Garden beauty and dragonflies buzzing about

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I finished it! This Garden Trellis quilt and is so special to me. All the charm squares in it are from my internet quilt guild. My internet guild sent quilty flowers to the members when they need a pick me up. So these are my flowers!

I pieced this at the retreat I went to a few weeks ago. I just love that every time I look at it, I think of my quilty friends.

I put a meandering feather undulating across the top. I'm really happy with it.

I especially like how the values of the florals move diagonally from corner to corner. I used a variegated King Tut thread, Hobbs 80/20 batting and Bottom Line in the bobbin.

I'll be entering this quilt in the Ky State Fair. I know it won't win a ribbon but it will be fun to see it hung.

I joined The Finish Five by July challenge- so this will be my first of my five. I'm hoping to have two more done today. Wish me luck!

Today, Linda will be picking up her Bug Jar quilt but I wanted to share a close up of the dragonflies I put randomly throughout the top. I think they really add some fun to the top and fold in nicely with her bug theme.

The dragonflies and butterflies were all done freehand.

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!

Linda finished another bug jar quilt. My kids love it when I work on bright, novelty quilts like this.

I did a meandering butterfly with a few dragonflies thrown in. The frog on the top will get a button eye.

Linda made this quilt for her grandson- lucky, lucky boy! Perfect boy quilt don't you think?

New life for this antique quilt

Amy's Double Wedding Ring Quilt is finally done!  

This top needed LOTS of TLC. 

 The top was hand quilted and some of the pieces had come undone.  Much repair work was needed on the edges and patchwork.  

The quilt top had also fallen victim to some water stains over its lifetime and I hope Amy will be able to get those stains out eventually.

For now, it is done and darn pretty too!

The furry scottish fellow is Yogi.  

GooseyGirl decided to put her doll hat on him.  Doesn't he look thrilled?

GooseyGirl's big girl bed

GooseyGirl has claimed the 5 yard bundle quilt I finished recently. It makes her new bed look so grown up! I recently found her mattress on clearance at Sears. 

It is one of the thickest and most comfortable twin beds I've seen. It is so high that she had to take a photo of the height of her bed from the side! I've been informed that it is 1" higher than my bed. Her old bed was awful, cheap and only about 4" high. Basically, a creaky, lumpy mat. Ick!

The furry critter perched upon the pillow is Snowy. Her hands down favorite animal. She took all these photos, didn't she do a good job?

I finished the aged Double Wedding Ring quilt yesterday. Now I've just got to make the binding and apply it. Hopefully I'll get that done today and get started on a bug jar quilt. Freehand butterflys- fun!

Jacob's Ladder Block Lotto Winner!

I went to a fabo quilt retreat last week in St. Louis. I don't have the words to express how much fun, laughter, learning and fellowship we enjoyed. This yearly retreat is the highlight of my quilty year.

Plus, this year I won one of the block lottos! Everyone makes the chosen block in the chosen colorway. If your name gets picked, you get all the blocks! And.... I WON!! I put them up on my design wall when I got back home. Now I just have to design a good border for them.

GooseyGirl's Candy Cane Lane Happy Dance

*sigh*

It has been a while since I've posted.  I've been so busy that it has been hard for me to keep up with keeping all of you up to date!

First off, the kids are out of school!  I'm really going to miss their teacher.  She was the best and an incredible blessing for my kids first year of public school.  

Right after school let out we headed up to Great Wolf Lodge and Kings Island.  It was a wonderful little vacation for us.

Then my little GooseyGirl finished up this quilt top she made for her cousin who just graduated from high school.  She is so proud of it.  It still needs to be bound and she is going to enter it in the fair.  GooseyGirl did every bit of the piecing and quilting.  I did the cutting but she picked out the fabrics and everything else!

I've also been working on a Double Wedding Ring that was in very rough shape.  Nursing it back to health has taken quite a bit of time but it is coming along.  I've got two borders to go and then I'll post an update shot.

I'm off to a retreat this week but I'll post more when I return!