More Retreat Stuff...

You are gonna get so sick of hearing me talk about this retreat.

For the past several years we have had a massage therapist come and he always says, "My wife askes me where the quilt is when I get home." So, last year we decided that we would make him a quilt instead of paying for the massages this year. He met Laurie and I at Cheryl's Quilt Shop a couple weeks ago and he picked out the quilt and fabrics that he wanted. I did the figuring cause he wanted a queen and the pattern was for a lap quilt, and Laurie took it home and cut it up and put the blocks in zip-lock bags. We paid $5 for a set of 2 blocks and will make the blocks and give them to Laurie at guild this month. The top will be assembled and hopefully we will have a quilt for him at the retreat.

Here are my blocks:



More Door Prizes
This week I received packages from Olfa, Calico Point Quilt Shop, Walmart, Rossville Quilts, Marvy Markers, Nancy's Notions, and Janet. Thank you so much for your generousity.



OK, can you stand one more photo of the Cobblestones quilt. Here's Jeni with her new quilt. Matches her hair pretty well, don't you think. She loves it and her daughter loves it too.

Cobblestones Finished

I finished the binding on this one today and will take it to Jeni at work tomorrow. I hope she likes it.
The 1st photo is Dan being silly, when I asked him to hold the quilt for a picture. I'm sure he won't be expecting to see this on my blog.....Serves him right huh!





This is my 4th finish for the month of January and although I haven't used a huge quantity of fabric, it still feels good to get some projects done. I haven't done a stashbusting report in 2 weeks and have only used 1/2 yard, so I'm not doing one this week either. I'll catch up next week when I have something to report.

This week I need to quilt a baby quilt for a friend that is due in less than 3 weeks. It's her 3rd baby and I know she's hoping for a girl this time, but I think it's another boy.

Cobblestones and the Giraffe Label

I finished the quilting and stitched the binding on this week. I have it all packed up to work on hand stitching the binding in my spare time in North Carolina. I'm sure that Jeff and Dané will want some time to themselves and this will give me something to do.



The batting is Hobbs 80/20, the thread is Permacore eggshell, and the quilting design is Whirlygig by Jodi Beamish.

And the backing:



Here's the label for the pink giraffe quilt, using the flowers that I forgot to put on the front. I wasn't sure of the baby's middle name, so I filled it in at the shower after she opened it. She was thrilled!

From the Design Wall to...

A Completed Top!
I finished this tonight and hope to get it loaded and quilted this week.

I have a co-worker who is going through a rough time and just moved into a new apartment. I think she may need a comfort quilt and this one is just perfect.

Design Wall Monday

This is what was on my wall when I went to work this morning. After dinner, I plan to add to it and start sewing the rows together. I've said it before and I'll say it again....I have a very hard time with random. What makes this one hard is that I need 5 vertical rows of blocks and I can only fit 4 of them on my design wall. I think I need to make an extension for my design wall.

The pattern is a Fig Tree called Cobblestones.