WIP Wednesday #20

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

Completed Projects: I completed my Soldiers Star quilt this last week and it turned out fantastic.

In Progress:
I am working on a few rag quilts at the moment.  My machine is giving me grief.  Once my new machine is back I want to get this blue and yellow batik done and I also have my other batik that needs borders and I have bunch of tops that need quilting.

Ready To Quilt:
I am getting behind on quilting my tops I have 4 I think now in the box.  Rebecca (my 14 year old) has a quilt also on the list it was basted by her and her mother this week and she has started to quilt it.  It will be her first pieced quilt. With any luck I can help her get it done this week (she is doing all of the work I am just giving guidance).

Ongoing Projects:
I am now interested in making quilts for others if you know any one looking to have a quilt made, send them my way.  I also have a few quilts listed on my etsy shop.  http://www.etsy.com/shop/RichardQuilts.

Planned Quilts:

I started writing a list and so has my wife.  With just family quilts I need to make (about 10-12) and the quilts I just want to make because I can I think my list is now near 20 or so of what I want to make.

Totals:
Finished: 3 June, 10 May, 8 April, 10 March, 10 February, 7 January
46 Total for Year wow only 9 more quilts tell I meet my 55 projects and I have to set the bar higher maybe I should go for 100?.

Back to where I started

Today I worked on another rag quilt.  I know its been quite some time since I have done one of these.  Its not for lack of materials or plans to do them.  Its just that I like to do the pieced quilts more then these simple rag quilts.   As I have mentioned my machine is on the blink.  If I try to do any thing too hard, too fast, or too much and it freaks out.  My wife assures me that my new machine is on the way and will be here some time this week (by UPS guess it should be Thursday), not that I ever trust those tracking sites.

Until the new machine shows up and I get though the learning curve. I am doing what my machine does OK.  And that is sew straight lines and not too long and not too fast (I am a speed demon) and my new machine is supposed to be fast and bigger by far then my old machine.  Any way I am proud to report that I have finished my 13 rows that my wife tasked me with sewing on this quilt for her brother.  (I did not sew the 13 rows togethe, just the single rows across do you think that's what my wife asked?  Maybe not, but I was too distracted with Julia tonight to sew any more.)

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.