Quilt of Valor from Nancy and RoseAna

Oh I am loving this quilt!!  It was made by Nancy S in Wyoming, and quilted by RoseAna from Wilmot South Dakota. They make a great team!!!

Thank you so much ladies!!!
Just a quick recap of Quilts of Valor presented for August
12 to the mens unit
9 to the womens unit
1 to an individual just returned to the US

Thanks to all of you for making this possible!

QOV from Donna and Sue

Donna is a fellow Longarmer and a retired Air Force Lt. Col. , and Sue is one of her customers. Sue recently made this Quilt of Valor top, and Donna Quilted it, and I am getting it ready to get to it reciepeint!

Thanks ladies!!

YOu should be able to click on the picture to enlarge it .

Design Wall Labor day edition

This morning started out so very early - with a Legacy run for Kids for Kyla . This was a 5K and 10K run - we met up with Dr Alex, and had some fun!!!    It was a great, cool, morning.

But when we got back home - I got to work on my 36 patch blocks and now they are all sewn and laying on the floor and I am comptemplating  them....

Apparently I can not count - because I thought I would have 30 blocks when I was finished.... and i had 15. so one of the blocks is made from some of the leftovers.

And then I realized I had a lot of leftovers and made 4 more leftover blocks....

See them on the end of this optically challenging picture?

oh better. So my question to all my great quilty (and non quilty) people... Do I sew the 4 mish mashed blocks into the top?   Or put them in the backing?  

Here we all are at the Kids for Kyla Run

Finished? or Famished?

Cool Banners!!!

And Since I had finished my Memory Quilt in time I took it to give to the Doc. Jenn took the picture and I was glad - because I hadn't thought of it. It made us happy ;-)   And was so good for me.... and you know it is *all about me*  right? (grin)

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Stash Report Sunday

I had forgotten to add the fabrics I used for my Memory quilt - so yay - I have fabric usage to report!  And please know - it is bound!!! So It can actually be used!!!

So for the Stash used report:

Fabrics in this week:  0 yard

Fabrics in YTD:        207.295

Fabric used this week:   10 yards

Fabrics Used YTD:        326.836

Total Fabric BUSTED for 2011:  -119.541



And just so you feel in the game.... here is where my Saturday was spent....

My player is Royal Blue #37 !!

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Fitness Challenge

Amy  signed up to do a Fitness Challenge... I thought .... Oh I need that!!! Maybe if I feel pressure I will get up and do something. So far so good. The goal is to get 100 miles in before the end of September and I am at 66.   But a few of those miles were hard earned this week.

Tuesday Morning ( my day to sleep in) I hear - "keep her walking, I am waking up your mom" . Now just so you know - this is not a good sign.  The only *hers* we have on the place, besides my sweet dog ( who was sleeping too) are horses. And if horses have to keep walking - we have a problem!

 I got all dressed up - pink shorts, white tee, brown cowboys boots ( can you imagine LOL)  and ran outside to see my middle son walking a horse, who kept wanting to lay down, and roll..... which means she was colicking... NOT good!

It was my turn to walk her. And boy - I tell you what - I walked her for over an hour, with her head held high, and every once in a while we had to run, to keep her from going down. 

You remember those toys that if you push the bottom, the figure on the top crumples?  I had one of those - only she is 1,200 pounds and a LOT taller!

Wrangler Man got back in and he walked her for an hour, and then her tummy ache came out (gross)

She settled down, but about every 15 minutes I kept checking on her. Horses are pretty easy to lose to colic, I guess. I learned a lot more about it after the fact! 

All that to say - does running/walking with a horse for a million minutes in boots ( and exercise clothes) count as exercise? Or is it just your every day life, run of the mill walking?

Oh - and because we always need a picture - here is my son, running a cross country race yesterday while I stood and sweated on the sidelines....

Augusts UFO - sort of

The UFO number that Judy picked for August has dissappeared.... well I think I might know where it is, but I was too lazy to get to it.... and I had this quilt top that I had pinned to quilt like 6 months ago.... so I thought I would just switch them out!!!  So LOOK a UFO is done!!

Thats all that really matters right? 

So ta da.... It was my quilt kit that I purchased from High Prairie quilts when I was on a stash enabling trip with Jessica.

It was rescued from my to do list by Denise V. She took it and pieced it for me. ( see somebody does understand me LOL)

I found the PERFECT backing

and quilted it up.

And ta da..... done!!

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Judy's

Pride City Quilt Guild

The president of the Pride City Quilt guild asked her members to make a pillowcase for the Quilt of Valor program in leiu of a quilt for her.... and here are some more!!! I think this is the 3rd Stuffed box they have sent me this summer!!!! They are AWESOME!

Thank you all so much! I am amazed at how I find the perfect pillowcase to go with each quilt - so cool!!



Design Wall Monday

Oh Ya'll I am so excited - I did some sewing and I finished something - sort of - and Oh man - who ever's husband pick on them for having too much stash - let them know this is SO much cheaper than therapy!!!

The Quilt I have been working on is a sort of Memory Quilt. A lot of you know we lost our Girls a little over a month ago. So I pulled fabrics that reminded me of them and all the fun crazy things they did, and started a memory quilt. I will give it to A when it is all complete, as in quilted and ....sit down...... bound!!!

Working on this thing was so cathartic to me, I could remember thing, and events, and conversations and it made me happy. I will still miss them, but this was good for me.... anyways - want to see it? 

This one is big, cuz I wanted the center of each star to be 5 inches.... so I did all my measurements off of that. And that is why it is taking my WHOLE floor LOL

And the other good news is - I will have a change in my stash report next week, cuz I forgot to report this as I was cutting it. See how theraputic this was - I forgot lots of things ;-)

Oh ya - and even though I showed you all - this is a surprise for the reciepient - so if you see him - Mums the word!!! - Okay? Okay!!

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Sunday Stash Report

My Stash has not changed ... kind of.....   I bought a quilt kit at a show, but I have already cut into the kit- so its a wash ... right?

But.... on the good news side - I think I am getting my quilty back..... it has kind of been missing, due to full schedules and lack of inititive to get to the machine, But I am excited - I will even have a design wall tomorrow!  Things are looking up!

Stash report:

Total Fabric Used YTD:   316.84 yards
Fabric in this week:              0

Total Fabric in YRTD:       207.29Yards
Fabric in this week:              0

Total Fabrics Busted:         -109.54 yards

I am going to assume that my numbers aren't going to change much this next month - as I have 3 quilts in process, and have recieved a lot of Quilt of Valor tops that need to be quilted. So wish me luck that I can get as many of those quilted as possible.

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Quilts of Valor from Lois and Friends

My Dear Sweet Lois is Broomfield quilted both of these Quilts of Valor that were made by her Quilting customers - I so appreciate them!!!

This one was made by Linda K of Boulder.

And this one was made by Rosemary F.  and look - the lime green in the corner... its my purse - imagine that!

Thank you ladies for making these and getting them to me! I so appreciate it.