My new apron

My work apron finally wore through where it rubbed on the front roller of my machine table. I got a pattern for a new apron at Quilt Lovers Hangout (a great shop here in south Florida) and decided to give it a try. I love that it has two layers (yes! It's reversible!) and the opportunity to change it with my mood.
Here it is! All happy flowers and cherries, perched on the Gammill and relaxing after a day at work. I really did work today; the flanel moose quilt is all finished with a moose pantograph and ready to go home to my customer.

side one is pretty flowers...

side two has cheerful cherries and tiny stripes.

my apron and I quilted this moosey quilt

with hundreds of little moose, or moosies.

It is very soft and cuddly.

Finished class quilt

Huzzah! I finished the quilt from my class and am planning the one for the next class on July 10th. Then, it was time for work. I managed to crank out four customer quilts in a marathon quilting session, but now my back is screaming. It's taking longer than I expected to completely recover from the break, but I'm doing okay. Meanwhile, enjoy some pictures of pretty quilts!

My class quilt, washed and ready to go!

Free motion swirly quilting

A peek at the backing. 

Twin map quilts for a customer

Free motion 'dwirling' quilting, by me.

panto quilting by the new quilter...Tim!

Customer 4 to 9 quilt

A look at the backing

Can you see the flowers in the quilting?

Cute, cute customer baby quilt

Popcorn panto

Second cute baby quilt

Free motion bubble quilting

Fun with the class

One of the students in my class took some pictures while we all worked on the project quilt. Everybody looks like they are having a good time even though we were surrounded by flood waters!
     

                                                      The teacher cuts a block

Gert has a huge batch done!

Phyllis' block is like a rainbow

Ronnie went with a wild look

Joan tries a layout with her blocks

Sandy picked a tropical theme

Stacia with her cool blocks

Linda presses her nautical strip sets

Sylvia is plesed to have her frames started

Pat measures and cuts

Joanne with one of her soothing blocks

Salad girl was taking the pictures!

Donna sure has the cheerful factor in her fabric

(I finished my quilt and will post a photo of it in the morning. Right now, I am pooped and need to get into bed!)

Glub, glub, glub....

It was an adventure getting to the class I was teaching today; the roads all around the church were flooded and really hard to see and drive on. I passed through the water at a slow speed, but really had butterflies in my stomach while doing it. Now I know just how dumb people can be. . .because I am dumb! Four students didn't make it; three were riding together and had to turn back after the city closed the road. Those of us who did make it to the church were hoping we didn't have to stay there!!(Just how far can one sack lunch go?)
Everyone settled in and  worked happily on their quilt blocks, and by 3:30 the water had receded enough to drive home. I was so involved with the class that I forgot to take pictures , but I did snap these as I drove home through the water still over the road.

                                         This is the corner the church is on.

This road looks much better here than it did this morning! At least I could see the road!

This is actually a ditch behind a mobile home park next to the road. Today, it was over the road and several inches deep in water.

No thank you, Debbie! Get the heck out of Florida!!

A fruitful, Wazoo day

It was a rainy, gray day so I jumped right in and started quilting. The oriental quilt is for a customer. She made it for her brother who is getting married. Nice gift! I made the binding and have it sewn on and ready for the hand stitching.

Next, I finished the quilt for my nephew. Most of the hand sewing was done, so I sat down for a while and finished it up. You may recognize the pattern from a quilt I made last week called Off Track. It's a great pattern from Cluck, Cluck, Sew.

With a bit of time before I needed to start dinner, I made another block of the month for Craftsy trying to get caught up with the pack. Oh well, I am ready to do April now. HA! It isn't perfect, but good enough for a sample block.

Tomorrow, I will be tackling a tee shirt quilt I have in progress for another customer. The job is exciting and diverse...what's not to like?!

One week...only two quilts!

Wow! I have worked hard this week and finished the quilting on two lovely show quilts. The customer has been very patient waiting for me to have time to do the job, and I think she will be pleased. Both quilts are hand appliqued.The only fun thing I did was put the binding on the zig zag quilt and finish it up. On to the next! So many quilts...so little time.


                                              Hand applique flower sampler

Detail of block

back of flower quilt

Pineapple quilt with applique flowers

detail of one applique corner

Detail of pineapple section

quilt back

My zig zag quilt, all finished!

                                         

quilting detail

Messing around after work...

Okay, remember this pile of fabric? Well, here is what I made with it. I only worked on it after quilting customer quilts for several days in a row. It took a while, but I like how it turned out.
The pattern is actually a tutorial on Crazy Mom Quilts blog. I wrote down the particulars and made it from there. Now, I just have to finish the customer quilt I am working on so I can quilt this one! Maybe Sunday... we'll see.
Stay tuned.

The fabric (didn't use the one on the right)

Work in progress

Finished top

                                                     Closer look