The Man Cave and No Quilting.

Insulation in the Ceiling

Mr. B. is enjoying having cooler weather to work on his man cave.   Last Saturday he finished the first layer of foam insulation.  I forgot to take a picture.  Yesterday he started with the roll insulation.  The ceiling is almost finished, except for what you see here.  He ran out of his first roll and he wasn't going to go to the store to buy more.  So he just stopped. 

The only sewing I did this week was the hand stitching on the binding of my Mystical Horses.  I am on the third side.  I had a very busy week both at work and at home.  I was hoping this week might be a little calmer but as it stands now I have something going on after work for 4 evenings out of 5.  That is too weeks in row I have been busy, I hope it calms down a little soon.

Happy Stitching all!

Table Topper and Runner

Halloween Table Runner

I was able to finish the binding on my copy of the Halloween table runner and I have it on my living room coffee table.  Since we don't drink coffee my husband, Mr. B. likes to call it the "Pepsi Table".  I don't like that name since I don't drink or like Pepsi.  So anyway it's on that small table in the living room and it looks very nice and festive. 

Rosie's copy didn't sell at her daughter's boutique but I am going to save it for next year's boutique.

I have started the 2nd side of the binding on the Mystical Horses quilt.  I am looking forward to hanging that on my quilt rack. 

Thanksgiving Table Topper

I took a PTO day today just because I needed an extra day off.  I pieced this little table topper today.  It really worked up quickly, considering I was also watching all my taped TV shows from last week.  This is from Little Charmers IV by Anka's Treasures.  I didn't use a charm pack, I just used fabric it I had on hand. 



Added a border to Caribbean Sea



I had seen a star quilt in a shop that had a floating star border, and I really liked it how it looked and I thought it would look good on my Caribbean Sea Quilt.  Since I do need to make it big enough for a queen size bed another border won't hurt.  I will have to add some extra rows of blocks but I like how the star border looks, just in the corners. 



I am really tired tonight so I am going to call it a day!

Happy Stitching!



Halloween Table Runners

Well this week I was able to finish one of the table runners, the second one is quilted and the binding is on by machine.  I still have to sew the binding on by hand on the back.  The one with orange binding went to my friend Rosie for her daughter's boutique, it hadn't sold by the time we left at 1230 PM.  I haven't checked with Rosie to see if she sold any more quilts.

I also trimmed and sewed on the binding by machine for the Mystical Horse quilt.  All 300 inches of binding.  I didn't take a picture of that.  I am taking both of these quilts with me while I stay on the west side of town for work.  I'll have a nice project to work on in the evenings. 

The big thing was to update one of my pages on my blog, Quilt Classes I Teach.  I had a list of my classes but no pictures, now I have added pictures and a little story about each class.  Next I'll update my page, The Quilts I Designed.

Hopefully this will make my blog more interesting for readers and followers. 

Happy Stitching!

Funny Story

Last Sunday I decorated for Halloween about Wednesday my Mr. B. said to me, "What is that Man on the Horse?"  Of course I had no idea what he was talking about, I was in another room when he asked.  The other question was when did you put him there.  Of course I explain he was the Grim Reaper and he has been sitting there since Sunday.  You can never accuse my Mr. B. of being too observant.  You can see the picture of the Grim Reaper here. 



Mystical Horses finished on the frame

 This week I spent mostly doing machine quilting.  I finished quilting my Mystical Horse quilt.  That is a good feeling.  I have been working on this for a long time.  I'll add the binding in the coming week and take it to Jane's house while I am working on the West side of town next week.  The hand sewing will keep me busy in the evenings.

Close up of the quilting.

Here is a close up of the quilting.  I used King Tut thread color # 935, it is variegated teal, purple, bright green and a blue.

Rosie's Quilt

My friend Rosie has a quilt she wanted me to quilt so she can sell it in a boutique next weekend.  I used Rose King Tut variegated thread on this quilt and it looks very nice. 






Halloween Blocks



Well I did do a little piecing last night.  One of my fellow quilt campers made a very nice Halloween table runner.  I took a picture of it and drew it up in EQ7.  Yesterday Rosie helped me pick out fabric, she has such fun doing that.  I am going to make two of them, one for me and one for Rosie to sell next weekend at the boutique.  I have all the half square triangles sewed, each block has four and each runner has four blocks.  I think these colors are messed up from what I had planned. 

Caribbean Sea Quilt Design

The one other thing I did today was to redraw all my Caribbean Sea blocks in EQ7.  Somehow I had managed to lose a lot of my EQ6 files.  It didn't take very long to redraw them so it was fun.  I have 10 blocks made and I have 8 more to make.   Since I am hoping to have a guest room in the near future, I want to have this quilt finished for the bed in the guest room.  The theme in that room with be beach, I am going to call it my Florida room.  These colors are not exact and I am not sure but I might add another border.  This was a mystery quilt and this is the layout that was suggested.  I do like this layout but it is not wide enough for a queen size bed.  I feel a pieced border is in my future.

I really did accomplish a lot this week, no wonder I am tired.  Early to bed for me tonight!!

Beginning to Look Like Halloween

Ghost on Front Door

On Sunday I decided to start decorating for Halloween.  I pulled out all my favorite Halloween things.  This fun ghost is on my front door.  I made him about 1994.  He could use another coat of white paint but I don't want to repaint the face, so he won't get the coat of paint this year. 

Ghost in side by front door

Right by my front door on the inside I have this little welcome sign.  I also painted this decoration.  I'm not a real fan of painting, and I'm very grateful to be able to use stencils.  I only paint when one of my friends from church teaches classes, she makes it very easy.  I have a different ornament for each month.

 

My newest ghost

This beautiful ghost I purchased last year after Halloween.  Yes it is a Jim Shore Design and yes those are quilt blocks in his sheet.  I didn't find this design on his website this year. 

Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper was also a after Halloween purchase last year.  It was really fun to pull them out of my hope chest and to place them on display. 

Of course all the Halloween quilts are also out.  In this post from last year I have a slide show of all but two Halloween quilts.  Enjoy! 

Now if the weather gets cooler it would be perfect!

Look Who Has Been Busy



Cardinals

  I have had a busy week in more than sewing.  On Wednesday I had to take my cat Rosie in for surgery, she is doing fine, but it is never a fun thing to take a person or a pet in for surgery. 
That was my day off then I was three days over on West side of town for work.  Luckily I have a very nice quilting friend I stay with.  I finished the binding on this first two projects at her house. 

The Cardinals I started at Quilt camp.  Those are pine cone buttons in the middle. 




Painted Desert



This beautiful 15" square batiks and fairy frost is called Painted Desert, it was in the Fall 2004 for the Love of Quilting by Fons & Porter.  Those pieces are very small, and this picture doesn't do it justice.  I kept the quilting simple, just in the ditch, I didn't want to detract from the stars.  There are 13 stars.  Yesterday I decided I would enter it in the Arizona Quilters Guild Show in March of 2011.                                                                                                                                     

Mystical Horses

Today I did some more quilting on my Mystical Horses.  I think I am about to the half way point.  See it doesn't touch the floor any more! I need to have it finished by Saturday morning.  One of my friends wants me to quilt a medium size quilt for her so she can sell it at a Boutique.  Anyway I am happy with the quilting so far. 



DJ Blue Work

When I was on vacation I had

lunch with a friend I meet in Blogland.  Lorene and I visited for a while before lunch and I admired lots of her stuff.  Well she showed me her Dear Jane blocks she is doing in red work.  And let me tell you I fell in love with them.  I have never been drawn to red work, but these just grabbed me.  So I went to the quilt shop to buy my red thread and they didn't have any, so I went with my favorite color, blue.  The work up really fast and they are perfect for those evenings I don't feel like sitting at my machine.  They are mindless and relaxing.  I am not going to make them all and I might mix them with some Dutch Treat blocks I have and do an unusual setting.  Time will tell.  When I get tired of them I'll stop.

Well even though I am not tired now, it is time for me to go to bed.  Monday morning work day will come very fast now. 

Happy Stitching!!                                        

Man Cave Update

Mr. B & his Helping Hands

 
 Mr. B. has been making some progress on his Man Cave and has finished placing all the tar paper on the wood frame.  So now the wood is waterproof!

These are the final tar paper pictures, it took him three Saturdays to finish it from the last pictures.  It is still very hot out there.



Tar Paper all done!! 9/25/2010

He was going to work on finishing the insulation form boards on the ceiling inside yesterday but two things happened to prevent finishing that little job.  He couldn't find his blades to cut the form boards and he was paged.  Mr. B. is sure he has new blades someplace but couldn't find them.  You know how that goes as soon as he buys more he will find the rest.

He was on call yesterday for work and had to go fix a computer problem at one of the hospitals.   That was the only page he had for the day and the night so we had a nice dinner out with a dear friend and slept all night long.