3 Quilts in 2 days!!!!

 I'm on a roll!  LOL!  I've quilted 3 quilts in 2 days!  Technically 2 of them were KING size and one was a baby quilt.  :)  So here we go...

I would have loved to have kept this one!  I love how the sunflowers just pop against that background.  Lot's of stippling on this baby and that makes those sunflowers puff up.  She did an awesome job piecing it.  

 So after quilting on that one most of the day, I then loaded this baby quilt on the longarm.  It only measured 35x45 so it was quick work.  The photo is not that good as the camera picked up on so many different textures that it looks very wrinkled but it's not.  This one is made from minky and flannel so both very stretchy.  Since it stretched so much we decided to do a very large stipple on it which will also make it not as stiff if over quilted.  I also need to do the binding on it as well but she didn't sent enough so I am now waiting on that.  Since it is so small it will not take too long to do that. 

 Then yesterday after everyone cleared out of the house for the day, I loaded this big baby on and got it quilted.  This t-shirt quilt was pieced just like the other one that I did a few days ago.  The t-shirt square is just zig-zag stitched to the background square.  I have at least one more of these to do for her...maybe more...I would have to look to be sure.  LOL!

 Funny thing....you know in my last post I mentioned that I am just covered up with quilts that I am VERY grateful for but all I could think about crocheting.  LOL!  That's how my ADHD mind works.  LOL!  Anyway....while quilting these 3 quilts, I still managed to crochet 3 dish cloths.  Not perfect but I'm just washing dishes with them.  :)

 I am getting ready to head back upstairs after I have one more coffee this morning and load on another one.  

My sister took mom yesterday for a MRI that the doctor scheduled for her shoulder.  She has a follow-up appointment Thursday with the orthopedic and will get her results then.  

I guess that is all for now...heading upstairs to the sweatshop to get some more quilting done!!!!

Digging Up Smurfs!

LOL! Here is where the "digging up smurfs" comes from! :) You know me, I love to dig through my totes and stash. My closet in my bedroom is 12ft wide, it is full of totes with fabric and stuff like that in them. Anyway, way in the back corner, I found a tote that I did not know was in there. It was one of those 22 gal totes full of odd fabrics and scraps!!! I had it all dumped out on the bed. Hunter was in there with me, he walked back in the living room and Richard asked him what I was doing in there. Hunter said "Digging Up Smurfs!" LOL! Of course, Richard had to come and see what he was talking about.

I don't have a clue where this fabric came from but there is a ton of it! All of the fabric in that tote was like 80's fabrics. I have been ironing it all day and figure that I can cut it up and mix it in my scrap quilts and it will be fine! The Smurf fabric will go in a quilt as soon as I decide what pattern to use with it.
I found a lot of other stuff in boxes too. Like this....this is when I was a young teenager mom was teaching me to embroidery. I was doing this for my grandmother which lived right across the road from us. It was never finished and she passed away and was buried the same day as my high school graduation. The sad part is, as long as I can remember she always said that she wanted to live long enough to see me graduate high school and we buried her that day. Her name was "Opal" and my aunt bought me an Opal and Diamond ring for graduation so in a way she was with me. Anyway....on to something not so sad....

I found a huge box of these upholstery samples. Some are big, like 18x24 and some are 8x10. What on earth can I use them for? Any ideas???? The are a little thicker than regular quilting fabric.
This is rolls of bias that I got several years ago, got the big idea that I was going to make a rug!!! As you can see it is not very big! :)

I cannot knit but I can crochet, but nothing fancy, only granny squares! I found this yarn!
I found these granny squares, only about 25 of them, they need finished and made into an afghan. I found enough completed brown granny squares for an afghan, they just need to be put together!Last but not least...here is the quilt that I finished quilting the other day! It is a customer quilt. For some reason the colors did not show true. It is actually grays and silvers...
I did a simple stipple on it. I have another one pinned on the frame right now but haven't started on it yet.

Kristie