The Procrastiquilt #1 is Done!!!! and Finished!! (or not) Friday!!

Oh what a week!! We have a lot of Finishes around here!!... and only one of them is a Personal Quilt!!! But!! Its exciting none the less!

Lets go with the Quilt first!!!

I got my Procrastiquilt QOV finished!! Well - the first one!!

Don't you just love it? I really do - even tho nothing is really *even*  haha!!!

Wonky stars and uneven rails... that's my Jam!!!

I quilted it with Swirly Stars......

Just so you know... I  might have used this as an excuse to not work in the barn.. The boys were re-roofing and I was supposed to be sorting all the *stuff* in there... I got thru a lot.. but I was starting to annoy my husband with the amount of *stuff* I was putting in the dumpster.... oops!

and now on to the other big finish!!! My Baby!!! He graduated!!!...  we all ( minus that oldest kid of mine) got to head up to watch him!! We were so excited - and it was so fun!! 

I had sort of expected 70 deg and sun... but that is not what we were greeted with... Good thing I always travel with an extra jacket!!

Just cuz My Blog is all about me.... Me with my Baby!!! I love it!! 

And now... it is your turn!!! Strut your stuff!!!

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* grow your bucket list

* buy more fabric

* stitch faster

* and have more to show for FONF!!!

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Tale of Two Pigs...

aka *Farmin with the Carmins*

I started watching this show called "Farmer wants a Wife" or something like that... only - none of the bachelors are Farmers - they are Ranchers and Horse Trainers....which may not make a difference to the rest of the world... but it does to me!!

Farmers grow crops, Ranchers grow animals - and yes you can do both and be both... but!! I have an opinion - and now you know it haha!

All that to say ... in one of the episodes - one of the girls vying for the Farmers heart says to the camera - I am just not seeing any sign of affection - he is not showing me he is interested. This!   After they had been working outside all day, and he helped each girl to the *event* they were supposed to do.

 

I promptly turned to my husband and said - Thank you for my Pig House - and he laughed. Outward signs of affection for Farmers and Ranchers don't come in the form of flowers very often!! Now check out my super cool piggie house!!!!

That is a sign of pure love for a cattle man!!

Which the timing was awesome - as we got flooded...  (see Lake Carmin there!)

We have done Pigs before - but I have not done them alone - My son raised the last group of pigs and I just did what he said.  Well!! My Little Buddy ( pic below) is an FFA Student and a pig Farmer. For his FFA project he has started up a Pig Feed/Supply Business FTK Feeds ( on Facebook)  I hope that link works!

Anyways - I called him and told him about my pigs and asked him what to add to the feed... So he and his mom came out to talk with me. They also helped me worm them and he educated me more about them.

Ps - Check out what mom is holding... oh ya!! you don't visit here often without seeing something that has to go home with you!!!

Now if you want to know what I am feeding and experimenting with ... you'll have to ask - because I could bore you!

Keeping the Pig Pen dry has been a chore..... but check out their fancy new straw.... they are Happy Pigs!!

and Cam and Mitch got a new friend!! This is Lily!! She is a tiny little calf!! She weighed just under 400 pounds coming to me, so she has some eating to do !!

Cam really feels that he should be a model - so he was posing for you. He wanted you to see him in Black and White -as its his vintage look

My son is home for a bit - and we are working on the roof of our shed... so we were joking that I should start a new series called Farmin' with the Carmins... so here you go - Tales of Two Pigs... might be updating haha!!  ( even tho we consider ourselves ranchers hahahaha!!)

Life here recently is just like this:  *Herding Cats**

My photo proves it can be done!!!

And just so you know - I still have an artsy side... My goal is to add some relaxing walking to my schedule. I thought If I walked and took my camera I could multitask.... Photo 1:

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Patriotic Procrastiquilting (or Proquiltinating)... again!!!!

 I am at it again.... I was supposed to be doing chores - but its muddy.... and I already stepped out of my boots twice... I didn't want to do it again... and so!!

I got busy...

With....

More Procrastiquilting!!!!!

This ( above) Is my final design for Top 2!!! I liked the one that I had going the other way ( HERE)

Top 1 Already has a back and is prepped to go on the Longarm 
when I have a break in the schedule

BUT!!! I 

1. Had more blocks, and

2. wanted to see what it would look like heading the other way.... 

I kinda like having more stars and less stripes on the new on!!

and I also have 3 rows already put together - so yay me!!! 

Just an Aside - we have been moving a lot of animals and making temporary corrals so we can drain the ones they are in - now this is a dry photo - it was a prep pen for my pigs so I could move them and  re straw their pen... 

Since then I think we have had to move the temporaries a million times to drain a LOT of water ... ( it has been raining for a week! - and yes I will take it but I will complain about the 4 gazillion inches of mud!) 

 check out my husbands helper!!!

Kittie likes to be involved in everything... and Kittie is a funny little pain in the fencing department. But!! If you don't let Kittie help... she climbs up your pants!!

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A Plus Quilt and ..... Finished ( or not) Friday

What a week!!!!

Pig says * Oh Hail*   Now feed me... haha

Monday was spent finishing THE LAST T SHIRT quilt before high school graduation... and of course that meant binding.... I had to psyche myself up for that!!

Tuesday I photographed a family and all the extended family for their Grandmothers 102 birthday!!!

and Grandma.... was amazing - she was SO cute!! She had to talk to the "Photographer" privately... she wanted to make sure I didn't get her cane in the photo - cuz she hates using it... I want to be her!!

Tuesday Night was spent wondering if the windows were going break, and what animals were going to escape in the middle of a torrential HAIL storm!!!

It did not make my night. The lightening was crazy and the downpour flooded us... I live on a hill, and we had standing water and a lake in the arena so you know Wednesday... was spent cleaning up and preparing for round 2 that came Wednesday night. 

The biggest problem with this weather?  I have to unplug all the  machines and the computer - even tho I have a whole house surge protector... I kinda don't believe they will save everything with this type of Lightening.... I had to read.... it was so rough   ( haha!) Just kidding.... I played in the fabric stash...

When everything is unplugged you start to look at your fabric to see what you can start... I found Charm Packs - there were three of the same kind and so....

I tried a yellow background

A blue Background

Pink....

I finally settled on Yellow and made this!!

I think it is about 45 x 50 ish 

NExt up - use the rest of them with the light blue... I did not care for the pink at all...

So thats my week.... 

What have you been up to?

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* buyt more fabric

* stitch faster

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The 4th Hawaiian....

 Progress on the Hawaiian front!!

Quilt top NUMBER FOUR is now together!!!     and up on the design wall - it is being my spring decorations right now!

The pattern is called Wiggle Time   and its a great and easy pattern!

I worked with the scraps I had threes of - and got it to this size... which is big enough. ( don't make me measure it - too many details haha!!)

I really liked the teal.. reminds me of waves on the water... and maybe there is a dolphin or a whale in there! Ohh... maybe that is what I should quilt on it when I get to this one... hmmmm

Number 5 has been started!! But! My husband took Friday off - and he has been making us work VERYVERY hard... I didn't make enough progress to show you what I have started on.

Also!! ELEVEN Quilts went to my Pathways Hospice.... its kind of nice that my hair cut place is not to far from there, so my goal has been to deliver quilts when I get my hair cut....Two birds and all that.  They loved this last batch ;-)  its fun to see them look at them all.

Happy Stitching!!!

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Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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Log Cabins and!!! Finished ( or not) Friday!!!

Happy Friday!!!

I hope your week was amazing and filled with goodness!!

I am going to try a little something different today.... You may know that I have done a lot of photography in the past, and I always like to have props... Which gave me an excuse to buy some *prop* quilts.

They are just cool for backdrops, or blocking out a bad background....

Anyways this is one that I bought for backdrops and I used it for headshots... But check it out:

it measures 70 x 70 inches (ish)

It is machine quilted - they stitched in the ditch along each log, and in the borders did a meander

I am not a quilt historian so I am not sure the date on these fabrics - but I have had the quilt about 15 years.

The back is a Grey color

and a close up of the blocks

Here is the deal - This quilt is in great shape, I don't see any stains, tears or rips - but ... it is time for it to go to a new home.... 

This is where you come in... Make me an Offer. Make sure you know that shipping will be added to your offer. I use UPS where available as that is the least expensive option from my town. And I can only ship to the Continental US. 

If you are interested - email me at AlyciaQuilts @ Gmail . Com 

And now it is your turn to brag:

it is time for FINISHED!!! OR NOT!!! Friday  ( I said that in my head like the old Lost in space movie!)

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May the 4th be With you!!!

 May the 4th be with you!!!

This was such a fun client quilt!! She used all sorts of awesome Star Wars prints!!

I was impressed by the variety of them, and my kids... didn't really want this quilt to go back to its owner !!

I could not resist sharing this quilt... I had SUCH FUN quilting it!!

See you tomorrow for Finished ( or not) Friday!!!

May Day

May Day!!! I was so lucky - my cousin decided to come to Colorado and she wanted to go to the Wild Animal Sanctuary... so I met her and her friend there - and!!!

Took my camera!!

I haven't picked up my big camera since February... Isn't that sad?

it was a beautiful spring day and the animals at the Wildlife Sanctuary were waking up!!

( If you haven't checked this place out - you totally should - they have rescued so many animals and provide a super amazing habitat for them)

The Wild Animal Sanctuary

 I felt like the parent that I am ... and was thinking - Children!!! You are why we can't have nice things!! Settle down...

Of which - they never did!

This is a lynx or Narvel?   I can't remember what the sign said - but it looked pretty happy!!

I imagine this Lion was talking to a mouse!!! Maybe not - but she was amusing!!

and then this bear.... He and his buddy were just laying around.  I am pretty sure he was just happy to see the sun!!!  The weather here has been....  capricious... someday I will expand my vocabulary!! 

And back to our Bathing Beauties - they entertained me for quite a while - and then... settled back down!

Maybe the bath salts finally melted????

This was a super fun day - and makes me want to get back out with my camera.  I took a secret trip in February ... that I finally downloaded my images and will share soon - but since then... its been all work!!!

Three years ago May 1st was the start of more serious health issues with my parents - who knew that time would go so slow and so fast, and so many changes could happen..... oh boy!! 

So just a funny - I started full time cooking for my parents that day... and continued until my dad passed in February....

Now my Dog... he can't eat dog food anymore, and so now I am cooking for him - I told him I wasn't going to make him eat as much broccoli as I made my dad eat tho!! haha!!!  Puppy has a tooth infection, so probably when it is cleared up he can go back to eating dog food, but I bet by then I will have spoiled him ( ps Puppy is 13)

A Patriotic Procrastiquilting (or Proquiltinating)

When you are supposed to be getting ready for your Quilts of Valor sew day …. And you see something that catches your eye …

And you say - I’ll just get those up on the design wall…..

And then you say - let me just stitch a few together

And before you know it …. You have a top !!!

Procrastiquilting ( it’s a word - I promise!)

The rest of the story?

I got loaded up - didn't forget but a few things and!

We had a great sew day!!!

The end

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Finished (or not) Friday at AlyciaQuilts

Oh Scrap                         at  Quilting is More fun than Housework

More Hawaiian Stuff ( okay the 9 patches!!)

 I started playing around with the Nine patches I had left over from my design attempts.... I also had

 one lone Churn dash left.... 

just one....

and inspiration hit!

I would surround my churn with the nines and frame it and it would be beautiful!!!

The churn was just a tad bit smaller than the nines... I could trim the nines ... but!!! I could also frame the churn!!

Trim 8???? or Frame 1.... you saw where I was going with that right??

and so!!! Ta!Da!!!  One more Hawaiian Top done... except... I still have more 5 inch squares in the Hawaiian bucket!! when I started cutting them up - I must have had a lot of time on my hands... and cut WAYYYYY to many... but I love them!!

Just in case you  need a little Hawaiian breather.... Makapu'u Point Lighthouse.....

Gorgeous Hike!!!