Valentines Day 2015

Well it is valentines day today so I suppose I must start with some hearts.  These are not original they were mock ups I made back in 2013 for a quilt I made for my wife. That post can be found here.

Even earlier then that back in 2013, we decided we were going to make some quilts with hearts in them and well it of course cased me to make a funny post about it called Tugging on my Heart Strings you can read it for more info.

Those hearts eventually made it into a quilt and well I guess I should show it off as well it has more hearts.  You can read more on that here.

Hearts are great and as such we have even applique a few in the past into a rag quilt.  More on that quilt here.

Of course some times you just need hearts in the material print.  You can read more about That quilt here.

Well Sadly I have nothing new this year for Valentines Day.  I do love my wife and would like to wish her a Happy Valentines even if she gets nothing from me (I am not a big present buyer) I love her all the same.

Link A Finish Friday #155

Here are some of the link ups from last week.

Spreading the Love- CJS Sewingroom

Simply Pieced - Broken Herringbone

Pattilous Quilts

Quilt in a Nots Shell- Table Runner

Tumbling Lilacs - Steph Blair Sews.

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 #13

Last time on Whats on the Quilting Table I was starting another Helix Quilt.  Last year I started this quilt for Jared you can see the previous post about it here.

Jared tells me I cant make another one tell I get his finished.  So well today we have the top finished.

This is going to be a quilt for Jared.  So we have decided its not yet big enough and plan to add a border around it.  Jared says he is going to call it the pillar of nature (named after the original quilt the pillar of fire).  He is really excited that were are close to getting it done.

Orange Diagonal Quilt 2

This is the second orange diagonal quilt.  It has been in the stack for a while, waiting to be squared and bound.  This one just has a plain back, unlike the first we did.

You can find our Diagonal Quilt Pattern on Craftsy.  It has been a popular pattern.  It is one of the ones I enjoy making but have to be in the mood to make as it takes more thought then some of the quilts I make.

My biggest problem with this quilt is if you do it wrong the quilt gets out of whack and can be hard to square.  This copy of the quilt I really messed up and had to do some serious squaring on it which meant that I had a lot in the trash when done.

All in all I am happy with this finish and it will go on etsy for sell.

What's on the Quilting Table #12

Today starts with a Simple Squares Quilt this quilt is being created out of scraps from the stash.  Tanya and I have been looking at our stash and have decided we need to use some of it up.

Our stash is huge it now consists of many boxes in many closets there is so much I am not sure what we even have.

Next up I am prepping to make another quit this time I am going back to a pattern that has not been seen in a long time and that is my Helix Quilt pattern.  My original quilt was much smaller then the new quilt I am making.  For more on this quilt see these old pots post 1 post 2 post 3

Any way this quilt pattern is one that I have not made many quilts out of and this year I have plans for at least 2 of them.  One is to finish my son's which I will show off in a few days (not finished yet though) and this one.

Any way working on the quilt you can see the pattern printed on the picture above.