Design Wall Monday- Flashback November 9, 2015

My Dear, one and Only Sister says she is COLD in Utah on her Mission.

She wondered if I had an Extra Blanket I could spare...

I think I need to have that talk with her about the difference between a "Blanket and a Quilt"

Since she is still waiting for her Double Wedding ring...

Maybe this one will do until I can replace it with that one.

I started this Quilt way back HERE.

It was one of the first ones that I quilted on "Betsy"!

I love this 'Wild Roses' Fabric line of Marti Michell

The blue and yellow are perfect for my Sister.

It was just lying around in my crowded Quilt Closet waiting to be shared.

I hope it will keep her a little warmer this Winter.

I'm sure looking at it will brighten her day!

On my Design Wall this week I have my Guild Block of the Month. 

It needs a Final Border.

I'm thinking that the fabric I tested last week on my Vacation time quilt will work just great.

What do you think?

OR-Should I use it for this one or my Vacation time from HERE

Linking up with Patchworktimes HERE

It's Friday -

My Quilter's ADD is on Overdrive this time of year.

How about YOU???

 I'm still not finding time to do everything I want to do.

I get so distracted by OTHER things... like Christmas gift Stitching.

My Farm Girl Blocks are all made but not made into a TOP yet.

I keep finding more that weren't pinned on the wall. 

Time to get them OFF the wall.

1930's Farmer's Wife Blocks are waiting to be stitched.
Addie, Margaret and Milly

Thank heavens for Marti's Templates I can catch them up later.

Thanks for reading and cheering me on.
The Border decision is getting more and more confusing.
I'll definitely be shopping a bit this week-end.

The Homemade Gifts for 1 family of the 6 is all done for Christmas!
Wednesday was a Muu Muu/Jammie Day.

Have a great week-end, I know I will!

Sharing my Vacation Time Block of the Month

It's been a Fun year Sewing along with Pat Sloan on this Block of the Month.

I especially like that the Blocks and setting are all given before the Holidays.

 That way it isn't tossed by into tote to make time for other projects.

I needed to make the setting blocks given last month to complete my top.

There were  2 "Bathing Beauty" Blocks to make and 32 "Sea Shells"

An evening of stitching and those were done.

Here is the center of the top on my bed as it was when I stopped for the night.

Tuesday I got 3 of the 4 Borders on.

It's time to decide on what to use for the Border.

I had these 3 pieces of fabric in my stash.

A Floral on the left, dark Blue on the Bottom and a Blue with White on the Right.

Which do you think works best?

I WISH I had a yardage piece of the Fruit bottom ladies!

That would have been perfect for this one.

I might have to go shopping...

HERE 's the link to Pat's Linky on her Blog.

There are prizes involved. Maybe I'll get LUCKY again.

I WON these prizes from Homespun Hannah's Blog-o-versary.

Thanks for choosing my name!!

I needed a new Cocoa Mug!  I like the sewing kit and table Runner too.

Design Wall Monday- November 2, 2015

Whoa, where did October GO???

My Goals for the month went awry for good reasons.

October Goals

1- Make Blocks for Guild and BOW. Made the BOM Block but didn't go to Guild

2- Finish the Vacation Time setting blocks- Flimsy- ???

3- Make some more Moth in the Window Blocks- Chose more shirts to incorporate.

4- Sew the #2 Grand Illusion Blocks into a Flimsy - ???

5-work on Christmas, (can't show that but I'm started on it.) YES,

 I want to have some Christmas Gifts to deliver this coming week-end.

My Block Count was only 12 this month.

Mostly Farmer's Wife 1930's blocks.

The good news is "Betsy" is FIXED!

An in home service call was needed and after a couple of hours,

 Betsy is working correctly again.

I tested on some extra yardage I had hanging around, then I put my "Cascadia" on.

I tried pinning it down, not the best way with a small quilt. I couldn't clamp the edges.

I tried out using my new ruler.

Way too many seams to cross made that harder.

 We will see if I take it all out or not. NO PICS!

Here's my Now and Then 

Halloween Picture.

Me in 2015 and way back for my TBT (Throwback Thursday) in 1977

We have a Trunk or Treat every year in the LDS Church Parking Lot.

I'm dressed as a "Quilt Princess".

Crazy I know! 

When I got the licence plate from Moses Lake this year for the Row by Row---

 I had to make good use of it.

A Glow in the dark Crown from JoAnn's and a Polka Dot skirt with blocks pinned on completed

the outfit.  I had to hang my Sew-in time Quilt on the trunk.

It says, "Winter - Spring - Summer - Fall, doesn't matter to me at all

It's Sew-in Time"

DH (Paul) was still working so he didn't get in on it this year.

My Ninja family came by as I ran out of Candy. 

(thanks to Noel for taking our Picture)

The Goodson's went ALL OUT this year. Cowabunga!

November Goals

1- Finish some Christmas Gifts

2- Make Blocks of the week for Farmer's Wife 1930's

3- Start the new Quiltville Mystery- Day after Thanksgiving
The Fabric Requirements are HERE.  I got my Color Cards!

4- Quilt a couple quilts on BETSY!!!

any thing else that gets done will be Extra...

Linking up with Judy L HERE

Time to VOTE!

Amy has put up the link for Voting.

Someone was kind and Nominated one of my quilts.

I don't remember ever making it into the Voting before.

I'm so excited!!!!

 "When Bonnie Calls" quilt is in there.

The picture above is a screen shot from Bonnie's Craft U series.

She is holding my quilt.

There is still time to get in on watching her series HERE

I had a request to show the quilting on my Idaho Square Dance Quilt.

The pattern is called "Feathers Around"

This is my shameless PLUG for Votes!
EDITED:  My Butterflies & Violets was Nominated, also!

Click HERE to Vote for your 3 Favorite Quilts!

WOW- Wednesday October 28, 2015

Betsy has a House call tomorrow so the end for my topper making will end soon, I HOPE!

I have some moving and cleaning to do to be ready for the Tech guy to come diagnose the trouble.

Crossing my fingers that it isn't the Main Computer board.

I made the 1930's Farmer's Wife Block that was announced yesterday.

"Granny"

This is a 1/2 Block to be placed on the top and bottom of the rows.

I got to do a bit of re-cutting and 'froggin' on this one. 

Had to get those squares where they were supposed to be.

My "Tucker" block- 

Step 2 is sewn together and I am waiting for the next step.

It's fun to see these extra 1-1/2" squares and hsts used up.

I love my new Design Board that I bought HERE.
My Alphabitties are fun to spell the name of the blocks with.
I bought a couple sets for the ones with double letters.

Have you been looking at all the Quilts entered in the Blogger's Quilt Festival?

Click HERE and be sure to nominate your 3 favorites by October 29th.

Scroll down to see my 2 entries.

Design Wall Monday- October 26, 2015

The 30's Farmer's wife had 3 blocks to make last week.

All made easy with my Marti Michell templates!
I toyed with the Old Maid block and decided to sew it with a Light zig zag and dark background.

I will position them like the diagram in the book. 

Seeing them on Point helps me see how they will be oriented in the finished quilt.

Here are all 10 that have been made so far.

89 blocks left to make, 1/10th of the quilt is done.

It's a Link-up day over at GnomeAngel HERE

She calls it a Sew N Tell!

I read somewhere there are over 5,000 of us making the 1930's Farmer's Wife.
Amazing to imagine.

This week's inspiring story that went with a Block for me was "Katherine"

It tells of starting out as newlyweds on the farm, 

Working hard and having babies.  

That was my life, going on 39 years ago.

We only stayed on the Family Farm for 10 years of that time.

A quote from the Book tells, 

"Sometimes the way was so thorny we needed Ironclad shoes, then again there were Roses."

Kathy from Canada HERE has 'tempted' me once again, along with Pam Buda Here
They got me at 1-1/2" squares.
A mini quilt in 4 steps that I can make without cutting into new fabrics.

"TUCKER"

All ready to sew!
I looked again at Pam's and the 4 outer squares in the star need to be dark squares.
And the star points need to be reversed too.
I had a bunch leftover from making the Idaho Square Dance Quilt HERE.
Are you blog hopping to see all the Bloggers'Quilt Festival Quilts?
There is still time to join in the fun and enter a Quilt.
& time to Nominate your 3 Favorites.

Click HERE to see more Design Wall Monday Postings.

2015 Blogger's Quilt Festival- FALL- Original Design

 Because I am a lover of the color - PURPLE ...

This Kona Bay fabric spoke to me and I bought the WHOLE bolt.

I love my Purple Splash Rotary Cutter, too.

I saw a Butterfly and thought, I can make that with my Marti Michell templates 

and eliminate some seams.

 The Theme for our Local Quilt Festival was "Outside my Window"

I needed a Quilt made 36" square so I put the Butterflies into an Attic Window Block.

In my DREAM WORLD, I would see Purple Butterflies outside my Window every day!

Then I found the "Fresh Lilac" fabric from Maywood at EE Schencks. 

OOOO, My heart went  Pitter Patter!!!

I bought the Border fabric (right) to use on the border of my Challenge quilt.

The other Fresh Lilacs fabrics I got at the Festival and on the Shop Hop.

Matching the corners was fun and so I mitered them.

I couldn't quilt it on my "Betsy" so I pin-basted it and quilted it on "HELGA"

I added the curly antennae for each Butterfly.

I used Blue Tape to mark the lines on the border to quilt.

  This is my result

QUILT STATS

Quilt pattern- Original Design

Quilt Name: "Butterflies & Lilacs"

Size: 36" x 36"

Pieced and FMQ quilted by Mary Crowther

Started - June 23, 2015  

 Finished- September 12, 2015

Batting: Tuscany by Hobbs

Thread: Signature- White, King Tut-Variegated Purple

My Label

I love my Quilt and want to make a Bigger one just like it. 

AND since I have the whole Bolt of Border fabric to use, I can.

I need a Big Purple Quilt for my Bed, YEA, I think so!!!!

I hope you'll think of Nominating my quilt for a Viewer's Choice in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.

Nominations until October 29, 2015 Click HERE

Thanks to AMY over at Amy's Creative Side for another great Online Blogger's Quilt Festival.

Linking HERE for the Original Design Category

2015 Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival "When Bonnie Calls---"

Way back on the last day of June Bonnie Hunter sent out the "Call for Quilts" HERE

I have had a quilt hang in the Quiltmaker Gallery before.

 I was so happy to send a Picture to Bonnie and tell her "PICK ME, Please!!"

 I started making these in April. Thinking they would be this year's L/E.

The pattern was in the May/June issue of Quiltmaker in

 "Addicted to Scraps" column by Bonnie Hunter.

 

Above are pictures of my Scrap tote and my 1st block laid out.

I was having fun stitching up my blocks between other blocks I was stitching.

It wasn't long before I had 11 blocks made.

I even made some at the Retreat in June
Here is one that I made then. 

Much to my Horror, I came home and made a few more just like this.

Can you tell where I went WRONG???

  

 The "froggin' tool was put to good use, QUICK! 

Then I laid them out on my Floor and auditioned sashings.

Light or Blue?  

I couldn't decide so I used both

I liked how it looked with the borders done with Light on one side and the Blue on the other side.

Here is the Flimsy - finished on the 3rd of July.

I e-mailed this photo to Bonnie and got her reply.  

YES! She wanted me to send it to Golden.

  On the 4th of July, I loaded it on "Betsy" and got it all quilted on the 4th!
I used the "Feather's Around" Quilting design.

Quilt Stats:
Quilt Name: "When Bonnie Calls"
Pattern Name "Idaho Square Dance"
By Bonnie Hunter
Size: 47" x 47"
Pieced and Quilted by Mary Crowther
Started: April 2015- Finished July 4, 2015
Tuscany Batting
Signature Thread -Parchment
Quilting pattern "Feather's Around" 
Quilted on "Betsy" Viking 18x8 Mega Quilting machine

Bonnie's Craft U classes started October 12th.  You can register HERE

I skipped ahead and to my delight saw that they saved this class until the last.

My quilt is shown 2nd in the show and share part at the end.
I had to laugh when she called me "Marie".
Growing up plain Jane Mary Brown went to town, I take it as a compliment.
I asked her if I needed better penmanship on my label, :)
She said she just couldn't read it.  I need a new Pigma Pen!

Entered in "Small Quilt" category at 2015 Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival HERE
Nominations for VIEWER'S CHOICE through October 29, 2015
 Click HERE

Wednesday- Back to "Real Life"

It's been a week of Goodbyes.

Monday was the day for us to Honor my dear Mother -by- Love.

 She was loved by all who knew her.

This is the picture I took from my seat at the Burial.

The 5 Children who honored her to the end of her earthly journey.

I was full of gratitude for those who traveled so far to come and be with us.

My husband counted 9 of his Israelsen, Nash, & Neeley Cousins who made the trip.

 All 6 of our children made the trip, flying and driving across the country.

Sorry my camera didn't get the lighting right.

The curtain is BLUE.

I didn't get all the pictures I really wanted.

And not all of the pictures I did take, will make the BLOG.

These 6 Handsome Grandsons were the Pallbearers.

I was asked to make the Boutonnieres for them again. 

I had a bit of trouble finding the White carnations.

I went to every Store in town and of course I found them at the LAST place I went.

I put the 'wrong' color Carnations in with the leftover gypsophila "Baby's Breath"

and added the only Yellow Rose bud that was growing in our garden.

This arrangement was displayed with Pictures in the chapel.

I didn't take pictures of the full displays I did. 

The Memorial was similar to Grandpas, just a few changes.

All 5 of the children and spouses had an assigned part.

I was the Chorister again and we sang the same Hymns.

The Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren sang

"I Feel my Savior's Love"

accompanied by their Aunt Penney and my 10 year old Granddaughter on her violin.

The mental pictures will remain in my heart that was full to overflowing.

I am honored to be a part of this 'Eternal' family.

My granddaughter wanted to play while we ate our lunch also.

What a sweet thing to do.  She did eat a bit later.

She has improved so much since we heard her play on New Years.

Some goodbyes are harder than others...

Janessa took this picture of Jeffery and I after we had breakfast at the Maple Counter- Tuesday am.

Who knows when he will make the day and half drive to come home again.

It's Wednesday and my stitching is calling...

Friday, the Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival Starts over at Amy's Creative Side HERE

I have one very Special Quilt ready to share. 

Come back to see!