It is finished.

 Well True Blue is finally complete. I finished up the binding yesterday but it was rather late and I was very tired so I am posting it today.
I haven't been feeling well all day and I am starting to feel a little better this evening. I am going to order my label tomorrow as I forgot to do it today. It was a BLAH day!!

Here is what is on my design board now. I have to get backing and batting for the baby girl quilt on the left. The quilt on the right is one I am doing with crazy mom quilts quilt a long.



That's all I have for tonight. I hope you all have a great week.
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True Blue is quilted!!!

 Hi everyone,
Let's see,
I started Piecing this quilt last year (2009) in the spring. Finally got her pieced and then started quilting on June 26th this year (2010). I took a week off for my son's wedding and family from Utah visiting and finally finished up the quilting today!!! Almost there. Yippee!!!

Here  are a couple of pictures of the back. I quilted in the ditch on all the designed center and did loops and qurley q's on the border.


You can't see the pattern too well but I am pleased with how it turned out.


This a picture of gettin her trimmed and ready to have the binding put on.


All ready. :)


Now I am off to cut the binding and get er done. :)
See ya soon.
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Day 4 Machine quilting

Today is the fourth day of machine quilting on True Blue. The first day I put in the most hours on it. Probably at least 4 maybe 5 and it has slowly dwindled down. Yesterday I only quilted about 2 hours total. I had to go shopping for an outfit for my son's wedding this weekend.
Today I have to go shopping for a wedding present, I made them a quilt top but it still needs to be quilted. I sure didn't realize how long even with a machine the quilting would take.
I should be done with this one soon and then get started on theirs. I need to get batting today also.

You can see by the pictures below that this is quite the job for my little machine but she is gettin it done.


I hope your day is productive in your quilty room. :)
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Gonna pin baste True Blue today. :)

Hi All,

I am going to my friend Shirley's today to layer and baste TB. This is my first queen sized quilt to baste.
My first completed queen that I did last fall was basted and quilted by the shop I took it to, So this will be my first official queen to layer and baste with the help of my friend Shirley. (and quilt too)

I have 6 tops completed and ready to be quilted. Yay!! So no piecing for awhile until I get my quilting done. I will post pictures later this week of the basting.
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True Blue and Crocheted Baby Afgan

I am finally done with all 100 blocks for the TB quilt and am ready to start assembling them into the quilt top.

I am still working on how to edit this blog and thanks to my daughter Casey I did get the pictures in the right place. YAY!!! In the first one TB is laid out on my bed (I really need to make myself a design board). That isn't even all of the blocks because I couldn't fit them all on my bed. You can really see the pattern pop out.


The next photo is the last 10 blocks ready to be assembled.



Now I am ready to put it all together but not today. :)
I am going to Cedar Rapids today to pick up my 5 y/o granddaughter for the weekend. YAY!!! I haven't spent a lot of time with her this year and now that I am currently unemployed I am taking advantage.

I just wanted to give a short update to everyone on my activity the last 2 days. I went to see my youngest daughter, Casey, both days. We spent the afternoons with her new son named Leo. We baked cookies on Wednesday, chocolate chip, my favorite. I stayed for supper that night. She made a delicious meal of vegetables from her garden, glazed carrots and steamed potatoes along with Scallops sauteed in butter and wine. It was wonderful.

Yesterday we enjoyed a leisurely lunch together and she helped me to put a signature to my blog. We had lots of conversation. I snuck in a few hugs to her as well as being able to hold my darling grandson as much as I wanted. :) A good time was had by all. Leo is growing so fast. He is already 10 weeks old and such a handsome little fellow. I sure do love being a grandma.

This the baby afgan I am crocheting for my sister-in-laws first grandchild. It takes 2 strands of yarn and will be a very warm blanket when it is finished. Baby and family all live in Utah.


Those are my current WIP. What is WIP? you ask? Well it stands for work in progress.

That is all for now. I will work at blogging on a more regular basis to keep you updated.
Thanks for stopping in. I love to read your comments so thanks for taking the time to comment.

This is something new I picked up from crazy mom quilter:

My Gratitudes:

1) My husband who works hard and never complains.

2) My 3 adorable grandchildren who bless me so much with their energy and huggableness. (is that a word?)

3) My Mom. I love you very much Mom.

Talk to all of you soon,

The blahs>>>>

Well, all I have been doing these last few days is peeking in at my sewing machine. Sometimes I go over and turn her light off and on. Mostly I have been sitting with my back to her while I mess around on the computer.

Just haven't had much ambition these last 2 days. I don't know if it's the weather or what but I better get my rear in gear if I want to get these 40 quilts started and finished.

I need to get ready for the workshops I am signed up for at the Des Moines Quilt show at the end of this month. I have all my tools that I need in a nice little container. Now I have to make some "quilt sandwiches". These are squares 13 to 15" big made with a top, middle (batting) and bottom (backing). I will use these in the machine quilting workshops to learn machine quilting on. I need 9 for one workshop and 6-8 for another.

Was looking at the next pattern I want to get started on. It is called Splendor and probably will be the hardest one I have done up to now. It has pieceing that really has to have accurate 1/4" seams. It is a beautiful quilt in cream and green with red flowers. I bought the kit in Cedar Falls at a quilt shop there. They had the completed quilt on the wall and it was just beautiful. I may have gotten a bigger challenge than I thought.

Maybe the thought of that quilt is bogging me down. Oh well, I have put it away for now until I get finished with True Blue. I put a couple of pictures on of the blocks for TB quilt. They really are coming together nicely. A lot of Half-Square Triangles. I am getting fairly good at making them.

Just looking at those blocks and writing this blog has encouraged me to at least go and get those nine done.

Well I guess I'll go make some coffee and reintroduce my self to my sewing gal Sal. I have never named my machine before and think that is a good one. So Sal it is. Hope you were inspired to get in your sewing room today too. Take care and talk at ya soon.

Happy Stitchin,

~Nan~