On the Frame!

This problem child quilt has been ripped out and is back on the longarm frame. 

This time I am using my Circle Lord giant template board called Ribbles.  The quilting is not as dense.  This should give me some wiggle room to work in fullness.

Hoping for a Friday finish and to get these back to my customer this weekend.

WIP Wednesday 6.18.18 -- The one with a midweek finish!

This week I have a midweek finish instead of a Friday finish!  I finished this customer 4-patch quilt today!  One more customer quilt this week and I hope to be free from quilting commitments except for a high-school student that wants to learn to use my longarm...

Here's that 4-patch finish:

I quilted it with my Circle Lord giant template board called Swirls.

It is backed with a floral sheet.  Here it is on the line with the sun shining through.  It has been raining more than usual here in Ohio.  No nice, sunny, out in the open clothesline pics for this quilt.

In other news this week (or past two weeks...)

We have a 12-year old in the HOUSE!  You can read about the 50% off deal that I got on his cake.

I'm still working on the May color of the month for the RSC19 -- orange...

I spent some unwanted time UNSEWING the longarm stitches on this customer quilt.  Luckily it is rainy and cool outside.  We have had a lot of rain in Ohio for this time of year.  This will be my next quilt on the frame--hopefully.

I made this block for the Block Lotto -- only one so far this month...  It is a paper-pieced block.

I continue to work on my slow-stitching project in areas where I have to wait on something.  Unfortunately my sister-in-law grabbed my bag by mistake and she has it at her house for the week.  I'm sure it's safe.  She's not interesting in sewing.

I currently have 67 on-going projects.

Pieces Still Need to be Cut & Sewn

1.  Cheddar Jack cat pattern from Mama Spark's World 

2.  Digging up Bones (Owen's dinosaur quilt)

3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt

4.  Picadilly Circle

5.  ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)

6.  Go Four It! -- Scrappy 4-patches started as leader/ender June 2017

7.  Patriotic Folk Animals (from Americana Quilts Book) -- hand work for school

8.   Soul Searching -- need 1 PINK block!
9.   Leah Day Building Blocks QA
10.  Love Laugh Quilt Christmas Improv QA
11.  Classic Meets Modern BOM
12.  Mod Mod QA (turning this one into a baby quilt) (from block Lotto, mostly circles w/lines)

13.  Owl's Well That Ends Well (RSC19 project started 1.26.19)

14.  Linen and Threads - Mystery Sampler SAL Sew-to-go bag project started 1.21.19

15.  Temperature QA (2019 block-a-day according to high and low temps.)

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14)

17.  Amish Country BOM (from Lynn, Johnna's mom)

18.  Cabins at the Lake (from Fons & Porter Magazine) (only one house block complete.)

19.   2.5" Scraps from Dani making "cracker" blocks

20.  EPP mini table topper (grey, maroon, blue, cream...)

21.  Little Houses (3.5" blocks)

22.  Pumpkins & the Beanstalk (a second quilt.)

23.  Set of note cards and envelopes

24.  Wings of Spring -- Block Lotto win 3.31.19

25.  Slabs with White Rectangle (RSC14 started -- need blocks each month)

26.  Bonnie Hunter Box Kite class from March, 2017 (Will make baby quilt.)

27.  Super Mario QA

28.  2015 Orange, pink, grey kite blocks (from Accuquilt die, RSC17)

29.  Maroon Sampler Quilt

30.  Gypsy Wife QA (started again with Angie at Gnome Angel, August 2017) (2019 QA)

31.  Kathleen Tracy’s 2019 Mystery Quilt -- Facebook QA started in March, 2019. 

32.  2016 Plus Blocks (from left over pieces of Soul Searching blocks)

33.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

34.  Kevin the Quilter's Sapphire Stars Mystery (started Summer 2017) 

35.  Secret O - H - I - O quilt.  Shhhh.  Can't show this one--but it's cool!

36.  Jelly Roll Rug

37.  Sand Castles -- Bonnie Hunter string quilt started January, 2019 -- an RSC project

38.  Parallelogram Strings -- 2019 String Along at Humble Quilts, started 1.31.19

  

Blocks Still Need to be Made

1.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt

2.  Scrap Crystals (working on blue pieces for RSC15)

3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

4.  Amanda Murphy Designs (ugly fabric quilt)

5.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt (my seams don't match Julianne's seams...)
6.  Drunkard's Path Variation baby quilt

7.  Kim Diehl's Table Topper from her book Simple Charm (Started August, 2017 for to-go bag.)

Blocks are made but need to be sewn together (and/or some sashing)
1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)
2.  Cruise blocks won from Libby
3.  Orange/Blue Fish Blocks (that I won)
4.  Split Stars (blocks won from Block Lotto; October, 2012)
5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)
6.  Tall Fly 

7.  Fortune Teller (RSC14 started)

8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt 

9.   Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blocks 

10.  Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (New QA starting 5/7/17 Gnome Angel)

11.  Flower Baskets (blue and white with some applique) Block Lotto win 10/1/18

12.  Pre-printed cross stitch pillow sham (May, 2018 sew-to-go bag)

13.  Bonnie Hunter Garden Party (started 3.18.17.)

14.   Cathy's CRAZY BY DESIGN.  It's the Dot Dot Dash Bag. (new to the list April, 2018)

15.  Block Lotto December Scrappy Stars (blue/purple) -- I won the star blocks in December, 2018.

Quilts back needs to be made (tops are done) 

1. Card Trick (pink and blue) HUGE charity quilt for local quilt guild
2. Hunter green large (bubbly -- will be a challenge to longarm) charity quilt for the local guild
3. Bubble Gum pink and navy charity quilt for local quilt guild
4. Good Fortune -- A Bonnie Hunter Quiltville Mystery started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018.

Ready to longarm
1.  Blue and 4-patch customer quilt (CM)

2.  Customer quilt with special block in the center (CM)

3.  Catchin' Some Rays needle turn applique crib quilt started March, 2018 (adding EPP hexies!)

Recently finished
4.  4-patch customer quilt (CM)

The 12th Birthday

We had a lot of fun last week during birthday week.  I still can't believe that our son is going to be in middle school in the fall.  He'll be a TEEN next year!

He LOVES putt putt golf.  When we searched area putt putt places about three weeks ago, ProPutt came up first.  Of course he wanted to go there.  He loves golf holes where you hit it into one hole, it rolls into a pvc pipe, and comes out somewhere else.  He loves Rube Goldberg type machines (chain reactions.)  He calls these holes "pipes".  When we drove by a couple of weeks ago the place was all grown up.  There was grass and weeds everywhere.  He has been PRAYING for the place to open and for them to mow.

What'd ya know... when we drove by on his birthday it was mowed and OPEN!  We had the whole place to ourselves.

Dad fixing his hat...he's not a fan of backwards hats.

Speaking of hats... he really wanted the people at the Mexican place to sing happy birthday to him and wear the big hat.

It's still hard to get a great picture of him with a regular smile due to his outgoing personality 24/7.

That's okay.  That's one of the things I love so much about him.  You never know what you're going to get.

I don't let him have a lot of sugary drinks at home.  He's thrilled that he "got away" with ordering POP -- Mountain Dew to be exact.

Here's a picture of when grandpa came down to our house for his birthday.  He lives up the street.  We see him often.  He comes to all of the baseball games.

He got an hour nap between another putt putt place in Medina to bowling practice with the high school.  He always tells me not to take his picture while he's sleeping.  I never listen.  I just can't help it.  Hmmm.  I wonder where our son gets his "not listening or following rules attitude."

Yes, practice bowling with the high school in 6th grade.  Woohoo!  He loves bowling.  We have awesome coaches!  I have a feeling he's going to learn a few things this year.

Birthday lunch at Dragon Buffet in Medina, Ohio.  Yum!  He told me he's 12 now and didn't need my help at the buffet.

Putt Putt at Rinky Dink Miniature Golf in Medina.

Love this pic of us!

His new shirt says "Share the Love".  It's a YouTube thing.

Starting his "teen" attitude early, I guess.

He woke me up early to remind me it was is birthday.  LOL.

Below is another area putt putt place called Sluggers & Putters.  It is one of our favorites.  One of the teen workers (Manning) even gave Owen a shirt for his birthday!

Oh that attitude!

That look when he makes a great shot!