Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Merry Christmas to All

Merry Christmas!!!





                                                
 
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.
May you have Peace, Love, Good Health and Happiness now and through the coming year.
 
I will start new posts the first of the year. Hopefully I will be more consistent on my posting. Also, on finishing up some of my UFO's :-).
 
See you then
 
Til later,
Hugs & Stitches,
Mary

Monday, December 1, 2014

Grand Illusion #1

  

                                                                    Grand Illusion

It has finally started!!!
I hope I can keep up with getting everything done each week.
Here are all the parts cut.


Here are some of the blocks put together.




 In this pic I only have 10 blocks complete. This was Saturday. Hopefully I will have some time on Sunday to work on them. Check out what others have accomplished this weekend here.

This weekend I also had to finish a client quilt, make the next sample for Marti & Me, get fabric together and cut some of the blocks for the next BOM for the LQS. and piece a back for one of the commissioned quilts.

Busy, busy, busy.

Oh yes------this Saturday we had our first snowfall. Not much, but it was pretty while it lasted. Woke up Sunday morning to 17 degree temps. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!



Til later,
Hugs & Stitches,
Mary

Saturday, November 29, 2014

I'm Baaaaack!!!

Well her we are. It's been a little over 2 months since I've posted. Bad girl.
I've been very, very busy in the interm. This year has been pretty good for my quilting business. I've had orders for 6 commission quilts (3 down and 3 to go) as well as my longarm business. I've got about 10 or 11 quilts to get out before the end of the year. It's so nice to have job security.

I have also gone to a quilt retreat and helped a friend out at her sale at the quilt shop she has.

I've also been working on getting the "black hole" cleaned in one corner so I could put  up metal shelving for my machines. I finally succeeded in getting that done.


This is not all of the machines yet. I still have some upstairs that I need to bring down. Meanwhile the rest of the room is soooooo messy. I'll give you a little peek. Don't scream :-).


Believe me. There are messier parts of the room.

As you know in September my step-daughter was here for a visit. We did an impromptu showing of my quilts and I told her to choose any and all that she would like and we would ship them to her after she got home. Here are the quilts that she picked.










I think she did rather well.
Hope she really enjoys the quilts.

Well now that I'm back I will try to keep up with posting at least weekly progress on my works. Especially now that Grand Illusion Mystery by Bonnie Hunter has started. Hopefully I can keep up with it. Last years is still in pieces waiting for me to work on it.

Later,
Hugs & Stitches,
Mary