Sew La Ti Embroidery:
quilt along

I'm starting another quilt along, this time I am going for a queen sized quilt for my bed.
It is in the same flickr group from The Old Red Barn Co.'s first quilt along.

This time it is a zig zag quilt and I am using all vintage fabrics from my stash. I am behind a week, but hopefully I can catch up, I think I get it done faster if I keep up!

I finished quilting my quilt along quilt! For my second attempt at machine quilting I feel pretty good about it, it's not perfect, but it works! Okay I just looked at the time and I stayed up way too late finishing it. I'm going to get the binding made so that I can finish it while I am sitting at the Farmer's Market on Saturday. Can you see the cute vintage sheet backing peeking out at the bottom?
I am in love with this quilt!

I got my top for Dana's quilt along done! Dana said it looks like a dish full of candy, which it does, so now this quilt has a name! Luckily it stopped raining long enough to take a picture outside.

And look at my cute new shoes! 9 bucks at Ross, gotta love it!

I finished, I finished! It just came out of the dryer and I LOVE it!
My very first all the way finished quilt!
Sorry, I had to take a picture of it in the shade, it was way too sunny on the wall I like to take pictures on.

The back is even cute! Now what quilt shall I finish next?
Maybe my Mod Sampler. I just have to put the outside sashing pieces on it and piece the back for it.

We weeded, tilled, and planted our garden on Saturday! We timed it perfect, as soon as we got done, it started sprinkling a bit. It might seem really late, but this is Utah people :) I think our last frost date is something like May 15th. I love having a garden even though I still don't really know what I am doing. We planted tomatoes for tomato basil sauce, little tiny orange tomatoes, which are my fave, three different kinds of peppers, beans, cucumbers, basil, thyme, and some marigolds. At the back, we have a row of raspberry bushes that we planted last year that are doing really well, we had a couple die last year after we transplanted them from my parent's, but we had quite a few shoots this year that we moved, hopefully they will work, we should have moved them a couple of months ago. We also have oregano and chives.

And we have a friend in the garden too. Yesterday we took the kid's to A Night at the Museum, the kids liked it, it was a good show. All in all we had a nice weekend, which was needed, we had a crappy thing happen last week that effects our family in a big way, but we are okay. This is where I should insert that our little family is amazingly blessed because we are, even when crappy situations get thrown at us. Enough of that, on to the happy quilt!

Today I cut my strips for Dana's quilt along. I'm so glad I chose these fabrics, I love them.
Now I must go for I have children in need of being picked up from school soon.
I hope you had a nice Memorial day weekend!

I have been itching to do some more of these nine patches for the Crazy Mom Quilts quilt along.
These things are addicting, and I love seeing how my favorite fabrics look in different combinations. Now I am caught up for the first two weeks, today starts week three!

I got a little behind on my quilt along. Today I finished up the blocks, and now I am ready to do the sashing. I am scared of the sashing, we'll see how I do. You can see my sashing fabric at the bottom. I have learned alot with this quilt along, one of the things being that I am kindof an impatient quilter. The more complicated squares I love the end result, but making them, not so much :) I'm getting really excited to finish this.

I wanted to share my progress on my quilt for Oh, Fransson! quilt along.
It has been a learning experience for me as I am new to quilting and Elizabeth's instructions are awesome. I have the first half of the blocks done, and let me tell you I am glad to be done with the ones on the right with what seemed like a million little squares :)

Has anyone ever left their iron plugged in all night? I would never, ever do anything like that, especially being a fireman's wife :)

Oh! I just wanted to share, because I was kindof excited. I had kinda made a goal for my self to hit before any of my shows started, that I would reach 200 sales in my etsy shop and pass 300 people hearting my shop, and I did it!

My pinwheel quilt just came out of the dryer and it is oh so yummy! I love it! There is something about these colors together that I just adore.

This was for the pinwheel quilt along over in the Old Red Barn quilt along group.

I had three helpers to hold it up for me :)

Here's the back, I used a vintage sheet.

Sorry things have been quiet around here. My new niece Hallie doesn't have to have surgery yet, she still has to have surgery, they are just waiting a bit, and it's not as bad as they first were saying, I saw her yesterday for the first time and she is so tiny, I always forget how tiny newborn babies are, to think that my girls were once that tiny is crazy.

I haven't really felt like blogging. Trying to get ready for spring shows and keeping my house clean and trying to take time for me has been consuming my time. Then of course the other various things that always seem to pop up in life :)

I finished it, I finished it! This was round 4 of the ORBC quilt along. That's really good for me, I started this thing on Friday, and finished it up last night! Did I work on any of the other 8 quilts I have started? No, I started this whole new one :)

I love this quilt.

Yesterday, I decided to start this quilt instead of tackling something on my list of things I need to get made. I picked out the fabrics for this almost 3 months ago for round 4 over at the Old Red Barn Co. quilt along group. I'd been staring at the pile of fabrics for awhile and finally decided it was time. I love it and can't wait to get it sewn together, I have to take a little break from it though, quilting is hard work I tell you, my body is feeling it!

When I woke up, I found this little scene, Sage had cut them out from my leftover scraps while she was watching TV this morning, I think it is adorable.