Monday, August 6, 2018

Design Wall Monday August 6, 2018

Nothing is on my wall at the moment! Yes, need to remedy that!

I did manage to get several quilts bound and 2 tops completed!

This is Arcadia.

This is the back. The back is actually green but the sun was bright when we took the pictures! This was machine quilted by Kerry from TinCanQuilting.com


                          This one is called Hashbrowns. It was a strip club from Honey Bee

                                                         And another great quilting job b Kerry


I had one left over block. Put it on the back. Can write a note on the light fabric.




This one is the last of the nine patch straight furrow made from blocks from members of the Yahoo group Quilted With Love. Tiki was not going to be left out of the picture!


         
I am participating on the Kaffe Mystery.  Late last week they gave this out this pattern to the participants. The pattern is Blue Bricks. As you see mine is anything but Blue!  It was fun to make and used up some of my scraps from other Kaffe Quilts.



I finally convinced Galen to hang a couple quilts at the front entry. We have too many windows in the house so space it very limited as to where we can display quilts.

    He did get one up yesterday afternoon. This one the Pattern is called Water Lily and I made it using Kaffe fabrics.

Today he will get the other one up. Totally different style. This one I pieced by hand. It is called Perfect Union.I took a 6 week class the summer after we moved here. This quilt had been hanging on the only wall in the living room however we brought a cabinet down from the second floor. Needed a smaller quilt for there now. 
This is my pride and joy and I want to see it!

That is about all for here. It has been hot and dry in our part of Texas.





Thursday, August 2, 2018

July 2018 Wrap Up

July has been a busy month around here. Mostly with inside stuff as we have had quite a few triple digits. I think all of the last half of the month.  Galen did manage 2 all day trips with friends searching for Dragonflies. They were productive trips. Good thing as both days  they had a heat index at 105 or above!!! The girls and I enjoyed the AC at home. They will run out into the yard, see what is around and then are ready to come back in. Early morning and late evening they like to be out. I think middle of the day they have no interest in  chasing squirrels!

One exciting thing happened-my Koala Cabinet arrived on the 24th.  Those cabinets are heavy and it needed to go to the 2nd floor



We do have a nasty turn at the top of our stairs. 2 guys came with the delivery, then they called a third and then a fourth showed up. The cabinets weigh between 500 and 600 lbs. They had the doors off and drawers out but still very heavy and awkward. The guys were very professional-did not want to damage cabinet or our walls. They did a great job.





                           

  Probably the only time the top will be completely free of fabrics!



Put the nice big surface to use when machine binding quilts for Quilted With Love
 
Speaking of Quilted with Love these are the 4 quilts made from blocks that people sent. They are on their way to a chapter in NC.


I didn't get any farther along on my last cowboy quilt. Did get the July Kaffe mystery blocks completed. Guess that means I should get May and June made! Then I could say I was caught up!

Mailed off 7 completed quilts to Quilts of Compassion. And did get 2 more quilts bound. So all in all it wasn't a bad month for sewing! Now If I can get the thumb on my right hand to stop giving me problems I will be happy!