New Year's Day Mystery Quilt 2009

Happy New Year to Every One.
I hope everyone has had a good start to the New Year. I wish you a year full of good health, safety and good stuff to come your way! And if it isn't all good stuff, the guts to deal with what ever life throws at you. Because you know sometimes life comes at you fast.
I have been working on the Mystery Quilt I signed up for at The Long Arm University
http://www.longarmuniversity.com/
I start it after work on Wednesday. Took a break to go to a little party. I sewed some more before going to bed.
I making progress and I have learned a lot. I'm so glad my quilting doesn't show very well, because I would have to rip it out. I can tell this is going to take some more practice. I'm still a beginner when it comes to frame quilting.
Here are the pictures of my progress so far.

Quilts Completed in 2008

I usually keep a list of all my quilts I made in a year. This year since I have a blog I'm adding pictures to my list. I didn't think I made a lot quilts, but I sure have been busy with my quilting hobby. Plus I taught 4 classes, 2 EQ6, 1 Machine Applique for Beginners & one 9 Patch Pizzazz. I also had 7 EQ6 club meeting that I prepared and made handouts for.
Horses for Lynn
Fall Mini Quilt
Boo Mini Quilt
Shamrocks for Rob
Mini Snowman
Shamrocks for me
Iris
Skier
Hooray for USA
Frank
One Block Wonder
Krystal’s Winter Quilt
Friends (Joan = Yellow Flowers Mary = Rainbow)

Bermuda Triangle Team Quilt with Janice

Three practice charity quilts on my frame
Three quilts on my frame for a friend

Quilts almost complete:
Winter Wonderland 9 Patch Pizzazz needs binding
Festive Santa needs embellishments

I also completed 4 EQ6 classes from http://www.quiltuniversity.com/
See my pictures below.

Sunday Night Quilting Updates

It's Sunday again, how fast the week has gone by. I'm running late tonight, I was watching the Sound of Music. I did some non quilting activities this week that will help me in the long run. I did some cleaning in my sewing room. I put away all the creative explosion that was going on. I also organized my quilt pictures on my computer. Placing particular pictures of quilts in folders of the same name.
I finished Krystal's' quilt. I finished Christmas morning while she was still sleeping. I cheated a little and sewed the binding on by machine on both sides.

I worked on my Festive Santa I finished the binding but still have some embellishments to do. I'm not going to post that picture because you really can't see the progress. I started The Southwest frog for Glenda.

I have started to think about the quilts I finished in 08 and started to think about what I'm going to work on for the next year. I'll post more about that later. Now it's time to go to bed, I'm going to work in the morning, so I need my beauty rest. Well at my age it's more than beauty rest. It's if I don't sleep I don't function!

Quilting Friends and Lunch!

I had lunch today with some of my favorite quilting friends. We don't get together too often because they live on the West side of Phoenix. They live in towns such as Buckeye, Sun City West & Surprise. I live in Mesa on the East side of Phoenix. It takes almost an hour to get to them on a non work day. We had a good time at lunch and visiting. We even had a fat 8th Christmas fabric swap. Afterwards we made a quilt shop run. That makes for a perfect day, friends, food and fabric!

The other end of the table.

Kierra's & Will's Home

Here is Kierraa's home and some pictures of the kids and our winter weather.

Christmas Day!

I forgot to wrap Richard's big gift and he forgot mine. We both had a good laught over the forgotten gifts.

My camera date was off!

Christmas Eve Pictures