Amelia Minky Quilt

This week is our week on the Glorious Autumn Block Party and I share the week with Sandi and Faith and many wonderful sponsors.  Please make sure you take the time to visit each of our sites on our perspective days.

Tuesday, Oct. 30 Richard and Tanya Quilts

Wednesday, Oct. 31 Sandi - A Legacy of Stitches

Thursday, Nov. 1 Faith - Fresh Lemon Quilts

This baby quilt is a simple square block quilted by echoing the lines and rows.  It is made out of Amelia by Me and My Sisters.  This is one of Tanya's favorite designers.  She has made multiple quilts out of this and Twirl which is another line of fabric from the same designers.

We took this quilt to the International Peace Garden to get some cute pictures. 

Halloween is on its way!

This week is our week on the Glorious Autumn Block Party and I share the week with Sandi and Faith and many wonderful sponsors.  Please make sure you take the time to visit each of our sites on our perspective days. Did I mention that I am having a giveaway on my day?

Tuesday, Oct. 30 Richard and Tanya Quilts

Wednesday, Oct. 31 Sandi - A Legacy of Stitches

Thursday, Nov. 1 Faith - Fresh Lemon Quilts

Well it must be time for Halloween.  Yesterday Rebecca brought me her vampire pumpkin.  I had to ask her to translate as I did not understand.  The top says Vamp and the things in the middle are Eyes! Like I was suppose to understand it.

Tonight Jared came upstairs wearing this.  Mom (Tanya) has been busy for the first time sewing/modifying  a costume  (she says second, something about gluing a costume together).  This is a first for us modifying instead of buying a costume.  For those that are lost, Jared is going as a creeper for Halloween. Creepers are monsters in a 8 bit graphic game called Minecraft.  Jared is holding a Creeper we won in a give away many months back.

Tanya is not yet finished with the costume, she still needs to sew the 2nd set of legs on, he was just modeling it to see if I could tell what he was.

Julia decided she would get into the Halloween costume thing, can we say Oscar the Grouch? Or dirty laundry.  She is getting to be a busy child, 7 months old today and she thinks she can stand up on her own.  It won't be long until she is walking I think.  She still only commando crawls, but she moves fast now.  Nothing is safe any more, the vacuum is now self propelled.

Isn't she so cute!

Link A Finish Friday #38

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 (October) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend on Fat Quarter Shop.

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

The 2 most visited links last week was Ragtime Friday from My Imperfect Life

And Halloween Goodies! from Just Something I Made

Next Tuesday Is my day on the 

Glorious Autumn Quilter’s Block Party

Don't forget to stop by that day and check out the block I am sharing.  And did I mention Prizes? Oh ya Prizes!

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 $15 gift card 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.

Tanya's Been Working Wednesday

Tanya has been showing off this week.  She has made not 1, not 2, but 3 rag quilts.   While they are not completed.  They are sewn together, but only one has been cut.  I have been busy the last few days programming and have not spent enough quality time quilting this week, so I think she is trying to make up for it.

Each of these quilts are different,  Some of them big, some of them little.  

But each of them cute, because each of them were created by my wonderful wife.  Now I guess I need to stop talking and start sewing.

Block Party and your invited!

I am not sure if you have been following along or not (If you have not you should!) Quilting Gallery has and is hosting a block party 3 days a week starting September 4th 2012 and ending December 13th 2012.  The best of all the dates will be a week from Tuesday October 30th.  And why might you ask?  Well that is my day.  Yes Richard and Tanya quilts is participating in this blog hop.  This is my first blog hop and I hope to be involved in  many more.  I hope you will all be back a week from Tuesday to join me.

I feel like a slacker as its been a few weeks since I had a more interesting post.  One thing I realized is some where along the way I ended up showing the finishes, but not the beginnings or the process along the way.  Last week we sold yet another Rag Quilt from our Etsy store.  I have as of yet only sold 4 of my quilts on Etsy, but all that I have sold were my Rag Quilts.  Tanya recently has made 2 complete rag quilts from beginning to end, so with the money we got from the last couple sells we bought a bunch of new flannel.  Above you can see 6 inch by width of fabric that I cut for my wife Tanya.  She is is slower at cutting when its full yardage, so the other night I sat down and watched 2 TV shows and cut these all into strips.  Just before I came up to make this post, Tanya has completed yet another top (she still needs to cut it) and if she remembers we should have it on the site some time later this week. 

A week and half back I went to a SLMQG Mixer for  Sewing Summit and I actually won one of the drawings it was a Jelly Roll And if I can remember I will try to get a picture (or maybe show you what I am going to make out of it).  At the same even in the Door Prizes I got a pile of cute fabric and charm pact and mini charm.  Which of course I have not taken pictures of.  While thinking about all this not taking picture, I again came into yet another trove of material.  At our meeting last week one of the members had some material that they were not going to use and wanted to give it too any one that was willing to use it.  And you know me.   This is just a small amount of what they gave out, but when I saw it (and another quilt that some one showed off at the guild meeting) I knew what I was going to make.

Many months back you might remember that I went though a craze of Granny Squares.  Well it has happened again.  I am making them with this fabric.  I am doing them a little different this time.  I am doing a strip version of them rather then cutting all the material up to 2 1/2 squares first and sewing them back.  I hope I can make a large lap quilt out of this, since all of the material is scraps and I have no clue how much I go, it will be interesting to see how far it goes.  I have about 2 yards of a single print that I will use on the back and these on the front.

Any way I have bounced though 5 different projects in the last week with out completing one, so today is just a random musings day I guess.  Again don't forget to come back a week from Tuesday.  (Did I remember to point out I will have a giveaway that day too?) Any way hope your week is wonderful.