Richard's Birthday Giveaway

I am sure some think that I am celebrating the wrong thing today.  It is Mothers day today, but today is also my birthday.  My giveaway today will be for a 5-pack of Batik's.  I bought 12  5-packs from http://www.sewbatik.com/ one of the vendors at the HMQS quilt show so that I would have plenty to give away.  I plan to give a 2nd 5-pack away 2 weeks from today on Tanya (my wife's) Birthday, we have birthdays exactly 2 weeks apart from each other.

I love Batik's, my wife not so much but she did let me buy 12 5-packs. 10 for me to keep (50 yummy fat quarters) to make cool quilts out of and 10 fat quarters to share with others.  You could make me a B-day present out of them, but you don't have too.

To win their is no hoops to jump though other then you have to give me a birthday wish (My wife thinks this sounds too complicated IE just wish me happy B-Day).  You could share a fun b-day story with me if you like.  You can have a 2nd entry if you follow me.  I love follower's, especially if you drop notes to me on my posts from time to time.  This will be open to enter from May 13th my b-day to May 20th when I announce the winner.  I will ship any where in the world.

SO 

HAPPY B-DAY 

TO ME

And Fat Quarters to YOU!

For those curious as to what I got me for my B-Day Meaning the Batik's I got here is a picture of mine.

Oh an one last thing not to forget Happy Mother's Day to all of you wonderful mother's out there.  As for me and my kids we are getting up early and making Mother Breakfast In Bed.

HMQS Show

Today and Yesterday (and going back in the morning) I spent taking classes at the HMQS show in Salt Lake City, UT.  I took 2 classes at the show both were good, but I want to talk mostly about my class today.  I have been trying to FMQ since almost the first week that I started quilting 5 months ago.  And I have found my new machine above (My wife says keep dreaming as it cost tons I can't remember the exact amount but more then 8k).  It is a Bernina with a stitch regulator.  So I figured out my FMQ problem.  I have the wrong machine.  I have out lived my little Singer machine and I am now in the hut for a more expensive toy.  I even got my wife to sit down and try the lowest level machine that used the Stich Regulartor (only 3-4k) I almost had to convince my wife I could not buy it at the show as I think she was almost ready to walk out the door with it.  Not that I do not want it, but we need to have her back from maternity leave before I can buy this toy.

I think I found my favorite quilt at the show.  It is not really one of the most fancy, but it fits in with my pioneer heritage.  I come from ancestors that crossed the plains in wagons and handcarts and settled this valley.  I currently live just about 10 blocks north and west from the temple down town and have wanted to make a quilt with the temple on it (still want to just need to figure out how to make something cool) since the day I started quilting.  I have taken I am sure more then 50+ pictures maybe I will sprinkle a few dozen on the site after I sort out the ones I liked best.

Any way I best get to bed I am taking Rebecca my 14 year old to the show in the morning and hope to let her try some of the different machines and buy her something at the show.  And I have $100  burning a hole in the pocket to use on fabric.

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.