Long time

It's been a long time since I've blogged, sorry. My life has kind of been crazy for a while now. We did make it to Disneyland for my grandsons 4th birthday, but the trip wasn't quite what we had planned. The week before we were to leave my daughter (grandsons mom) fell down the stairs at her school and broke her ankle. Since we were driving to Disney we had to make a few changes but we made it and had a wheel chair waiting at our hotel when we arrived. We had a great time even if we did have to go a bit slower.


Then came daughter finishing up her internship and graduating.  She did it and I had no doubt that she would she has wanted to be a teacher for a long time. Then came the hunt for a job. She had a couple offers and she choose one in Arizona. We started the packing for the move while she did a web search to find a new apartment. Well the move went off with out a hitch. The two of them are now residents of AZ. I had planned on staying here until they were settled but we hit a big bump. The cost of day care for a child here is way beyond what she can afford on a teachers pay after figuring in the cost of everything else. So here I am taking care of my grandson 1400 miles from home, and here I will stay until the end of Aug when the two of us travel back home for 6 weeks. We will then fly back until Christmas and then I will go home for two weeks while they spend that time together then back I come. We will be doing the fly back and forth until the end of the school year. Then next year he will be in all day kindergarten so I will then be able to go home.


I did bring a spare sewing machine and notions with me but no fabric :(  . I haven't had time to find a quilt shop as we are limited to one car.  We do love having a pool that we can enjoy everyday except for the week after I got a nasty burn. My grandson told me it was because you forgot the sunscreen Nanny. So right and he is only 4.


I wanted to show some photos but for whatever reason I'm not able to on my laptop. So maybe next time I can share some Disney, pool and garden photos with you all.


Robin in a very hot AZ

more Mickey Mouse

I like using up scraps so I made a tote bag. I then realized I had

more scraps and so I made 4 shower bags and 1 first aid bag. Okay

so maybe I bought to much fabric for the quilt project but I wasn't

sure how much I would need as I got the idea while at the store and

didn't have my pattern with me so I winged it. LOL  I also finished

our water bottles too since that is why I was at the store to begin with

needed some letter stickers to go on the sides opposite our Disney

stickers. We have  Chip & Dale , Tinkerbell, Mickey in a train and

Cinderella Castle.

 

We are almost ready for our trip!   

Mickey Mouse Quilt

I haven't been posting but I have been busy in the sewing room.

This is a Mickey Mouse quilt and the 3rd quilt I have started this year,

it's only the first one to be quilted and ready for binding. This one of

course has a dead line it's for my grandsons 4th birthday and we are

taking a trip to Disneyland.  I will be sewing binding on it this afternoon.

 

Have a great day!

 

Robin

39 years and still counting

My DH and I officially started dating on Valentine's day

39 years ago and I love him more each day!

Merry Christmas

Thanksgiving

 

Hope everyone has a safe holiday,

 

 

Robin

another warm and ready

Here's the label I put on my sons quilt.

My son's quilt all warm and ready to be wrapped for

under the Christmas tree. I sure wish I could get better

photos of these quilts as the colors are so much nicer in

person Yellow, Green Blue and Red I used the same

green and backing fabric for the binding.

I was just playing around with the left over fabrics from my

daughters quilt and made these two small pillows they are about 14" square.

 

Back to the sewing room as I have a few more things

to finish before I can say I'm ready for Christmas, I'm close but

not quite there.

 

Robin

warm out of the dryer

Not a good photo, its raining out so this is what I could

do this morning. This is my daughters quilt for Christmas

it's all warm right out of the dryer ready to wrap.

This is the back.

This is the binding. I used the 2 fabric and sew

 on by machine method I really like how it looks.

Again bad photos it sure looks nicer in person. 

This is one of the squares on front (truer color) that shows

the quilting. My quilter used a metallic gold thread with

swirls all over its very pretty.

 

This is my little Marmalade giving her approval.

 

I'm now going to go wrap this so my daughter doesn't

see it before Christmas, I'm having a hard time not showing

her so being wrapped will keep me from showing her. LOL

 

Have a good day,

Robin

 

 

October is almost over

I'm really trying to keep up to date with some quilting

bees that I joined, but having a hard go of it.  Here is Oct.

the 7th block and its up to date.

Here is the heart and soul Sept. block but I still need to finish

or should I say start Aug and Oct blocks.

 

The Dresden plate blocks are behind as well I need to get to

Sept and Oct.

 

Oh but I did get 4 quilts sent to the quilter about 3 weeks ago and

have 2 back and will pick up the other 2 on Friday. These are

all Christmas gifts so I'm trying to get a lot of binding done.

 

Here is the 1st quilt finished.

These are bad photos but the best I could get.

This is my grandsons quilt and it turned out so cute.

The quilter used 123 ABC with stars in the quilting in a

variegated orange, green and yellow. I also made a pillow

case and a soft story book that was made using a panel that

matched the main fabric. I used the striped fabric from the

front as the binding, it's all washed an ready to be wrapped.

 

So 1 quilt down and 3 more to go.

 

For my daughter in law I'm making place mats and table runner.

Here are the place mats, I just need to quilt the runner and bind

it and they will be ready to wrap.

I hope to get better photo when I get the runner done.

I'm doing the quilting myself on these.

 

Have a safe and  Happy Halloween!

 

Robin

 

more sewing going on

Here's my Sept quilting bee block of the month. This is

the only one that I'm caught up on so far, but I'm working on the others.

 

This is a mug rug I made using scraps from my daughters quilt top.

The back is made with HST in a pretty blue also left over from the top.

I took left over scrapes from the quilt top for my daughter and I made this 21 x 21

square that I'm going to use in the quilt backing, now I need to figure out what

fabric to use for the rest of it.

 

oh no I just found a mistake on the red shoe block well I'm going to take care of that asap!

do you see it ??

the star points are going the wrong way!! LOL

good thing I haven't taken this to the quilter

 

Smile and have a good day!

Robin

A shoe in every color

I finished my daughters quilt top now to get it quilted

before Christmas. 

 She loves her some shoes :)

This just took a little over a week to cut and piece together not

bad for a new quilter. This is only my 2nd time quilt top using a

pattern. I had to make some changes as the boarders in the boarder

 fabric weren't wide enough. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

 I'm working on the backing now I'm using some left over squares to

 piece into the back.

 

Thank you for taking the time to visit

 

Robin

more photos

Well I'm finally caught up with my Dresden plate

BOM here is Aug, there was supposed to be some

leaf shapes in lavender in the center on the green but

I didn't like it so left them off.

 

The next group of block are for another BOM that I

joined at another quilt shop and they are now all

caught up as well. This one they release on the 3rd

Sat of the month. There will be 8 blocks and we

create the 9th and put together in our own design.

I love the fabrics in this they are so cheerful.

 

 

Thank you for looking and happy stitching

 

Robin

Photo heavy, getting caught up

I'm almost caught up with me Dresden Plate BOM

this first one is and extra because I cut the blades out of the

wrong fabric but I didn't want to toss it so it may become

a pillow when the quilt is all done.

This is my January block I added a little bird in the

center, he doesn't really show up well but in person

he is cute.

Here is February done as the pattern shows.

Here is March this is the one that I did right notice the

pointed blades are green and not red like in the 1st block.

This is April and another little bird in the center. 

 

Here is May with another wee bird.

Here is June, not one of favorites. Oops you can see another

block peeking under the white background. LOL 

Here is July.

 

I'm working on August but having issues. September will be

out next Sat so I best be getting busy.

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blocks.

 

Happy Sewing and keep smiling.

 

Robin in Washington State

today

Today I'm the guest blogger over @

http://janesfabrics.blogspot.com/2013/09/for-love-of-hand-embroidery-guest.html

we are talking about

"for the love of hand embroidery"

 

Come check it out and the full schedule of other

posters ~ every Monday there will be a new post.

 

 

Thank you

Robin in Washington State 

Purple Passion

Here is my purple passion quilt top already to go to the quilters. It finished at 45 X 71 a long lap quilt.  I hope to get it off to the quilter this week or the first part of next week. This is my husbands Christmas gift, he has no idea and he has been helping me all along the way. 

Will show it again when its quilted and I get the binding on .

 

Thanks for looking

Smile and enjoy your day

Robin

bb gun's and windows

This is how I started my week.

 

 When I opened the living room blinds Monday morning this is what I found.  Lucky no one was hurt unless you count my household budget for the month LOL.

We had an glass company give an estimate for replacement and installment.

It's not really as bad as I had imagined and they will be here in a little bit to do the work.

Just not something that anyone plans on having to deal with.

 

Hope everyone is having a better week then me,

Smile and be happy

Robin

Paisley Univerity

After taking 9 months of classes and learning all kinds of tips and tricks

for quilting. This is my class project quilt top. It has all the required elements.

9 patch, piano keys, flange, flying geese. 4 patch, quarter square triangles, strata and half

square triangles and lots of color which is my own element. I love how it turned out now

I just need to figure out what I want to do for the back and quilt it so I can use it as my

lap blanket while watching TV this winter.

 

I've also had time to make this cute tote bag for my daughter to use as she carries her books to and from her intern class at the elementary school.

 

As you can see behind the tote I'm working on another project this one is almost ready to go to the quilter and have it finished in time for a Christmas gift to my wonderful husband.

 

Vacation

My sweet husband and I took a road trip and went to Reno NV.

We are not gamblers but did drop a few dollars here and there.

We just needed a turn around point for our trip an this is were we picked.

On our way we stopped at Crater lake in Or which is something we had always wanted

to do but hadn't, very pretty but still very cold in June.

We  stopped at some quilt shops and antique shops along the way to and from Reno.

We had lots of fun exploring the area and the best part was spending time together.

 

More updates to follow

 

Long time,

It's been a while since I have posted and today I have to do it from my laptop. My other computer is in the shop. So no photos as my laptop and camera don't like each other. I really just wanted to let my followers know that I'm still here. I have been busy this summer with vacations and spending lots of time with my grandson while Mom is working and doing her course work in college. Once summer vacation is over for the school age kids I will be even busier with my grandson as his mom will start her internship at the elementary school.  Only a couple more quarters to go and she will have her degree. Once my desk top is home I will post some photos from our vacation and of our new little fur baby Marmalade. I also have some quilting projects that are finished too.

Take care and be safe and happy!

Happy Father's Day

My daddy and me I was 6

Love you.