on those projects and getting my granny quilt for my grandmother quilted.  Other then that though we have enough material for 8-9 new projects starting soon. http://www.etsy.com/shop/RichardQuilts

Planned Quilts:

Wow so many of these I have given up counting.

Totals:
Finished: 3 May, 8 April, 10 March, 10 February, 7 January
38 Total for Year
Ready to Quilt: 5
On Going Projects: Too many to count
Planned: Way more then I should be working on.

My Little Hands

Since the first time I saw the little hands and foot prints I knew I was going to make a quilt out of them.  The day has come and the quilt is made its one of the cuter boy rag baby quilts that I have made it is the same front and back.  It has little starts and yellow and blue dots and a blue tie-die to go with the foot and hand prints, its just so cute.

I live in Salt Lake City, UT and the HQMS Home Machine Quilting Show is coming to town.  I finally decided  that I plan to go. I took Thursday and Friday next week off work to go.  I have never been to a quilting show and while have no idea what to expect.  I want to take a class or 2 but there are so many I have no clue what to take.

Is any one out there going? Are you taking a class?  What class should I take I know I need to learn more FMQ but don't know what would be too hard or easy.  What should I bring?  Any way if you know how to go or act at one of these things let me know.  The only thing I remember on the web is they have some make and take class things for kids and want to bring my daughter to it.  Any hints or help let me know.

Ducks Running

My newest Baby Quilt is Ducks Running.  It is another Rag quilt but this one is different from all that I have done in the past.  This one instead of putting batting inside I put a 3rd layer of flannel.  The front has blue squares with yellow ducks on it alternating with a light yellow tie-die with the back having the light yellow tie-die on the full thing with blue in the middle giving the neat yellow and blue fray.

Looking at my Peach Tree today it looks like it is going to  be a good year if it does not freeze.  I have 9 fruit tree's in my yard and just cant wait tell they are ready.

Rebecca planted some pea's a few weeks back and they are now on their way up.

Lastly my cat is guarding one of my newest tree's its a baby pear tree planted this year.  Though you can see my dandelions are growing great this year and the kids are a week behind mowing.