So many projects....

 A few more pinwheels on the design wall.  Of course, I will not put them all up there since I need like 140+ of them.  Still many more to go.  

I'm just sewing a few at a time between other projects.  Trimming and pressing as I go.  My ironing board seems to stay full of something that needs pressed.  LOL!

I've been working on more embroidered rope bowls.  I have a craft show coming up on October 8th but I also have orders coming in right and left.  Yesterday one lady ordered 9 bowls.  

I know it looks like just a messy pile but it's all that I can do right now.  LOL!  

I have been moving from machine to machine.  I pieced the bowls on my Janome since it has a nice zigzag stitch.  The blue painters tape marks how large that I need the bottom circle to be so that it fits in the embroidery hoop.  

Then I move it to the embroidery machine.  While the embroidery machine is running and doing it's thing I am piecing pinwheels on my Juki TL2010Q.  Then after the base finishes embroidery, I then go back to the Janome and finish sewing the sides of the bowl.  So basically I am just jumping from machine to machine.  

Oh and all the while I have this shirt memory quilt spread out on the floor waiting to be sewn together.  

Oh and I also need to finish up a Denver Bronco rag quilt as soon as I clear some space to do that.  LOL!

On Monday, Everleigh, mom and I had lunch out.  Mom has to have a little procedure on Wednesday so she had to have a Covid test beforehand.  Everleigh enjoys getting out with us.  She gets a little car sick but she can't help that.  We just try to go slow and do the best we can with it.  She is doing some better with it.  She is such a good little girl and doesn't cry and fuss.  I believe her favorite food is pinto beans.  :)  

So Hunter got a haircut today!  This was his hair a few months ago

Then he went to this, which I took this pic this morning before he got it cut.

This is the end result!  Either way he is handsome and will always be my baby boy.  

And a pic of Hunter and Richard when Richard got home from work.

Oh and I will leave you with this adorable pic of my little nephew Tucker.  Chantal brought him up to play with Everleigh today.  They play so well together.  He is just the cutest little guy.

So I guess I need to close this post and get to work sewing...

Memory Quilts and Pinwheels...

Lots of quilting in the works!  I pieced a few more pinwheels for one of the customer quilts.  He wants it by Christmas so I'm just piecing a few here and there until I get a few of these other quilt orders done.  I'm also using the pieces for leaders and enders.  

Just really running them through a few at a time and laying them on the ironing board and pressing them as I get a chance.  These are 8" blocks.  

Saturday and Sunday I worked on cutting and prepping some shirts for a memory quilt.  I have a lady that wants 2 full size quilts made from her husband's shirts.  Each quilt will have 25 blocks and then a border.  I got all of the shirts cut apart and stabilizer on half of them.  

I will embroider on one block of each quilt his name and dates.  

A few posts back, I showed a couple of little blankies and a dino quilt that I did for my nephew, Tucker.  Chantal sent me a couple of pics of him with them.  

Everleigh and I will be going to Ashland with mom and Monday.  She has to have a little procedure on Wednesday and has to have a Covid test before.  Hopefully after I get back I can start piecing on the memory quilt #1.  I have several projects due before Christmas.

 

3 Memory Cross Quilts and 9 Memory Pillows...

 This morning I thought I would show you a few quilts that I pieced and quilted for a lady before Christmas. 

 Her husband had passed away and she asked me to make 3 of these Cross Memory Quilts from his shirts for her and their 2 sons for Christmas. 

 Here is a pic of the 2nd one.  Somehow I didn't get a pic of the 3rd one but it looks just like these two. 

 Here is a photo of the back of them.  All 3 of them were quilted with this same design.  The panto is called, Spindle.  I love the texture that it gives.  I'll be honest when I quilted the first one I thought I might have been a mistake because all that I saw was spiderwebs.  LOL!  When she picked up the first quilt and unfolded it, she said, "oh it looks like Angel wings"  Now I still don't see Angel wings but that is what she saw....so I quilted the other 2 the same way.  :)

 She also requested that I make 9 of these memory pillows for their grandchildren.  She had picked out 9 shirts and attached a photo of him with each grandchild to each shirt.  So I had to make sure that I kept these with each shirt so that I didn't get them mixed up.  She said that she wanted me to see who I was making these for.  So precious. 

 She was so very pleased with them all.  This was very emotional for them all.  I graduated with her oldest son so I did know of this family.  In the end, she and I have become really good friends.  Just a few days ago she sent me another message talking about how pleased she was with them all.  That makes it all worth it for me when I see the emotions and somehow I think these quilts and pillow give them a little more comfort.  

I didn't really have a photo to post this morning so I thought I would post these quilts.  I didn't really have time to before Christmas.  

I did get that HUGE t-shirt quilt quilted yesterday.  I kept putting it off because I dreaded it so bad.  I bit the bullet and got it finished!!!!  I feels great to have that behind me now.  I'll take some photos of it once I take it off the longarm.  I finished it up yesterday evening and I still have it on the longarm.  

No school for Hunter again today.  Some of the backroads still have snow/ice on them.  We are also supposed to get more snow today so he probably will not have school the rest of the week.  It is a Google Classroom day so he will have assignments online.  

It is supposed to get down near zero and windchills around -10 so I really dread that.  :(