Rosebud Embroidery Quilt -- Quilting Complete

It was a productive day off school yesterday.  I finished the longarm quilting on this Rosebud embroidery quilt.  My grandmother did the embroidery on it and assembled it in 1973ish.  I bet she would be thrilled to see it.

I quilted it with the Urban Elementz design board called Marmalade.  I think it was the best choice from the boards that I have.  I love the swirls and circles.  It's trimmed and ready for a binding decision.

I backed it with a light blue dot fabric that was in my stash.  It will be nice to get the binding on it so that I can sit in the living room in front of the TV in the evenings to hand stitch.  

I'm linking up for Wednesday Wait Loss 469.

Here's a photo taken from the driveway of "other house" where the quilt longarm room is.  The green house is where my main sewing machine is.  We "live" in the green house until the "other house" is finished.  Our son will most likely live independently in the green house.  It's a crisp winter wonderland.

I'm so blessed that my husband loves his equipment and is a pro of operating and maintaining it.  I also have to laugh when I think about our son having to walk down the hill and up the hill through the snow to get to the bus stop--just like my mom had to do to get to school.  His walk is 800 feet one way.  My mom's walk was a mile and a half one way.  I plan my school jobs so that I can wait with our son at the bus stop until the bus comes and then I am off to work in another school district.  On the days that have nicer weather and warmer temperatures he can walk to the bus stop himself.  It's good exercise.

Here's a video of me driving up to the chicken coop to feed the chickens.  This is before my husband decided to plow a path.  I should have put music with the video because if you listen closely you can hear that I'm holding my breath hoping that I didn't get stuck.  My husband secretly (sort of) watches as I drive from the tractor barn.  I know he's waiting to see if I need dug out.  Check it out here.  The ride down the hill isn't so bad video here.  Oh how our kid LOVES these videos...

The second day I almost got stuck.  You can hear my funny sound I make when I was fishtailing...  I had to back up once.  You can see that video here.

Here's the video of driving to the coop in the snow that is plowed.  Sorry for the terrible camera placement, but you get the idea.  Plowed path video.

It's a little controversial between us if he plows a path for me, or if he just lets the snow build and digs me out if I get stuck.  Of course I always let him decide.  He knows best.  The problem is that once it starts to melt and then freezes again it becomes an ice rink.  The same goes for the driveway hill.