Quilts for Boys

My Mom, Betty, and I often work on quilts together. These two where done by both of us. My mom did the patchwork and I did the machine quilting. I wanted to give my sister in laws two boys a quilt each. I had given them a baby quilt each but no new ones for years. You can see they are way to big now for baby quilts. They needed small man size at least. 

This quilt I had an Oiler fabric (Edmonton's Hockey team) on part of the backing so we did make it more orange and blue. Both boys love hockey and their dad is a hockey nut. Some winter's dad has build a ring in their back yard. 

Both quilts were done in time for the birthdays they had in Aug 2020. I am behind showing of stuff from last year when I hardly wrote on my blog. 

Dog friends - I have not gone to the herding breed yet, the cattle dog is their dog. 

 

Quilts for Sale

I have added 2 new pages to the banner of my Blog. One is Art Quilts For Sale. I am still working on this page. I have a few more art quilts to add to the list and I do not have all the sizes and prices listed just yet. If you go check it out you can at least get a feel for my art. 

The other page is Quilts For Sale. This is were you will find lap quilts and bed quilts. They are also nice enough for the wall but some of them are more traditional quilts. I still have to add a few more quilts to this page. I think I need to get more photos done. 

I have sold a few quilts in the last few months just by word of mouth. I never really thought to place them on my blog with prices and sizes. 

Scrap Tiles

I had this quilt finished some time ago but never got a good photo of it totally done. Well Yesterday the wind was not blowing 6o km/hr so it was a little easier to take some outdoor photos. 

This quilt was mostly sewn with my leftover bits and pieces. I like to call this method Poverty Piecing.  I had a shoe box with partly sewn triangles, strips and some four patches. It has 3 or 4 years worth of past quilt leftovers. I had one quilt that asked for grey and white four patches, But I hated the grey and white in that other quilt. So I picked out the four patches and replaced the grey with Hot Pink. I love the change in the other quilt. I used the grey four patches here and I love how they turned out. 

Here is my detail shot. You can see there is all kinds of cotton fabric, bright plaids, strips, batiks, crazy prints like the oranges, and  few hand dyed fabrics. I did an all over large stipple quilting. A nice even stitch. 

Today I am finishing up the quilting on a customers quilt and thinking about my packing for Retreat. Mom and I have the Leduc Guild Retreat this weekend. So much fun! I have one new project I am taking to start. Then my Allietare Mystery from Bonnie Hunter. I have not worked on that for a few months and I would like to get a big chunk of that done. 

Lady Bug Party Finished

I have a quilt finished. I got this Lady Bug Party Quilt done in time for the Leduc Quilt show last weekend. I was working on it the night before I had to leave and get my husband to take it to the quilt show. I did not take photos till Yesterday. It was a bit windy so it was a tough job. 

Close up of the quilting. I did some lady bugs and them filled in with leaves and loops. 

Blowing

Fell on the lawn once.

Here is another close up. 

I have added today's finish to Crazy mom quilts linky party

This quilt was a mystery quilt we did with the Leduc quilt guild back in May of 2012. It was from the ladies at Prairie Quilt Mercantile.  The pattern was a little to simple for me but I am glad I picked some great fabric out. 

I have been busy. Last weekend was a retreat and the Leduc Quilt Show. I went to retreat and sent my quilts to the show. My husband and dad had to help deliver my quilts and the guild quilt stands and dowels. Sounds like the Quilt show was a hit again. I got lots done at retreat. I have a quilt top to show for Saturday's Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013. 

Betty's Twister Quilt

My mom, Betty worked on a pink and purple twister quilt most of retreat. Here is the top together before you start the cutting.

Then you cut it apart. Then put it together again. I forgot to get more photos when the top is almost together.
Maybe I will have to go to mom's house and get more photos. She worked hard on this quilt at retreat.

I think I will be doing just the machine quilting part. It was going to be a joint project.

2nd Brown Scrap Saturday

I am at retreat this weekend with my Aunt Arley and Mom. I have this brown quilt to share with you. My mom, Betty and my aunt, Myrna made this quilt top and I did the machine quilting. It is a granny square quilt. It is big something like 86" square.  As this month Scrap Saturday is Brown, I thought it was a good time to show you this beauty. The quilt has been donated to be raffled off this year. The Little Red Deer School (now a community hall ) needs a new roof. Our hope is the ladies of the local WI sell enough tickets that it covers the cost of the new roof. They are selling 400 tickets for $20 each. Just so you know I can not mail out tickets outside of Alberta.

The three of us ladies made the quilt as a thank you for the years my Dad and his brothers went to the one room school. My dad rode a horse to the school, up hill both ways you know. His banana and peanut butter sandwiches were frozen still at lunch time.

Most of the fabrics are civil war reproduction fabrics.

I quilted it with feathers on all the squares.

You can go see what the other ladies are doing for Brown this month by checking out Soscrappy.

Day 2 of Blogtoberfest

I thought today I would show you two quilts my Mom, Betty and I are doing together. She will do most of the piecing on these quilts but I am contributing some fabric and some design ideas. Then I will do the machine quilting. The top one is going to be a twist quilt in pink and purples for a special little girl.

The bottom quilt is part of my Ugliest Quilt (s). This is quilt number 2. I have enough blocks to make at least 3 quilts. I am planning to take the third one with me to retreat later this month. 

Both of these quilts are hanging on mom's design wall and the light is a little off. Her wall is an office wall on wheels so she can push it out of the way.

Today's post is part of Blogtoberfest happening all month. Go and see how much is going on. I am planning a give a way later this month. I just need to pick out the fabric. Stay tuned.

Star Struck Finished

I got it finished, and it was under one year. I started this quilt last November and had the top together by New Years Eve. Then it sat for 6 1/2 months waiting to be quilted. I needed time to think about the quilting I wanted to do on it. I am very happy with it.

In honour of Spruce Meadows Master's this week, I thought I would get a photo of my quilt on an old jump set high. In case you do not know Spruce Meadows is in Calgary and hosts some of the world's best Show Jumping. I was a competitor at the Spruce Meadows for 8 years, many many years ago. My name then was Cathy Manuel and my horses were Going Easy and then Esplanade. I miss going but have not returned to be a spectator, as I miss competing so much. Maybe next summer I will plan to attend the dog Agility trial that is held on their ground. I know many things will have changed.

The close up of the quilting. You can find the pattern for this quilt at Quiltville, Bonnie Hunter's web site. She has many free patterns to pick from.

The back in Lime green.

Here is the quilt on the fence leading to the horses. They are the little dark dots way in the back.

On the rock next to the old wagon wheel.

Another fence leading to the riding ring we recently built in the yard.

On the old hay rack blowing in the wind. Now to clean the grass and cob webs off my quilt.

I have added this post to Friday Fav at Nap Time Crafter's and The Magic Onion's Friday Natural's Table and Find a Friend Friday at Sew Many Ways .

I have a Quilt Till You Wilt Day on Saturday at the New Serpta Ag Centre, hosted by the Leduc Guild. I have to pack my UFO's up and see if I can make some process on them.

WIP Wednesday

I have jumped on the bandwagon and started the Block of the week with Barbara Branckmen at Grandmother's Choice. The blocks are based on the suffragists, so the name Grandmother's Choice is so fitting. I am not following any of their colour choices but making up my own. The first block I have made is the 8" block which is given on the Monday's Post. 

I then challenged myself to see if I could do the math and make a 4" block. Oops I lost my points on the red squares. I may have not calculated the little background triangles correctly. While then I looked into Block Base, a software that goes with Barbara's book Encyclopaedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. I have now added the software to my birthday wish list. My birthday is later this month. I love her book and with block base I would have some patterns and sizes to with the book. 

See how much smaller the four inch block is. Really too small.
I have linked this post up with Freshly Pieced Wip-Wednesday

Here are the fabrics I have picked out to use. I see she has a part on yardage that I need to go check out. I need more green if I am going to use it. I like the shade I have picked out but the one is a small piece and the other fabric is bad quality and I do not want to use it. I hope I can find something else to go with it.

Tuesday was back to school for my boys. I have gotten photos of them on their first day of school for years. This year they are being turkeys.

I am ready for my talk tonight in Leduc at the guild meeting. Got quilts packed, my hand out done and a few boxes of blocks and scraps to show what I do with my scrapes.

Betty's Scrap Quilt

I am the speaker at the Leduc Quilt Guild next Wednesday night, the topic is scrap management and scrap quilts. Panic time! not really but I need to get me butt in gear. I have lots of ideas and I know what I want to say. I am planning a small hand out but do not have it on paper or in a computer page yet. If you are in the area and want to come to the meeting but need to know more, email me. I think the guest fee is $4.00.

Back to Betty's Scrap Quilt. I got this quilt quilted for my Mom, Betty. We plan to take it with us as one scrap quilt. The pattern was in Nickel Quilts.

Here is some of the quilting. I wanted it to be nice but did not want to spend extra hours doing fine detailed quilting, so I have used my leaves and loops all over the centre area and then some more leaves on the two boarders with a varrigated blue thread.

Here is the centre area. Mom has used the barn raising setting for the quilt. It is now at her house ready for the binding. I have the binding and need to get it back to her, oops.

I picked more cucumbers and squash again today. We are having Greek salad tonight with garden tomatoes and cucumbers.

Laurel`s Big Black and Cream Quilt

Last week I worked on this great quilt for my Bee Group friend Laurel. She wanted this king size quilt to be covered with feathers in the large triangles and the boarders. I knew what I wanted to do when she said feathers. It has turned out so well. Laurel was pretty excited to see it done, that she said she should find a quilt show to put the quilt in.

Here are some close ups of the quilting. I was daring enough to use black thread on cream fabric and cream thread on black fabric. It did mean I could see were I was quilting. 

Last week, we had some very hot days and evenings. The basement was the best place to hang out and I did quilt many nights. One night it was around 2:30am when I finally went to bed, I was quilting. I laughed because sometimes I have been asked when do I sleep. My answer should be between 2am and 9 am.

Sorry these last two photos will not turn the other way. I do not have an editing program that fixes this trouble easily. Time to talk with my husband again about this.

Here is the back of the quilt. You can see the star block better on the back as I did match the thread colour on the star.

I have a second one of these quilts to do later this winter and she has seen what I did here and wants the same quilting.

Works In Progress Wednesday

Monday, I decided to work on my quilting because it was a holiday in Alberta and I wanted to use the holiday for myself. I started quilting on my Lime Green Star Struck. I came close to finishing but not quiet. I need to finish it today and get working on a customers quilt next. I might make some more Jam tonight after it cools down (say midnight).

I have added today's post to Freshly Pieced WIP Wednesday and Needle and Thread Network.

I have left these two photos a little larger if you want to enlarge the photo to see it closer. I still have to finish the blue stars and the last of the boarder.

Look what I won.

Yesterday I spent the day in the city. Mom and I went to the Funereal of a old quilt friend. A perfect services for an old friend. Then some shopping, supper and then a quilter's trunk show, complete with a magic show too.  I won these tie silks at the trunk show.

Turtle Bay by Claudia Pfeil

Claudia Pfeil of Germany is in town to teach machine quilting. Last night was a free trunk show. Turtle Bay by Claudia Pfeil was there in person. She is shipping it out to a quilt show today.

This quilt is amazing to see in person. Great work. I will say she spend a large part of a year on just this quilt ( well and running a business and kids ect). But my point is I do not think I could do just one quilt at a time. I get far to distracted.

Turtle Bay close up by Claudia Pfeil

Design Wall Monday Aug 6th

I got playing with this little star block that also has a churn dash look in it. I looked in the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman, but did not find a name for it. I am going to call it Churn Dash Star.  My friend Joan A made one of these and I thought I would give it a try. I am using some of my older stash fabric with a few fabrics I just love. Love the pink dots. I am in so much trouble starting something new. I should be quilting and finishing some of my quilts. Maybe someone will have a baby girl and I will need a little quilt. Ha, no babies expected around me. Me and my sister in law's have all said no more, my kids are too young, my friends are too old, and no co-workers. May end up as a charity quilt.

I have a few other blocks cut out ready to assemble. I have figured out if I cut a fabric to show up three times (once in each spot), it uses half a fat quarter or a 6 inch strip.

Here is Joan's quilt she was working on back in June. So much fun looking.

I have added today's post to Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times.

Edit - I have found out that the block is on the front cover of Simple Graces Charming Quilts Companions by Kim  Diehl. Thanks You Dolores.

Scrap Saturday Aqua

I found out last night that the new colour for this months Rainbow Scrap Challenge  is Aqua or Turquoise or the lighter blues. Good thing, the scraps for blue were just to big to be one month. I quickly got one block done to show you. I would call this block Aqua as it is almost a green and not a blue. I just love this colour. My Mom did a storm at sea quilt in these colours a few years back and it is on her bed as her summer quilt. Sorry no photo maybe next week I will get a picture. For more rainbow goodness check out Soscrappy.

I stopped by a quilt buddy's today and her Husband gave me one of his Ruler stands. Can you believe I have done without one of these all these years. When I first saw them I had my rulers hanging on a board next to my cutting table. Now that does not work because I have a higher table and the rulers do not hang down correctly. Thanks Ernie 

WIP Wednesday and Recap July

I am looking back at July to see what I have done. I did not finish a quilt of mine, I did help my customers by machine quilting many of their quilts. This collection of rainbow blocks is looking great. I added four blue ones this month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012 (RSC2012). I also got half of my Spider Web Quilt pieced together and need to get the other half up on the wall and pieced together.

I got many more wacky log cabin blocks done also for the RSC2012 in blue for the month of July.

I got five more Forester`s wife blocks done that is part of a sew a long and the RSC2012.

I got this quilted in July but did not get around to doing the binding. This is very small and was quick to do but still not done. I plan to use this on my small coffee table as I need some kind of place mat.

Here is the back, it is even in rainbow thread.

I have done a ton of machine quilting. This is one that is currently on the machine and is very very large. I thought I would post a photo as the customer sometimes checks my blog and I want to give her a little peak at what I am doing on her quilt. I am so pleased with it.

The fruit around here has been crazy. Yesterday I spend the day in the kitchen trying to use some of it up. I made a Rhubarb and Raspberry Crisp.

Then I made three bashes of Raspberry Jam. I have picked at least four large pails of berries in the last few days. Glad to have the berries.

Then a double bash of Raspberry and almond muffins. I took my Blueberry muffin recipe and added two table spoons of ground almond and some almond extract. I also did six pies on Saturday but did not get any photos. I have Saskatoon berries on the trees and I not sure I will pick any as I am almost done with the kitchen.

I have added today`s posts to Freashly Pieced WIP Wednesday and Lily`s Quilts Fresh Sewing Days