Another One Finished...

I can mark another one off my list!! This is another client quilt. It is a very large Carpenter's Star quilt. The quilt shop sold these as kits and I have another one to quilt after Christmas that is done in a different color scheme. I quilted it with a panto called, Verdant. I have quilted several lately with that design and I have a couple more quilts that need to be quilted with that same design. It quilted up great and I only had ONE thread break in the whole quilt and the quilt is something like 104 inches. I got a small shipment of Maderia thread in. It is my very favorite to use. Hubby looked at it and said "That doesn't look like 22,000 yards of thread" but it is. Each cone has 5500 yards. This will last me a while. I was running low on these colors and I tend to use them a lot. I also ordered a color card. They don't really list the colors by name, just numbers so it is hard to determine the exact color. Hunter has a little friend spending the weekend so I figure I probably could not start on another quilt today. Now that I got that big one off the frame, I will fix supper and MAKE some bindings tonight. I have 4 more quilts that need quilted before Christmas and 3 of them I will be doing the binding for. I figure I can work on the handwork late at night as I am resting on the couch.

I was thinking today that I will be delivering a pile of quilts to the quilt shop on Monday and they have a sale going on......you know where this is headed right? Actually, I can't spend very much on fabric right now but they have some of their Civil War Fat Quarters bagged up and priced 10/$10. So at a dollar each, that is too good to pass up. I'm delivering 6 client quilts so I probably wouldn't miss $10 or $20 bucks....right? LOL!

I'm off to get supper started and pack a few more boxes.....I didn't realize we had this much JUNK! LOL!
Kristie

The pile is getting a little smaller...

Time is slipping away and I am trying to get everything done. I'm packing a few things up as I take breaks from quilting. Just trying to keep the laundry and dishes done is a huge task for me right now. Here is a photo that I took yesterday morning, the sky was soooo pretty. As you can see I have been getting up super early and when I took this photo I had already been up about an hour.

Here are a few quilts that I have done the past couple of days...

Here are TWO exact same quilts! These are two customer quilts and I must say that even though they are made from a very simple pattern they are very lovely! I just love the fabrics used in them, such warm tones. It seemed like it took me forever to quilt them since they were both exactly alike. I quilted them both with a design called Verdant. I love using this design. I also used a medium brown Bottom Line thread in the top and bobbin.

Here is a closeup of the fabrics and you can also see that the backing was pretty too.

This is a quilt that I pieced for a customer in the colors that she requested. I hope she likes it. I still have to sew the binding on and bury a few threads and it will be ready to deliver. The fabric is actually a barn/country red with tiny cream stars on it. I picked it up from Hobby Lobby. I quilted it with a simple design called Happy Times.
I still have several more to go! But at least the pile is getting smaller. I'm not even sure how many more I have to go. I've finished the quilting on several and also added a few more to the pile. I know I have a couple of big ones coming up in the next few.

Not a lot of progress on the house the past few days. I'm too busy with the quilts and just the job of being a wife and mother to get much done. Richard has his final exams this week, so he is spending every minute studying.

I have a doctor appointment in the morning and then have a few errands to do. That will take up most of my day. I'm hoping that I can at least get another quilt loaded on the frame and work on some binding or something.

That's all for now....I'll leave you with a photo that I found on my camera that Hunter must have taken a few days ago..... I just love seeing the world from his eyes.... LOL! He loves to play at the base of this big tree in our yard. Have a wonderful evening.... ~Kristie

A Little Progress...

Here we go....first off, I want to thank all of your for your kind words and prayers! I have never been able to deal with stress. I was in a panic the other day when I wrote my last post. :) I know that the Lord will not put more on me than I can handle. I know it is not going to be easy but I trust in him and I think he will help us through this.

My mom had to leave for work early this morning and she will be gone for 28 days and she will not be home for Christmas. That breaks my heart. She was home for Thanksgiving and we had dinner at her house but when she gets back home a couple of days after Christmas we will celebrate at her house with her. Hunter is excited because he will get to open gifts several different times. We had the little conversation of what Christmas was really about. Sometimes you have to remind the little ones that it is not the gifts but Christ.

So Tuesday mom came out and cleaned Hunter's room and the main bathroom in the new house. Everything was covered in drywall dust and it was horrible. As she was down stairs cleaning, I was upstairs quilting. After she got it all swept and vacuumed I came downstairs and started painting when I needed a break from quilting. It has been a long couple of days. I got the ceiling in Hunter's room and the bathroom painted and also Hunter's walls are done. He was so excited about it.

Now here are the details on Hunter's room. Please keep in mind that everything is NOT done and we will be moving in with the house UNFINISHED. :( Hunter's room measures 12x16 and only has the window that you can see in the photo, but it is a big window. He picked out the comforter, sheets, and curtains and mom bought them for him a while back but we had been saving them for the house. Hunter also picked out his own paint color. It is a little hard to tell the true color in the photo but it is "truly olive" We still need to do all of the wood trim as you can see it looks a little messy around the ceiling and floor but it will be covered as soon as we can get the trim and baseboards up. There is not any flooring down yet, just the plywood with a rug over it. :( I also plan on changing the white curtain rod. It is flimsy and the curtains are lined and heavy and it would just be a matter of time before Hunter tore it down. This is all that we have moved into his room so far. There are still tons of toys to move.

The bathroom is nowhere near finished. Richard did get the sink, counter top, and faucet installed after school. I got the ceiling painted but not trimmed yet. I have the paint for the walls but just haven't had time to get to it yet. I'll post a photo of that mess as we make a little more progress on it.

I have finished a few quilts while doing this too. Here is the quilt that I had on the frame in the last post, it is finished. Not sure what the pattern is but it is beautifully pieced. This one measured something like 92x92...I think. I quilted it with the Chantilly Lace design and used Madeira thread. I just love that stuff.
Then I loaded and quilted this one. The next two quilts were pieced by a man. I am doing the binding on both of them. I quilted it with the Barbed Wire design and used a matching thread from Connecting Threads. I finished the binding last night before I went to bed.
I quilted this one for him today. It is quilted with a Foliage design, just leaves. I used a orange thread from Connecting Threads. I have the binding ready to go on it and I will probably work on it later tonight. I'm not sure what all I will get done tomorrow, Hunter has an eye doctor appointment tomorrow afternoon and I need to do some grocery shopping. I would love to load another quilt and at least get it started. I dropped off a finished quilt at the shop on Monday and ended up picking up 2 more to do. I explained to her that it would be a while before I would get to quilt them. She said that was fine, just whenever I could get to them.....after the holidays.

That's all for tonight....I'm off to take a long.....hot.....soaking bath! :)
Kristie