Friendly Quilting

You know that you have really made a good friend when she volunteers to machine quilt a project for you. For free. And, she's very, very awesome at machine quilting.........

 I have no idea  how Linda does this gorgeous and intricate quilting on her domestic sewing machine! But she does. Isn't it beautiful!  

 Linda recently won a blue ribbon for one of her quilts at the Iowa State Fair. Another quilt that she entered won Best of Show in it's division! Look at this beauty........

 I'm feeling like I won a prize myself when I look at my quilt and know the time she must have spent doing this 'friendly quilting" for me!

I am very blessed to have such a great quilting buddy.
Linda calls us FAB.............Friends After Blogging!
I'll show you all the finished quilt soon....gotta figure out the binding now....

Jumping on the Bandwagon

I've officially jumped on board the Hexagon Bandwagon!  See! I'm using spots, checks and stripes from my stash. This is going to be my "car" project (one of them) during our Colorado vacation.  To make the lap sized quilt I'm envisioning, I need to make 540 of these critters and then sew them together.  Can I do it?
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.....O wait. That's a train, not a band wagon.  What is a bandwagon, anyway?

I've also been busy quilting the Cross Quilt.  Remember that quilt? I have a deadline as I want to give it to my daughter and her husband as a 5 year anniversary gift.  I'm doing something different with the quilting....I call it "organic" quilting. Just straightish lines with little blips once in a while.  I'm excited to see how it turns out...hope they like it!

Here are the blocks that I received over the last few weeks for one of my Virtual Bees called 3X6 Sampler Block Party. My colors are green and turquoise.  The participants could send me any block of their choice in my colors.  I'll be adding these to the 6 that I received for the first quarter.  The 3rd Quarter of this exchange is just getting started and I'm again using the same color range in hopes of putting all the blocks together into one quilt.

Meanwhile, Marble's Mole Catching Training continues.  And, I've also been nominated for  the Best Grandmother of the Year award! (hee, hee!)