Rainy day quilting is the best!

You never have to feel bad about being inside quilting when it rains. I love the rain. When you see how great Mr Wazoo's yard looks, you'll know even the grumpy old man likes the rain. He just doesn't like to be out in it.

Lush, green and cool.

This came up in our wildflower bed

So did this!

I have a lot of work (play?) to do, so I have been spending time with the stash and the machines. It was wonderful to start up Big Bernina and do some sewing. I have a customer repair/finishing project I'm working on, and it is a delicate challenge. The customer's granny made several crazy quilts, and died before she could finish his. He wants it finished and a backing added. We discussed how people displayed crazy quilts without backs, but he wants it to be stabilized for display in his home. I will be replacing one silk that has split, joining the last five blocks into a row, and adding light batting and a muslin backing. The quilt will be stitched in the block ditches. I told him it would be baggy, but he is okay with that.

Today, I squared up and sewed the last five blocks into a row and attached it to the rest of the quilt.

The blocks are a whopping 16 1/2" square! Granny had skill with her needlework, and a nice collection of silks from old family dresses and scarves. The customer said she made this quilt (her last one) in the 1940s, but all the other quilts have the same fabrics.

One red piece has split. I have a stash of silks and will appliqué one here.

I like looking at her stitchwork. Lovely!!

I also started on a customer tee shirt quilt. I had the shirts prepped, so I squared them down and started arranging them on the design wall. This quilt will be two sided because there are 36 shirts and a bunch of small logos to use. I'll be working on this for a while!

Here are the shirts rough cut, waiting for their press on stabilizer.

Once I had the stabilizer pressed to the shirts (it took all day Sunday!) I was able to cut them down to size and get planning. There are lots of circle logos for this quilt. I hope to appliqué those on by machine tomorrow or Wednesday.

The other 12 shirts will be on the back.

Meanwhile, I quilted. I finished this Tilda-fabric-line quilt yesterday. The customer wanted wool batting, so the texture is wonderful.

I didn't have time to trim it before leaving the studio for the day, but it is all trimmed now and ready to go home.

Here's another look at the whole quilt.

Panto: Amethyst

The backing is pieced from more Tilda fabrics!

I also got a few charity quilts done, too. The binding and labels are ready. Things are piling up here.

This is a nursing home quilt. I figure it is for a man.

I used up leftover fabrics from my Wisconsin quilt and from other manly quilts.

This backing was in my stash. 

Here is a kid quilt with robots.

I got the fabrics in the Hayesville, NC shop. The panto is Geometric path.

I also had this backing in my stash.

This is another of the Texas projects I didn't get made while I was there last Summer.

The pattern is in the same little book from Wisconsin as the Minoquah Stars quilts.

I used a panto with pumpkins and leafy vines.

Another backing from my dandy stash.

I meant to post a picture of our Saturday supper. I have been making homemade pizza on Saturday nights ever since I got married way back in 1973. Two husbands, four kids and a few grands later, I am still making pizzas. Mr Wazoo isn't as fond of it as I am, so sometimes I have to make him something different. Not this week. He wanted to eat pizza, so I made him my favorite; sausage, spinach, mushroom, onion and olives. We ate the whole thing and finished the week happy. What have you been up to? I hope Summer is being good to you, too.

I wish there was "blog-smell". This was divine.

Yes, there is a fork on the tray, but I didn't need it.