So much progress!!!

 Guys!  I am on a ROLL!!!! 

 Two more of my quilts are quilted and off the list!!!  My goal for 2018 is to quilt 15 of my own tops.  I have now quilted 6!!!!!  So I'm off to a good start.  

This is the purple strippy quilt that I pieced not too long ago.  After I quilted it, I posted a pic of it on my FB page and it SOLD!!!  I had a friend ask if it was for sale, I priced it and she wants it!!!  YAY!  Now I just need to get the binding sewn on over the next few days.  It measures 54x74.

 Next I quilted this Scrappy Snowball top of mine.  I pieced this top 18-20 years ago.  It felt great to finally get it quilted.  I was going to quilt a panto on it but honestly it wasn't pieced the best in the world and I wasn't sure if I would have some issues when quilting it.  I ended up just quilting it with a stipple. 

 I'm thinking that a lot of these older tops of mine will end up being quilted with a stipple just to get them done quickly.  This one measures 72x72. 

 I love this scrappy pattern so I think that I will piece another one of them soon.  

So today after Church I will probably work on some binding.  Maybe do the binding on the purple one.  I would also love to load another one of mine on before Monday comes as I need to get started on a customer quilt.  I'm pretty pleased with my progress on my own quilts so far.  I hope to get my goal of 15 done before Fall because around that time I will start getting my Christmas rush of customer quilts and then I will not have time to do my own.  

Around the farm....we don't have city water here, we have a drilled well.  We also live near a fault line and that messes with our well.  A few years ago we had to have it redrilled because it caved in.  That was redone and cased all the way down.  As things shift we sometimes have less water than usual.   So Richard has been working this weekend on a cistern type thing for a back up water source.  He fixed a set up that has water from our gutters going into a water tank that has a pump and we can switch over and use if when needed.  Of course, this water is treated and filtered so it's good water.  Actually, I used it a lot last night.  I think this is going to work out well for us.  Right now we just have it going into a 325 gallon water tank but we hope to be able to do a more permanent tank when we can.  We are hoping to get a 1000-1500 gallon tank.  I'm so grateful that Richard is so handy. 

Making lots of progress

 It's been a busy few days.  Let me start by showing you my quilting progress!  I pieced 20 more of my Windmill blocks while Richard was doing some adjusting on my longarm.  These 20 bring my total to 320...only 208 more to go!!!!  LOL! 

 I did get this customer quilt finished.  This is the one that I posted in the last post.  It was hand pieced out of t-shirts and polyester.  Soooo stretchy to quilt. 

 After he did some adjusting, I loaded this little quilt of mine.  Not really pieced just a piece of airplane fabric with a border sewn around it.  A nice sized baby quilt.  This makes me 5 of my own for the year.  If you remember I have a goal to quilt 15 of my own this year.  So I'm off to a pretty good start. 

 The tension was almost perfect but still a hair off.  You can't really tell it on this quilt because I redid any issues that I had on it.  

I also loaded another one of mine on the longarm but did get a pic of it.  It's not finished so I will get a pic of it then.  It will make number 6 quilted for the year!  

Now just a few various pics... in this laundry basket I have a few of the quilts that are coming up to either be pieced or quilted.  You can see a bunch of t-shirts in there.  Those will be used for a t-shirt quilt that I will be making for a childhood friend of mine.  She contacted me a few weeks ago asking if I could do it.  The blue and white is a hand pieced bow tie quilt that belongs to a customer.  It needs to be quilted and the binding done.  Underneath that is my Courthouse Steps that also needs to be quilted.  I have the backing and batting ready and the binding is already cut.  I'm very anxious to get it quilted. 

 Then over on my cutting table I have a few more projects.  First you see my Jacob's Ladder that needs the borders sewn on then quilted.  The Churn Dash needs the binding done. 

 It is a cold weekend so I made a big pot of chili for us to eat.  We got a little snow Thursday night so Hunter didn't have school on Friday.  A long weekend for him.  Richard is also off this weekend but Andrew has to work all weekend. 

 In other news...my momma went back to work.  It's a long story that I will not completely get into.  She wasn't able to have her surgery if you remember because of her blood pressure and blood sugar being too high.  So that was put off until it was under control.  She had to go back due to some insurance reasons.  I talked to her today and she was having some pain and had ice on the shoulder.  Not good at all.  So we will just have to wait to see how this all goes for her.  She is planning on retiring later this year as well.  

This morning we will be making a trip to Tractor Supply and Harbor Freight to pick up some things to fix a few issues that we are having here on the farm.  It's always something no matter where you live, right?  LOL!  It's 10 degrees this morning so I really dread getting out.  :(  So we'd better get going....

Another one finished...

 Another one quilted!!!  3 down and 34 more to go!!!  I loaded and quilted this one yesterday afternoon!  This is the Churn Dash that I finished up a few days ago.  It is not a huge quilt but still a nice size measuring 70x82.  

 I did a dense stipple on it.  I'll be honest, I'm so tired of stippling!  Nothing at all wrong with it, I'm just tired of doing it.  LOL!  I did it on this one because I just wanted it done and stippling is easy.  LOL!

 I really need to work on bindings this weekend.  I have 3 now that needs to be finished.  

I have a king size customer quilt coming up that I need to get quilted so I guess that will be next.  I'm waiting for thread then I will get it done.  I will probably load it on this evening so it will be ready to go when the thread gets here.  I love doing this lady's quilts as she does such a wonderful job piecing them and that makes my job so much easier.  I actually have 6 of hers here waiting to be quilted. 

Taking Inventory...

 No sewing for me yesterday but I did do some inventory!  I started digging to see how many tops that I had of my own that needed quilted.  I wanted to get them all measured and written down on a list.  I hope to work on these between customer quilts.  

 In the end, I found that I have 35 quilt tops in need of quilting.  In my defense, 7 of those are small baby quilts.  So my goal for the year is to quilt at least 15 of my own.  If you remember I've already quilted 2 of mine so I only have 13 more to go.  :)  

I paired 2 of them with batting and now I need to dig around to see if I can find some backings for some of them. 

 I think my huge bow tie quilt is my favorite of the bunch.  I can't wait to quilt that one. 

 I also found a Jacob's Ladder that was all wrinkled and still needed the borders sewn on.  I left that one out to press and attach the border.  

 I actually thought that I had well over 35 quilt tops so this is good.  I'm sure throughout the year that I will piece more tops and get some of these quilted.  I'll be honest...most of these are older tops that I really don't like.  LOL!  Some are probably close to 20 years old.  I also saw that some had some spots on them.  I'll quilt and wash them.  If the spots don't come out then I will just use them anyway for my everyday quilts.  :)