Cute Aprons!

So Amanda invited me to join her at a local quilt shop to look for flannel. How could I resist???? She's not much of a quilter and I'm trying to convert her!! My brainwashing plan worked!

We found some cute fabric to make the Four Corners Apron by Vanilla House designs. I can't wait and I better get on making mine because it's Halloween fabric! Guess which fabric is going to be the outer edge and which is going to be the inside.

Amanda's Cute fabric. Guess her outer and inner?

Aunt Neata's Quilt

My Great-Aunt Neata asked me about a month ago if I would quilt this quilt for her. Of course, I said YES! She said she'd like to see it done before she dies. YIKES. Nothing like a little pressure. She is 91, but in pretty good health so I'm pretty confident she'll be sticking around for awhile, but I just couldn't take the "what-if" something happened. So I pushed it in front of a couple of customer quilts. She still crochets and sews. She gave my mom a beautiful afghan when they visited a few weeks ago. I hope I can still do my quilting when I'm 91.

I basted the quilt to the zippers just inside the edge of the prairie points and let them flop over the edge. I tried to make sure they were lying flat when I rolled them up.

I hope I trimmed this right for her. I folded the prairie points toward the quilts and went a 1/4 past the edge of the quilt, just to make sure she'll have enough to turn over on the back and stitch down.

More Football

So we did go see the boys cheer at BYU! It was so FUN! I'm so glad that we were wrong when we watched Landon for his last time at Northridge HS. We thought we'd seen him cheer for his last time.

YEA! We were wrong.

The Frozen Parents!!

Silly Big Sis Amanda and her friend Nat came too!

Adds Dimension

I just LOVE how the quilting adds dimension. The fabric looks so flat and then viola! The quilting makes it look so lovely.

Here's an example on a Carol's quilt. Before and After.

my favorite.

Sorry for the lighting. I need to work on how to take the picture so the quilting shows up better.

Sewin' with the Cousin!

I feel like I'm so behind. I was downloading pictures last night and realized I had lots to share, but am WAY behind. So I think I'll just throw them out there and be good w/it.

Last week my cousin came over and we quilted together. Here is her cute quilt laid out on the floor. It was too big for my design wall! I need vaulted ceilings.
This is a quilt that would look cute with any style fabric. I can't wait to make one!!

Brrrr! Football

So we (DH & I) are going to watch BYU football on the coldest, yuckiest day of the fall season!!! WHY? Since we aren't die hard football fans or even BYU fans?

Well, the reason started in September when my oldest son drug my next oldest son to BYU Cheerleader tryouts! Landon had been a cheerleader in his High School days and was AWESOME. Well, at the tumbling and Hip-Hop dance stuff they did. So Josh was just trying to get him to go tryout. Well, they BOTH made the BYU White Squad which is like a JV team in High School. So they cheer at Women's Basketball and Volleyball, but not at the Men's Football games. That is until Landon really took off in his tumbling and the coaches were impressed and he was invited to cheer at the BYU homecoming game this Friday!! So he'll be cheering in front of 64,000 fans and DH and I were able to snag some tickets and we're going down!

It will be worth freezing to death to see our son in his element! And the next coolest thing is that Josh will be cheering at his first EVER game that evening and we're sticking around to see it, too!

Is it October ALREADY?

So what to talk about? Well, I'm sitting here in a haze trying to figure out what I was going to say. Maybe it's because the 3 YO has decided he wants to go somewhere else and has only said it like half a dozen times, and is telling me to hurry!
It's been 24 hours since I tried to start this! I wish LIFE would quit getting in the way of my quilting!!
We had our last Going To Pieces quilt group in September! It was fun but sad. I tried to get the ladies all up to date on the BOM Quilt we're doing this year. Here's a Picture of it. I designed it and Niquie got her's all finished. So here's a picture of it. We used Holly Holderman of Lake House Dry Goods collection La Belle Rose. Everyone loved the quilt. Check out Holly's cute blog through the link at the right.

A Few of our Ladies had Show-&-Tell. Tiffany had a cute quilt finished

And Karen had a Seven Sisters quilt

Marilyn brought a one block wonder!

Utah Quilt Guild

My friend Niquie and I had the opportunity to take a class from Karen K. Stone at the Utah Guild's Annual Quilt Fest! We only had time in our schedules for one class and I'm so glad we ended up in the Happy Ric Rac Class with Karen. She is so talented and what amazing quilts and ideas. She was very generous and shared so much about her inspiration and how she accomplished her creativity on her quilts. Here are a few pictures. Remember that these are for my personal enjoyment and be respectful and don't "steal" them.

Me, Karen, and Niquie. Kind of blurry, but that could be a good thing! LOL

Student blocks

A few of Karen's quilts

Thanks!

NE Quilt Show!

I do have some quilts that I've accomplished since last posting, but I'll have to post them later. I went to the Boston Area with DH who went on business, and YES I had to look up anything quilty in the area. I found a Quilt Museum in Lowell, Mass and while on their website I noticed that they weren't having a regular class session because of a Quilt Show. So I looked it up and the Mancuso organization was doing a show in Manchester, NH. Only an hour away!! So we had to go! Poor Hubby got drug to 2 quilting things in one week! He was a good sport and I love him for it. Here's a few pics. Please be respectfully and realize that these were taken for my own enjoyment and should not be used for commercial or other unlawful enterprises!

Thanks!!

I'm Here!

So, Yes I'm still alive! I've even been quilting. The 3 year old is starting pre-school and we're trying to adjust and then I have plans to make progress and get to posting regularly AGAIN!!

So Here's Niquie's quilt that I finished. The pattern is called Portugese Tiles out of some book she has, and I just freehanded it.

On a SAD note, our LQS in Centerville is closing!! Our quilt group that has been meeting there for many years, is not going to have a home any more. We'll have to come up with some new plans.