progress makes me happy!!

Oh boy, am I a happy girl! I left you with the triangle quilt center finished. Ta Da!! The borders are on and I have made and sewn the top border details. Great progress here at Wazoo.

End of day one: Borders on

End of day two: all the elements copied, fused, cut out and ready to go

At the end of today, I had the elements in place and sewn down. Yippee!
Only three more borders to do...

Meanwhile, I quilted this beautiful, modern shibori quilt. I love the inset Kaffee Fassett fabric strips.

The customer had a pack of 10 inch squares of shibori fabrics and inserted the Kaffe strips improv style.

Panto: African Samba

The backing is shibori, too.

We took in six quilts today! I'm always glad to see my quilting friends and customers and find out what's going on in their lives. Everyone is so friendly and happy. Now, I just have to quilt them all...

On the garden front, Mr Wazoo has been like a pig in mud these last few days! The weather has been lovely and sunny, so he has been puttering around outside digging, planting and mowing. He even painted the jacket on our new gnome. The gardens are so pretty right now. I'm lucky to have someone who loves to garden as much as he does.

What a gorgeous day!

Here really is a pot under there!!

Peas in a pod!

The butterflies are back and as colorful as ever. 

Black eyed Susans blooming again

Sven now has a blue jacket to go with his red hat.

These hydrangea are called Strawberries and cream. When the bloom starts to fade, it turns this pink and white combination.

Aren't they pretty!

Tomorrow, I'll be doing laundry, making a lunch for the cooler and packing for my trip to Wisconsin. I'll be gone a week, but will be enjoying a nice visit with my family and friends. Molly will keep an eye on Mr Wazoo for me, and together they'll hold down the fort here at Wazoo.

I think she suspects something...

Moving along with triangles

 I sewed the backing and quilted a charity quilt for my evening guild today. That gave me the time to finish the applique on the triangles and sew the rows together. Some of my points are nipped and some don't match up perfectly, but I am tired of this project and want it to be finished!! Tomorrow, I will add the outer border and do the applique on it.

The quilt top was made by a member of the guild

I made the back and quilted it with the panto, Chantilly

The backing was way too small, so I added a long, wide piece down the center.

I put the blocks back on the design wall to get the setting right. I liked this enough to go ahead and sew them together.

The middle is sewn and the setting triangles are on. Tomorrow, I'll do the outer border!

I also finished sewing down the trees and bears. Ready for quilting!

On the way home from the memorial service, we stopped at a lawn ornament place and perused the statuary. Mr Gnome came home with us. Today, Mr Wazoo painted his hat red. I think he's awfully cute. Another gee-gaw for the back yard.

A Quilts of Valor day

We were biding time until we go to NC tomorrow, and quilted up some Quilts of Valor. Even Mr Wazoo had a good day! We finished the three QOVs for the guild group, and then did whatever we wanted to do. A good day!

I quilted this one

Panto: Simply Stars...my favorite QOV pattern

Wow! That's a lot of stars!!

Mr Wazoo quilted this one.

He used gold thread and the panto Square Spiral.

This one is really pretty.

The butterfly bush finally has butterflies! Can you spot three?

I am really moving along with the triangle applique blocks. I have three more to finish.

Well, three...and one bit of stem I missed on number four.

These are finished!

We'll end the post with St. John's wort. I don't get why someone named it that, because I think its beautiful. Ponder that.

I hope they don't get any bigger!

Today I quilted one quilt. I started loading it at 11:45 and unloaded and trimmed it at 6:10pm. It was that big. Wow. Fortunately, it was pretty square and three out of four borders flat. Because I have the Millie, I was able to do some machine applique at the Bernina while computerized machine chugged along on the giant quilt's rows. It turned out nice, and someone will be kept really warm at night! The batting was a thick cotton, and the quilt weighs a ton.

I have to applaud the quilter for the amount of piecing she did on this project.

It didn't all fit in the straight-on photo, so I took a profile, too!

Panto: Woven Wind

The best part for me were the Minions on the back!!

Mr Wazoo stayed inside most of the day quilting a QOV for me. He thought it was supposed to rain again, so he opted to quilt.

Once again, he took a wonky picture. It is a lovely quilt, but the photo was taken with it upside down. This quilt was also made by the quilter who made the giant quilt I did today!

Patriotic backing

Panto: Square Spiral

I remembered to take the panto and backing shots of the memory quilts. They are going home next week.

The bigger quilt (with Travis Tritt) got the panto Twinkling Swirls.

The doll quilt was a quick meander.

Here are the cute birds I used on the back.

Tomorrow we get the house in order, take Molly for an overnight with Winkie, and prepare for the speed trip to Southern Pines, North Carolina. We'll see Tim's sister and her family as well as the many people his mother touched during her 30 years teaching at the same Christian school. I was lucky enough to work in the classroom next to Pam for seven years before going off to nursing school and my whole new life adventure. I met Mr Wazoo after I had already been friends with his Mom those seven years. We've been married for almost 38 years now, and I have been so thankful to have Pam as my mother-in-law. We will miss her; but she is joyfully singing with the heavenly chorus now.

Some more finished quilts!

It rained today and that is perfect for working in the studio. I finished the two sided clothing quilt, and its sidekick doll quilt. I hope they go home tomorrow.

Travis Tritt staring out from a bevy of bright blocks

The doll quilt. I forgot to take a picture of the back of it. I used a little bird print.

This is the backside of the big quilt.

This poor gardener sat waiting for a break in the weather to plant his new shrubs

At least he didn't have to water anything...

The sun came out, and so did Mr Hummingbird!

Not a bad picture from an iPhone!

I'm not sure what type hummer this is. I have to look it up.

I also quilted a Quilt of Valor and Mr W sent it back to Tennessee.

Someone will love this quilt

Panto: Simply Stars

Easier to see here.

I'll be back in the studio quilting a giant quilt tomorrow. While I do that, I hope to get some of the applique done, too. The show is looming and my quilts aren't ready!!