Back to the fun stuff!

I was tied up for a couple of weeks with our annual maintenance outage. This past weekend I had the chance to catch up on my quilting. I quilted a "Turning Twenty" in blacks and pinks for a friend of my sister's (Melinda). As it turns out, she grew up in the Tri-Cities and I know her brothers and sisters-in-law. I have played golf with all of them. Plus I worked with one of her brothers--Dean for "Twenty" plus years!

Good Monday morning. This is a picture of a quilt that I sent off this morning to a friend in Bellingham, Washington. I don't like how the picture looks but it is too late now. She wanted an extra long twin, in teal, with a pillow sham. The front of the sham has been quilted as well. The fabric is Moda's "Hello Betty". I added eight of the alterate fabric squares to give the quilt a little pizzazz!

Last week the check spring on my gammill broke. I ordered two new springs and when they arrived, I went downstairs to change it. It took me about 30 minutes and two springs later to figure out how to replace the darn thing. I have been having problems with the thread tension since I got the machine and now I know why--the check spring that broke was totally different than the new ones. I tried to get the two new ones installed the same way as the old one and hum m m, it didn't work. Luckily, I found a spare and installed it correctly. I fought the tension for so long that I hated to quilt. All I can say is, "Thank you little check spring for breaking!"

My sister emailed me this weekend to see how busy I was. I asked her what she had in mind. Well, she said, I was thinking that we could make her stepson, Jason, a quilt with a golf theme. Besides my quilting obsession, I work a forty hour week outside of my home. So I gave her my list of projects and added hers to the list!

On Friday, I ran out to Village Quiltworks to pick up some fabric. The owner of the shop, Debi Trevino, did the quilting for the Quilt_Forget_Me_Not quilt that is featured on the Susan G Komen website. Please follow the link and buy a ticket. Support Breast Cancer Research. Besides, it is a BEAUTIFUL quilt! Congradulations to Debi and the rest of the designers.

Binding Clips

This is the table topper that I was quilting when I broke the check spring. It still looks great!

Happy Monday morning. Back to work this morning. We had early (6:58 am) tee times this weekend so: Friday I got my chores done by noon and sewed for awhile in the afternoon. Saturday, played golf, and was home by 10:30, finished my ironing and sewed. Sunday, played golf, was home by 10:30, and planned on quilting a stack of quilts and table toppers that have been waiting patiently for me to get downstairs! I had about 6 inches to go, and broke the check spring on my thread tension. I wasn't very happy--no spare check spring. I went back upstairs, sewed the binding on the table topper and then made some cute binding clips from a pattern that I found on Moda Bake Shop

Hello Vonda, aka "Crash"! This is a sneak preview of your quilt and shams.

I used a pantagram "Sunny Day" designed by Willow Leaf Studio. The Quilt Pattern is "As the Wind Blows" designed by Sherri Falls for This and That patterns. Most of the fabric was "Sweet Memories" by Clothworks.

I want to tell you that I am having one whale of a time reading other quilters blogs. Time flies by and you never know where you are going to end up!

I am in the process of stitching the binding on for a quilt for my cousin. I should be finished by Saturday?? and will get the pics up on the blog. I told her that I would make her some shams with the leftover fabric. Will see how that goes.

My son bought his first home, a condo, last year.

For his birthday, my sister and I "helped" him do some decorating. We decided that his kitchen should be decorated with chicken stuff. I made this 45" x 45" table topper for him

"In the Pink"

I finished this quilt in early March and bought

it to work for "Show and Tell". My quilting buddy, Judy, had a hard time letting go, so she bought it! Thanks Judy! I used Henry Glass fabric, "In The Pink" for most of it and then pulled fabric from my stash for the rest of the fabrics that I needed.

B is for Brenna!

I made this quilt for a friend at work. I asked
him to take a picture when his granddaughter
saw the quilt. Bright!!






B is for Brenna! Happy 2nd Birthday from
Grandma & Grandpa Espinoza!

This is a quilt that I made for my cousin's granddaughter to give as a gift for her friend!

It is a simple nine patch with polka dot sashing!

It is pretty and cheerful!

My Favorite

This is a lap size quilt, made from Maywood's Willowberry Fabric. I used an Eleanor Burns pattern called "Twin Sister". ($100)

I love this quilt!