Ryan's quilt 2.0

Here I am again.
Working on this quilt. We agreed it needs to be 6" bigger on all sides to fit his king size bed.
The original bed I made this quilt for was queen sized.
Sooooo....I'm adding a 6" border in black.
Front and back. Also have to add extra batting.
I saw on Sewing with Nancy a fusible way to join batting. Woo hoo!  Bought that right away. Found solid black at the Quilted Moose that goes well with the original black which I can no longer get.

I took off the binding a while back.
And peeled back the top and back from the batting. Trying to save the existing hand quilting.

Now I'm adding the rest and will get this sucker done.

Measure, measure, measure, average. 

Alan

Grrrr. 

Forgot I had to cut border for the back too.

Not fun. 

At all.

Adding the border onto the quilted quilt.

No room for error.

The plan is to embroider in matching yellow ochre floss in a grizzly bear print pattern.

Then quilt with trees or mountains.

One of our orchids is finally blooming!

It only took 4, 5 years.

I LOVE my new light box  

Thank you Alan for the Christmas gift  

It is wonderful for quilting and 

looking forward to using it with a stained glass project.

Exciting!

All of the borders are on, front and back and now adding the batting.

Making the stencils.

Hoping I can get the design to fit on the borders.

This is the color of floss I will use.

I want the quilting design to stand out against the black but coordinate with the other colors.

So far so good.

This will have to wait for a bit.

I have a few other projects lined up I have to get done first.

First are the cupcakes for a friend's b-day party.

Red velvet copcakes with chocolate ganache filling and cream cheese frosting and white cupcakes with lemon curd filling and whipped lemon zest frosting.

I'm looking forward to making these.

The candied lemons seem to be OK so far.

I feel like lady luck paid me a visit today.  My stencil pattern fit perfectly!
No need for brain numbing adjustments. Ha ha!
The quilt is alost too big for the only large floor space we have.
It's 95 x 109.

Next is to see if my MIL will embroider the prints. Hubby thinks she would love to.
That will give me time to work on the Dr. Seuss wall hanging and start my version of Esther's Oma's Blues quilt.  Yay!!

Mission Impossible

I decided to make a wall hanging for my mother in law for her 80th bday.  I wanted to do a nature themed quilt. Then wanted it to have a Nebraska theme. I was going to do a coneflower pattern. Even bought fabric for a pattern I have. But I wasnt inspired. 

Then I decided to do chimney rock. 

It was fun picking out the fabrics. 

Like picking out paints.

My $10 retro projector. 

Thx LFG!

Projected the photo onto the muslin 

Traced the pic for reference of perspective, size and placement. 

Then started on the clouds. 

I had this great hand dyed fabric from a show i went to last summer. Then added gray batik for the clouds. 

Then started building clouds. 

You see them all the time but do you really SEE them?  

I want a typical stormy cloud scene that looks windy and potential for hail. 

Then we went to CO to see Ryan and celebrate Christmas and birthday. 

It was foggy going out. 

The frosty trees were really pretty.

We spent a day at Copper. 

Beautiful weather and good snow. 

A view of the mountains. 

Sigh

Back home and more @#*% clouds. 

Really sick of them but finally got them done and able to work on the landscape. 

Then I took a soap class with a friend. 

It was interesting and fun!

We made peppermint scented soap. 

Cant wait to try it. 

Back to the quilt.  

My deadline was 1/15. 

It is now 1/10.

And I work all week.

Aaauugggghhh!

Got it ready for quilting by 1/14.

Using sulky monofiliment on top and aurofil cotton on the back. 

Tried to make the sky look windy. 

This is Nebraska after all. 

(Should have done grass bent over from the wind)

I set up a table to support the quilt.

A bit cramped. 

I had to crawl underneath it thru the "tunnel" to get in and out of my room. 

Binding time, binding time!

The label. 

(I have to figure out how to rotate photos)

Quilt completed on 1/17. 

12 days! Whew is right!

(Ryans quilt took 4 years)

Its a king and hand quilted!

We hung it magnetically

Alan bought a metal bar, cut it to size and painted it with metal paint. Purple because that is what he had leftover from my drum carder. 

He used command photo handing strips. 

Each one holds 16 pounds. 

Super magnets from home depot. 

Very brittle. 

We had 6. 

Then Alan was messing with them.

Now we have 5.

Making sure its level. 

I love the colors on that wall. 

Mom is happy with her gift. 

I told her it has to come down for the quilt shows and fairs. 

Hence the magnets..... hee hee.

Quilt of valor for dad

Now that the gift is given....I can post this.
I made this quilt for my dad. I made it under the Quilt of Valor guidelines.
I loved the fabrics. Found them at Mangelsens. 25% off!
This is my first attempt at machine quilting. (Thank you Sharon Schamber)
Now I know what she meant about batting with seeds  in it. Damn thread kept breaking.
Im thinking everyone is right, you get what you pay for. Hobbs is looking much more attractive.
Will zoom to their booth in October in Des Moines.

Love this fabric.

Started the project 11-7-15.

Figuring out the block layout. 

Dont like the big open blocks. 

Decided to add photos to the open blocks. 

Had to applique some in. 

Fills in the open spaces nicely. 

Borders.... trying to figure these out. 

Not liking the stripes. 

Decided to go with the red borders. 

Binding time, binding time!

Decided to have fun with the quilting. 

Made it easier. Not worried about errors. 

The stars and loops were fun. 

Washing the label as directed on the instructions. 

Made the label on the computer and printed it. 

Wanted it to fit the fabric design. 

Finished on 12-23-15.

Just in time to give it to my dad on 12-27-15.

The day we celebrated christmas.