Quarter 3 Finish Along

Last Quarter I participated in the Quarter 2 Finish Along.  And I was surprised I was able to complete 9 quilts.  I am not one that plans a head well and I like to so this is good practice for me to give it a try.  Tanya and I came up with 31 quilts we are working on and a few that got left of of last quarters.

In no particular order.

1) Blue and Yellow Batik using my color blast pattern.

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/06/blue-and-yellow-batik-top-finished.html

2) 80's fabric (My wife's name not mine) using color blast pattern.

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/06/wip-wednesday-16.html

3) Gray Batik Quilt.

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/06/batik-quilt-progress-and-planned-quilts.html

4) Reunion Baby Blanket

5) Ghastly Quilt 1

6) Ghastly Quilt 2

(same as above picture)

7) Lizard Baby Quilt

We bought some Lizards and some color fabric and designed out the quilt above.  EQ7 did not have any lizards so the castle and dragons in pink will be the lizards and the other blocks will all be the color blocks.

8) Purple Heart Rag Quilt Crib size with applique hearts (Tanya project)

9) Patriotic Sampler Quilt (QAL)

10) Bright color Sampler Quilt kids(QAL)

11) Purple & Pink sampler Quilt (Tanya QAL)

12  Roses Quilt twin (MIL)

13 Flowers quilt (Tanya project)

15) Purple Quilt Butterflies

16) Bug Jar Quilt

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/02/dance-of-dragonfly.html Picture on this post of my wife cutting some out.

17) Reunion Baby Blanket 2

18) Girl Baby blanket out of Twirl (Tanya Project)

19) Scrappy Batik Heart (Tanya Project)

20) Vintage Block find quilt

21) Quilt for friends Twirl with stash stuff

22) Quilt for friends purple

23) 25 Square Rainbow Quilt

24) Child rag quilt lizards

25) Purple Butterfly rag quilt

26) Blue Crib size rag quilt with Appliques Stars

27) Sampler quilt from stash #1

28) Sampler quilt from stash #2

29) Beautiful Swan with Bulls & Flowers

30) Men Quilt Competition

(This one is a secret I am told I can post nothing about it tell the day it goes live)

31) Crib size train, bright color rag quilt

Left over from Last Quarter I failed on these and will work harder this quarter to finish these along with the new list above.

1) Rebecca's Sampler Started January still not finished.

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/01/magic-of-quiltmaking.html

2) Jeans for Jared Started January, Worked on in March still unfinished

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/01/jeans-for-jared.html

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/03/jeans-for-jared-part-2.html

3) Blue Hearts started January still not finished

http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/01/blue-hearts-progress.html

4) John Deer Quilt

I finished one quilt last quarter for my father in law but have one for my brother in law that I need to work on.

LAFF #22 Try 2

It seems that yesterday I messed up my LAFF and I pasted last week's Linky Code so it expired and no one could link up.  So today I am fixing that by doing a Do Over?  Is that fair in quilting?  Why not.

Today we are having a family day.  Today my son Jared is getting baptized and Julia is getting her baby blessing done.  For those that do not know I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Our children are not baptized until they are 8 years old.  My oldest son is will baptize him and I will confirm him and bless Julia.  Family is important to me and we recently got a picture of the family and I wanted to share this picture with all.

Jared again helped Tanya pick the winner of our 2 FQ.  The winner has been notified and they picked the 2 FQ with the safety pins on it.

Linky Try 2

Link A Finish Friday #22

Welcome to LAFF here at Richard and Tanya Quilts.  This is where you get to show off your finish's

This week my finish is enterd into a contest at  http://quiltinggallery.com/2012/07/06/patriotism-quilts/  is open please go vote for me if you could.

My soldiers star is what is entered.  If you can please go vote for it.  Tanya wrote down last night all the entry's for last month into drawing for two of the following FQ.  Tanya will have Jared draw the lucky winner out later this morning when he wakes up and we will notify the winner and post it on the next post.

Each link on LAFF enters you into a random drawing for 2 fat quarters each month. The winner will be picked the Thursday after the last Friday of each month.  The winner have their choice of 2 fat quarters from the 9 pictured.  These are from my stash, but have no current project with their name on them.  Some of them are items I got from the shop hop, others are items that came with materials we bought, but did not make it into a project.






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Thanks again for visiting Richard and Tanya Quilts and supporting  our quilting adventures.

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.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to win 2 fat quarters.

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.

Utah Ablaze and some Pillow Cases

I took this picture Friday night (Well it was Saturday Morning about 2 AM) this is the mountain's just north and west of Scipo, Utah.  My wife and I drove south over the last weekend to go visit family and have a family reunion and on the way down the smoke was so bad our eyes watered. 

This fire we saw just south of the one above.

This one is what is still blazing of the fire on the top.  All this smoke is getting depressing.  Lucky for me both of these fires are way south of where I live in the Salt Lake Valley.

I did 2 of my blocks (I am behind now the 2 blocks of the other set) and my wife did the block below. We are having struggles with our sewing machine.  It is a serious entry level machine and I think we are killing it with how much we are sewing.  Tanya is sitting right now looking to buy a new machine.  Reading and hunting for just what we need.  The past week we have started to have serious issues with the bobbin and a few other things.   It needs to go to the DR and get fixed and while talking we realised our $200 dollar machine is probably not worth a $100+ dollar repair.  So we are on a serious hunt for its replacement. (Once that is done and here I will pull that silly thing apart myself and see if I can figure out why its broken and fix it as a backup)

My scouts tonight also decided they had to add to the burning here in Utah.  I am a 11 year old scout leader and my 2 scouts and my assistant Doug each built a fire. (Don't you love their fires the 2 boys built bigger fires and the leader built a baby one)

And with a single match (Well it really did take about 20 matches, I am a Eagle Scout and can start fire's with out matches.  My scouts and my assistant on the other hand need a lot of help)

I did sit and struggle tonight and sewed 2 pillow cases.  Though I was about to throw the machine out the window by the time my wife got home from work.  Maybe that is why she is still sitting there reading reviews.

Any way HAPPY 4th of JULY!! I just realized my Tuesday night post is now really a wed morning post. So it looks like my WIP Wed will be a late wed or Thursday post.  Please be safe.

(Oh one more sad though.  Just as I left work today smoke was rolling over the mountains on the south end of the Salt Lake Valley.  It seems that a fire started around 3pm in Alpine They are calling it the Quail Fire.  Sad thing is my boss and another employee I work with live in Alpine, hope they are safe,  If you play with fire works this 4th please be safe)

Soldiers Star

I finished my Soldiers Star Quilt today and I entered it into the weekly themed quilt contest at Quilting Gallery its in the patriotic category and I believe it starts next Friday.  I will try to remember to remind you all to go vote.

This was a fun quilt and it was fun to get a shot of Jared laying on it (was actually hard to get him off it) almost every material in it has stars (except the out side edge if you look at the white by the outside red points that's a wavy white.  Even the back is a white on white stars pattern similar to the front stars but all white

On the quilting on this I did a echo quilt across all blocks that had color change (so the blue red line I echo quilted both sides) the blocks that were same side by side I did not echo those.  This is most evident on the white star that is the solid one piece star around the entire quilt.

The quilt pattern for this quilt came from http://quiltscapesquilting.blogspot.com/ Deonn Stott created this pattern called Soldiers Star for the 2011 Accuquilt barn quilt design contest and won 2nd.

This quilt was a lot of fun.  I think I am going to make another one of these in a littler size as its a fun pattern to do and I want to do.