Pointless Quilter

My nephew graduates from high school this year.  I decided to let him pick a pattern and colors and I think he did great.  This is his quilt. Simple straight line quilting. Saw a tutorial on Pinterest how to make the label in the binding. This is a pattern from Connecting Threads called Move Over.  I added one extra set of colors to make it a bit wider and also made it a little longer.  Wanted it to fit his dorm bed.  I also used a great wool flannel for the back.  A pretty simple pattern as long as you keep your strips in order. I also finished our guilds mystery quilt.  It's not due until August so I'm ahead of the game here too.  I found some fabrics in my stash for the front and back!  Love when that happens.  The fabrics were actually from a kit that I got from a friendship group member that passed away a few years ago.  I realized I wouldn't make her pattern so de-constructed her kit. Only one of these was ...

I spent the last week in Arizona to meet my new and only Great Niece.  I took my dad as he wanted to hold his great granddaughter.  My sisters and my brother also went so it was kind of a mini reunion.  Here's she is.  She is such a good baby. I got to babysit her for an hour and what fun it was. I had never been to Arizona so I got to see some great things.  We spent a couple hours on Lake Saguero.  Saguero is the type of cactus all around the lake. So stinkin' cute. There was some fishing.  This is my brother-in-law (aka Grandpa now) My nephew Garrett with my dad.  Garrett is another nephew, the brother of the baby's dad.    We also took a trip to Sedona. And to the Phoenix Botanical Gardens.  Who knew cacti could be so beautiful. Me and my two sister.   And we got to visit some old friends. A friend of ours from high school and church in San Jose. And a great neighbor fr...

Feels like I'm always catching up.  So much to do.  I finished machine quilting the final two quilts that I had pinned a couple weeks ago.  I'm still working on the binding on one, but here is the one for my nephew and his wife. It's a free pattern called Bravo Indigo from Michael Miller Fabrics.  My colors are navy, white and yellow.  I didn't use the Michael Miller Fabrics, I used the grunge fabric by Moda.  Here's a link to the pattern.  https://www.michaelmillerfabrics.com/bravo-indigo-by-caroline-greco-81x61.html I was afraid that they would be afraid to use it so I made sure there was some soft and fun fabrics on the back.  I got this  Texas A&M fleece.  I also used batting so it's pretty fluffy and heavy. They have  a cabin so I'm sure they will use it there. I did catch up on the Fat Quarter Shop designer mystery quilt - blocks 8 & 9. And I'm caught up to February on The Quilt Show's mystery. I a...

Two weeks ago I pinned 6 quilts.  I finished 2 easy ones right of way (see previous post) and this past week I finished two more.  The first one I finished was this one.  It's not my top.  It's for a lady from my friendship group who doesn't quilt much anymore but has a few tops she wants finished.  I just machine quilt for her.  (She's a hand quilter.) I got the ruler machine quilting foot for my Bernina and decided to try using it with this quilt.  It will take a while to get more comfortable using them, but I can tell I was better at it by the end of the quilt.  Practice, practice, practice.  I will probably use a straight edge ruler for one or both of the 2 remaining quilts I have to finish. I then decided to work on this English Paper Pieced quilt top.  I started this more than 10 years ago, usually piecing in the car when my husband and I would go to Cambria on the weekends.  The fabrics are all from quilts I've ...

I can't tell you how long it's been since I've had this kit.  I know I bought it on clearance at least 2 years ago. It's already hanging in my bedroom.  It's supposed to have heart buttons but the buttons they gave me are more on the burgundy side instead of red and I didn't really like them.  So I am leaving it like this.  That is ric-rac going through the blocks.  And I used only the blocks with dogs in them except one that has cookie in it.  That's in honor of my mom. I also finished this little one. It's for my grand niece but it will stay at her grandma's house because her mommy said quilting just 'wasn't her thing'.   So I asked my sister if she wanted a quilt at her house for when her grandkids visit and she said yes.  I already had the hexagons all cut and ready so I wanted to make it and get it out of my stash. I have 4 more quilts pinned and ready to go.  Just need some inspiration. Also during the Superbowl party my...

I finished quilting the En Provence quilt from the Bonnie Hunter 2016/2017 Mystery. Didn't take any close ups.  I did bind in a very light purple; one of the lights I used in the top.  I did a lot of ditch stitching and some other little quilting in the lighter areas.  But not much.  It's so busy you wouldn't be able to see any fancy stitching.  But it's done. I did go to the Road 2 California quilt show in Ontario last weekend.  What a great show and I took 2 very fun classes.  One was Anita Grossmon Solomon's 2 color pineapple class.  I'm making mine in orange and black.  The other was an EQ7 class - applique and foundation piecing.  I am amazed at all the things I can do in that program that I never knew about.  The smart thing would have been to go home and play more, but I haven't yet. These are the ladies I roomed with. From left to right:  me, Kathy M., Diane M. and Janice M.  The hotel screwed up our room...

My resolution list (or list of fabric packs or kits) listed below posts was not inspiring me to finish anything on the list.  Maybe because the list is too long and should be even longer since I didn't add a lot of packs/fabrics added in 2016.  So I've narrowed down my list to 15 quilts that I want and/or need to get done.  These are all UFO's or quilts I need to make for gifts.  This does not mean I won't work on other quilts but that I want to try and get all these done by the end of this year.  So here it goes. 1.    Bonn ie Hunter En Provence Mystery -top done – need to pin and quilt.  Check out what everyone else's tops look like here at Bonnie Hunter's blog. 2.     Bonnie Hunter Orca Bay-started and scraps set aside so I won't use on anything else 3.     Circle of Illusion – circle done – need to work on how to set it.  Thinking applique in corners. 4.     Halloween embroidery-Embroide...