It's been a rough summer and fall here!!!

 This sweet little girl was sick starting in June and through the fall. She saw the vets frequently and only during a 10 hour focal seizure did we learn what was actually happening. 

She was diagnosed with Polycythemia and it was advanced. Now looking back I can see that she was having many symptoms.

The treatment would have been too harsh on this little 4 pound baby girl. I researched it, the vets both told me the same, as did the medical Dr. who I worked with for 24 years.

It still hurts my heart that we made the decision to let her cross that rainbow bridge. I was with her holding her to the end.

I cry daily and it's been over 4 weeks now. But I know we did what was best for her. She was getting so sick almost daily, no energy, would cry. 

Someday, when it's my turn to leave this earthly world, I hope God will allow me to be with her again along with the rest of my family.

I will see you later Dear Bailey, love you my girl 💓🐕💓

Re-organizing

 

I have all my projects in little cubbies in the sewing room. With so many, 18 to be exact, it can be hard to find the one item I am looking for,

So the other day I made labels using cardstock and painters tape to attach the labels. Now I know where pretty much everything is. Some cubbies have all my buttons, some have UFO's, one has finished tops just waiting to be quilted. Two are for a class I help teach at church. One has all my wool and another my felt.

Labeling the cubbies is going to help so much and save me time and frustration. SO NICE!!!!

How do you keep your quilt/sewing room organized??

AND, I pulled out a little quilt that still needs a lot of micro quilting, so maybe I can get this one done this summer!!!

Hapy Quilting!!! and re-organizing😉😉😉

The Forever Quilt

 

This pattern is called Bento Box and it's my granddaughters quilt that she started many years ago. She ended up moving, then she joined the army, got married, had a baby, moved to Texas.

WOWZA!!!

So I am going to finish machine quilting it. Just using the walking foot and stitching in the ditch. She could do it as I gave her a sewing machine to take to Texas with her. However, we never discussed how to make the binding. 

So I will finish the quilt including the binding, and someday we can hopefully get together so I can teach her how to finish a quilt. Maybe work on a small wallhanging together.

I use a craft table when I'm quilting larger quilts so the weight doesn't pull the quilt off the table while I'm trying to sew.

So much better!!!!

Here is the quilt pattern. It's really sweet and simple and beautiful.

So that is the agenda for awhile, get this quilt finished and mail it to Texas!!!

Take care

Happy Quilting

Martha

Binding is on and now, this quilt is truly finished!!!

I love the royal blue binding. It's bright and really helps contain the quilt

I decided to do a 1/2" binding to allow it to show up as this is a very bright quilt!!!

The backing is also very bright, something I had on hand so didn't have to purchase anything for this little quilt wallhanging.

Nice to have another one off the to do list!!!

😀💓😀

      

 

Leftovers

 

I made this from leftover from another large quilt!! I love the brightness. I auditioned several fabrics for the binding and came up with this blue one below.

I sewed it on using my walking foot and it is now ready for some hand-sewing!!!

Have a fabulous week and happy quilting!!!

martha

"My Favorite Denims" quilt

The quilting is officically done!!!!

YAHOO!!!!!!!!😁

 

Charade quilt progress

 

I am working on my blocks for the Charade quilt along. These are the dark blocks. Very bright!!! And below are the medium blocks.

The light blocks are layed out and ready to sew together. Hopefully I will get them done this week and I can then start putting the quilt together. I still have no idea what it is going to look like.

I will share those blocks with you when they are done being sewn together.

This is really a surprise quilt for me, I usually can see the finished quilt in my mind, not this one!!!

Take care and thanks for looking

Martha