Another Quilt Has Been finally Quilted.

Took a deep breath and just jumped in and quilted it. 

Nothing fancy bu still very nice. 

YES Completed!!!! I AM HAPPY!

Now to get going and complete the Binding. 

New Quilt Top Ready For Quilting

The Beginning Of The Deepest Meaning Quilt To Date. 

 Thinking I need to add more to the 2 other sides now too. 

Completed Finished Top  

Pulled out and leveled the Long arm this evening to get ready to quilt this ever so amazing important quilt. I will share the importune with updated posts to come soon.

Moms Birthday Gifts & Long Arm Loaded.

My mom Loves me swing adn loves to ask for things so here is a few things she asked for done and gifted on her Birthday

I am so happy and thrilled that My long arm has a nicer home I have loaded it adn now looking forward to playing with this new quilt top for the first time to be used in the studio.

Long Arm Moved Into The Shop & More

Long Arm has been put back together and leveled in the new sewing room 

My 2 passion side by side! 

This is the start of the transformation and added the carpet plastic to the garage door for a bit more insulation too.  

The after came out very nicely and warms the place up nicely. 

The Coop ( named by the Awesome Brenda )  Just need this small pile all cleaned and organized and than it will be Perfectly set to juts create and create Dream and Inspire!

Rock On! Long Over Due Quilt Finish!

Here is the great finish.  

The start of the binding 

 I needed to control the binding so I wrapped the water bottle. 

 I do not recommend not using a walking foot. I just forgot to switch 

Lets Catch Up Some More

I am trying to catch you all up on stuff I have been finishing or making away. This is a mix of stuff to get caught up and than the posts hopefully will get back to more regular. Do not forget to look at the past posts too as there is a lot more catch up postings added. 

This is a Smock for a friends daughter that she likes

These are a couple Poker Pillows made from left over material I got my neighbor that she is making a tie blanket to gift to her son.

OH WOW! This quilt is finally off the long arm and finished. 

Any bets on how long until I bind it.???

A fun Great Score I got at a thrift store! 

Here is my first stab at Free standing lace 

I made a bunch of these and have been sharing them all over. 

I Hung up the quilt I got from Shane. I love it. 

Long Arm Fun and Frustration

Still a good time sewing away even with the frustrations of a day where the stars are not aligned for it.

This took forever with every silly excuse under the sun to get this quilt quilted.  Well here it is on the Long arm and what insanity of this and that all going wrong over and over. It is not finished as now I am having new issue of thread breakage. I will win this battle and this quilt will get finished.  Its nice that my Pup Angel is by my side too. 

ANGEL 

sleeps by me everywhere.

Me Quilting Away 

through the issues & problems.

Yes I cut my hair again and yes it is Pink too. 

Not Much In Productivity. Lots Of Learning Longarm Backing

Truly not a real productive time with the longarm however it was a wonderfully educational time.  Many different things went on and I will bullet and share some education with you all. My hope is this all will help some of you avoid some of the frustration I had.  

This was my first time with using 108” backing fabric and not knowing of the learning curve I was dealing with.  Load unload load unload I was so very sure that it was square all these times. Frustration 4 letter words flying away.  Ok need to walk away.. What a great place to end up walking away to feel better. 

I went to the Quilt Farm ( http://www.quiltfarm.net/aboutus.htm ) Great magical NICE  place right close to my place. Where along my drive I get to stop and enjoy beautiful places such as this water fall and there is many more beautiful places along the way too.

Where upon arrival I did have an advanced heads up that the Canada crew was enjoying the fall retreat week together there. The leader of that gang Chris Foster who now has a blog I highly encourage you to go visit her and see her many way above me gifted talented well educated greatness she blesses us all with in the quilting world.( www.holycowchris.blogspot.com )  

So now that you have all that great information that I am sure you all will visit the sites and let me know when you are taking a trip up to the farm and we all can go for lunch or something while you visit.  Here are some bullet points.

1>    Backing that is 108” is best when Tore off the bolt rather than cut. This keeps it much straighter.

2>    Ironing all this stuff is insanely hard when your iron breaks and does not get hot enough. Perhaps a new iron is in order.

3>    My idea of racking 2 quilt tops with different thread color requirement’s is way out there and I just tossed that idea out. ( as well as the way both tops fit would not be the way I was quilting the one… a few inches too little.  ) ERRRRRR

4>    The best things to do is walk away breath and go play with another project and come back refreshed and just do it again. WOW THE BACKING IS LOADED CORRECTLY. SMILES

Here Is A Small Teaser

To assure you that there is Truthfully more and much more to come here is some teaser sneak peak pics.

This is on the Topaz right now with lots more to come. 

Lots of Embroidery is happening on the Ruby  Having lots of fun and some videos on this coming too. 

See the Crane on the back of my vest I did? 

This is the center idea of even another quilt that I am working on at the same time!

Long Time to Away. Lets Get Back To Sewing & Quilting

I have been away for a bit of time. Had some Medical issues come up and needed to get them taken care of with some surgery. Recovery sucked I couldn't really sew or do much of anything!  All is good now and I really need to stop being so self absorbed with that part of the last couple months and move forward.

Enough about that now lets talk about the good start as I get my self grounded and back to the real medicine of life  Sewing and QUILTING!  While I had over a month off from the world I did mange to sew slowly 1 strip or 2 a day and came up with this.  ( I love This and I am looking forward to finishing it up soon.) 

This will be for me!!!! Yes For Me! My Recovery Quilt. 

On another Note 

CHICKEN NEWS AND MORE>>>> My lovely chickens Zelda, Hildigar, and Jenny all have a great home with a wonderful Amish family.   ( Surgery recovery rules where I could only lift 5 lbs or less for over a months time so I could not care for them to my standers ) 

Hang tight and bare with me I am giving my self the winter to fully recover into the physical bad ass I was before the surgery and I will be getting new chickens. 

Videos will be coming up too Lots of great new ideas coming really soon!!!! 

Coop Update and Some Small Sewing

I have been running around yet at the same time my motivation has been low in the energy department.  However I got off my butt long enough to get a few things done here and there. The chicken Run is all finished feneced on top to keep the hawks out and all conneted in 2 runs into one with shaded area and sunny area too. The roof is now on the Coop. I am not by any means a roofer but I manged to get this up and complted leak free.

Also I need to add some small sewing A few fun bracelets in here just to work it up to get my motivation going as I believe I have a perfect space and will be making a new sewing room where the whole room will be all my sewing. This will be a lot of work however I believe it will be a nice area when I am finished.  Fingers crossed I get moving to make this happen.  

The Quilted Ducks Hit The City Streets Before They Get Binding On

A special thanks to Kathleen for taking some fun time to play and take this photo of the ducks playing in some graffiti covered alley's in the city of Buffalo.

The ducks are finished up and all quilted I will add the Binding tonight and Saturday they will be gifted off to some great friends that will soon have the 1st born to enjoy it.

I loved Creating This.

Chicken Tractor/ Coop Engineering Changes & New Build

Angels lays with her new loved hens as I work on moving the heavy coop they are in now. 

Well I built my hitch axle and attached a new set of wheels. this much was a plus. I tested it on the coop they have now so I could move that and it was an epic fail. I did learn a lot and will be armed for the new engineering ideas.  Here is the failed attempt pic I am still impressed I did this all and got this far. Its truly a fun learning adventure with a lot of creativity.

I have the base with hitch finished on the new coup and I tested it towed it around the yard and it works like a charm. Fingers crossed it works that good with the coop built on it. I believe my sewing has helped my a lot in the shop as now I seem more patient and this is just a time like seam ripping I guess. 

Hildigar was very happy to have her coup back on the ground for sure. 

Upgrading A chicken Coup Plus Turning it Mobile & A Fast Wedding Quilt

Well now there has not been a lot of sewing as I am trying to make the Coup all ready to be nice and Mobile and make a new nice run to add as well. This will help in so many ways for maintenance cleaning and giving them the whole yard as I move them around.  So the first this I did was tile the floor and than hang the water bucket up.  a lot nicer look and easier to keep and to clean up. Here is an inside pic.

To keep my hens happy as well as myself I am so impressed at how I have recycled reclaimed and made a mobile  base that works and  I added new tires and new bearings for it too.  The hens needed to get to bed last night  so I will try and make it attached and working today after work.  Here is the test drive to see that it  hooks up to the mower and is working. 

I will work on the frame and getting the coup mounted to night. 

I can not post with out any sewing pics. here is another wedding quilt I I made last summer. After the chickens are all settled and made comfy I will be very happy to sew on the deck and watch the girls out in the yard. 

Mothers Day Sewing and A Few Chickens

I managed to get in some sewing time during this busy week with new things going on around the house. I am making up a small wall hanging for my mom for mothers day. I really am enjoying this applique thing lots lately  nothing recycled in this project but I am still working on all that too.

Well as always with my silliness I got this idea that a couple chickens would be fun to have and we could enjoy  some farm fresh eggs too.  So I went to look at a small chicken coop for sale and than we got to talking and he also sold me 3 Hens so wow in like a few hrs flat a became a chicken farmer LOL ok well at least an owner of 3 laying hens.  Here is my new Girls so far 2 have names Hildigar and Zelda the 3rd is still waiting for her name. Day 3 we figured out how to tell them all apart too.

Since we have a lot of red tail hawks over head along with many other predators I  built this  up fast so they be out and safe while we are around.  Below I will so my small coop they seem to love too. I am working on building them a mobile chicken coop or Chicken tractor for them to enjoy and it will be secure enough to have them be able to enjoy the outside safely and securely all day.  For right now this is my set up. 

I would love for them to be totally free range however I am guessing that I would not have my fun hens for very long with all the hawks,  fox, coyotes, coons, and many others roaming around that would just just to eat up my hens. 

A Beautiful Evening After Work Sewing On The Deck.

I love when the weather breaks and get a chance to take everything outside. This allows the magic of nature to caress my spirit will I feed my soul by creating anything and everything. 

I am looking into alternative power sources to add to outdoor sewing. Right at the moment I have a 2nd battery hooked to my pick up truck so I can sew off my tail gate. I want to try and take it to the next level and be able to sew any where my truck can not go too. Please share any ideas along the way you have.

Sorry For My Mix Mp In Comments. & A New Guild To Me.

Sorry for missed non replied comments

I seem to of been extremely ignorant in how the comments work and I will try and catch up on my mistake. If I have this figured out now some comments are replied through email and those are the ones I have missed and others are replied to under the posts here in my blog. I will be careful to try and not that and reply back via email when they are not here under the post. I thought I was going crazy.  I just figured this out on my own today so please give me some time to catch up and Please keep comments coming.

I believe I am going to join a Guild

Thanks to my Rocking friend Nadine I just went to her guild meeting last night with my sewing partner in crime; we had a great time met some great people too. the show and tell was super great and listening to some of the up coming plans they have coming to. I will be updating on this as it evolves.  Lots of great fun. Here is a link of an old newspaper article I found that has the guild info in it.  

newspaper article with guild info

I am always in need of posting a pic 

Here is some silly thread art play for a little bit as I still get use to the new long arm and my partner in crime has played some to. Its amazing how fast one looses time so fast driving around the machine in fun play.