Hello friends!!

I know I have been absent ... I am deciding to not apologize, but just to know I am having a hard time keeping up with my blogging!  I have been working hard at longarming and creating samples for my classes.  I took a vacation the end of February to see my granddaughter and son in MI ... My daughter went with me and we had great fun!  Love that special little girl ... She turned 3 while we were there.

Here's quilts I've been working on longarming ...

Isn't this beautiful!  The colors are so unlike what I normally work with and I just  love it!

Love the newsprint fabric!!

The customer wanted a large circle design ... I used a light colored thread that actually had a little of a green cast, but it worked great with the darker fabrics!

Love!

Here is another quilt by the same customer.  Love the richness of these fabrics.

The customer asked for a medium stipple ... I used a medium gray thread that worked great with all the colors.

Beautiful!!  Thank you Jonni for letting me quilt for you!

Making cupcakes on her birthday!

Aunr Kierney made pancakes!!  Love my girls!!!

Moving into October

I am slowly getting my quilting business organized.  I thought a couple of weeks ago that here it is almost October ... If you're a quilter, you are thinking that your Christmas quilts or ones you want finished by the end of the year need to get to your longarm quilter!  I didn't have any new quilts for a while, but over the last couple weeks I have had at least 8 come in ... That's a lot for me.  I realized I better get myself organized and stick to a schedule!!  

I quilted a 108" x 108" quilt last week.  It took me 4 days because I would only work on it about 2 or 3 hours a day.  Longarm quilting puts you in a position where you are always leaning over the quilt.  I quilt from the front of the frame, so I lean over the quilt and tend to have poor posture, because I am leaning down to see where I am quilting and making sure it looks beautiful!

This was a flannel quilt made by a young lady for her boyfriend... To keep him warm.  No fancy quilting here ...

Just a medium stipple for texture ... And it will hold up well during all the washing and love the quilt will provide!

The quilt is a great pattern for a fairly fast quilt ... An alternating solid block with a four patch ...

I had a bit of a hard time picking a color that I thought would go with the light and dark fabrics, but finally settled on a cotton caramel brown color thread by Gutterman; I used Glide in the bobbin in a complimenting color.  Don't like to use the heavy cottons in the bobbin -- because the thread is so bulky it doesn't go as far; it also tends to be really linty and the Glide is not linty at all.

Slipping in a couple proud grandmama pictures ... Daddy took her to the aquarium for the first time ... 

She found Nemo!!