Vacation and other fun things

My family the last few days took a long over due vacation.  We went up to Bear Lake, in northern Utah.  We of course did what we do best and that is work on a quilt.  Above is one of many tops we plan to make out of our ghastlie reunion material stash.  This one will most likely be Tanya's Sisters quilt we give for Christmas.  While we were on vacation I made 6 bands like the one on the bottom row.  We also framed about 30 of the picture frames (Tanya cut them kinda wonky on purpose, to make them look more interesting.)

While there Julia was as always helpful.  She is getting quite fast at moving.  Its so wild to think she is only 6 months old, but in just a few minutes can get from one side of a room to the other side and grab the only single item in the room she should not touch (for example she really loves my pedal for the sewing machine or the basket full of rulers and fabric).

Of course one of the best thing of going up in the mountains was the great views while driving.  The red's, green's, yellow's, and orange's.

Last week before vacation, I also finished up 2 blocks for my 12 1/2 inch swaps and canceled them.  I have been doing 2 swaps and one of them has been giving me great grief about how slow I have been on doing the swaps (which I was slow on some), but at the same time only about 1/2 of the time I got the block I was supposed to get from my block swap partner.  Anyways has any one other then me had issues with block swap partners?

For any one that thinks I have forgotten, tonight Tanya And I will pick the winner of Link a Finish Friday.  The winner will get to pick 1 yard of fabric from Fat Quarter Shops website.

Link a Finish Friday #35

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

A new month has come and gone.  I will draw the winner of last month and announce it next Monday.

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.

Work in Progress Wednesday #29

 Today is WIP Wednesday and sadly I have little progress to report.  I have not yet bounced back from the last few weeks with the stress of my dad and the rush of things to do that come with it.  I have nothing new to report but I have been working.

I have in the past done a number of quilts with 2 1/2 inch blocks.  Over the past 2 weeks in the little bit of time I have had between every thing else going on I have been going through the scrap bin and cutting all the little pieces into 2 1/2 inc squares.

I have not yet decided exactly what I will make with them but i have a few thousand squares cut and I have more that will be cut in the next few weeks.  I am debating on doing more of the 5 x 5 color blocks or just a random color block and doing a full quilt that way only time will tell.

 I have a few days off work this week with nothing planed and I have been looking at the mound of Ghastlies that I have on the corner of the desk and it has come time that I must make a ghastly quilt (or 4) and I am pondering over what to do.  If you have ideas or suggestions let me know as I am still stuck on what I want to do but will at the very least complete one top this weekend (that is my goal any way)

My true desire of the day is just to feel energized and not feel so tired.  I have emotionally gone over board the last 2 weeks and I just need to sit down and do nothing for a few days and get caught back up with life.  I so need this vacation.

Twirl Brick Baby Quilt

Today I get to show off our Twirl Brick Baby Quilt.  This is one of many quilts we created specifically to add to our Etsy Store. Sadly these quilts have been done for a while, but because of events out of our hands its been a few weeks since there creation.  They are not recent finishes, but rather recent items to show off.

Tanya finally sat down today and put all of the quilts we have for sell on the Etsy Store and we now have 20 items for sell.  Tanya and I have agreed that we need to stop our fabric shopping util we get a couple quilts sold.  Good for us is that we still have tons of material to make things with a current planned list of more then 30 quilts (most of which is for the family this Christmas).

Today I was happy to find that we had a sell of one of the rag quilts on the Etsy Store .  This is great as we have a few quilt tops we have finished and a few that we want to do soon, but do not have backs for.  We have been waiting for something to sell to afford some backing materials.

This is the 6th quilt we have made from the Twirl bundle I got for my wife.  She totally loves this line of fabric from Me and My Sisters a Moda line of fabric.  We partially won and partially bought from Fat Quarter Shop  I still think we have a little twirl left maybe we can get another quilt out of this fabric yet.

Here are 4 of the finished quilts made out of Twirl

Twirl Magic

Doll Quilt

Tanya's Quilt

Sands of Time (oops we messed up)

Still under construction is a baby quilt top Tanya Made shown in this WIP Wednesday post I am using it for practice with my FMQ so its a slow WIP

The Buzz & 300 Followers!

First off a thank you to all those that sent condolences for my father.  I think after 11 hours of sleep last night I am almost alive.  I have not created any thing fantastic yet this week but I do have some to show off from last weeks trip to the park.

This quilt is one of 2 Bee Quilts.  And out of the 2 it is my wife's favorite   This is another baby quilt with black minky on the back.  It is cozy and soft.

We had a lot of fun at the park while taking pictures and I think in the end we ended up having more then 20 of each quilt.  It is almost hard weeding out the pictures we did not like.

I was also happy to see today that my follower count is exactly 300.  At some point here in the future I will have to celebrate that but my brain and body is not yet ready for that.  Feel free to send me some ideas if you have for a way to celebrate.

Today's Post is posted by Richard