My first quilt

I was helping my friend Aubrey make her first quilt last month. Aubrey is making a yellow brick road. She is using the cutest fabric. I hope she will finish it, it will be so cute when it is done. I remember my first quilt being really plain, but I finished it.
I machine quilted it with gold metallic thread it was so hard. My tension was so off, the thread kept breaking on me. I had no clue what I was doing. I wanted to quilt stars along the sides but that never happen. I should give a big thanks out to my Mother-in-law, Dayna that helped me.
I think it's great for my first quilt. After making 40+ quilts I am still learning how to do so many things. I think the trick is you have to finish it. So you can move on to another, then another, then one day you find that you love it.

scrappy quilt

I am working on the back of this quilt. I want to use up all my scraps. My goal is to piece the back and bind it with what I have and only buy bat. As you can see I have two of my squares done. I have wanted to do pinwheels for a long time. Just ask Melissa every time I see one done, I have to say "Oh I want to do that next". Now I'm finally doing one. But now as I make these cute pinwheels. I wonder if I should put them on point or should I throw in a log cabin. I guess you'll just have to see. I love these fabrics they make me so happy. This is all I want to do, but I have made myself make dinner, do laundry, and play with my boys. So it will take me longer to finish it but that's OK, who said good things come to those that wait. This quilt is going to be awesome when its done.

Jill's babe

I made this for my friend Jill that just had her little girl yesterday. I think it turned out very cute.

lilacs

Look what we found on our walk today. Lilacs remind me of my Grandma Rushton. She had the biggest bush, it was like 20 feet tall and 20 feet wide. Well my measurements could be off a little, I was a little girl. Grandma would take lots of family pictures in front of that lilac bush. Lilacs also remind me of Mothers day and Sunday church where the children sing to their mothers. I really need to plant a bush in my yard somewhere so it will remind me of my Grandmother and my children's songs.

After I got done blogging about these beautiful flowers this is what I walked in on. Oh well, I guess we have to go get more.

Favorite flower

This is my favorite flower but the dang deer make it really hard to enjoy them in my own yard..

Babies are waiting...

Is it Halloween? My latest project was to make two baby quilts for my Mom to give out at work. They were going to be the cutest rag quilts ever. I got the first quilt altogether, put it in the wash and look SPIDER WEBS. The seams started to come apart, and frayed far past the stitching. I rushed off to the store for some expert advice. Thanks to them and my ingenuity...

...here are the most awesome rag quilts I have made.

Quilting Group

This block is for the old red church they have been meeting for 20 years. The next one is delectable mountains for the place we all live.

This one the log cabin is for the pioneers that settled here first.
This one is sheriff's nine patch. The next one is friendship block.

I have done 5 of blocks for quilting group. We are meeting tonight and I had to get them done so I could show them off. The group is celebrating 20 years of quilting together. I have only gone for nearly a year. 20 years ago I was 10, I'm such a baby in the group. The old timers are bring a block with them each month and we are doing them in our own color skims. As you can see I choose bright with brown. I think they turned out so cute!