Off the Face of the Earth & LAFF Winner

Maybe we haven't fallen off the face of the earth, but it might seem like it because we haven't blogged much.  Our sewing area is now in the laundry room area/unfinished basement area of the house.  Our washing machine died last week, so everything was stacked in way of sewing table/desk waiting for the washer to be fixed  Good news, the washer has been repaired by Tanya  We were able to wash and dry 3 loads of laundry Friday evening, before the dryer broke.  It was tore apart by Tanya, and more lint than one could imagine was vacuumed out, parts are now on order.  We pushed it back in place, a dryer doesn't leak. We actually got a little sewing done this weekend, so look for a few posts in the next week.

Lately, Tanya has started making some rag pillows. Three have been added to our etsy store and more are planned.  We are going to make these for Christmas gifts for nephews and niece. Our list is shorter this year due to Tanya's Dad getting a divorce.  

[Richard tried to find the 3rd pillow but failed so you just get to read this failed to find image note Tanya insures me that I can find it on Etsy but I am too lazy to go grab it.]

The winner for the month of October for LAFF is Myra at Busy Hand Quilts. (oh and before I could post this already received her response)

Link A Finish Friday #92

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Link A Finish Friday #91

My quilt for my bed is getting bigger and closer to being finished.

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Something for Halloween - Sew Paint It

Months in the "pile" - My Creative Life

Finish Friday - A Simplelife Quilts

Here are a few of the quilts from last week

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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.

Happy Halloween

Well another holiday is here and me and the kids are dressed for work/school today.  I hate dressing up but at work today they are feeding us and its required to be in costume.  Are you able to tell what I am dressed as?

If you said scout you are only half correct.  Think Pixar Movies by Disney

One Big Scrappy Star!!

My star quilt is getting bigger, but it is not yet done.  The quilt top now measures 80 inches by 80 inches.  This is to be my masterpiece of scrappy star's  If this is not looking familiar, this is my "Richard's Star" block I created the block in EQ7 more then a year ago and have been working on different quilts using the star block.  You can find the pattern for the original star on Craftsy as a free giveaway (link above on menu to my pattern store). I have made single small blocks, one giant block quilt (as a joke for Tanya, you can see the block on the blog post that link leads too.)  I even made a quilt that I entered into a show using this pattern and called it Odd man out!  The best of all of these quilts is that I am making one for my bed.

The picture above is misleading as the angle the kids are holding it is not the way it will go on our bed.  As you can see below the points of the star will go up and down and right to left.  So I am not done making this quilt.  I still have quite a few more blocks to make too get it done.  I need to negotiate with Tanya on exactly how big she wants it.  She keeps telling me its just a little small and we can add borders.  Well,  I don't want borders I want more checker boxes.  That means I need to sew a lot more blocks together.  I think I have about 5 blocks between the turquoise and brown still to sew onto the quilt, but I had to see how it lays to get an idea of what I want and what I still need to sew up.