Only 3 more to go!!!

Today I did 2 cowboy boots, now I just need 3 more and I will be finished. I should be able to do 3 in one day. Then I will have to work on color placement. Sew them all together and add borders.


I'm not sure if I will get them done tomorrow or not. I have to go to Hunter's school for his Thanksgiving dinner. Mom is going with me too. They are serving Turkey and Ham for lunch and we get to eat with our children. He is very excited about it.

Richard did not work today. He built a small garage/shed to park our new riding mower under. He built it on the back of our other outbuilding. It is big enough for the riding and push mowers, the tiller, and a few other smaller things.

Wish me luck on my blocks tomorrow.
Kristie

4 More Cowboy Boots Today

I slept in this morning, I got a late start, but I think I still accomplished quite a bit on my quilting. My goal was to do 2 cowboy boots a day until I got the nine remaining boots finished. But today I actually did 4!! Now I only have 5 more to go!!!




I can't wait to get these boots finished. They are not hard, I just hate doing them. Richard thinks I should make a wallhanging with this pattern too. I might be able to handle that since I would probably only have to make 2 boots. The hats are fine, they go together very quick.

Trying to decide on what to work on after I get this top together. I know I have several that need to be quilted but I plan on getting a quilter in the NEAR future, so I will quilt them then. I have a ton of tops that need to be finished, but sometimes you just are not in the mood to work on UFO's. I have two tops, YBR and my Month by Month Sampler, that need to have borders added. If I get to go shopping this weekend, I will buy fabric for those.

Sandy, the guild president, called me this afternoon. I missed our BOM meeting yesterday and she was concerned. I actually forgot about it. I don't think she was that concerned, I think she was just bored. We talked about everything which was nice. Our next meeting in two weeks, we are making a tote bag. I will go to the meeting but I'm not sure if I will make the tote or not. I just made one a few months ago, but I will probably just go and help out. We will also be drawing names for Christmas at that meeting. The price range is around $15. Not sure what I will buy but I do think that I will make a set of coasters to throw in the bag. And my plans are to make a fabric gift bag. I have that pattern somewhere, I need to dig it out.

Wish me luck on my blocks for tomorrow...
Kristie

Cowboy Quilt Progress

This afternoon I decided I would start working again on my "Cowboy Quilt" I started this quilt back in August and did around half of it and put it to the side to work on other projects. The plan is that this quilt will have 25 blocks, 13 hats and 12 boots. I already have all of the hats finished. But the boots are what I need to finish.

Here is a close-up photo of one of the hats...

And here are all of my hats. I plan on alternating the blocks.

And here is a close-up photo of the only boot that I had finished. They are not hard, just time consuming. I think it is because of the fussy cut centers in the boots.
So today, I finished cutting out the rest of the boots. I needed 11 more since I already had one done. I cut all of the boots except for the fussy cut squares in the center. I think I will do those as I go. I HATE fussy cutting, but I think it makes these blocks look better.

Finally tonight, I got these two boot blocks sewn together.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get at least 2 more boots done. I would love to get this top finished. Richard and both boys are already fighting over it. I told them they would just have to fight because this is the only one of these quilts that I will do. It's not hard, it just seems to take so long to do the boots. Maybe I'm just lazy...

I spent the morning with mom. We drove in to Wal-mart just to look at their Christmas decorations. Believe it or not, but we came out with nothing. We were just spending time together. I had a great time with her.

Kristie