It all adds up to something?

Tanya was confused when I started this project.  She could not understand what I was doing.  I told her I was going to make a plus quilt.  If you look at my http://pinterest.com/rhealey101/quilts/ board on pintrest you will see many + Quilts that I have pinned over time.

In this photo here you can see my mess, I mean my quilt above the mess in my closet.  This is going to be a quilt of plus's all added together.  Each block is 4 1/2 inches wide.  It is out of the Reunion line which I have I believe 22 different fabrics from.  It is surprising how slow this is going trying to keep the 5 blocks together and sew them into rows.  I put 5 rows on the desk, all lined up and went to check on baby Julia.  I came back to a cat who had made himself comfortable while stretching out on my lined up rows.  Oh well this is going to be a cute quilt when done.

Speaking of the cute little one, she is looking cuter by the day and she is enjoying her quilt Hearts and Flowers which was one of the first quilts I ever made.

Work in Progress Wednesday #28

Today's Post by Richard

This week has been a slow week for me on progress.  Earlier this week I completed a top made out of the above diamonds, but it still hangs up where I took the picture not yet basted.  My Dad is sick and not doing well. Because of that I am more distracted then most weeks.  We were told a little over a week ago that they did not expect him to live a week.   Yesterday when visiting the nursing home where he lives, he said that he did not even recognize me.

This last week we did post a new quilt.  It is a complete that is mostly credited to my daughter Rebecca.  She sewed all the X's and she sewed it into rows.   I did finally spend an hour cutting up new blocks for another new top that is about 1/4 done now.  I sadly did not have the camera handy so have no pictures done.  Tanya and I have both got a cold so things are just not happening this week around our house.  Any way that is my progress if you can call it progress for this week.

Bug Rag Quilt

Today's Post by Richard

I have been sick and under the weather the last few days and have done no quilting (I know no one believes I can just sit around and do nothing) but it does happen.  I guess I have been doing a little more then nothing.  I did some programming, but I did not do any thing fantastic.  I did watch some TV tonight the new show Revolution was on.  I have a link to my blog and on the blog a link to the pilot if any one missed and wants to go watch it.  Enough about that I guess your wondering what this quilt is.  This is another finish, but I have to give most the credit to Rebecca my 14 year old she sewed all the X's together and then all the blocks into rows.  I did sew the rows together and Tanya cut it.

This is some flannel I found last trip to Joann's  It was on sale and so cute (talking about the bug's). I had to grab something to go with it, so I got some blue and then some yellow gingham.  It turned out great.  This will be going on the Etsy store as soon as I get better pictures and I told Rebecca she could have the money it makes.

Link A Finish Friday #32 With Prizes

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big Thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (September) will be able to pick a yard of fabric of their choice.

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Wow is it Friday already?  When I got up for work today my wife asked me why I did not put the Link A Finish Friday Post up.  Wow I though it was Thursday.  I am so happy that I have to work one less day this week then I thought.  Late last night I made a post http://richardquilts.blogspot.com/2012/09/look-another-squirrel.html and talked about my newest Completed Top.

I guess I got so distracted last night making it that I forgot what day it was.  The last few weeks have been crazy.  Any way its Friday so lets get to it.

Last week the most visited quilt was from Vroomans Quilts  This week it could be yours.

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 one yard of fabric from Fat Quarter Shop.

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.

Look another squirrel....

Today's Post by Richard

My wife teased me a few weeks ago in this post about getting easily distracted and chasing squirrels.  In that post I really did chase a squirrel around but this time I was distracted by new fabric that showed up.  Tanya in the last blog hop won a 20$ shopping spree on http://www.christaquilts.com/.  The other day she was sitting at the computer next to mine (Yes I can't even have one computer I have to have a room full of them, You know computer programmers kinda silly) I was programming my great true love (Oh don't worry I have lots of free time to quilt) working on new features on my TV site http://trackmyshows.com/ and Tanya was pestering me to help her pick what fabric to buy.  I looked over and saw this cute material.  It is a line called Brooklyn Heights Textures by Benartex which is a Kitty Yoshida fabric.  Any way I pointed at it and said yep I like that one.  And I went back to programming.  She pestered me again after finding 4-5 other great things to buy and I said nope I like the other one.

Things like this frustrate my wife.  I looked over for all of 5 seconds.  Made a decision and never looked back (Well she did make me look back that second time, but we won't count that).  So what do you think showed up in the mail tonight.  I asked Tanya if I could cut some Diamonds out of it and she reluctantly said yes.

So I cut out some diamonds.  They were just sitting their all sad in different stacks.  So I guess the least I could do is sew them into some rows.

Well now.  A few rows got done and I figured out that I needed some more diamonds and repeated the process.  By the time Tanya got home from work for lunch (well dinner time for me) I was just putting the last few stitches on the last row.

As you can see what I ended up with in the end is yes another quilt top.  You see I ran out of quilt tops that were basted so I had to make another one.  This on the small end of lap quilt size.  It is bigger then the quilt of the same design I made for my dad which you can read about here.  So ....  Wait I think I see another squirrel, so off I go (to bed, believe it or not I do get a hour or 2 in here or there)