Sunday Stash report

I think I got a little behind in doing my stash reports. Probably cuz I haven't been tempted to buy anything, as no one will let me near a quilt shop!! We need to have a family talk - ya know!

So from June 12 to today this report will catch me up;

Fabric Used:   6.5 yards  ( the fabric for my Indigo challenge quilt and backing for my UFO #8)
Fabric Used YTD:   278.224 yards

Fabric in:     O Yards
Fabric in YTD:   183.045

Total Fabric BUSTED YTD : 95.179 yards!!!

And because you really really want to know the reasons we haven't been to a quilt shop:

Dixie doesn't know how to parallel park yet - so she has to stay on the ranch.

Rojo is not equipped with the appropriate blinkers - and he doesn't qualify as a farm vehicle.

And Butter - well Butter is not real fond of people. He like Middle bit - and thats about it. If I go to catch him I swear he is planning 42 ways to bite me, but if the kiddo goes to catch him, he saunters right up and actually is NICE!1

To see other stash reports got to

http://www.patchworktimes.com/

More QOV's delivered

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the smiles on the reciepients faces when they recieve a Quilt of Valor. It is just so awesome!!!!  And the tears of gratitude, of amazement that anyone would want to do this for them.... so cool.

I love it when the families are able to see their veteran recieve a Quilt of Valor. This little girl was precious. I kinda wanted another little one after hanging out with her!

This dear sweet man - oh boy - he was just too sweet for words, and when I handed him his quilt - the last thing I said was "Welcome Home" and he lost it. No one had told him that yet.

Thank you all for your help in covering these Veterans. I swear each one of you that participate in this endeavor is totally AWESOME!!!

Vacation ( and a business meeting)

Can you tell where we went?

One of us, and it wasn't one of the adults, had meetings all the way across the country - so we all joined in.....

Can you tell where we are?

Quilts from PatchworkTimes.com

Last Memorial Day Judy L over at http://www.patchworktimes.com/ hosted a Quilt A long with a really cool pattern. Apparently I wasn't the only one who fell in love with the pattern. Many others made tops and Judt quilted them, and now I have them and am getting them ready for delivery.

So - would you like to see them? 

This one ( above) was made by Kathy R

This one was made by Dee at Bittenbythequiltingbug.blogspot.com

a close up of the quilting.

I love these quilts. I am amazed at the different looks just by using different fabrics.

Thanks Judy for hosting this and for quilting all of these Quilts of Valor!!

Design Floor Monday

So instead of a quilt in progress - I got a Quilt of Valor Quilted - Yay!!!

This is one of them from the Not So Top Secret Project quilt pattern found here:

http://www.quiltygirl.com/QuiltPatterns/not%20so%20top%20secret.pdf

 

Another close up of the quilting.

To see other design walls - head over to

http://www.patchworktimes.com/

Presentations of Quilts of Valor

I had the honor of presenting 3 Quilts of Valor to some outstanding Vets the other day. We had  Desert Storn, and Iraq and a Vietnam Vet present. They were just so cool.... And were so excited to recieve these quilts.

The couple in this last photo had an 18 month old girl and she wanted to snuggle in that quilt so badly.. it was adorable.

Hope you enjoy seeing where some of these quilts go!

A Tie Quilt

Pat ( a different Pat) sent me this wonderful quilt that she made out of her husbands ties. It was a beautiful quilt. My guys all drooled over the ties, and said that if her husband didn't want it they would gladly take it off his hands!!

Pat has allowed me to post some pictures....

Some of these ties are just priceless. We loved each of them and loved checking them out!

Design Wall ( floor) Monday and UFO #8

This month;s UFO number chosen was #8 - and my number 8 was a bunch of strips to be sewn into a top... and I did it!! I wanted to get it quilted too....but seeing as how the month is moving faster than expected.... its not happening!

This is called a Lasagna Quilt - from and Atkinson designs book called Spring Cleaning.

And of course - this will be a Quilt of Valor when its all ready to go.

To see what others have on their design wall go to:

http://www.patchworktimes.com

Quilted By Pat

There is a wonderful wonderful dear sweet woman down in Peyton, who I adore and she is an awesome quilter.... (altho she WON'T let me cut off the butterflys) and Pat quilted four more Quilts of Valor for us.

This first quilt Pat quilted was made by Willa - she in one of the awesome ladies of Livermore Church Quilters.

This second one is just beautiful. I love this pattern..anyone recognize it?

These last two quilts were made by the FCCLA ladies and Platte Valley High School. Didn't they do a great job?

Oh - and here is a close up of the quilting on Willas quilt... they are just so gorgeous!!

Thank you so much Pat for getting these quilted. I so appreciate your help!

You won't believe it

but I think the Natural Gas/Oil people are out to get me.... two nights ago... while Wrangler Man was NOT home to chase away the scary monsters that only come out at night..... I had headlights shining through my Bathroom window. 

Now, while this may be normal for a lot of people.... it is NOT for me. It kind of indicates that someone has entered on my property by an unauthorized way and is traveling in an unauthorized direction ( I hope that makes sense) .... okay tresspassing...

So while I did a little freak out dance - I mean is was about 2:30 in the morning.... I got brave and looked out my window. A semi was driving through my neighbors pasture, and was kind of stuck. He gunned it and turned... and then things got a little noisy.

The next morning I woke up to:

Another well!!!! So now I have one our my east bedroom window, and one out my west bathroom window, and they make noise, and I am a light sleeper.....

So if I pull a cranky on someone... I blame the gas  ( bwahh haa haa)

Sometimes it sounds like a herd of these:

And they make as big a mess....

Okay - last personal life post for a while- I promise!!