It's not meant to be pretty...

 Saturday I was digging out some fabric for my SIL that she had gave me years ago that had belonged to her grandmother.  The fabric was not cottons but other things and Kellie is planning on making a Crazy Quilt so I offered her the fabric back since I figured it would have more meaning to her.  Soooo....while I was digging for that I an on to some big flannel squares that I had.  I had bought them years ago at a little place that sold remnants and cut offs.  I had made a quilt out of some of them before and I cut them up in smaller squares.  It wasn't really pretty but it is so warm and cozy.  They are really good quality flannels and then I backed it was a soft muslin.  So with the odd leftover big squares I'm just going to sew them together.  It is not meant to be pretty but just useful.  I guess more or less a utility quilt.  Not sure if I will back it with soft muslin or flannel. 

 In the first quilt I used the beige print and the upper print that has small purple flowers.  This one I will be using the beige print and the blue/green print.  That is what I have the most of so if I need to I will also throw some of the other in.  LOL!  

I loaded this customer quilt on the longarm.  She hand pieced it from clothing as a memory quilt.  She always wants a large stipple done on her quilts.  I started quilting it and I was having some tension issues.  I think part of it was the fact that it is all pieced from t-shirt fabric and polyesters with no stabilizer.  It is very stretchy too. 

Then this happened...

 Yep...I got my hopping foot hug in one of the seams.  :(  The stitches are pretty big so I really have to watch and missed this one.  :(  So after that....I just quit for the night.  It was time to walk away for a while.

I need to get it done soon so that I can move on to something else.  I have other customer quilts and also some of mine that I would like to quilt soon.  I have dug up backings for 4 of my quilt tops so far.  I mentioned a few posts back that my goal was to quilt at least 15 of my own tops this year.  I've already quilted 3 of them so far.  So I'm on a mission!  LOL! 

Off the longarm...

 The lighting wasn't good when I snapped this pic but it's the best that I could do at the time.  The quilt is much brighter.

 This is the custoerm quilt that I quilted last week.  It's a king size. 

 I quilted it with the "loopy hearts" panto.  I thought it suited the bright fun colors. 

 I got a roll of Hobb's 80/20 batting in yesterday with plans to get started on some of my own quilt tops.  Those will be coming up soon.  I think the first one of mine that I quilt will be my "thousands of bow ties"  It is one of my favorites and I have waited a very long time to quilt it.  I have 35 more of my quilt tops to quilt but I don't have backings for all of them.  I do have some backings just not 35 of them.  LOL!  

Richard had to work today and the boys and I will be heading to a funeral this morning.  As I mentioned a few days ago that we lost our eldest deacon at Church, he was 96.  I've known this man my whole life and he was such a great man.  We will not be having a Church service this morning because we are having the funeral instead at our church.  

After we get back from the funeral I am loading a customer quilt on the longarm.  It is a hand pieced grandmother's flower garden that is pieced out of clothing.  She made it as a memory quilt for someone.  I believe it is a full and she just wants a large stipple done on it so that will not take very long at all.  

I'm thinking that I will try to get my bow tie top loaded on the longarm Monday or Tuesday.  It will probably be Tuesday because I have other things that I need to get done like clean the house.  LOL!  :)  

Piecing right along...

 Well, I really didn't mean to work on this but I have been. :) 

 I've been busy the past few days doing other things and the few minutes that I am getting in the sewing room I have been sewing these 2" squares together. 

 I now have 9 of these blocks.  Each block has 64 squares in it.  So far that is 576 of these 2" squares.  I sure hope that I don't run out of scraps before I get all of these scrap quilts finished.  LOL!  

 I've just been busy doing farm things and things in the house...you know....just being a housewife.  :)  Yesterday I also canned 7 quarts of chili for Andrew.  He likes to take them to work and splits a quart for lunch and finishes it up for dinner.  He works long hours.  

Richard is off today so we are heading out this morning to buy him another pair of work shoes.  He is a nurse and on his feet 12 hours a day, 6 days a week so his shoes breakdown pretty fast.  So off we go to do that in a few minutes.  Actually, we are having our coffee and I still need to finish getting ready.  He is off today but works the rest of the weekend.  

Sadly we lost our dear friend and eldest deacon of our church.  We live in such a small rural area that everyone knows everyone and has for generations back.  Uncle June as everyone called him had a stroke on his 96th birthday.  :(  The man still drove his car almost everyday and lived on his own.  He was also a WWII vet, mason and a whole list of things.  He was such a wonderful man.  His visitation is Saturday evening and the funeral is on Sunday.  

Sorry this post isn't that interesting but it's just my life.  LOL!  I do have lots of sewing goodness coming up.  I have a couple of my quilts coming up that will be on the longarm, more customer quilts being quilted and also some custom customer quilts that I need to make.