And to all a good night!

My friends came home today and gathered up their dogs, and suddenly it was quiet and calm in the house. Molly enjoyed the playtime, but even she was so exhausted it took a long nap to recover. Customers came and went, work went on as usual. It was a good day all around.
My second class for the Magic Block quilt was a wonderful success. Everyone seemed to be having fun learning and sewing together. I made progress on my second class quilt and expect to have it all finished and ready for the Gammill in a few days!

Tim is getting anxious for his machine to come and is taking the opportunity to go grouper fishing tomorrow before he has to buckle down and learn the way of the longarmer. I'm hoping for a fresh fish dinner tomorrow night. Yum.
Meanwhile, here are the customer quilts finished this week despite teaching one day and hosting my sewing club another.

Quilt with jungle pantograph

I L-O-V-E this backing fabric!!

Baby quilt with freemotion swirl pattern

My niece is taking to quilting like a pro! Here she is at sewing club with her first and second quilt tops! You go, girl!!

dogs, dogs, dogs, quilts!

We are doggie sitting for our friends and now have four lovelies running around and barking. So far, there is peace in the house; all the dogs seem happy to be together. In the midst if it all, I was able to get in some quilting time, too.
The little orange and blue quilt is made from leftover parts from another class project. I just sewed 'em up and got'er done! Teddy and Toby thought they should help with the picture. Molly isn't sure what to think about the whole situation, and Skipper just lays low.

Toby thinks he should help with dinner

Toby and Teddy keep Molly on her toes

Everyone monitors the foot traffic outside

Toby guards the toy he likes best

My quilty dog, Molly

Oh you guys!!!

Hubby helps out for the photo

A peek at the back

Back to work!

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?!