Lizard Quilt Finish

Richard asked me, (Tanya) to write a post about his latest finish, the Lizard Baby Quilt.  Wow, posts by me two days in a row.
Yesterday on WIP Wednesday, we posted a sneak peak of the finished lizard quilt.  The backing for this quilt is a green dimpled minky fabric.  We bought too much when we bought it to finish Jared's Jean Quilt, yes I know it has not been finished yet.   So it was especially fitting to use the minky for the baby of my step-brother Jared.  Are you confused yet? I have to use mine and yours when mentioning the name to my step-mother.  Here is a picture of it in Julia's Crib.  Julia loves minky, hopefully his baby will too. 

Anyway this quilt was quilted using in the ditch method.  A bright multi-colored thread was used on front and a green thread on back.  We used a bright multi-colored fabric for the binding, we had thought of using the same black with colored polka dots, but couldn't remember where we had bought it.  We bought all this fabric for the quilt top while doing both Utah shop hops in June.  We didn't take real good notes on exactly what was bought at which location. Maybe it was because after that many stores, we couldn't see straight.  The pictures are not real great, working a night shift makes taking pictures outside a little more difficult.  OK a lot more difficult, there is no light outside at 2 am, so pictures are taken inside.

Our stash has been expanding and is quite large for having been quilting such a short time.  We are trying to use fabric out of stash as much as possible. Our biggest problem is we tend not to buy backing or batting at the same time as we buy fabric for quilt tops.  When do you buy backing for quilt, in planning stage or after top is already made. 

Sometime we will have to post a picture of our sewing room.  It is not as organized as many I have seen on other blogs.  At least it is now out of our front room. It would take over an hour to put some of the sewing stuff away, meaning the ability to find couch, before known visitors would show up.

Richard is a little side-tracked and is on another quilting tangent at moment.  He is starting 12 days mini quilts out of civil war era replica fabric.  They will be used as Christmas gifts. He plans on making at least 16, but had cut out enough of some blocks for 22.  ADHD and quilting, always another fun tangent.

Work In Progress Wed Tanya Style #22

Things Richard is working on:

Still working on Country Blue & Pink ColorBlast Quilt.  More sashings added and three rows sewed together.  Crib size lizard quilt is finished and just in time.  This is the first time that minky was used by either of us for a backing.  The baby (step-nephew) is scheduled to be born next week by C-section.  I need to finish the borders on the gray- multicolored batik quilt, then it will be ready for Tanya to baste. 

(Richard will post more pictures on its own post late wed, as it will be completed in its own post, but here is a sneak peak).

(Yes its sideways (or so for me) in my editor it was up and down.  I am adding pictures for Tanya on our computer set up in the quilt room, but its not being nice to me, but hey here are pictures)

Things Tanya is working on:

More blocks partially done on Meagan's quilt out of the Amelia line. They still need a blanket stitch around raw edge appliques.  There a few without appliques added yet.  10 of 20 blocks are mostly done.  The blocks have a lot of variation in colors, some with appliques, some without.   Once they are done, Richard will sew sashings and add borders on them. Then I will baste them and Richard will quilt it.  Yes, mine seem to be more of a joint project than a personal one. 

Two more of the Beginners QAL blocks are finished that haven't been shown yet.

The purple rag quilt with appliques is frustrating me (Tanya).  Richard makes it seem so easy to sew them together.  After unpicking one row several times, because nothing was lining up, I set it to the side and it has been there for almost a month.

Joint Projects:

Twirl crib size quilt top made by me, has been basted and now Richard is practicing random free motion quilting on it.  Julia seems to be our scape goat for her quilts. 

(Richard here again, jumping in I tried to take some pictures of the FMQ that I did for practice, but it did not show up well, I did my FMQ a few different ways.  We bought some stencils of some waves and flowers, and a larger stippling template.  On each end of the quilt we have the flower - wave - flower -wave -flower pattern. Then I used the large stippling pattern and did 4 of the blocks.  Then I did 2 other blocks by hand stippling and lastly I tried to do pebbles.  On the pebbles I was having a lot of issues holding the quilt (Fat hands and no gloves to hold with need to go shopping).  I ended up just sorta scribbling on the quilt and my wife threatened to pick it out and I would not let her (Remember practice) Any way at a stale mate on it now.  But it is about 1/8 th of the way quilted.)

The first of 3 various purple themed quilts is started.  The first is a quilt top for Debbie (Tanya's stepmother).  We are doing 6 blocks Double Churn and 6 blocks Rail Fence or some modification there of.  I cut the fabric for the first six blocks and Richard sewed the 2 1/2 in strips and  HST together.  Next I started sewing them together.  I finished 5 of the six blocks.  They would have been done,but I ran out of thread in bobbin, just as it was time to start thinking about going to work. 

(Thank you Tanya for making the post tonight.  I have been in a ho-hum mood and been slacking as to my blog posting and she helped me out today.  One last note James took a picture of some of my quilts that are for sell on etsy and I wanted to share them with you as that also is a WIP to try and sell some of the extra quilts we have.)

(Yes he covered every inch of the reclaimed front room floor (my old sewing space) with the quilts)

(Well one more item Tanya wants me to remind you all that we have until midnight Thursday to link up to the LAFF with prizes and get a chance to win 2 of the above FQ's).

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

Time to get serious

 I survived 2 weeks of scouts and it is time to get back to being serious with the quilts.  But first I have to re-cap the last 2 days.  My youngest son Jared is now a cub scout and that means he finally gets to go to Cub Day Camp.  This last Friday and Saturday we spent the whole day up at camp and I believe I can safely say he had fun.  With just 3 pictures I will show how it worked out.

Day 1 don't I look cute and clean.

Crab walking as part of one of the dusty  activities we got to do.

What we have to go home?  I still have a few inches of me not dirty.

When I got back from camp Tanya had 4 rolls of queen size batting that she found on sale for half off (with an additional 20% off coupon) and she asked if I was mad.  I said heck no.  Next thing I know she drags me to another store an I buy 5 more.  I guess all the tops we have completed need to finally get finished.

I did finally get 2 more blocks in the beginners quilt along done, I am still behind.  Tanya has 2 more done and is caught up I will post her's later as I have a lot of items I want to post and still need to take pictures of them (she has been working hard and I want to show it off)

I have also been sewing together the country version of my color blast quilt.  I need to sit down some time soon and make up the pattern.  My plan is to put it up here on my blog and get some advice on how to make a good tutorial.  And then polish it and put it for sell on etsy! Maybe I will get rich NOT! 

John Deere Rag Quilt

This newest quilt of mine has actually been done for a few days now (well like 2 weeks ago).  I finished it the night before my new Janome sewing machine showed up.  Though it took a few days for Tanya to cut it up.  Tanya and I have a good deal going on these rag quilts I sew the rows together and she cuts them.  If you have never done a rag quilt it takes a little bit of time to cut it up.

This quilt has a long history of progress I first blogged about this quilt on my January 22 post named "Some one hide my CC".  When Tanya and I first bought this material we knew that we wanted to make 2 quilts one for her dad and one for her brother.  My wife is from a Rural town (I am from the City) and both of them are a salt of the earth type of people they are no more happy then working out in the fields on one of the John Deere's that they use.

We completed the first of our 2 quilts named Tractors on Patrol for my father in law back in April.  It really did turn out to be a wonderful lap blanket.  It was not quite big enough in our opinion for Cody my wife's brother he is Tall well over 6 feet tall.  Nolan's quilt was 9 rows wide and 12 long.  We decided to do Cody's bigger and when we went put it to gather to sew we realized we were short material.  So we threw all the stuff in a box and latter bought another JD print for the top and another one for back.  I should point out that this rag quilt is flannel on the back and cotton on the top.

When I finished this quilt I realized I have enough left over blocks to do a random baby size quilt so you will see at least one more JD quilt out of me so look forward to that in the future.

Link A Finish Friday #25 with prizes

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

 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. This picture will be updated with current selection, as the two with safety pins were chosen for June.   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.










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.