Happy New Year!!!!!!

Hello everybody and welcome 2013:) Hope you had a wonderful holiday!!!

I got to spend time with my daughter in MS and my inlaws in FL. It was a mini vaca on the beach!!!! we drove and although it was long it was pretty uneventful:) yea!!!! While it was raining and in the 30's in Tx it was sunny/partly cloudy and upper 60's in Fl. We got to walk the beach every morning except one when it was a windy 38. Lots of people on the beach but not near as many as in the summer:) Good for us!

This was the view from our hotel room. We stayed at the Atlantic Ocean Palm Inn. A nice inexpensive clean hotel right on the beach.
We did some touristy things while we were there.....visited the Angell and Phelps Chocolate Factory in Daytona....nice free tour and samples:)
The San Sebastian Winery in St Augustine. Nice free tour and free samples:) Bought a case of their Vintners Red and 2 Rosa. Yums!!!!
Also the Whetstone Chocolate factory. Had to pay for the tour but it was VERY informative. I love artisian dark chocolate so was in heaven:)
Oh and of course quilt shops:) The Bourne Quilter in Lafayette LA, The Bird's Nest in Ormond Beach Fl, The Quilt Store of Deland in Deland Fl, and Magrieta's Quilt Shop in St Augustine Fl. All were really good and had different stuff so had a lot of fun and bought too much but that's ok hubby did to at his Nascar collectible stores an. We hauled back 2 race car tires...yes real tires! One was practice used and one was brand new with the sticker still on it. He was in heaven:)

Ok back to quilting..... I can finally post the quilts I made as gifts:)

 I made this quilt for my grand daughter Hayden.

I had quilted one of these for a customer from OK and my daughter saw it on

the blog and fell in love with it. So after a good search I found the kit in OK and ordered 2. One for me and one for her:) Mine is made just not quilted yet....the story of my life:)

This is a minkee type football blanket I made for Benjamin. Saw it on Pinterest and found the directions. His daddy is a Colts fan:)

This was made on the embroidery machine for my friend Joan. It has the mustard seed verse embroidered in the border.

My son in law Jake has been in the family 3 years and finally got his first quilt. Used a lot of brown and off white scraps. Turned out awesome!!!

Oh and you ask where were all the cats while we were gone???? Well Joan came over twice and day and took care of them. She said they were entertaining and she never knew what mess they would have for her when she came over:) I did snap these 2 pics before we left....

Won't be quilting until the middle of the month. Am waiting till my new bigger frame arrives:) So will be sewing and finishing up a few UFO's and starting a few new ones too:)

Happy Quilting!!!!



Dec 15, 2012

Hi Everyboody!

Hope you all have all your Christmas shopping/sewing all finished:) I do!!!! Yea and it's all wrapped too!

The studio is officially closed for Christmas break:) I have one more quilt I am sewing the binding on and I will be completely finsihed! No pic of that one since it's just a bunch of squares so this is prob my last post for the year.

Here are pics of what I did work on this week....

First is a table runner from Linda C. She already had it made so I quilted it finished.

I got to play:)

Here is the back showing my playing:)

This is a family Apple tree quilt. A first for Pamela:) She and her mother and MIL worked on it for over a year and I got to quilt it for them.

                           

You can really see the quilting on the backing. They will present it to the head of the family for her 82nd birthday:)

Here are the 3 Lil Twister wreaths I made

One for my MIL

One for me:)

One for SIL

Here is the Bunny Hill Snowman BOM all done except of course for the quilting:) There is always next year!!!!

I am working on the pumpkin BOM now so hopefully it will be sewed together before next year:)

Hope EVERYONE has a safe and MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year!!!!

Happy Sewing!!!

Lou



Dec 8, 2012

Hi everybody!

Christmas is sneaking up on us rather quickly:)

I am done except for a few gifts to finish up:) No tree this year as we will be in FL at the inlaws and with the babies I do not want to go through all the hassle of prying them out of the tree:) We always go buy a fresh one every year. Just love the smell!!! Don't have to much trouble with the needles dropping after we found out that after you get it setup and fill the container with water use a liter of clear soda instead like 7up. The tree sucks that up and the sugar keeps the needles on laonger:) That has really helped!!!!

Ok onto quilting:)

I had posted the first picture before I ran out of memory and am now about finished with the 3rd of the wreaths:) Am still addicted to the twister rulers:)

This is Christina's quilt. She used a panel in the center and then scraps all around:)

I just looped all over. Very colorful and a neat idea!

 Another one of Christina's. This is actually hers:) A cute table topper.

I got to play

 
                           

 A sweet tablerunner from Christina:)

LOVE LOVE this one!!! Christina made 2 of these and I was lucky enough to quilt them for her:)

Of course I got to play:) yea!

This is another one of Shelley's Sports quilts.

It is a cheerleader quilt. What fun!

Yet another sports quilt. All about football:)

Love the referee fabric as sashing!

Had to quilt a large football in the plain blocks:)

This is a wallhanging from Quilt'n Country. Gayle wanted me to "Lou" it:)

                                 
                                             What fun I had:)

                       
                   Here is the back where you can really see what I did:)

Another sweet sorority quilt from Cam. Found out that she is giving these all away to a sorority sister as a secret pal and the big reveal is coming up with this quilt:)

I looped in the green and pink and then outlined the tshirt logos.

Another beauty from the sewing room of Dot!

This stunning batik squares quilt was quilted with my favorite pantograph.

Well that should have everyone caught up:) I still have one tablerunner and a big quilt to get done before shutting down for the holidays:) Also found out my new frame for the quilter will be in Winsboro Tx on Jan 8 and then they will set up a day to come and set it up for me:) Yes I am excited!!!

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Okay now get back to sewing/quilting!!!!!!

Lou



Woo Hoo I have memory:)

Ok so I finally got through and got to order more memory:) Now to catch you up on all the pictures:)

This is my adorable grand daughter Hayden wearing her Turkey shirt I made for her on Thanksgiving day:)

Notice one of the babies hiding in the back:) She wore them out that day:)

This is Shelley's tennis quilt for her grand daughter:)

                     I just looped all over with a variagated thread:)

Do you remember all the stockings I quilted for Christina? Well she brought these 2 over so I could show you how they turned out:) Cute!!!!

This is Linda's Gingerbread man quilt. She is still a beginner but did an awesome job!!!

          She let me play so there was a lot of outlining and thread play:)

                                                   This is the back.

Another quilt of Linda's. Love the idea of putting borders around a beautiful piece of fabric:)

  Here is a closeup of the thread play I did:)

Happy Hanukah!!! These are for the Clark family:) The ornaments were done on the emb machine and is hardanger:) Just beautiful!!!!!

Ok will post more pics tomorrow after I go the Bee:)