A Prairie Home Quilts

Just how mischievous can one cat be? Well… Mom had seeds for some Bird of Paradise and Red-tipped Yuccas that she was planting in rows along the fences. Ludo was apparently digging them up as fast as she could plant them which then encouraged the birds to try and make off with the seeds. (Maybe it was his plan all along to entice the birds… LOL) After all that mischief, he decided to nap in the pot of freshly planted day lilies.

After Rachelle snapped the third picture of him, he’d had enough of his sleep being disturbed…

He doesn’t look very happy with Rachelle, does he? LOL

After several attempts, I managed to get a picture of Josh’s quilt. I was having a difficult time getting a picture where the quilt looked straight. I had Tyler and Rachelle hold the corners and Tyler’s about a foot taller than Rachelle so the quilt kept looking a little lopsided. I should have checked this picture closer before I packed up the quilt and mailed it. For some reason the top right corner is fuzzy. Maybe the lens needs to be cleaned…

and the detail shot…

I like the method Evelyn Sloppy gives for making flying geese for this quilt, but I’m not happy with the way too many of the flying geese points got clipped. I’m assuming it has to do with the ruler I used to square up the flying geese. Here’s a tutorial showing how the flying geese were made and I used the ruler like the one pictured in the tutorial. I have Eleanor Burns small flying geese ruler and have used it successfully to make flying geese without the corners getting clipped but it was too small for these units. I think if I’d had her bigger ruler and used it to square up these units, they would have come out okay. That’s my plan for next time. Live and learn everyday, right?

In a week oldest DS, Nathan, and his girlfriend, Koren, will be here for a visit and in ten days oldest DD, Jessica,will be home from Montana. This happy momma hen will have all her little chicks at home for a short time.

Yes, I’ve been gone from blogland for about 3 weeks… I was trying to escape my life for a while. It didn’t work. LOL

I finally got the upgrade installed on my machine quilting system after waiting for parts, etc. etc. I just finished up a Quilt of Valor someone sent to be quilted and quilted Josh’s quilt. I’m half way done with the binding on his. I hope to get it sent on Wednesday when I have some money.

There’s another person I know that could use “A Quilt of Comfort” so I’m going to be starting another one later this week. It’ll be a scrappy one from Evelyn Sloppy’s 40 Fabulous Quick-cut Quilts and mostly from my scraps. I’m going to need 2 FQs and the backing. (I really like this book!) Before I get started on it though, I need to finish up another QOV and machine baste 2 quilts with water soluable thread before I can machine quilt them.

Here’s the QOV. This is #1 of my QOV quilting goal of 20 for 2007. Here’s a detail shot… Here’s Ludo “helping” me sew the binding on Josh’s quilt… and he worked so hard, he needed a nap! (You know, the only reason he tries to “help” is because I’m sitting in his favorite napping chair. He figures if I’m annoying him, turnabout is fair play.) I’ll post more pictures of Josh’s quilt when I get it done.

I don’t think I worked on anything on my weekly list last week except Josh’s quilt. So I have the same goals down again for this week. I do have half of Josh’s quilt top together. The 240 flying geese units are slowing me down. I hung the finished half up in the studio for inspiration. The other half is spread out on the dining room table waiting to be sewn together (tomorrow). I *do* hope one of the cats does not decide to get up on the table tonight… Well, I’m off to finish up the last of the last binding on the stack I had from last week (a lot of “lasts” in the last sentence).