Monday Morning Design Wall 10/28/2013

Ok, so my design wall is technically my living room couch...but the Hexies I am working on are too heavy to hang up on the wall as I still have paper in most of them!  I am working on a Grandmother's Flower Garden hexagon quilt and have been using my stash fabrics to start whittling down the amount of fabric I have as I am running out of space!!  Here are two of the groupings I have sewn together and I am hoping to have 12 of these groups for the entire quilt! 

So much fun to have a hand project to take with me this fall!  Remember to check out Judy's blog for the rest of the design walls.

Monday Morning Design Walll 10/14/2013

 Good Morning, it has been a rough few weeks for me as I am spending every spare minute machine quilting!  While cleaning out my sewing area (a corner of my bedroom) I found this old quilt.  Old as in 2003 or 2004?  I made it from a Block Of The Month Quilt Kit from Joanne Fabrics back when I first started to quilt.  This was before I was brave enough to attend the BOM at my local quilt shop!!  It is not too bad, fabric quality is HORRIBLE and the backing fabric is atrocious but I thought if I quilting it well I could give it to my daughter to use when she goes to the beach!!  I was able to get some major design work done and sewed every stinking seam in ONE DAY!!  Amazing how fast that can be done on very simple quilts.  I am using Magnifico by Superior Threads for my design work and it stands out beautifully! Should be finished in a day or two with this and then it is back to other projects.

So many quilts to quilt, so little time!  Check out Judy's blog for the rest of the design walls!

Monday Morning Design Wall 9/2/2013

 It has been several weeks since I posted as I have nothing new on my design wall.  I have been getting kids ready for school, both high school and college, moving them in and out of apartments, dorms and bedrooms.  I have also started quilting my king size Baltimore Album, which is going to be a challenge in itself but should keep me busy for the next two to three months.  At the beginning of August, I took Linen Lady's, a machine quilting class by Cindy Needham and worked really hard to get to the point where I could start beading my piece of lace!!

I love the blue batik background and I have both beads for the lace and beads for the background!

Nicolas took his quilt to college and seems pretty happy in the dorm and working pretty hard with 5 classes, 4 morning starts at 8:00 a.m.  My youngest begins Junior year and I wish him the best, most of his classes are AP and he will have to study his        tush off to make it through.  Remember to check out Judy's blog for the rest of the design walls.

Monday Morning Design Wall 8/12/2013

 I have had such a great couple of weeks!  First I signed up for the Linen Lady class with Cindy Needham for the last weekend that my boys were all going to Boy Scout Camp in New Mexico so I spent an entire week getting ready for that class.  So...I drop them at the airport at 4:00 a.m. on Saturday morning (picture taken upon their return after a 6 day backpacking trip) and and I am free...free to lay on the couch and pet the dog...free not to make dinner...it was great.




 I then drove into San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon and picked up my son Spencer's stuff from his apartment upon the end of his internship since I would be in my quilting class when he had to move out of his apartment.   He is standing outside of Marina Sushi where we ate dinner, it was great!!

 I then discovered a cantaloupe in the garden!!  What a surprise.  On Wednesday I found a blender for my daughter on craigslist!  $15 for a $65 blender!!  Below are two of the projects I worked on during my class this past weekend, Linen Lady's,  and it was so much fun!  I took advantage of Cindy's extensive templates and marked multiple projects.

I need to order more thread, different colors to make the quilting pop but it was a great weekend. So much quilting fun with some great people.  Remember to check out Judy's blog to see what everyone else is doing.  Dang, I had such a great week I probably should have bought a lottery ticket!!

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Monday Morning Design Wall 7/15/2013

 Ok, I seem to be addicted to just making quilt tops!!  Such a horrible problem but I would have loved to have made this for my last son graduation quilt but he is a junior in high school, so I have two years to go!!  Not sure I can save it until then but then I want to make him something special.  This pattern is from the Modern Quilting magazine I found at the store the other day.    I made 6 blocks of 4 colors and may need to make more!  I need to think of another setting solution.  I finished, well finished the beginning quilting of my double wedding ring quilt, bound it, and so far so good although I have a feeling I can quilt more and it would be better!!  The quilting pattern is a bit simple so I might have to do more!!  Please see the pictures below to see the blocks on my design wall came together.  Also check out Judy's blog for the rest of the design walls.  Quilting suggestions welcome!! 

Monday Morning Design Wall 6/24/2013

Good Morning!!  I had a great week, finished up my son's high school graduation quilt and presented it to him this weekend.  He loves it!!  He was happy it was big enough to fit a larger bed although I did not have the heart to tell him how small dorm beds are!!  He will learn!!  He is heading off to college in the fall and this will be a bit of warmth from home.     I also finished up my Miss Emilia quilt, a mini-Baltimore album applique quilt.  I finished the borders and mitered them on, adding the last little bit of applique.  It turned out so well that I want to hand quilt it!!   I brought the quilt to the Winters Quilt Show this weekend when I helped in The Applique Society (TAS) booth during our membership drive.  I had a great time at the show, tied for Viewer's Choice with one of my quilts and had a great lunch with a good friend Pam!  Wonderful day. I also have all four blocks of Alex Anderson's The Grape Escape quilt done and will be finishing the sewing of them before I start the border!!So many grapes, so few hours!  But, so much fun!!  Check out Judy's Blog for more great design walls!

Monday Morning Design Wall 6/17/2013

 Happy Monday!!  I have no design wall as nothing has changed in several weeks!!  I did finish and present one graduation quilt last week, as you can see Kelly was delighted with her graduation present!!  I used fabrics she chose on a visit to Hawaii and tried to showcase them in a quilt with her name.  Good Luck at Sacramento State University in the fall Kelly!!

Last weekend we enjoyed our son Nicolas' high school graduation from Davis Senior High School.  He is off to Chico State University in the fall and is looking forward to studying International Relations, German and Chinese with the goal of spending one year studying abroad. 



Also, this past weekend was our daughters graduation from California Polytechnic State University located in San Luis Obispo California.   She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Biology.  The future is very bright for her and she is looking into grad school for the fall of 2014!!

 Last, but certainly not least, today is my 24th wedding anniversary!!   Happy 24 years Stuart!! (And happy Father's day yesterday).   So my design wall is pretty empty right now so please feel free to check out Judy's blog and I will have something new and exciting next week!!