Q-bees and cleaning

Hi friends!
We had q-bees last night.
Our teacher showing her quilting frame.

Just 6 showed up for the meeting but some had to be some where else.
Our assignment for next month is to bring a 12 inch scrap fabric with musluim for backing.

 Our teacher is going to get the batting so every one will have the same.
We will hopefully learn how to quilt by hand then.

Tommy used his pressure washer on one side of the house yesterday while i ran errands for him and cleaned carpets.

Just hope my shampooer is not broke, i bought this 24 years ago but when i finished the living room and started on the dining room it wouldn't work.
It was empty so i will refill and see if that makes a difference.
Have a great weekend
Hugs
Quilt Happy

Yesterday

Hi friends!
All the sewing I did yesterday was to go around Dawson's quilt with white.
Now it's a good size so I will try to get it sandwiched this weekend.
We have a funeral Sat. so hopefully get it done Sunday afternoon.
Yesterday with Tommy going to see Dr, Jeff and getting his pneumonia shot I just had a little while to get in a tad of sewing.

Last night my sister cooked supper for us.
My brother making coffee and sis doing something.

 Her feather weight!

Our nephew Clint.
Mel and Greg and kids came to but I quit taking pictures when we started eating.
Clint has been doing a lot of work on her house.
My brother build it years ago , maybe 15, for her to retire in so It needed some work after she did.
Have a good one
Hugs
Quilt Happy

Dawson's quilt

Hi friends!
First i sewed this together but didn't like it!
So i took it apart and added strips of white.

I like this much better! So i did both panels of cars and tractor's.
Then i sewed one line of squares

Between the two panels, still liking it!

I though about a border, i have some boy paper dolls fabric but didn't really like it with this.

Then i added a line of squares all around the piece.
Still liking it.
I will probably add another three inch strip around it and that will be it.
Hopefully i will get that done today.
Have a good One
hugs
Quilt happy
   

More Quilts

Hi friends!
I finished up both of my Turkey tops!!!!
Got them sandwiched and then____

Now they are on my quilting machine waiting to be quilted.
I said i would show more quilts! Here are some more.

This one with the tri-angles is a slave under ground railroad quilt!
A piece of history!

This lady in the above picture was saleing all kinds of things make mostly from old blue jeans.

The quilt below was beautiful but i made cathedral windows ornaments one year Christmas gifts sop i am not tempted.

Quilt Show

Hi friends!
Sat. they had a quilt Show in our  town.
I sure wasn't going to miss that!
They have them every year,the second sat of Oct.
But this is the first time I had heard of it!

This is the one that catch my eye!
It was made by my neighbor's daughter Troyce. One of her's won the top place. I don't know if it was this one or not. She had several beautiful quilts in the show.

This is my niece's Mother , she did a hand quilting demonstration. She is also one of  our Q-bees

A really nice lady made these!

She got the name of this blog so she could see the quilts I put on here.

I didn't get her name but hope to see her  again at a quilt show.

More tomorrow

Hugs

Quilt Happy

Please say extra prayers for the people on the coast

Dawson's Quilt

Hi friends!
I got a little more done on Dawson's quilt.
Hoping to finish up a few things this weekend !
All the project piled every where makes me itch to clean.
This came this morning!

I ordered some laminate's to do the back of some changing mats for our g-g's

One for Sable and one for Dawson.
Starting another project!!!!!!
Maybe i will get in some serious work time this weekend!
Tommy is almost beck to normal, thank goodness!
Have a good weekend
Hugs
Quilt Happy

Old Quilt Tops

Hi friends!
I spread out this very old quilt top made by either Tommy's mother or grandmother to pin the places it had come apart.
Sewed those up and started to iron and found a least a hundred more where it had frayed and pulled lose from the other fabric.

So as i spray starched and ironed, i took it to the sewing machine and fix each section as i went.

This is the last section and it's has pins here and there.
Maybe i can finish it today and start to put it together.

This is 24 yards of unbleached muslin that i bought for the backs of all the quilt tops.
I just hope it's enough to do four for the girls for Christmas.
With a 50 percent  off coupon from Jo Ann's i got it for 99 cents a yard.
It's more like what would have been used when they made these tops many years ago. I wish i new who made them but their was some sewing machine seams where some one had tried to fix them before, i guess his mother because she had a machine but so did his grand mother i think, a treadle!
We will never know because his mother died a few years ago at the age of 91 and for years before that she didn't answer questions.
Have a good one
Hugs
Quilt Happy

Deers and squares

Hi friends!
I already have 5 of these blocks already quilted!
So i should make another quilt with them, Right?

I went out to take clothes out of the dryer and there was a deer in our yard.
By the time i got my camera he was across the street.

between one shot to another he just disappeared!
That fence is pretty high but Tommy says they can jump over it!
To bad i didn't get a shot of that.

I added two more rows of three inch squares around the car's on Dawson's quilt. But spent most of the day sitting with Tommy, he was really sick.
Yesterday he got up with a breaking out all over him so i called the Dr.s office and went and picked up some more pills.
 Now he is taking a z-pack plus benadryl but he's a little better today.
Getting sick on the weekend when your Dr is out of his office doesn't work!
Me i just go to the closest Dr i can find but not Hubby!
Maybe he is on his way to recovery now.
Hugs
Quilt Happy

Two Finish's

Hi friends!
I started this a few days ago but didn't have enough binding to finish it.
So when we went to Walmart i got some and over the weekend i finished it up.

All finished now!
And the other one!

This is the one that had a wreck on my newest machine!
But the problem was the thread and it went into the trash!
So that's two finish's!
Two more to add to the stack of baby things for our soon to be g-g's
Have a great one
Hugs
Quilt Happy

Small Finish

Hi friends!
A Monday Finish!
A very simple Christmas table runner.

See how dry every thing is here , we are in extreme drought!

I just got back from carrying Tommy to the Dr.
He though he might have strep because so much of that is going around but the swab said different!
He gave him antibiotics to combat a sinus infection.
I tried to get him to go to the urgent care but he is stubborn.
As long as his lungs are clear!
Have a good one
Hugs
Quilt Happy

Sunday Prayers

September Finish's

Hi friends!
Sylvia's quilt was my only big finish!
Lots of bibs and burp cloths and one baby quilt!

Sable's baby quilt, was finished this month.

I finished Sable's baby blanket last night! So that counts. Started a few like the Christmas table runner but haven't quilted it yet and a another surprise but that will have to wait until later in October for me to tell you about it and it's not finished either. Plus Jessie's turkey table runner!

Lots and lots of these for our next two great grands. Have a good weekend
Hugs
Quilt Happy