3 color quilt

Looking for help.

I'm wanting to make a quilt for a friend

in need, she's needing a quilt hug.  Her favorite

 colors are purple, brown and turquoise.

(And butterflies) 

I can add more colors if need be but what I'm

stumped on is a quilt pattern. It also needs

to be something that I can put together

in a short time.

Any help would be great.

Thank you  



Disney 2014

I think I have my photo loading issue semi fixed.

If I use chrome I can load photos and make a blog post. 

Yeah! but I don't like chrome for anything else. BOO

So for now I'm doing the switching back and forth. 

This photo is the one I have been trying to post since March.

This is of myself, husband, daughter and grandson at

Disneyland for his 4th birthday.

He covered his ears because we forgot his noise cancelling 

headphones at home and anything loud he says makes his ears 

hurt. It's part of his sensory issues with his Aspergers. 

We had lots of fun and didn't want to go home but vacations have to end

or they wouldn't be vacations. LOL

  

Here he is getting his fall photos taken for his mommy for Christmas.

He sure is getting big.

Love this guy so much.

Okay now I'm off to take care of him as he has a nasty cold now.

Have a happy day,

Robin still in AZ

Thankful

For all my friends and family.

I'm still unable to post photos no

matter what I try.

That is why no blog post from me for so long.

What fun is just reading about something

I like to look at photo's.

I've asked for help from a few people

but know one knows why I can't get

the pictures to load so I'm stuck

with no post and no photo's.

Sorry

Have a good Thanksgiving

Robin

(still in AZ)

just a ?

I've been reading lots of different quilt blogs and many of the ladies say they belong to a guild.




 What is a quilting guild?

 How do you find one?


 How do you join one?


Do  you have to be asked to join or sponsored?


Just a few questions that I don't know who to ask.




Good night everyone and have a good weekend.


Robin

home and back to Arizona

I've been home to Washington State and now back in Arizona. I'm finding that doing anything with a 4yr old takes longer than it would without.  I also realized that 6 weeks at home is not enough time to get everything done that I wanted to.  I was able to take a couple quilt classes while at home and I brought the projects with me to hopefully finish. I can't post any photos as my home computer was in the shop and blogger still won't let me from my lap top.  I was able to get some consignment work finished while at home but again not able to post photos.


Well here in Arizona the temp is a lot better than when I left now we can go out for walks in the morning hours and get some fresh air and my grandson is loving that.  Last week we went to the pumpkin patch and that was something so different from home we should have just purchased from the store and they have there's shipped in. My grandson even said "Nanny pumpkins grow on vine things not hay stacks". But he did get to ride on a tractor train so that made it better.


Well I hope to figure out the photo issue and post lots of them when I can.


Have a safe and productive day :)
Robin

still in Arizona

I'm still unable to post photos from my lap top, hopefully when I get home at the end of the month I can post.


Nothing much going on here except enjoying the pool with my grandson.  We did take in a movie the other day, there's a theater here that once a month has a special showing for kids on the Autism spectrum.  Parents don't have to worry about them making noise or wiggling around or getting up because every one has the same issues. We saw the new Disney Plane: fire rescue  movie, we all enjoyed it, much better than the first one.


Today is house cleaning day and my grandson loves to help so it takes much longer than it should, I let him do things that I may have to go back and redo while he is taking his nap but he is happy and learning. Right now he doesn't see it as a chore so why not get help while he is willing to give it.


Have a safe and happy week.


Robin  melting in Arizona

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