What's on the Quilting Table #8

Whats on the Quilting Table today you ask?  Well it is now time to sit down and quilt the 2 Reunion Simple Squares Quilts out of our pattern we sell on crafty

This is one of my favorite quilts for using up all the little scraps I have left over from other bigger projects this quilt is mad out of 3 1/2 inch blocks and works great to use up the odd ball fabrics.

These are quick and easy to though together and I can quickly quilt them for baby gifts for the many friends having baby's and of course we sell the extra's on Etsy

Of course once the quilt is quilted it must be bond

Cant wait to get some good pictures of these and post the finishes look forward to this in the next few weeks.  You ask why it might take weeks?  Well I have finished about 15 quilts that I have yet to blog about.  Yes I am a slacker.

LAFF #152

wow I just realized before heading off to work that it was Friday and I totaly forgot my LAFF post.  So here it is.  I am not able to spend the time now to put in pictures from last week but will try to later in the day.  Here at least is a picture of a quilt top to tide you over.

Thank you for the many link ups last week

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's on the Quilting Table #7

While today's WOQT come's at a cost.  The cost is my keyboard.  When I sat down to type this out I realized the keys on my key board were a little wet.  I picked it up and about a cup flooded out of it.

Any way I had to steal my wife's keyboard off her computer to make this post (oh and re-boot my computer 3 times) so It is going to be just 3 pictures.  You are just going to have to guess what it is.

One hint baby quilt, new design pattern will be created and shared when done.  Oh and this is a Tanya design not a Richard design which might be why I was cursing trying to make the block she has in this pattern but boy oh boy its looking cute.  Oh ya and this is the boy quilt I am making.  There is a girl version also.

Bronco & Denim Quilt

 This was a Christmas gift for another nephew.  We paired it with denim and a orange cotton.  I know in the pictures it does not look orange but you are just going to have to trust me that it is.  This is another post that was meant to be posted last year and well got put off, but it was loved when it was received.

Having another color, instead of just Bronco Fabric and denim helped keep the weight to a more reasonable weight.

What's on the Quilting Table #6

Today's whats on the quilting table is going to take a different tact.  I have so far posted mostly in order the pictures I have taken while quilting.  As this quilt is a little more special I have a seprate post for it, but if your interested on the time line the first 3 pictures of WOQT #5 was taken before this quilt I am about to show off, but the last 3 pictures were actually taken after it.  But hey who cares if I go a little out of order.

So to start off with I am going to show my completed top (I might still add borders but not really sure yet).  The top looks cute and it really is not what I expected.  I guess I should start at the beginning.  I created on Electronic Quilt 7 (fantastic quilt design software if you have never heard of it a picture)

Here is a print out of my quilt design (the lines drawn all over the white area is to represent the pieces I would sew together it was a huge puzzle).  Well one thing that I sorta messed up on up front is my dimensions, I was planning to make a baby quilt.  I put some generic blocks into the program and free handed the blocks I was going to add.  Oh I guess I should point out is this picture needs to be flipped left or the top picture flipped right to line up.  Any way I had in my head that each block on my picture above was 2 inches.  I had planned for a baby quilt of around 44 inches square.

So any way I started sewing

And sewing and sewing and sewing.

And it got later and later and later and later.

Any way I around 3 am ( I started at 9 pm) realized that I had some sort of problem.  Hum this thing looks tons bigger then I had envisioned it in my drawings.  I finished my quilt at 4 am and went to bed.  When I woke up in the morning I showed my wife my 58 or so inch baby quilt.  Ok well, maybe not a baby quilt.  Any way, Tanya laughed and  she asked me what I did wrong.  LOL I quilted too late at night, When I designed my quilt I said that my blocks were 6 inch blocks and then I made them more like 12 inch in size.  Oh well, I think it turned out cute, but it does give you a chance to laugh at me.

Oh and as I have said in the past I always make 2 or more tops at a time.  I have the colored squares cut out for the 2nd "Modern Baby Quilt" that is more like a modern lap quilt.  Ha ha, I think the thing that really bugged my wife most is that the back she ordered for the 2 quilts will almost cover the back of the 1 I made with no room left over.  So she has to go shopping again.