Dads Quilt Done, Now on to Morgen's

Hi!
Just a quick note today. I got Dads quilt bound and finished. I am happy with how it turned out.

This is a full shot of the front, I used the left over small pieces to make the binding

I love how it turned out. And yes that is Stuart behind the quilt holding it up. He is

6'4" the only one tall enough to hold it up off the ground!

This is a close up of the front, you get a better more accurate look at the colors.

Well, I do hope you like it, I know I do, I was pretty happy with it, and I am happy to say that it will fit on a Queen size bed.

Now I am off to my quilting room, am playing around with the frame and machine still, think I have just about worked all of the bugs out. I hope so because I still need to quilt Morgen's Birthday quilt for her, if you look to some of my earliest posts you will see one on the table, black with multi-colored X's That is her quilt.... and her birthday is Friday!

So off I go, have a great weekend.

Ginny

Reflections....

Hi all, wow two posts in one day, this is unusual for me.

I was sitting on the couch this afternoon thinking about my Dad, I am so worried for him. My Mom either does not know what is wrong or will not say, all I know is weight loss, and more weight loss, He had surgery this last winter and they thought it helped for a while, but now Mom is saying he is going down hill fast. So between that and her cancer I am feeling a bit down.

You see, I have never been close with my parents, I love them, but my Mom made it pretty plain when I was small that she did not want me and resented me. I could go into a hundred different things said and done, but dredging up the past is not what I am about today. I have forgiven my Mom for the horrors of my childhood. I wish that we could have a closer relationship, I must say that given the powers of the Internet we have a better relationship now than we have ever and I do mean ever had before, we IM a couple of times a month!

Any how, I guess as I ramble along today my whole point of this blog is parents, love them or hate them, through all of the hurts and healing, years of not being involved, or if you are lucky having a close relationship.... whether you parent is alive or has passed, if you could tie a message to a balloon and send it on a puff of air what would you like to say to your Mom or Dad?

For me it is pretty easy....

Mom, I am sorry I was not the child you expected, but please can we be friends, it will never be to late for you to be a part of my live and most importantly to be grandmother to the girls. I love you.

Dad, I love you please don't go. Thank you for always being such a good Dad. You will always be.

Thank you for stopping by today,

Ginny

Dads Batik Quilt Almost Done!

Hi all,

Well here we are agian, busy baby day so I am going to keep this short since the little one is helping me type!!!

I wrote yesterday about the Bali Pop Batik quilt I am doing for my Dad. Well, after fussing and fussing with my quilting frame and machine, I think I have the bugs worked out and managed to get it quilted, there are a few areas that I am not happy with because of the effing thing, but all in all it turned out very very pretty, so with our further ado, two pictures, taken this morning, just quick shots, I will post finished shots when bound and washed.

Thanks for stopping by.

Ginny

P.S. If you love this quilt, please check out my post just before this one, it has the link to Rachels Blog, with the tutorial on how to make this lovely quilt, I really want to make sure she has full credit for!

Had a Wonderful Holiday Weekend, Oh and Check out This Tutorial!!!!

Hi All,
Well, School has finally started, Ahhh blessed silence! Some of you might know from reading earlier posts that I am a daycare provider by day and quilter by night! So summer time is my busy busy time, then when school starts most of my kids go to school, and I just have two little ones, currently I only have one here and she is (whispers) asleep!
So I have decided that I will catch up on my blog! I spent part of last weekend exploring other quilting blogs, WOW I am amazed at some of the beautiful quilts out there, I really really need to share one special blog, 2ndAvenueStudio owned by Rachel. She did a awesome tutorial for the new Hoffman Bali Pops (which I love) I purchased a pack, not exactly sure what I was going to to with them, but got a sweet deal so got them knowing I would use these beautiful 2 1/2 inch strips, had planned on a Bento box but then stumbled on Rachel's blog, So with out further ado, Link to the Bali Pop Tutorial 2ndAvenueStudio: Bali Pop Tutorial.
Now, I had the Bali Pop pack.
Then after a talk with my Mom about my Dad, Dad is not doing so well, it was decided by DH and I that I should take the girls over for a visit. So the plan emerged, leaving on the 19th of Sept, and visit over the weekend, so I figured that I could use the Bali Pops, and Rachel's quilt pattern for my Dad, planned it out, oh not big enough! Back to the store, another pack of fabric.

Then disaster strikes!!! OK so not really, but hubby did decide that this was the weekend to paint the outside of my sewing room, so painted all of Saturday and most of Sunday, finally got to start sewing Sunday night at 7 pm, sewed until midnight, then got up Monday, squared the blocks, sewed the quilt together, put it on the frame, and wouldn't you know it, my Babylock decided to act up. I did get about half of it quilted, and am pretty sure I have resolved my thread breakage issues with the Babylock, so hopefully I will be able to finish quilting it tonight, bind it Sew the binding together Thursday and bind it over the weekend. I will take a couple of pictures when it is done, I love this quilt, this one will be hard to give away.

So until I have pictures up, please check out Rachel's blog, I don't know her, but wish I did!
As always,
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day
Ginny

Which Jane Austin Character Are You?

I found this this morning, I thought it was pretty cute!

Take the Quiz here!

Have a great day!

It's been a Longggg time!

Wow! It has been more than a month since my last post! So many things have happened in that time! Just days after my last entry our computer died, not crashed, not gave up, it just died! Did the emergency purchase of a new computer, UGGG got this wonderful deal at best buy, HP, 500 gig hard drive lots of ram and memory and neato computer lingo that my hubby understands and I don't want to! It has windows vista, oh and a 64 bit operating system, hmm that last bit, well that's important, because for the last month we have been discovering how many things do not play well with a 64 bit system! Lets just say there are more things that don't than do! So finally I can get back to the things I love, I get to start digitizing, (never did get that to work on the desktop, doing that on the laptop) and quilting and such!

A couple of other major things have happened, Torrie went on a 10 day trip across half the country, she went to Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore! She came home on the 16th, and the following week we started delivery of the 51 quilts she did for her Silver Award, her original goal was 30, well she far surpassed that, look below for a couple of pictures of her with all of the quilts there were so many we had to break them into two groups to get them all in the pictures!

Well, my alarm just chimed, time to go collect the kids from school, I will blog again soon I promise!

thanks for looking!

Ginny

Finished and Moved In!

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I have had several questions about how I wrap and store my fabric, I will be posting a quick photo tutorial on how to do it. So if you are interested in learning more, check out the sidebar for a link to "Fabric Wraps" If you do not see a link, that is because I don't have it up yet, check back later today! (4/24/2009) Thank you for stopping by!
Ginny
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Hi all, Well, this will be my last construction blog!!! As of 4:30 this afternoon I am moved in and unpacked! I still need to put my quilting machine on the frame, but need to install the optical sensors for the cruise control and that will take some doing so I may wait a week or so for that one. Other than that, I have spent the last 5 days hanging, sorting, organizing and putting away.

As usual a picture is worth a thousand words so here are the pictures!

This one is my machine, Torries Machine is to the right of mine, just not in the picture. And next to my sewing table is my laptop!This is my cutting table, with all of the scissors, rotary cutters, and rulers hanging on the wall. The cabinet gives me Massive storage space, you would not believe what all I have down there!The cabinets in this shot and the next are all of Torries flannel for her Silver Award. Another Shot of Torries flannel and my book case. I may make one change to the layout, this cabinet is not as tall and has a bit more open space than the shelves that I have all of my material on. We want to put a TV out there for my other daughter to watch while we sew, So I may switch the two and hang a TV from the wall for Morgen.This is my Quilting frame, I still have a bit to do before I can use it. I will have to pull it out from the wall into the center of the room when I quilt, but it slides pretty easily so it should not be too much of a problem.The futon and my white board, great for practicing free hand quilting! Thank you Dawn (aka the Pajama Quilter)This little cupboard holds my scraps and my stabilizer for my embroidery plus a bunch of other embroidery related materials.Fabric storage (my cottons) and my embroidery machine, thread and hoops.Front shot of my fabric storage, this is the one I may move to fit the TV.

Another shot of the fabric shelves. I was amazed at how much this holds, each shelf measures 11 1/2 inches square, I used a 5 inch ruler to wrap all of the fabric, measured, wrapped and labeled each one. So, that's it for now, I have to run, just got a call company dropping by!

Thanks for looking.

Ginny