missing in action

Sorry I have been gone for so long. We had a family member who was ill and passed away. Hopefuly things will calm down now and I can get back to this blog.

EQ7 tutorials

I have added a new page called EQ7 tutorials:
The first one is on designing a Bargello quilt using EQ7 software.
I hope that you find this tutorial helpful if you are trying to figure out how to design a Bargello quilt using EQ software.

secret sister quilt

This was a block of the month... sort of. Five years ago we got tired of doing the same old thing with our secret sisters. We decided to fill out a paper that told our favorite colors and what we would like to get from our secret sister. There were several diferent catigories to choose from. I chose to receive a block patern and material to go with it each month. My dearest friend shawntell drew my name. When I filled out the paper work I put that I was an advanced quilter. Well that was a mistake. She thought that it would be real cute to give me a strip of paper each month with a picture of a block on it and the size of the block. The rest was up to me to figure out. Each instruction strip came with enough fat quarters to construct the block. This is the finished quilt from that year. It is machine pieced and hand quilted. I tried to take a close up of the quilting on the individual blocks for you all to see, but the lighting isn't right.

My Christmas EyeCandy

Here is all the wonderful things I got for Christmas and my Birthday

 This is my mini floor frame, It is awasome

These two fabrics I purchased with a gift card

Connecting thread had a great sale on these two colections

Because I have pneumonia and can't do much I spent the day on EQ7 This is the patter from the Feb issue of APWQ the one on the cover. These are the drawings of the quilt using the fabrics purchased from Connecting Threads.

springtime twelve patch

I have been quiltting all week again with my quilt group. I decided to finish one of my quilt tops. I made this three or four years ago.

I have had fun with this one. I have been able to practice quilting on my home machine.

This quilt is made from two inch squares that were donated to our quilt group. I took about half of these squares and put them into the 12 patches. The rest of the quilt just kinda came together in my head. I am giving this quilt away to our pregnancy care center. they came and asked our group if we would make lap quilts for the young mothers who are electing to give their baby's up for adoption. Once they give birth, they are given a comfort quilt to take home with them. This quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted.

Quilt retreat- in house

Hi ladies and Gents:

Wow!!! What an exciting two weeks. The first week was our shop hop. I bought lots of stuff. The second week has been our in house quilt retreat at our church. That is where we can take all our stuff and just leave it all week in our class room and come and sew, come and go as we please from 9:00A.M. to 9:00P.M Monday through Friday. 
  A fun time was had by all. Here are the projects that we worked on enjoy.

quilts for the Pregnancy Care Center

Here are a few of the quilts we are making for the Pregnancy Care Center in our town.  Each one of these lap quilts, will be given to a young mother who has elected to give their baby up at birth. They are comfort quilts.

wasatch front shop hop

This is a picture of Patches n peacemakers on our shop hop in front of Quilts ect..





these are pic of my favorite shop hop quilts. each quilt has a theme. They did story books this year. There are 14 blocks in each quilt. one for each store.



Twenty thousand leagues under the sea



The Great Gatsby



Murder on the Orient Express