old time photos

We went out to Hill City and played at the old time photo place where my friend Melissa works....what a couple of outlaws!

Little projects

The First little project is another 8 sided table topper from the pattern i did up for Sarkarnor. I gave it to my aunt and uncle when the came to visit this week. My family seems to like my little quilts.

The other one is from a left over block that I put on point and have on my table now.

For Melissa's baby

This is the quilt i made for my cousin Melissa's #2 baby. She's having a girl and is due at the end of July. Its about 43 inches square.

Gift Chat for SarKarNor

I spend lots of time chatting online with #quiltchat, and one of the ops there has started a "gift chat" to help find quick and easy projects to do for presents. I offered to be a "guest teacher" so here goes!

This is the unquilted and un bound version of what we are making. Finished Size about 25x25 inches. You will need:

1fq focus fabric(my pumpkins)
1/2 yd of color #1(border 1 and binding)

1/4 yd of color #2

Cutting instructions
Cut the fq to a 17x17 square
cut 4 squares of color #1-6x6inches

cut 1 strip 2 1/2 wide of color #1

Cut 3 strips 2 1/2 wide of color #2

save extra color #1 for binding

Using the Color one squares and the Focus fabric make a oversized snowball block by sewing diagonally corner to corner. I also sew a second seam 1/2 in from the first to get a HST for another project.

press these borders out then trim the visible part to 2 1/4.

Most folks will tell you to measure and pin a border. In this case, because they are so short I did not. Add the color one strip to the other 4 sides. Press and trim the angles. IMPORTANT: trimming the angles helps a lot in getting things to go together right. Do not skip this step.

Starting on the sides you added the original triangles to sew the color 2 borders on 4 sides. Press and trim the angles. Lastly add the other 4 sides. Again, press and trim angles. See the first picture. Now it's ready to baste, quilt and bind.

I'm attempting to quilt a big pumpkin in the middle of this topper. I'll let you know if it works.

My Quilt Shop

This is Mistletoe Rnach and the Quilt Corral where i work. WWW.quiltcorral.com Its not a very good pic but its a great place to shop. We boast over 6000 bolts of fabric, but with as much as arrived in the last couple weeks i'm guessing closer to 6500..maybe even 7000! The house part has tons of Christmas items and villages for sale and the quilt shop has been added on to the left side and back of the house. And yes...i do manage to take MOST(but never all) of my paycheck home.

birthday boy

Guess who's birthday it is? he turned 5 yesterday. no party this year cause there's no one around to attend. So we had cake at home and will go to chuckie cheese or something at some point this week.

photo finish

i finished this today. Its about 20x25 and holds the pictures in with the little black flaps. I've heard people call the flaps "flanges"? the photos glared a little when i took this but you get the idea.