May's Green Emerald Chain Finish!!! and !! Finished ( or not) Friday!

 Hold on to your hats quilters.... I have my MAY project done!!  Heck ya - I am not as far behind as I think I am, or, well, maybe I am , but today!! lets celebrate a FINISH!!!

My May RSC - Green was the color - I used my trusty Diamond Chain/Buckeye Beauty plan - but Nann suggested I call it Emerald Chain - and I loved it!!.

We have had the strangest weather - from super hot ( 105) to Cool ( 60) and wind, and smoke and sun and oh boy... there are a lot of fires on the western side of the state and the smoke comes right this way - so you never know what you are going to get when it is photo time. And Bella and Daisy... they are over the 100d days... they think they are dumb haha!!

But!! this quilt is finished - it is about 64 x 80 inches, It used a Ton of my Greens - and!! I quilted it with circles like champagne bubbles - so it is a celebration. Also... It has found its home! More on that later.

What have you been up to this week? Anything fun, Anything Finished? Anything closer to finished? 

Link up to your DIRECT Blog post 

Visit a lot of folks

and beware... You r bucket list may grow!!

****************Link Up here *************************

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

****************The End *************************

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

The RIBBON - Quilt a Long - THE BORDERS

 Today - we will apply the borders to our QUILT!!!

We are adding TWO Borders - a small Navy Blue one and a larger white one:

Here is the Link to the PDF for all the measurements etc!!  The Final Borders!!!

NOW!! Be sure you have downloaded the files - they do disappear....

If you are sharing with friends - send your friends here to get their copies please. I do want a lot of QOV's made - but please don't take liberties with my designs ;-)

hope you enjoyed this little Quilt a Long . I will be back with my Quilted Version on one of my Finished ( OR NOT) Fridays ! It would be fun to have you join us!!

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

Purple Diamond chain Top !! and Finished ( or not) Friday!

 I finished my July Purple Diamond Chain Rainbow Scrap Challenge top just under the wire!!! - Go me!

And of course, you will see it again - I mean I still needs to be Quilted ( and bound 😱)  

I think it turned out about 40 ish x 48 ish inches - so a nice little small lap quilt... and its Purple - Who knew I loved Purple so much! I did not, and Now I want it everywhere!!!

It was also our County Fair week - So I entered a Quilt... It was in the group Category as the blocks were all made by different people, I pieced it, Quilted it . and - oh ya! I bound it.

You can see the full quilt here : Starry Log Cabin  I wish there had been enough room to display the whole thing. But!! I did a write up about Quilts of Valor, and they printed that and had it next to the quilt.

We won First in our Class, and Champion in the category  - so Yay us!!!

This next quilt is not mine, but I quilted it. It was pretty exciting to see that this one Won Overall Reserve Grand!!! 

It's an amazing quilt and I really enjoyed Quilting it - so it made my heart happy that it did so well!!

hope you all had a great week too - and got some stitching in!

It is now time for you to brag! Strut your stuff! show us what happened in your world... and better yet - what did you get to the Finish part???

****************Link Up **********************

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

***************The End ***********************

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

THE RIBBON - Quilt a Long - The Layout!!

 if you have been following our little Quilt a Long - it is time for the Layout!!!  

Its a fast and quick one - but today - you will be laying all the blocks out and making the inner top!!

Link to the PDF is RIGHT HERE: The layout

I am going to ask tho - if you are sharing on your blog - please - just link back to my post - don't take my photos and use them in your posts . Showing your photos is fine...but I do try to put these as a full pattern later in the year ;-)  

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

Heart QOV and Finished ( or not) Friday!!!

 Happy Friday!!

 If you are doing *The Ribbon * QAL I hope you had a lot of time to get the steps done! The next one comes out Wednesday - it s a fast and easy quilt.

Did you notice last week how many of the Heart Quilts were in our fonf?  I feel like I was in good company - look what I finished this week!!

Busy Hands , Little Penguin, and MMM Quilts !!And now ME!!!

This was  a Quilt a Long called GLOWING HEARTS by MMMQuilts - and I just fell in love with the blocks. I used a Jelly Roll - and just decided that they would look great with this panel. And so! I made more and Ta Da!!

I got it all Quilted and it will now go to my friend to bind!! adds a little extra love for our Veterans!!

and just because... here is a photo of my Husband ( top) and I ( bottom) are our Shoot  - we both won our classes and had a great day. Mine was great as I used a new horse to shoot off of , and I didn't fall off!!!

Now it is your turn!! What did you finish or not? 

Share with us and let us ohh and ahh

Be sure to visit each link - its fun to see what others are up to - but you all!! I need more time to start all the projects I see haha!!

********************Link Up Here ******************

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

*******************The End - Go Sew!!*************************

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

QOV Quilt a long - aka The Ribbon Part 2

 Hope you had a great week and got your Step 1 finished!!! 

Today we are moving on to Part 2 ... 

The Hourglass!!

here is the Link to the PDF - Print it out and get to stitching!! The Ribbon Part 2

Just a little ps - instead of sharing a photo of the final quilt- could you maybe just link back to the Quilt a long??? 

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

Purple RSC Blocks

As we are almost to the end of the month - I am just really getting started on my purples!!

That timing thing is really throwing me off this month haha!!

Here are the purples blocks that I have finished:

These are really fun to make. I had scraps, and then I picked some up at a guild meeting. So much fun to combine the purples and patterns  and... you know!! the plaids!!!

I got one purples had done - its sort of a dusty purple - but! it finished the yard ball!!

I finished the two green ones from last month ;-)

so my hat pile is growing. We need them by October to fill the Operation Christmas Child boxes.

At least I am not behind on that deadline ( yet)

ms Crazy Bella - she was helping to pick out which purple scrap to use next ;-) she is such a helper 😇😇

And us!!

we were heading out to a shoot ( mounted shooting competition off our horses) early in the morning. I thought we better get a good before photo - as the afters...

We are tired, and dirty, and the hair.... well the hair is not so pretty after a 100deg day and the humidity we have been having haha

Linking to;

• Sew and Tell
• Design Wall Monday
• Monday Musings
• Rainbow Scrap Challenge
  
• Oh Scrap!
  

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

Finished ( or not) Friday

 Friday came WAY to fast this week!! I made lists, I had plans... I did not finish... I did not even get to the "or not" phase... ah well!!

I did get these blocks done for my Quilt Guild Bee... 

Aren't they cute? I also made some wonky stars with the cut offs of the houses - so super cute!!

I got  a lot of quilting done.... this was my Friend Deb's quilt - 

and the garden. If you know.... I am not usually allowed in the garden - that is all K's territory. I have a tendency to kill plants. Two years ago I was given the task of watering the trees - K has about 20 planted. And I succeeded !

So I was allowed to plant strawberries this year in a raised garden bed. ( far away from his main garden) and look!!!  

A strawberry!! i have had 2 so far - at this rate - Strawberry Shortcake is not happening soon!

And storms - Holee Buckets - have we had storms come in. I love the colors and the contrast. We have had a lot of rain - We are dryland pasture people - so that we LOVE!!

Today is turn in for the Weld County Fair - so I have to take a quilt in for the Quilt show - and then!!! I shall get back to my list and FINISH Something - even if it is just the laundry!! 😊😂

Its your turn to brag!!

Did you all see this quilt from FONF last week:

Scrapbox Quilt Help Challenge Quilt - man if you didn't... you should go now - the quilting... wowo!!

*****************Link Up Here*****************

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

*******************The End*******************

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

QOV Quilt a long - aka - The Ribbon Step 1

 Good morning!!

I hope you have had a chance to grab some fabric and get it cut. I have heard that a few of you are doing in scrappy!! I Love that - and hope you will share your photos... either leave your blog link in the comments or email it to me ;-)

the first block we will be making is the 25 patch block - it will be 8 inches square,

this step took me right at 2 hours. I pressed everything to the dark, and ! I got to watch two The Marvelous Mrs. Maisels on prime haha!!

The full instructions can be Downloaded here : The Ribbon Step 1

OHHH I JUST SAW A TYPO - They will be 8 inches square unfinished

7 1/2 finished!! I am going to change that right now!!  ( the new instruction sheet has the word correction added to it ;-)  )  

Just a little ps - instead of sharing a photo of the final quilt- could you maybe just link back to the Quilt a long???

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)

Wrapped in Love

 We had a chance to visit one of my favorite groups of Veterans and have a little breakfast... we might have wrapped a few in Quilts of Valor as well.

The three gentlemen sitting are Korean War Veterans, one also served in Vietnam .

Sometimes its hard to get a good photo for us, everyone of these Vets family and friends were taking photos. And that is OK!! I love that they get the attention, but I also at least want a photo for me haha!!

Two of them were Marines - they told me that they were friends - so we made sure to have a matching pillowcase for them. They got a huge kick out of that and it made their day. Their wives might have just grinned at me at the joke!

The next day I had a Shoot !

There is a Veteran that we ride with who is one of the most amazing people I know. I had been scheming for a while to figure out how to present him a Quilt of Valor.

It worked out at this shoot that my Quilt for him was ready, and!! a little special something else,

Its funny - I rarely get flustered any more - but for some reason, presenting this in front of all of our friends gave me a little jitter - and when I went to hold the quilt up - I just grabbed the two nearest cowboys and enlisted them 😀

He has a dog that is so in tune with him, He ran up as he felt the emotion - which was perfect.

we had a little quilt for him too!! It was a fun addition to the presentation!

Remember Wednesday is our QOV QAL *The Ribbon * - if you didn't know and want to join in - 

here is the link to the intro THE RIBBON INTRO  

Linking to;

• Sew and Tell
• Dsign Wall Monday
• Monday Musings

Find me at all these places:

    

Etsy        Instagram      Facebook       Amazon

(ps - a commission is earned on purchases from amazon thru my link)