Purple Hot Pads

Today I have some Purple Hot Pads to show off.  These were made weeks back and I have been forgetting to post it so now is the time.  I think they look pretty cute for scrappy hot pads.

I did get a new pattern done and posted this week on Craftsy.  If you go put a comment on the pattern and then leave a message here about it I will email you a free copy of the pattern.  If you don't like the pattern comment on any of my patterns and I will send you a free copy (its a HST quilt by way)

Christmas Quilt for James

It is funny how some things just get lost in the wash.  This is the front above and back below (not sewn together) this quilt was finished in late December and quickly washed and put onto my son Jame's bed.  He then got it dirty (only a 18 year old son would spill food on his own quilt and let it mingle there) so the first time I went to take pictures of it, well it was just not presentable.  We washed it again.

This second time washing I did manage to get a picture taken of it (though not by me) this time it was by a guild member at our guild meeting in and I had to grab this picture off Instagram. At least we have a beginning of a picture of this quilt.  As of the beginning of the story of this quilt (Feb 8) I have yet to sit down and get good pictures of this quilt and I will sadly need to wash it again (Teens are hard on quilts you see) My son tells me though that he loves it and sleeps with it (and apparently eats with it) every night.

Yea it seems that I finally managed to get a picture of the quilt.  It is funny how this blog post has taken almost 3 weeks to write.  James's quilt is a pattern out of a book called Quilting Modern.  It is a pattern named Winter Windows Quilt.  It uses a quilting technique called Modern  Crazy-Piecing.

The pattern has only one swath of the piecing across the middle.  I did it on both sides because I wanted to quilt around the blocks so that they would show the quilting on both sides.  I think it turned out fantastic and so happy that we now have pictures of it.

Reunion Crazy Hot Pads #2

Here are more of our hot pads made out of reunion.  I have had so much fun using up my 2nd bundle of reunion.  I am now on the hunt for a new bundle of fabric.  Tonight I was poking around and found this bundle on Craftsy. I have though about what new bundle I should buy next and what new colors I want in my new quilts.

Moda Fat Quarter Bundle (Grant Park)

I am not yet set on what I want but I know what colors I like best.  I love reunion and want more that is similar if you know of any good lines please let me know. 

Link A Finish Friday #105

Love is in the air (or so they tell me) and I suppose being a good husband I should show off the quilt I made for my wife.  This was started before last valentines and finished only last December (Valentines at last Dec 24th 2013 Blog Post).

After finding the Heart I made my wife I decided I should look for other hearts we have done over the years. Below are 5 more pictures of some hearts we have done in the past.

Next I would like to show off a few things linked up last week and a couple weeks back.  We are excited to show off some of last weeks finishes.  Please visit some of these great sites and link up your finishes this week.

Feel the Love Pattern - The Sassy Quilter

Valentine's Finish - HoneyBee Quilt Co.

Valentines Burlap Bunting - The Crafty Nomad

Teardrops of Love - Karen's Quilts, Crows, and Cardinals

These are some of the great quilts linked up last week.  Link up your finishes and don't forget to visit some of those that linked up.

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Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

What is in a Name?

When I fist started blogging 2 years ago I started as RichardQuilts.Blogspot.com my wife Tanya at that time was not part of the blog.  Slowly she started quilting and slowly the site became Richard and Tanya Quilts.  The name change as it was happened with out me or Tanya having done it.  It was done by James are oldest son he hated how the blog looked and wanted it change.

You ask why I talk about this.  If you look above at the URL you are now viewing http://blog.richardandtanyaquilts.com/ now how the heck could that happen.  The funny thing is it changed yesterday at 3am I could not sleep last night and had a million things going though my brain one of which is that I should register the domain.  So nothing better to do at 3 am.  I registered the domain.  And then I went to blogger and set up my sub domain.  I am a web developer by day so this is not a hard thing to do at 3 am.  I plan to add a page at the main url to reference all of the various things we do, but Tanya insisted I go to bed so maybe some time this weekend.

Since I had such a boring thing to talk about (I know I have put most of you asleep) I added 2 quilts that I have worked on over the last week.  The bottom one is on my machine and might get done tonight the other one is basted and may be next up to quilt.  I have a pile of 7-8 that need quilting now.