Monsters on the loose

Sands of Time

I guess I get what I deserve today.  When I got home from work today I asked my son James to take my camera and get some pictures of my wife Tanya's Quilt she designed and named Sands of Time.  He took about 15 pictures most of which was blurry or just strange (like he threw the quilt in the bushes on one) but hey I got a picture and its 11pm and too late for me to go take better so its what we get.  The photo he took of the back was so bad you could not see it but its a pretty pink dot on white.  This quilt we be sold at auction this Saturday so that our Young Women at church can got to Girls Camp.  If you remember from the other post this is the Pinwheel fail from the other day and the pictures then were a little better.

Jared our youngest son is afraid to hold his little sister.  He has aspergers (a form of autism)  and he is afraid to hold his sister because he will drop and break her.  So the other day I finally got him to sit down and hold her.  Can you see how happy she is to have him hold her?

A day later I did get a little better picture she was not screaming but she had one of those HIM AGAIN looks on her face.

Any way off to HMQS tomorrow I have my backpack packed for my classes.

WIP Wednesday #12

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:

3 completes this week (while 5 if you count the 2 sitting at home that I need to take pictures of) I was going to post a new one last night but then got behind on to-do's for the wife and never got it done so we will call them next weeks finishes.  That and I was getting ready for Quilt show Thursday-Saturday taking 2 classes and got the stuff ready for them.

Ready To Quilt:
4 Quilt tops ready to quilt here are 2 of them.  My wife is pressing for me to do the pinwheel quilt soon.

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: 5 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.

Pink & Gray Hearts Quilt

Sometimes I think the sun is helpful for the pictures some times the glare distracts from the quilt this is one of those times.  This quilt is one of Tanya's newest projects.  She got way excited when I started my Etsy store and this quilt (once done posting here) will be my newest quilt of Tanya's Design to hit the store.  http://www.etsy.com/shop/RichardQuilts

This quilt is beautiful to bring out the neat grey in each square she used grey flannel as the batting for this one the squares consist of pink and gray hearts, A little kitten and flower print and pink tie dye.  The full back consists of the pink tie dye.

Other then posting the quilt my plans for today is to start on new 2 1/2 inc square blocks for another round of granny squares and 5 x 5 blocks.  Now that the last of my 2 Granny Square quilts is done I am now in the mood to make more (I know scary thought that bus left the building) but nope it is circling back.  Any way off to spend the night watching TV and chopping and sorting a million little squares.

A Pinwheel Fail and some Ducks

This is Tanya's Pinwheel fail.  My wife is loving designing quilts but still will not sew.  So we have worked out a deal If I do her projects she will Iron them and put them into piles so that I can sew them up for her.  We are making a Pinwheel quilt for her and she had a huge pile of pieces.  I first sewed the HST then had her iron then I sewed the top 2 and bottom 2 together. and she ironed again.  She helping me pinned the top and bottom half together so that they would not get mixed up.  I thinking she pinned them so that they would be where they needed to be sewed them all together I ended up with 8 broken pinwheels above and 12 correct pinwheels.  After all the hard work of making them for her quilt we had a fail.

Not to be beat my wife decided we would turn it into a quilt for the young women's auction to earn money to go to girls camp this year.  Its next Saturday (the day before my birthday, hum maybe I need to have a giveaway or something to celebrate, wait distracted) And originally we were going to give the 2 not so loved quilts left over from Julia's Birthday giveaway.  But she wants to impress the others in the ward (church) to show that her man can quilt.  So we are giving a Monster Quilt (in the wash will be done for a finish Monday) and this Quilt which I need to finish before wed (HMQS show that I have 2 class at Thursday and Friday and don't want to put it off tell last moment)

Went to the post office yesterday and found these in line for the mail drop boxes

By the time they finally made it though the lane they had a row of 4 cars backed up waiting on them.  The mother duck tried to jump the wall in the first picture but the little baby's just could not jump high enough to get up to the grass.

But it was nice to see that all waited for them to pass.  They are cute if you look close you can see she has 12 baby's I love ducks.

This last weekend was Scout A Rama and my 2 middle kids decided they wanted to be Crash Test Dummy's and I could not resist taking a picture of it.  My son Jared wanted to do it again.  Just as long as he does not ever do it in real life in my car I am good with it.