Yesterday I get the binding on that king size quilt finished. It was hand sewn binding so it took me a while to finish. So now this quilt is ready to be picked up today. Shew....
I got this loaded on the frame and the quilting started. I will finish it up today. I don't have to do the binding on this one, just the quilting. She requested a stipple which is fine with me as I can do that faster than doing a pantograph. :) It is being quilting in burgundy thread to match the backing. This one is a king too! :) I have it loaded sideways because it fit the backing better that way. Just wanted to make sure I had plenty once I rolled the quilt to the end.
I am soooooo booked up and I have been turning them away because as it is I am going to be cutting it close. I do this every time that I get stressed and have a ton of quilts. I worked as hard and as fast as I can and then I just give out. LOL! Today I was hand sewing as fast as I could and all the time I was thinking, "I want to crochet something" LOL! That's how my mind works. Part of me wanted to just stop and start crocheting, but I didn't. I'm sure that once things slow down after the new year I will not be in the mood to crochet. LOL!
Just for the record....I keep telling you how covered up that I am...well.... I have 18 more tops to quilt and 3 of them I have to completely piece myself and also 9 memory pillows! Some of these I have to do binding on and some I don't. The 3 that I have to make from start to finish are the Cross memory quilts that I have made in the past from shirts.
Another customer quilt finished! :) This was the king size quilt that I had to piece the 10 yards of flannel backing for. I love the fabrics used in this one.
A pic showing the quilting...
Last night I did get the binding cut and sewn on by machine and today after Church I will jump in and get the hand sewing done so it can be picked up on Monday. I haven't been having to do many bindings lately.
Friday evening when I went to pick Richard up from work, I stopped by Walmart and picked up a new cutting mat. It was time. LOL! Mine had cuts that went all of the way through. I have 3 quilts that I need to cut out and piece before Christmas so it was time to get a new one. :)
Here are a couple of photos that I took Friday evening on my way out of the holler to pick Richard up from work. It was just starting to get dark so the photos are not that good. Most of the leaves have fallen so I should have done this a couple of weeks ago.
This one is a little blurry...
I worked most of the day yesterday on customer quilt related stuff and I talked Hunter into helping me clean a little when I finished. :) That sure helped me a lot. We got everything on the 1st floor except for the kitchen. Maybe I will get to that today when I have to take breaks from the hand sewing. :) Upstairs...well...the gym is pretty clean, the bathroom is clean, Andrew's room is not too bad but my sewing room is horrid!!!! I've just been too busy to deal with it and honestly it probably will not get cleaned until after Christmas. My schedule is just crazy!!!!
I'm thinking that I will TRY to work in Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt this year. I'm not sure how well I can stay up with the steps with all of the customer quilts that I have to work on but I may try...then again...I may not. LOL! I really want to but I just don't know if it is feasible.
Here are the latest customer quilts and then I will give you a life update. :) These first two quilts were pieced by the same lady. The first one is a t-shirt quilt and she wanted a large stipple of both of them. I've never had a t-shirt quilt pieced like this one. No stabilizer instead she cut the t-shirt section out and did a zig-zag stitch to the background square.
This is the other quilt of hers. This one was a bit of a bugger to quilt as it was hand pieced from flannel pajama pants so it was really stretchy.
After quilting those, I pieced the flannel backing that I was talking about in my previous post. It was hard to wrestle with 10 yards of flannel. I ended up clearing off my dining table and piecing it there so the table could hold the weight of the flannel. I eventually got it loaded and got the quilting started on it. See pic below...
The lady wanted a Fleur De Lis design and I did not have that. She asked me to order one for her and she would pay for the design. So here it is...
Now on to life updates... so if you remember a few weeks ago I mentioned that the Jeep motor blew up, well...since then Richard had been driving my Envoy to work until we could fix the Jeep. Yesterday the water pump and some kind of fan thing went out on the Envoy. :( Not at all what we need! :( Richard had traded some lumber a while back for a full-size Chevy Blazer nothing wrong with it except for the transmission is out. He planned on eventually rebuilding the transmission and selling it. With everything else, he hasn't had a chance. So here we sit with 3 vehicles and NONE of them are running!!!!! :( I swear, I can't even make this stuff up! I don't know if I need to laugh or cry. LOL! I do know that the Lord will not put more on you than you can stand but it is very stressful. So in a few minutes we will be using mom's car. Here is how that will play out. She needs to be in town this morning so... I will get up at my usual 4am, get Richard up first, then Hunter, and then Andrew. Hunter will head to school and Andrew will head to work but before that, I will be riding to work with Richard in mom's car and then driving it back. We will leave home around 5:40. I will come back home which is about 75 miles round trip. Then pick up mom around 9:30am and head to town, do what we have to do in town and then back home. I will then try to get some much needed quilting done and then head back to get Richard as he gets off work at 7pm. That will be another 75 miles round trip. I will be trying to pick up the part for the Envoy while in town with mom and he will change the part out once he gets home. He will be up late and will not get in bed when he needs to. It's just going to be a L-O-N-G day. Then again...it could always be worse.
I got this loaded on the frame and the quilting started. I will finish it up today. I don't have to do the binding on this one, just the quilting. She requested a stipple which is fine with me as I can do that faster than doing a pantograph. :) It is being quilting in burgundy thread to match the backing. This one is a king too! :) I have it loaded sideways because it fit the backing better that way. Just wanted to make sure I had plenty once I rolled the quilt to the end. 
