Machine Quilting, Tutorials, Quilts of Valor, and A Lot of Quilts!
Happy Happy Wednesday you all!!!
it's that time again!!
We have built some Units in the past clues - and now we will take some of those units.... and
Start Making a Block!!! Whoop Whoop!!
HAVE FUN!!
It's pattern release day!!
Our last mystery was Under the Starry Sky - and guess what? It is now a complete pattern listed in my Etsy Store!. I knew you were excited !!
Your not going to believe this... but its kinda an end of the month (ish) for me!!
This is my day to recap my Placemat Project for this month!!!
This month was Green and my Goal was 10 Green Placemats!!
Whoop Whoop!! TEN!!! and guess what?? Three of them are quilted - Oh ya!!
But even better?
All NINE of my February ( remember it was short month) are quilted and bound!
and All TEN of my January are now all bound... for those of you who know me, you had BETTER be clapping like crazy... Binding... my least favorite part of making a quilt... I mean - who has time for that? haha!!
Linking to:
Rainbow Scrap Challenge at Super SCrappy
and the
Table Scraps Challenge and the Joyful Quilter
Welcome to this weeks edition of Finished ( or not) Friday... where we find ourselves with!!!
A Finish!!!
Alright - a Little Bragging here.... TWO finishes!! Oh ya!!
I was so excited to finish these and get them back to their owner - and! I think she liked them!!
These were really really fun to do, and of course - they hold such great memories for this family. The lady I made them for, her dad is an icon in the Horse Business around here, so I hope they bring a lot of good memories for her and her kids!
and now... the part of the show that you have been waiting for!! Its your turn!!
Let's show off those amazing Finishes.....
You know the drill!!
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Welcome to Clue #4 of our Mystery!!!
I have uploaded the file for you to click on !
Enjoy!!
A while ago I was reading on Quilt Diva Julies blog about how she selected her Backings. and it sparked a great memory for me!
My sons have been quilting with me since the beginning of my Quilt Journey. I think it was so they could use my Longarm Machine, but no matter.. I welcomed them to the club.
Okay - well not exactly.... I had been quilting a little, and then decided I could teach 5th graders how to quilt, so you know - My oldest was a 5th grader at that time... so I suckered him in.... and the others = well heck they have to keep up with him...
But back to my Memory - My kids all wanted to make a quilt for the County Fair - so we decided on the Disappearing Nine Patch pattern. We thought it would be a fun one, and one that if they had to go to school, they could stop and pick it up rather easily.
The boys dug into my stash, and then we made a fabric Enhancing trip to find the fabrics they wanted. My oldest - loved the Military .... so of course he picked camo fabrics.
And this is the top he made:
We entered the quilts in the fair - in the 4H Heritage Arts division and headed in to *talk * with the judges. The way 4H works - you submit your projects and they Interview you about them. They look at your record books, and talk to you about why you did things. Its pretty cool really.
So he submitted his quilt. The judge looked it over and she said... Well - your Backing Choice is very interesting but it doesn't go with the actual quilt you made. His judge actually told him that was a bad choice for this particular quilt -
and my son - being 10 years old - he argued that it was not. He let her know that the camo on front represented the Military Desert Uniforms and the Air Force on the back represented that he wanted to Fly with the Air Force - so for him this Quilt represented his dreams and made perfect sense.
She relented and came over and told me that I was raising a lawyer, and proceeded to tell me his reasonings on his quilt. ( which incidentally was also written in his Quilt record book that accompanies the quilt) . I loved that judge right then. I love how she listened, understood his reasoning, and actually ended up agreeing with him.
See why 4H is so good - it teaches kids reasoning, as well as some mad skills!
Funny thing about this now? And the reason it sparked a memory?
My Son is a Lawyer - and .... he is in the Marines...
Right???
I have been saving some fabrics... and I am not 100% sure why I was saving them, but as I was Planning a remake of a Quilt pattern I had designed.... I thought - well Heck fire!!
I should use my Cowboy fabrics!!
Now here is the question - Should I
tell you what pattern I am making? Or should I make you guess?
hmmmm what to do?
I mentioned that I had been learning some new recipes - and a few of you wanted to know about them!
Well! We learned that Low carb was a great way to help control Diabetes and other things.. So Dr Google became Recipe Master Google and did we have some fun!!
I thought I would share a few of our most favorite recipes over time here. (besides just a good ol steak with a side of broccoli!- I mean steak... it always wins!!)
THIS!!! Is my Kirbies Cravings Lasagna Kirbies Recipe here and lawsy mercy was it GOOD!!!
First, everyone told me Keto was easy, just replace your flours with almond flours. sure, well - I already have to eat Gluten free so we used Millet and coconut flours, but! I can NOT do the nut flours - Lucky Me - found out the hard way I am ALLERGIC to them!! GO figure!
So when I found this recipe and the noodles were NOT made with any flour of any kinds - I swooned.... Yep - Swooned people! and I dove right in to make it - and it was GOOD - and my husband asked for seconds!!
A few notes - I did not have a food processor, so I used our blender - worked fine. I made the noodle's a little fatter than the recipe said - only because - well - math.... but! I think I will try them the right way next time haha!
I used Ranch Raised Ground beef.... the best!!
And it was awesome!! and even though that looks like a small pan - I think we got 4 meals out of it - so yay me - more quilting time!!
In between piecing my Placemats and Color blocks... I got my March Green Pineapple blossom blocks done!! I didn't have as many greens in my batik bin as I thought... but I like what I used -they are Happy to me!
I think they will be fun with my other colors!
And I got a little circle quilting in on one of my placemats ! yay!!!
Go see what everyone else is up to!!
